Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston

THE REVIEW

The album opens with "you give good love" and "thinking about you", two songs produced and arranged by Kashif. Despite their beauty, the record really takes off with "someone for me", a track produced by Jermaine Jackson in which Houston sings melancholically over a jazz disco background. The track "saving all my love to you" is the sexiest and most romantic, where you can feel the influence of 60s female pop groups (Gerry Goffin co-wrote it). Another gem is titled "nobody loves me like you do", which is an example of how sophisticated the lyrics of this album can be. If there's one thing this album doesn't suffer from, it's mediocre lyrics, which often afflict singers who don't write their own verses, relying on the artistic taste of business people. But in this case, Houston and her collaborators hit the mark.

The dance single "how i will know" is in my opinion the best dance track of the 80s. It's a joyful ode to the fears of a girl uncertain about a man's interest in her. The Bontempi keyboard riff is extraordinary, and it's the only track on the album produced by that prodigy, Narada Michael Walden. My favorite ballad is "all at once", dedicated to a young woman who suddenly realizes how her love is ending (the credited authors of the track are Michael Masser and Linda Creed). It drives me crazy when people say Laura Pausini is the Italian Whitney Houston; it's evident that singers like laura (less pausini) have only had luck in life to reach where they are, as my boyfriend says, to succeed you essentially need three things: oc, pasiensa, and bus der cul.

I hope I have reignited your appreciation for a great artist and I hope I managed to take and give what I had to take and what I had to give.

Hope to hear from you soon.