I had to travel yesterday for work, and so failed to put up my post. Despite it brewing in my brain all morning. (Also, close observers will notice I failed to post last Friday. This is because I spent the bulk of the day in the car, traversing the interstate to visit TGOTS! There was much good music involved in the trip, but no computer time. And then there was TGOTS, in her lovely house. And she introduced me to “Glee,” and all was right with the world.)

So back to yesterday. Several songs were sounding promising, and then I landed on the soaring soaringness of “I Will Always Love You.” The Whitney version, of course, since Dolly’s doesn’t get much play.

If there’s a better singing-embarrassingly-in-the-privacy-of-your-car song, I don’t know what it is. Since this song arrived on the scene, I have been compelled to swoop along with it whenever I hear it. I mean drop everything, put 100 percent into the ups and downs and belting outs. My god, what a song.

And what a terrible, terrible movie. I did actually see it once, in college. My friend and I laughed our way through it. I have this fuzzy idea that she had a poster from it in her dorm room, but now I could just be making things up.

And oh, Whitney. With the fall from grace and the questionable life decisions. But now? Is she pulling it back together? Might we be treated to another showstopper of the IWALY variety?

Operators are standing by.

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