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  • Chills. She gives me chills.

  • amazing. i love both of the jennifer versions...we all do. and countless others have done this song...but whitney owned this song that night...and sang it in a medley no less. and LIVE. hooray. thanks whitney.

  • look how i sing this song! hope you enjoy!

  • Whitney had a great voice and this was a nice technically flawless performance. The song is one of the most emotional moments in Dreamgirls and if you subtract the emotions Whitney's performance gives you what is left.

    Jennifer Holiday made you feel Effie's pain. She had a beautiful voice but she did not just sing she emoted and you felt like you were feeling what Effie felt. Her version still gives me chills every time.

    Whitney's version can't compare.

  • I CAN WATCH THIS ALL NIGHT!!!!! SHE WAS IN A LEAGUE OF HER OWN!!! GOD BLESS HER!!!

  • the BEST DIVA EVER!!!!

  • love it

  • I LOVE YOU!!! PERFECT DIVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

  • yeah baby when its whitney, its really something exeptional !!! =D

  • DI-VA

    

  • DI-VA

  • gosh i really wished she took this song to the studio and see how she would've totally nailed!!!

  • i think whitney is the only singer that got the emotion in her voice for the message of the song , the way she attacked the song you can tell this bitch aint going nowhere , it wasnt desperation like the others but pure anger and pride and that is what effie is about

  • @freakybwoy  - The only singer that "HAD" the emotion in her voice. You guys seem to hold on to the past - she sounds like she is off key baritone on a street corner trying to make a dime. WAS, WAS, WAS, WAS, WAS, WAS - Remember that people - WAS,WAS,WAS, WAS,WAS!!!!!

  • nadie lo hace como ella...mas de su talento vocal, uno ve en su idioma gestual la seguridad y manejo exacto de quien sabe hacer las cosas ....otras cantantes parecen que se van a desarmar de tanto espamento y exageracion,,,sobre todo sobreactuacion....whitney lo esta diciendo todo, que mas se le puede decir?....mis respetos y admiracion a una grande de todos los tiempos....

  • God.

    I have watched many different versions so far, but Whitney's is just UNbelievable. Even though it was Jennifer Holliday who sang the original, she's somehow pushing her voice too much.

    Listening to Whitney is pure enjoyment, my heart feels just like...happy.

  • Sorry Whitney, but Charice and Jennifer Hudson are much better than you

  • @wicaksono27 go die ! stupid u are

  • @wicaksono27 go have some music lesson please you're so stupid.

  • i miss her voice she. so unique ..come back whitney!!!!!!!!

  • WOW OMG

  • She WAS so great...damn...Bobby Brown killed her life...

  • THE BEST EVER

  • AMANZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

  • men.. I love this she is in one classic word AMAZING.

  • Certain songs are meant for certain people and as much power as whitney has,i did not feel she was singing this for a lover as intended,but more for the audience

  • she's so AMAZINGLY talented.. no one will ever beat her!!

  • i think charice's version and her version are the best among the rest.....

  • HONESTLY,

    Whitney Houston is just amazing. Love this version. (: Like someone said below, she kept it Whitney. And Whitney is amazing. <3

  • Whitneys version is the best. power

  • @bemnaija yeah.. i agree!!

  • honestly,

    frenchie davis and jennifer hudson sing this way better

    but whitney is of course very talented

  • what a drummer!!!!!! Amazing powerful sound for her song!!! it gave me the chills!!!

  • lol this was the whitney who could tear a whole battalion of diva wannabes...

  • what concert was this?

  • @WhitneyElizabethH

    this was the American Music Awards in 94

  • ICON!

    forever

  • i love how she DID NOT overdue the song and kept it WHITNEY! Whitney never imitates! it's amazing how somone can have so much stage presence! when she closed her eyes and opened them everyone in there were on their feet!Jeenifer(s) WHO? WHitney Houston!!!hands down

  • @jonippy24 *over do & *Jennifer! sorry got kinda excited...lol

  • PURE CLASS

  • Awesome! I can't imagine how the world would be without Whitney Houston! I've been grown up with her voice and music and I went to her concert on Wednesday! And this one is def the best version of this song I've ever heard!!

  • Talk about perfection at its finest

    MISS WHITNEY, continue to be that diva, that you are

    America applaud you for all of your many attributes to music and to the world!

  • magnificent! Eat your heart out Diana Ross! LOL!!!!

  • very beautiful whitney! your best performance.your the best love you always

  • whitney at her best,i think this is my favourite

  • one word only: AWESOME.!

  • She is awesome!

  • I love her... the best voice of the world... This is Whitney... This is the voice.. This is the best... :D... clap... :)

  • I wish this Whitney would come back

  • i must say i prefer j.hol's version and j.hud's

    purely cause they feel like they have more emototion

    no doubt whitney nails this perfect on the voacals.

  • I love this version !!! She NAILS it !!! just WOW!!!

    What i love the most about it, she is not screeching and screaming like so many of the recent versions, its just soo nice to hear the words being sung- dont you think-

    And even though i love J Hudson, Whitney By far out sings her !!!!

  • one word to describe the her rendition of this song... ORIGINAL!!! :D

  • 1:34-1:48 WOW!!

  • great version of a big song! adored it!

  • The Beauty with the Beast inside! OMG she destroys this song and in the full 10 minute version she kills I Loves You Porgy and I Have Nothing...she is phenomenal! I am breathless just watching!

  • Whitney brought the house down loved it and her dress is beautiful.

  • She´s the voice...lovin her voice in these former days...she´s deeper with that in actual songs...

  • Sang girl!!!!!!

  • This was a piece of cake for her.

  • 2.18-2.25 is my fave part, outstanding as well as the rest of it. gives me shivers

  • She is so so Awesome!

  • WOW. this is superb. better than any other version of the song

  • @Cookies7694 She is absolute awesome, but I think she didn't do the best version ever.

  • WOW. this is superb. better than any other version of the song

  • while!! when Whitney could still sing! How the world wishes for this voice again!

  • I couldnt have put it better myself!

  • This is Whitney's BEST PERFORMANCE Live!!!! She destroy the song in pieces with that powerful voice!!!!

  • STILL THA BADDEST !!!

  • The Amazing Thing is... She song this song Sandwiched in between a two other Power Vocal songs Porgy & Bess and I Have Nothing. Only a POWERHOUSE can blast those 3 songs in a row. GO WHITNEY!

  • You know something.......this sounds like a voice that could sell 200 million copies. Vintage sound. When it's real it's real.

  • fucking amazing!

  • man..whitney..tore dat song up..she sung da mess out da song...dat was phenomenal and da best rendition ive ever witnessed...she sung it betta than da original song...

  • she have the most beautiful teeth i ever seen!!! does i write it right :S (englisch)

  • her voice is perfect for this song!

  • shes amazzing

  • she is so effortlessly brilliant. i love her!

  • ok ,know we all know whos the best .Whitney used no eforts to sing this song .she is the gratest singer of all.

  • Aslong as there are haters spreading negative energy around this voice will never come back....lets all appreciate all singers...God likes variety and I think we all do aswell.....Not everyone is gonna sing the same song the same way...My opinion only: whitney does it best. Man what a voice.

  • WOW! Effortless...

  • oh my... that was the good old times, when she had two nostrils!

  • huh?

  • hahahah lol :-D

  • "Now I'm sorry Uncle Phil, but you brought this on yourselfffff"

    hahaha, love this song!!

  • I don't like Jennifer Hudson singing this music, she sing so high and I don't like, I prefer Whitney and Jennifer Holliday!

  • not quite sure what planet some of you are on....but, no one...no one sings this better than Jennifer Holiday. Simple and plain.

  • Good thing thats only YOUR OPINION and NOT FACT.

  • Please...

  • What's wrong, big boy? You want me to throw you some double cheeseburgers so you can get off of Whitney's clit with your bitterness and envy and the rest of us can enjoy her???

  • hey jackass, its better to be perceived a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. I would have to have my brain removed to have a fair debate with your dumb ass. btw, I'm 6-2, 210...I'm bigman for reasons you would not understand "neno' is that greek for small?

  • OMG! whitney killed it!! idc what nobody says! holiday only sounds good when she sings this song and thats it!

    whitney can sing the pages of the phone book! and kill it

  • I've said this before, but I'll say it again.

    There are probably only ten singers who can perform this song at any kind of level.

    I like three versions by three different singers for different reasons, but accolades should be given to the original songwriter and scorewriter.

  • Why compare any of them. All three of the women who sings this song bring their own flare and do amazing job at it. I don't understand how someone can watch this and not be impressed. I bet...you know what, I won't go there. It reminds me of the fair weather fans of Michael Jackson. Before he died they clowned him and after he died, all these loving comments were on here. Where we they when he was bringing the pain like Whitney is on this song. Appreicate them while they are here!!!

  • holiday can't be beat!!

  • WHAT IS THIS CLIP FROM? when was it broadcast?

  • This was back during The Bodyguard days. Actually, the following song she sings after this is "I have nothing" and the song before this one was called "I loves you Porgy". It was from the American Music Awards. I actually still had this on tape and transferred it to DVD. It's my favorite live performance of Whitney. She was flawless that night and had the crowd on their feet.

  • wow..its too good

  • u guys cant compare. the vocals are very different and im telling u whitney did an EXCELLENT JOB.well done to holiday and whitney they are legends.

  • no1 can sing betta than jennifer holiday

  • Nice job, considering this is not really Whitney's type of song. She's an elegant polished singer, and the raw emotion of a number like this isn't really in her ball park.

    No one has ever come close to Jennifer Holliday's original version of this song -- see it here on YouTube in a version from the Tony Awards, introduced by Tony Randall, or Holliday's amazing duet with Hudson from April 2009.

    I love Whitney, but this really isn't her repertoire. Her version here lacks emotion.

  • My dad said it best; " Whitney Houston is a 10 times better singer than Holiday and can out singer her any day of the week, just not when it comes to this song.""

  • I think whitney's

  • You can not compare, Whitney is a Legend.

    Jennifer is greate I really like her, but the way Whitney make us fell when she sings is not compared.

  • Thanks for commenting!!!

  • I do not think that is a fair comparison, because they are just so different....but if your forced me to pick I would go with whitney.

  • what a wonderful songstress......we have truly missed her.

  • ona jest fenomenalna!!!

  • To me this is the best version of this song..

    it's not too high, it's not too low..

    unlike the others who sang this song with a pitch like a chipmunk..

    I'm just saying.. I'm not pointing any others singers who sang this.. just sayin' guys..

  • When was this?

  • 1994 American Music Awards i think

  • @al221177 - That sounds about right - before the "I need crack and Bobby Brown" - LMAO What a hot mess she is...............sounding like a baritone - cracking and breathing like she just finished an obscene phone call!

  • @musikphantom1881 - Obviously before she smoked crack every five minutes. She can't even talk now without sounding like she just ran 700 miles and is dripping in sweat! LMAO!

  • She is just sooo magnificent!

  • O.M.G

    im speechless that was AMAZING

    theres not even words to put to that performance!!

  • No she doesn't even sing it she just belts every single note and half of it has no feeling.

  • WHITNEY IS THE BEST!!!

  • that was AMAZING! OMG!

  • Dam dam dam you better sing!

  • SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG whitney

  • 2:23 up to 2:26

    amazing...

  • Wonderful!!  Magical!

  • this is a very nice version

  • i didn't know that she sang this song, too.

    But AMAZING!!

  • I think this is her best performance

  • WOW, I had never seen this performance, but GD, this is amazing.  How can she do that so effortlessly?

  • sing girl

  • sei fantastica!!!

    she is the queen

    ti amoooooooooooooooo

  • I keep coming back to this because she does such an amazing performance!! Her vocals are so powerful and emotive on it!! Go Whitney!! One of the best for sure!

  • esta señora es leyenda

  • Who is better in THIS SONG Jennifer Hudson, or Whitney???

  • whitney!!!!  all the way....

  • Jennifer Holiday

  • Charice? her voice becomes untidy when it comes to high notes, you know... not like whitney, which still retains the fullness and richness of her voice even how high the note is....

  • Charice is also 15 (at least when she sung this)

  • Oh my God...I'm awestruck by this performance. I thought I'd seen the best of Whitney's live performances but this is amazing!

  • WOW. that gave me chills. perfection

  • go to: Edyta Górniak - Once in a Lifetime

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  • 1 : 34 till 1 : 50 .................... oooh myy goooooooooooood i couldnt breath... she is and will be defintly the one and only ....

  • we all KNOW whitney is by far the gold standard of the voices-better than celine,mariah,etc. whitney set that bar very high and people are just grasping for it.

    please people..don't bash Charice..that's unnecessary.even charice says whitney is her inspiration & a big influence on her(come on,this girl learned english listening to songs of whitney & celine!) charice is not imitating her or whatever neg stuff u guys say. this girl got talent and i'm glad she ain't singing britney spears songs!!

  • Mariah isin't in the same category as whitney houston.They are different but vocally speaking they are pretty much on the same level mariah range and whitneys ad-libs cancel each other out. Celine is the worst of both divas she has absolutly no soul is can easily bore someone

  • why is Charice's name even mentioned here? just good but no whitney.

  • AMEN!

  • another AMEN!!!

  • correct...

  • This is definately one of my favorite renditions of this song, she has a very powerful voice but her tone is just a lot more attractive than Holiday's and Hudsons however i feel as if a pretty tone isn't what this song calls for. I feel like this is the prettiest rendition i've ever heard without sacrificing power, and feels more original than any other, but I think Hudson's was the most vocally impressive by far and Holidays was the most heartfelt and powerful

  • To bad bout her husband Druggy waste of space she is amaizing and shuld bounce back

    I love u whitney xxx Posted on xmas Day!! merry christmas

  • How dear you disrespect Whitney with all this Charice crap. Go and do you research, when Whitney was in her swing-saving all my love she would tear Charice up from the ground and spit her out and she still does tear her up.

    You lot are getting carried away with this all this Charice crap...

  • Damn talk about a women who meant what she said.....

    She sure did said by her word .

  • You cant Compare Charice to Whitney!! Thats NUTZ!!! To me Whitney is the BEST SINGER EVER! She opened the doors for all the singers now like Mariah, Jennifer Hudson, Beyonce! No one will EVER TOP WHITNEY!!! Long live Whitney! :-]

  • I think Charice is absolutely amazing, but you have to keep in mind who even she herself says are her musical influences: Celine Dion, Beyonce, Mariah Carey, and WHITNEY HOUSTON. Whitney is a legend, one who has left young singers a HUGE legacy. There's really no comparison to someone who is still relatively new to the industry - even if that someone has incredible natural talent.

  • The only person who ever used to compete with Whitney by a long shot was Deborah Cox, and her vocal skills is craazy. By the way Whitney is a mezzo soprano. So she could basically crush any artist in a song. If it wasnt for whitney, singers like Charice wouldnt even be singing. She obviously admires Whitney because she loves to sing her music. There is nothing wrong with that. However lets not discredit Whitney just because she is not out right now. Her legacy remains and is still #1...

  • good point..

    deborah is a vocal beast, especially her remixes! and she is classy! btw im with ya WHITNEY E HOUSTON IS THE BEST SINGER IN THE WORLD.. THAN D COX FAR SECOND!

  • there are lots of singing prodigy and charice is one of them. To compare charice with another established singers is an overstatemet. Reaching to Diva's standard is not only about having good voice but personality, charisma etc. We have yet to see charice's path. Many young singers went down hill after one hit wonder.

  • i love the runs!

  • Its not a competion about who is better.....why cant people just enjoy the artists & the songs ??numptys

  • Whitney was the BEST SINGER EVER! I miss her!

  • Thak you!!! So many people seem to have forgotten how good she was. All they talk about are these other artists. If it wasnt for whitney they wouldnt even be singing. Aint nobody could even touch her legacy she's left.

  • You must be related to Charice to say that. Come on this is whitney houston. Stop trying to discredit the best singer to have ever graced this earth. No one, not even as good as Charice is, can even begin to match the legacy Whitney Houston has left.

  • I've seen Charice's version and she has nothing on Whitney...she's just another chick trying to be something she's not just like Regine who sings through her damn nose. Compare Charice to women like Britany, Rihanna. Never mention her with Legends!!!!

  • stupid!!!! Charice will not even reach the high standard of David Foster,,,,

  • charice audition is amazing, but whitneys' is the best of all of them, dont forget that charice is singing in a diffirent way

  • This song was written for three voices:

    Jennifer Holiday

    Whitney Houston

    and...

    Jennifer Hudson

    No one can sing this song like those three. Chills...

  • that's ur opinion - i COMPLETELY disagree but hey everyone is entitled to their opinion.

  • for me im gonna be honest, thi is the best performance of "I.N.T.Y" of all time, no one could do better than Whitney's rendition, better than the original, and better 1000% times of the "new divas" version, Whitney rocks.

  • one of a kind .. legendary diva ever !!!

  • it's classic!!

  • shirley bassey-ish???