Episode 107: Gerrick Kennedy on Whitney Houston’s “My Love Is Your Love”

Episode notes

The Album: Whitney Houston My Love Is Your Love (1998)

What was initially supposed to be a greatest hits compilation ended up being a full-on album. Whitney got everyone on this record. Babyface, Kelly Price, Faith Evans, Missy, and even Mariah Carey, all came into the studio to help create a true heat rock; four times platinum, six Grammy nominations, and the Oscar for Best Original Song/

Writer and critic Gerrick Kennedy joins Oliver and Morgan in the studio to talk about Whitney’s move to hip-hop, her growth as an artist from her last studio album, and how this record helped celebrate black womanhood in a way that was so rarely heard at that time.

More on Gerrick Kennedy

• Gerrick’s work at the Los Angeles Times
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• Website|Twitter

More on My Love Is Your Love

• 20 Years Later: Whitney Houston’s ‘My Love is Your Love’ Album Singles Ranked (Rated R&B)
• Whitney performing Heartbreak Hotel on Rosie O’Donnell

Show Tracklisting (all songs from My Love Is Your Love unless otherwise stated)

• My Love Is Your Love
• It’s Not Right But It’s Okay
• Lauryn Hill: Ex-Factor
• It’s Not Right But It’s Okay (Remix)
• Aaliyah: Are You That Somebody
• Brandy: Never Say Never
• Brandy: The Boy Is Mine
• If I Told You That
• Heartbreak Hotel
• Heartbreak Hotel (Live)
• Get It Back
• Total: Trippin’
• Deborah Cox: Nobody’s Supposed to Be Here
• Whitney Houston: Tell Me No
• Oh Yes
• In My Business
• Heartbreak Hotel
• I Learned From The Best
• When You Believe
• My Love Is Your Love
• If I Told You That
• Oh Yes
• Get It Back
• When You Believe
• I Learned From The Best
• Kelly Price: Secret Love
• Deborah Cox: 2 Good 2 Be True
• Missy Elliot: All N My Grill

Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find there.

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