Whitney
I had intended to spend one of my rare Tuesdays at home alone fixing some site issues and perhaps writing something meaningful for the Heroes page.
However, all plans have been swept aside by Whitney Houston.
For some reason, I managed to get my staples off the record player this evening (Fleetwood Mac, Carter USM, DJ Spooky and the Carousel soundtrack have been on top rotation for the past week) and absent mindedly bunged on Whitney, Whitney Houston’s second LP. Although I played this record repeatedly for some time after I received it for Xmas in 1988 (cheers Mum and Dad!), its been a long time since it made it out of the inner sleeve.
Don’t know why – it’s great!!!
I mean, just listen to that sparkly 80s production on I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves me) and look at that hair – what’s not to like?!
Whitney Houston truly is being written out of music history at the moment. I have never even heard DJ Sean Rowley play her on his Guilty Pleasures programme – which is saying something.
She wasn’t as mega selling (or weird) as Michael Jackson, as gratuitously attention seeking as Madonna, and in the R&B stakes Mary J. Blige always gets the kudos, but Whitney paved the way for all the over-commercialised, over-emotive R&B ballads that have clogged up the charts since 1987.
Credit is due! Lets just forget that awful tune from the Bodyguard shall we?
Tags: dirty nostalgia, Whitney