| "So Emotional" | ||||
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| Single by Whitney Houston | ||||
| from the album Whitney | ||||
| B-side | "For the Love of You" | |||
| Released | October 12, 1987 | |||
| Recorded | March 1, 1987 | |||
| Studio | Right Track Recording | |||
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| Length | 4:36 | |||
| Label | Arista | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Narada Michael Walden | |||
| Whitney Houston singles chronology | ||||
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| Music video | ||||
| "So Emotional" on YouTube | ||||
"So Emotional" is a song by American singer Whitney Houston. It was released as the third single from her second studio album Whitney (1987) on October 12, 1987 by Arista Records. The song was written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly and produced by Narada Michael Walden.
Commercially, it peaked at number five in the UK and number one on the Billboard Hot 100, where it became her sixth consecutive number one, and a dance chart hit. It would become the sixth best-charting song of 1988, and was the fourth most played song on the club charts; it is her sixth biggest hit on the Hot 100 chart.[3]
- ^ Breihan, Tom (April 5, 2021). "The Number Ones: Whitney Houston's "So Emotional". Stereogum. Retrieved November 9, 2023.
So Emotional" is at least a little bit of a rock song...Whitney Houston's "So Emotional" is by-the-numbers late-'80s dance-pop.
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