★★★★★
30 years can safely be considered an eternity in a fickle industry such as music. Changing tastes, corporate culture, and demographics each play a part in dictating what the public at large is exposed to over the course of an artist's career. But then, there are remarkable exceptions. When thinking about the sheer vocal power and inimitable way with a song that Whitney Houston possessed, three decades seem more like one moment in time...
- www.soultracks.com
2014-11-08
★★★★★
For all its earth-shaking power, Whitney Houston's voice could sometimes become an artistic weakness: Even on her most emotionally intense songs, her vocal infallibility could make her seem unapproachable, inhuman. In the wake of her death, fans rushed to the Internet seeking intimacy with the great diva, making a viral hit out of an a cappella version of "How Will I Know" that lays bare the joy and soul behind her virtuosic style...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2014-11-08
★★★★★
It's strange to think that, 27 years after her debut, it took Whitney Houston's death for her record label to finally put out a proper greatest-hits collection. The Greatest Hits, from 2000, was divided into ballads and dance songs, with the latter lamentably represented by garish house remixes by the likes of Thunderpuss and Hex Hector. It's the original versions of Houston's dance songs, in fact, that have aged the best...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2012-11-07
★★★★★
Buy / Listen: 7Digital | Amazon | eMusic | We7 | Spotify -The most anticipated new album of the year' is how the sticker on the front of Whitney Houston's new album describes the contents beneath - a claim presumably concocted after the demise of one M. Jackson. Nevertheless, the return of Houston is certainly one to attract the attention, coming as it does on the back of a fall from grace to mirror, if not match, Jackson himself...
- www.state.ie
2011-01-25
★★★★★
Someone looking to Whitney Houston's "comeback" album I Look to You has to get one thing straight up front: This is not the 22 year old Whitney belting out "You Give Good Love" or even the later version grooving on "I'm Every Woman." At 45, with a decade of personal, physical and chemical dependency problems behind her, this is a different woman who comes to the microphone...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
I was one of the few people who bought Whitney Houston's self-titled debut album during the week it was released in 1985 (it opened at a whopping #166 on the Billboard LP charts). I remember vividly seeing Houston appear on television during the week of the release and I was stunned by her presence, her voice and the songs she was singing. I didn't know where her career would go from there, but for that moment she appeared to be the hottest new singer I had seen in years...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
One of the most anticipated new albums of the year - Whitney's first studio album since 2002's Just Whitney - was worth the wait. Clive Davis has stacked the odds in Whitney's favour, recruiting the best in the biz, notably Alicia Keys, who writes, arranges and co-produces with Swiss Beatz on the terrific, breezy, bouncy Million Dollar Bill, which deserves to top the charts...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Could it be the three biggest-selling divas of the '90s are now dinosaurs? Mariah had her breakdown, Céline is in Vegas and this winter Whitney, when asked about her drug abuse, told journalist Diane Sawyer, "Crack is wack." I doubt Whitney will recover from that God-awful TV interview any time soon (girl, what WERE you thinking?)...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Last year's I Look to You didn't quite succeed in refocusing consumers' attention away from Whitney Houston's personal travails and toward her one-of-a-kind voice...
- ew.com
2010-08-27
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