http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2007/08/27/houston-we-have-a-problem/ The 'Father' of the Metrosexual, the Retrosexual & Spawner of Sporno Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:02:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2007/08/27/houston-we-have-a-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-3277 Elise Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:45:19 +0000 http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2007/08/27/houston-we-have-a-problem/#comment-3277 "Except, that is, for one word, “I”. When Whitney sings the personal pronoun you are left in no doubt that this word means something very special indeed. Which is why her ballads are so funny and so terrifying all at once: “The grea-test love of all is hap-pen-ing to MEEEEEEEEEE!”. This is also why the country singer Dolly Parton’s earlier interpretation of “I Will Always Love You” with its delicate, charming, make-believe masochism had more soul than Whitney’s bullet-proof Kevlar version used in The Bodyguard (1992), the massive popularity of which confirmed her status as the world’s No 1 superstar (and favourite taped singer at funerals)." *nods* Whitney Houston=Milly Theale “Except, that is, for one word, “I”. When Whitney sings the personal pronoun you are left in no doubt that this word means something very special indeed. Which is why her ballads are so funny and so terrifying all at once: “The grea-test love of all is hap-pen-ing to MEEEEEEEEEE!”. This is also why the country singer Dolly Parton’s earlier interpretation of “I Will Always Love You” with its delicate, charming, make-believe masochism had more soul than Whitney’s bullet-proof Kevlar version used in The Bodyguard (1992), the massive popularity of which confirmed her status as the world’s No 1 superstar (and favourite taped singer at funerals).” *nods* Whitney Houston=Milly Theale

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