Oh, Manchester, So Much To Answer For

I think it's fair to say that we can all agree that whitney houston's "whatchulookinat" was horrible. on first listen, I thought it was alright. I soon realized it was more akin to watching a car accident: horrendous production (by her husband, no less), and paranoid-verging-on-nasty lyrics about the media reporting on her, um, issues. well, whit, that's a great way to get people to stop talking - bring 'em up in a song! genius! why didn't jacko think of that?

but now we get the first "official" single from the forthcoming just whitney - arista's damage control ran along the lines of "'whatchulookinat' wasn't really the single, it just got leaked, we don't know how it happened..." - and it's awfully nice. it's whitney, smoothed-out, which has been all-too-rare for a long while. "one of those days" talks about whitney just enjoying a day (and interpolating a bit of the isleys' "between the sheets") "cruising in your car ... when the sun is shining bright," et cetera. no, it's not deep. but the production is perfectly inobtrusive (with a whitney song, the focus should always be on that magnificent voice, which is still sounding gorgeous), and whit's not over-singing. "one of those days" seems like much more of a summer song than a winter one, but when a single this smooth comes along, I'll take it regardless of season. a delicious treat, quite recommended.