I had Whitney Houston on my mind all weekend. Perhaps you did, too. As a child of the 80s, I feel strangely affected by the news of her death. She was only 48 years old when she died, so young, yet her death makes me feel old. How is it that another pop superstar I grew up listening to is dead?
Whitney Houston makes multiple appearances on the soundtrack of my childhood, right there alongside Debbie Gibson and Bryan Adams. I remember listening to her self-titled debut album at my friend Jodi’s house when I was just five years old. We would belt out “Greatest Love Of All” in her living room. Later, Whitney’s rendition of “I Will Always Love You” was the song all the girls in my class wanted to dance to at Bar Mitzvahs with the boys we had crushes on.
Since Saturday evening, Whitney Houston’s greatest hits have been playing on a continuous loop in my head. I keep catching myself singing snippets of them out loud… “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” “I Get So Emotional,” and a fave of mine, “One Moment In Time.” I was mesmerized by this song when it debuted during the 1988 Summer Olympics, and it still gives me chills to listen to it.
I know I don’t normally post about current events and pop culture, but Whitney Houston’s tragic death felt too big for me not to mention on the blog. Did you listen to her music growing up? What was your favorite song?
{album covers via Amazon}
