What can I say? I must admit I have become addicted to Whitney Houston’s CD, I Look To You. Of course, people would love to compare the current voice to the old voice. Of course people want to analyze what they think they know of Whitney’s life. Of course people want to talk about this and that but the bottom line is the bottom line. And the bottom line is this – Whitney has chosen music that is current and that is appropriate for her age and her voice. Whitney’s voice has changed but over the course of  almost 25 years but whose hasn’t.  And then there are the undisputable facts…

With over 170 million combined album, singles and videos sold worldwide during her career with Arista Records, Whitney Houston has established a benchmark for superstardom that will quite simply never be eclipsed in the modern era. She is a singer's singer who has influenced countless other vocalists female and male.

Music historians cite Whitney's record-setting achievements: the only artist to chart seven consecutive #1 Billboard Hot 100 hits ("Saving All My Love For You," "How Will I Know," "Greatest Love Of All," "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)," "Didn't We Almost Have It All," "So Emotional," and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go"); the first female artist to enter the Billboard 200 album chart at #1 (her second album, Whitney, 1987); and the only artist with seven consecutive multi-platinum albums (Whitney Houston, Whitney, I'm Your Baby Tonight, The Bodyguard, Waiting To Exhale, and The Preacher's Wife soundtracks, and My Love Is Your Love).

In fact, The Bodyguard soundtrack is one of the top 10 biggest-selling albums of all-time (at 17x-platinum in the U.S. alone), and Whitney's career-defining version of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" is the biggest-selling U.S. single of all-time (at 4x-platinum).

Are these the best songs that Whitney has ever sung – probably not. Are these good songs – definitely. What is best about the songs is that good, fair or whatever, Whitney brings depth and feeling to each one of them. I Look To You will undoubtedly become one of those songs sung in churches across the country and will probably end up being “the” song used to audition on the next season of American Idol ad nauseum. I Didn’t Know My Own Strength is the other power ballad that Whitney sings and it is just one of those dramatic, almost over the top songs that you can’t help but love.  And Whitney is singing. Try to find someone who can sing runs and not overdo it. Whitney  is the master.

For the old schoolers, For The Lovers does the job – a dance song for people Whitney’s age. For the next three minutes throw your hands up.  And that is what you do for the entire CD. Whitney is back. And as she says, for all the haters in the place, I ain’t singing to you. But then again she proves that she’s got Nothin’ But Love.