In Memoriam: "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" Whitney Houston

In a shocking bit of news, Whitney Houston's publicist announced earlier today that the pop legend had died at the age of 48. Though the cause of death is still unclear, Houston's struggles with drug abuse were well documented, and mostly overshadowed her successful music and film career during the last decade of her life. But what an amazing career it was: Her album Whitney Houston was the best-selling debut of all time, and in the late 1980s, she became the only artist to ever send seven straight singles to the top of the charts. At Houston's early '90s peak, the iconic Bodyguard soundtrack went on to sell over 44 million copies worldwide and spawned the massive smash "I Will Always Love You," which spent a record-breaking 14 weeks at #1 and became her signature song. My personal favorite Whitney classic is the buoyant "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)," in which she lets her massive pipes loose on an energetic, horn-filled dance track. Instead of constrained technical showmanship, it's an infectiously free performance of pure joy—and yet she sounds as magnificent as ever. It's no wonder they called her The Voice. A