Comeback Attempt
Whitney Houston
I Look to You
(Arista)
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I Look to You feels less like a comeback album for Ms. Houston than an attack on her past demons, a vocally underconfident statement that, no matter her past, she isn’t going anywhere. (Her weakened voice is another story.) Houston gets a lot of help from her friends on this disc — and she apparently has many friends. R. Kelly drops by, Alicia Keys makes an appearance — even Akon was nice enough to bring his form of magic. On the album’s standout, the Keys-penned “Million Dollar Bill,” Houston proclaims she’s ready to fully appreciate love once more: “If he makes you feel like a million dollar bill, sing it! Whoa-ooh-oh!” And the next song, “Nothin’ But Love,” completes that thought nicely when Houston sings, “I sit by my window, thinking of all of the things I’ve been through/There are times that I never thought I would get to where I got to.” Houston hopes to defeat her past on this album and return to her 1980s salad days, but with her diminished voice, she can no longer get there alone.
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