you should clap your hands and jump for joy
(or: september 9’s honey from the hive)
posted at 3:46 am by brandon in sweet you rock and sweet you roll
Whitney Houston & Jordin Sparks — “Celebrate”
(from Sparkle [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
So, sure, you’re likely never gonna hear anyone argue that this is the finest three-and-one-half minutes Miss Whitney ever loaned her pipes to (or, argue that it’s even that great a tune, to boot). But at the end of this scorching summer, in which we mark with a joy that is equal parts bitter and sweet the twenty-fifth anniversary of the release of “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)” — which still lands high on my list of the ten best pure pop songs of all time — if this is what I have to sit through to get one last lingering taste of Houston’s magnificently miraculous voice, I consider that a pittance to pay.
