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“Whitney didn’t deconstruct the song like Gaye did, but she did take his version as proof of the song’s malleability.”
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““It wasn’t rushed,” was how she described it to Rickey.”
“__________________________________ Excerpted from Holding Lightning: The Life, Loves, and Art of Whitney Houston by Emily Lordi.”
“Published by Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.”
“Copyright © 2026 by Emily Jeanne Lordi.”
“The video shows an impossibly cool Gaye in a sharp blue suit and a tie, his eyes concealed by tinted shades.”
“They called radio stations to request it so often that DJs played tapes recorded from the TV, until Arista released the song as a single.”
“The host asked Barr if she had any advice for Whitney, whose performance at the Super Bowl XXV in Tampa was just weeks away.”
“But her musical approach to the anthem was more pro-Black than pro-American.”
“create an orchestral arrangement that synthesized jazz, classical, and gospel idioms.”
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“But she knew her expression of confident complexity itself could embolden other Black people—perhaps especially girls and women.”
“Literary Hub » The Confident Complexity of Whitney Houston Literary Hub Craft and Criticism Literary Criticism Craft and Advice In Conversation On Translation Fiction and Poetry Short Story From the Novel Poem News and Culture History Science Politics Biography Memoir Food Technology Bookstores and Libraries Film and TV Travel Music Art and Photography The Hub Style Design Sports Become A Member Lit Hub Radio The Lit Hub Podcast Awakeners Fiction/Non/Fiction The Critic and Her Publics Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast Memoir Nation Beyond the Page First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing Thresholds The Cosmic Library Culture Schlock Reading Lists Book Marks Best Reviewed Books CrimeReads True Crime The Daily Thrill Log In Craft and Criticism Fiction and Poetry News and Culture Lit Hub Radio Reading Lists Book Marks CrimeReads Log In The Confident Complexity of Whitney Houston Emily Lordi on Whitney Houston’s Super Bowl XXV Performance Via Mariner Books Emily Lordi October 8, 2026 When Whitney Houston appeared on The Arsenio Hall Show in the early weeks of 1991, Arsenio’s other guest was Roseanne Barr, who had notoriously sung “The Star-Spangled Banner” at a San Diego Padres game the previous year.”
“But while the tape played, she sang her heart out into a dead mic—a performance so fully embodied and perfectly synced to the tape that most people would never know the difference.”
“So she sang for 3,500 troops who had just returned from the Persian Gulf.”
“Yet in that space, she writes a great American novel.”
“The drummer Rickey Lawson was a Detroiter who’d toured with Stevie and Michael.”