Whitney Houston singles poll

Wasn't "The Star Spangled Banner" from 1991 Super Bowl intro released as a single (and a minor hit)? May be her best vocal performance; certainly it's the best I've ever heard it sung.

Two degrees of separation: my college roommate's girlfriend's brother was the guitarist in Whitney's touring band at the time (roomie's gf also a friend of mine) so got lots of insider scoops and stories. She was also a musician, and I remember going to some music-industry convention with her, and considered taking advantage of that connection to have her pass on some of my songs to Whitney in hopes she would cover one of them for an album track, but I wasn't particularly into WH and our styles don't exactly mesh, so I didn't bother.

xp that's exactly it, it's a good song, but it misses her whole essence.

I suppose it's one of her most understated vocal performances, so if you don't like vocal overstatement it might be a default choice.

yeah "my love is your love" has long been the whitney song of choice for people who don't actually like what whitney houston was all about.

i mean, it's still a great song, but still.

Wasn't "The Star Spangled Banner" from 1991 Super Bowl intro released as a single (and a minor hit)? May be her best vocal performance; certainly it's the best I've ever heard it sung.

it was, and it charted again after 9/11. but she had 51 singles and it seemed like the odd one out that would make sense to cut from the poll options.

Fuse is running Whitney videos all day today, just heard "If I Told You That" for the first time and it was pretty good!

Wasn't "The Star Spangled Banner" from 1991 Super Bowl intro released as a single (and a minor hit)? May be her best vocal performance; certainly it's the best I've ever heard it sung.

I kind of hate this actually! The national anthem is the national anthem and is kind of destroyed by soft-rock backing.

Missed this but would have voted "How Will I Know" like everybody else.

what about a dubstep backing

I actually thought the instrumental arrangement was impressive - lots of interesting and unusual chord changes and such to go with the vocal flourishes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHmdu_I_0zI&feature=fvst

Rob Sheffield's twelve favorite Whitney songs.

"Million Dollar Bill" (2009)

Whitney’s last shot was a return to the original Eighties game plan, except at this point, her vocals were too ravaged for either pop or soul.

For anyone not aware of this, her funeral service is all over the television right now.

When I was in...probably sixth grade and listening to pop radio incessantly, I awoke to "Love Will Save The Day". The sun was just coming up and the light was slightly violet through the window and everything felt very calm and peaceful as the vibraphone came in and it really did feel like love might save the day. It's still one of my more idyllic childhood memories.

I wish my radio station had played "Love Will Save the Day."

yeah "my love is your love" has long been the whitney song of choice for people who don't actually like what whitney houston was all about.

I actually do like what Whitney was all about, and it's still my favorite of her singles. That song just puts me in a good place.

whitney....
this was incredible... much (very very much) as i have always loved Whitney, 'I will always love you' is the one song of hers that I never really loved, certainly never felt, didn't appreciate - and also about the very single song i haven't listened to after she died.
to suddenly hearing it now, after all those thousands? of times i heard it, and now feeling every little part of it. it was me, not Whitney, that hadn't gotten it. the most beautiful thing she's ever sung. beautiful.

guess this belongs in the Whitney Houston R.I.P. thread

I just heard My Love Is Your Love again for the first time in I don't know how long. Catchy as hell, that one!

wow for some reason i had no idea that "i have nothing" was titled "i have nothing," it was easily my favorite whitney hair salon jam when i was a kid

I heard her Jermaine duet on quiet storm a few weeks ago.

I Have Nothing has been on my Spotify playlist for the last five years or so.

"I Have Nothing" is the squarest, greatest song of all time.

Good thing Brad heard it at the beauty parlor, for the women would need hair implants after Whitney blasts the chorus.

"I Have Nothing" is tres pretty and one of the two Whitney songs, along with "Exhale," that I continued to groove to even during those ill advised years of indie snobbery where I was obligated to regard Whitney as The Enemy.

My top fifteen. Thanks for help, some dude.

I don't really need to look very much further
I don't want to have to go where you don't follow
I will hold it back again this passion inside
I can't run from myself THERES NOWHERE TO HIIIIIIIIIIIDE
YOUR LOVE! I'll RE MEM BER! FOR EV ER

we should do a legit ballot poll on Whitney so we can show Alfred all the ways he is misguided

This is a refrain he often hears.

Alfred: Wrong on Whitney, Wrong for America

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