Whitney Houston singles poll

the vacant miming of manic happiness

this is what frightened me about her for years and still does

i feel like "so emotional" was huge, too, like i remember her winning a bunch of awards for it when i was a kid. it was so confusing to me. even then i knew it sucked.

I mean "So Emotional" isn't emotional, like, at all.

Every song from Whitney except "Love Will Save the Day" hit #1 on the pop chart.

come on the "don't you wanna dance say you wanna dance don't you wanna dance" part is sung so exuberantly!

IMO it only reads as exuberant if you are looking at her glassy-eyed rictus grin in the video, and even then only if you're being charitable

otherwise it's just unsubtle honking on a bridge akin to the second chorus of "I Will Always Love You" where she brays really flatly

xpost -- Song or single? We're not talking Thriller here...

no i hate the video, but i found out about her death on Saturday night when i was out, and then when i was driving home they played "i wanna dance with somebody" and "million dollar bill" on the radio and i was struck anew by how infectiously happy "i wanna dance with somebody" sounds! i had been feeling that her death was kind of surreal. that was the moment i got sad.

single, mais oui

i am v biased in favor of upbeat songs about dancing, tbf. madonna's "into the groove" is the best song in history, maybe.

To me "Greatest Love of All" is more horrifying than "I Wanna Dance." Her self-regard is chilling.

Her self-regard is what sells "GLOA"! That and the voice.

Horseshoe, I agree re: "Into the Groove"!

i wanna dance with somebody

Now that we're sharing Whitney experiences, let me mention that one particularly moronic teacher in sixth copied the lyrics in perfect Palmer handwriting, photocopied it, and distributed it as a graduation poem.

Saving All My Love For You

more people should just post song titles that could double as declarative statements itt like lamp and j0rdan

"Could I Have This Kiss Forever" (with Enrique Iglesias)

I have never heard this but I assume it is terrible

i only realized much later that "saving all my love for you" is sung from the pov of a woman having an affair with a married man. i don't know why it surprised me; it just seemed out of place with the smooth AC sound.

that makes the song that much more awesome IMO

more people should just post song titles that could double as declarative statements itt like lamp and j0rdan

― some dude

We Didn't Know

yeah i think "saving all my love for you" is my favorite of the early ballads.

my actual shortlist:

Saving All My Love For You
How Will I Know
Greatest Love of All
I'm Your Baby Tonight
I Have Nothing
It's Not Right But It's Okay

no one's voting for "My Name is Not Susan"?

i like that song, but no

My short list:

You Give Good Love
Saving All My Love For You
How Will I Know
Love Will Save The Day
I'm Every Woman
Exhale (Shoop Shoop)
It's Not Right But It's Okay

You guys are also sleeping on "Love Will Save The Day"

every time I think of "Love Will Save The Day" I start actually humming "Love Will Lead You Back" and I am much happier

You're disappointing me today.

aww "So Emotional" is a good one: "ain't it shockin what..............love can do!" love that pause

voted "How Will I Know", cuz you know about these things.

Saving All My Love
How Will I Know

so torn!!!

But I need to rep for "All At Once"... my grandma died right around that time & my little sister and I used to bawl over that damn song

I love that whole first album, tbh

her first album is really her best

I'd like to hear a band like the Jesus Lizard fronted by a singer like Whitney Houston.

― Euler, Sunday, May 20, 2007 3:59 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark

imagine Whitney covering "This is Not a Love Song."

Oh god, back to the Bill Laswell thing again.

imagine Whitney singing in Last Exit.

It's easy if I don't try.

so emotional and how will i know really
think i'm picking the latter.

Never liked "I Will Always Love You." The bombastic treatment is so totally wrong for the simple eloquence of the song. Plus that fucking sax solo. And the modulation. "I Have Nothing" so much better as big-ballad numbers go, so basically Greg, Alex and Al OTM way upthread.

Am working on getting acquainted with the post-Bodyguard stuff, which I mostly didn't know except "Exhale" and "It's Not Right But It's Okay." For now, though, "How Will I Know" by a mile.

For someone who only released 7 studio albums, she sure had a lot of singles, tho, huh? 29 top 40 hits, all in a 16-year span.

How Will I Know / I Have Nothing
It's Not Right But It's Okay
I Want To Dance With Somebody
Saving All My Love For You
I'm Your Baby Tonight
Love Will Save The Day
Heartbreak Hotel (Remix)
I'm Every Woman
My Love Is Your Love

The key change in "I Have Nothing" is one of the most spinetingling things ever.

Enough! Y'all have swayed me. I'll listen to "I Have Nothing" again.

I think what distinguishes it from other divastraganzas (e.g. "Without You" or "All By Myself", say) is how dangerous it sounds, both in its obsessive intensity and also in its vertiginousness. Whitney sounds like she takes a run-up to the key change with a flying leap over a bottomless chasm.

Listening to the second album on Spotify and it sounds like an '87-era mastering job! Interesting that a record like that would languish so long without being remastered.

the second Whitney album is a giant pile of festering penises

I asked about the third album on the other thread but got no responses. Hot or not?

"I'm Your Baby Tonight" is the only one of her songs I'll admit to liking IRL so that's my vote.

"How Will I Know" is ok. "All The Man I Need" is her best ballad IMO.

"I Have Nothing" and "I'm Every Woman" sounded the best to me the last couple days.

Well, and always.

million dollar bill gonna top this

I'd totally forgotten about 'Queen Of The Night' until I happened upon an obligatory airing of The Bodyguard yesterday. A pretty fierce jam, a la En Vogue. Just wanna point out that it shouldn't be slept on.

Probably always gonna be 'Love Will Save The Day' for me, though.

it's not right but it's ok

giving me ALL THE RONG THAT I'LL EVER NEEEEEED

YOUR LOVE! I'll RE MEM BER! FOR EV ER

Don't make me clooooose--

*does shoo hand gesture*

--one more door!

Greatest Love of All	0

Admittedly, Toni Erdmann wasn't out yet when this poll was done but ... damn.

I'd have voted for her version.

Sandra Hüller's?

wtf alfred, no "i have nothing"?

*reads last few posts before the thread bump* ah

i guess i don't understand what more you could even want from whitney if "i have nothing" isnt yr pinnacle or at least top 5

there are other value judgements at play that i guess i dont fully understand?

or yr heart is a lump of coal, either or :)

now imagine Glenn Frey singing "I Have Nothing"

'It's Not Right But It's Okay' still rules.

The album version, yes.

Alfred revise your opinions4u on "I Have Nothing".

Or must I emerge in you there.

DONT WALK AWAY FROM MEEEEEEE

How's this for a poll: Cinematic covers of "The Greatest Love Of All"--Loren Dean in SAY ANYTHING VS. Sandra Hüller in TONI ERDMANN?

Alfred revise your opinions4u on "I Have Nothing".

Or must I emerge in you there.

― Tim F, Wednesday, June 7, 2017

emerge away

Her most depressing song.

RONG

All this discussion about her worst single and no mention of One Moment In Time?

this thread is an abomination

...because "How Will I Know" wasn't a total sweep?

NOW i mean