Line #14 YMMV/WhitneyHouston


1	* CoveredUp:
2	** "I Will Always Love You", originally done by Music/DollyParton. You'd be surprised at the amount of people you can confuse by saying it was originally Dolly Parton's song, as Houston's version is practically her SignatureSong and is one of most commercially successful tracks of all time.
3	** "Greatest Love of All," originally by George Benson.
4	** In the same album, "Saving All My Love for You", originally by Marilyn [=McCoo=].
5	** As well as "All the Man I Need", originally by Sister Sledge.
6	** "I'm Every Woman," originally by Chaka Khan.
7	* HarsherInHindsight:
8	** All the jokes relating to her drug use aren't really funny anymore, considering how she died.
9	** Also her song "I Will Always Love You" is particularly sad because all of the lyrics seem to relate to her dying, like "So good-bye/Please don't cry/We both know I'm not what you need". The whole song is about her having to leave for an unknown reason.
10	** In her 'Nothing But Love' World Tour in 2010, she paid tribute to one Music/MichaelJackson, even singing excerpts of "Wanna be Starting Something" and "The Way You Make Me Feel". Two years later and she very much followed in his footsteps.
11	** Just one week before her death, ''Podcast/RiffTrax'' released a trailer for their riff of ''Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1'', in which Kevin Murphy tearfully sings "I Will Always Love You."
12	** The name of the song "Love is a Contact Sport" comes off as far more disturbing, considering Houston's marriage to Music/BobbyBrown was plagued with domestic violence allegations.
13	** Bobbi Kristina Brown, Houston's daughter, died about 3.5 years after her, under eerily similar circumstances.
14	* HeartwarmingInHindsight: While her passing away would've been inevitable even if wasn't as tragically cut short as it is in her song "My Love Is Your Love" her singing "If I should die this very day, don't cry cause on earth we weren't meant to stay." can be very bittersweet yet comforting since it interprets like her consoling the ones who mourned her death.
15	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: "The Greatest Love of All" ends with the mother arriving to see her daughter (Whitney Houston) sing on stage. It helps that the mother is played by Whitney's own mother.
16	* MemeticMutation: '''AND IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-YIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU...''' During the height of its popularity, you could literally extend the "and I~" part to several seconds more by changing radio stations at the right time. Popular internet joke: What's Whitney Houston's favorite coordination? HAND-EYYYYYYYYYYYYYE...
17	* MisaimedFandom: "I Will Always Love You", often used in weddings, is a breakup song. Likewise, "Saving All My Love for You" is explicitly about dating a married man but is also used in weddings.
18	* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: That time she absolutely nailed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_lCmBvYMRs "The Star Spangled Banner"]] at Super Bowl XXV in 1991. To date, it is still regarded by many publications, including ''Rolling Stone'', as the greatest national anthem performance in Super Bowl history.
19	* {{Narm}}: '''AND IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-YIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU...''' One could probably ask some people who were around the time of the song's popularity, and they'll say that they ended up getting sick of it due to the repetition of that note.
20	* NarmCharm: On the other hand, to others the above note also manages to convey a lot of emotion, and demonstrates that the woman had ''amazing'' vocals.
21	* PosthumousPopularityPotential: Houston sold over 170 million records in her career, but just like Music/MichaelJackson, she spent the later years of her life being ridiculed constantly for her problems with drugs & alcohol and increasingly erratic behavior, not to mention her tumultuous relationship with Bobby Brown. Shortly after her death, sales of her records soared, tributes to her began to pour out, and [[NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead jokes about the problems she had were largely forgotten]].
22	* SignatureSong: "I Will Always Love You", "Saving All My Love for You", and "Greatest Love of All". Granted, all of those songs are covers, but still. "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" may also qualify - before "I Will Always Love You," it was her biggest hit in America:
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