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Looking back at Whitney Houston's 1991 national anthem

It's Been a Minute

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Whitney's Run Times a Million

Whitney could do a run times a million, but she used them very strategically. She wanted to make a version of this, of our national anthem, that was very easy to sing along too. And the other thing is, she turned it into kind of a bluesy ballad. I bu se's just singing the song, pretty straightforward. The and it's incredibly restraint. Why does that work? In that moment when we're used to write now pop stars just really doing the most? You know, that's a good question.

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