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Whitney Houston My Love Is Your Love Release Date: 1998 11 17 Running Time: 60:51 Label: Arista For all intents and purposes, Whitney Houston retired from being a full-fledged recording artist after her third album, 1990s I'm Your Baby Tonight, choosing to be a Streisand-like celebrity who cultivated a career through movies, soundtrack contributions, and social appearances. She may have been content to continue in that direction for many years if Arista president Clive Davis didn't push her into recording My Love Is Your Love, her first album in eight years, which easily ranks among her best. Never before has Houston tried so many different sounds or tried so hard to be hip. It's one thing to work with Babyface, the standard-bearer of smooth soul in the '90s, but it's quite another to hire Wyclef Jean, Lauren Hill, Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, and Q-Tip -- all cutting-edge artists (albeit on the accessible side of the cutting edge), the kind who never would have been associated with Houston in the late '80s. The gambit works. There is still a fair share of David Foster-produced adult contemporary ballads, but the true news is on the up-tempo and mid-tempo dance numbers. In fact, the songs that feel the stiffest are the big production numbers; tellingly, they're the songs that are the most reminiscent of old-school Houston. That's not to say she can no longer belt out ballads convincingly -- in fact, the best ballads are where she restrains herself, delivering them with considerable nuance. Houston has never been quite so subtle before, nor has she ever shown this desire to branch out musically. That alone would be reason enough to rank My Love Is Your Love among her more interesting albums, but the fact that it works more often than not pushes it into the top rank of her recorded work. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide Tracks: Title Composer Time 1 It's Not Right But It's Okay Jerkins, Jerkins, Daniels, Estes, Phillips 4:52 2 Heartbreak Hotel Karlin, Savage, Schack 4:41 3 My Love Is Your Love Jean, Duplessis 4:21 4 When You Believe [From the Prince of Egypt] Babyface [1], Edmonds, Schwartz 4:32 5 If I Told You That Daniels, Jerkins, Jerkins, Estes 4:37 6 In My Business Bradshaw, Turner, Elliott 3:27 7 I Learned from the Best Warren 4:21 8 Oh Yes Bradshaw, Turner, Elliott 6:47 9 Get It Back Jerkins, Jerkins, Daniels, Estes 4:53 10 Until You Come Back Babyface [1], Simmons 4:52 11 I Bow Out Warren 4:31 12 You'll Never Stand Alone Warren 4:21 13 I Was Made to Love Him Cosby, Wonder, Moy, Hardaway 4:26 Releases: Year Type Label 1998 CD Arista 1999 CD Arista 2008 CD BMG Japan 2000 CD Import 2000 CD Import 1998 CS Arista 1998 LP Arista

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