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Whitney Houston - I wanna dance with somebody (who loves me)

I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) is the first single from Whitney Houston's second studio album Whitney. It was produced by Narada Michael Walden, and written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam of the band Boy Meets Girl, who had previously written the number-one Whitney Houston hit "How Will I Know". The original arrangement was more of a country tune, but was transformed by Walden to make it a dance song.

The song received mixed reviews from critics, who compared the musical arrangement to her own "How Will I Know" and Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun".

The song won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 30th Grammy Awards, and in later years received better reviews, being considered a 1980s gem. The single was a commercial success, topping the charts in 13 countries including Australia, Germany and the UK. In the US, it became her fourth consecutive number one single and sold over one million copies, making it her biggest hit in that country at the time. It was eventually surpassed by her version of "I Will Always Love You".

"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" won the award for "Favorite Pop/Rock Single" at the 15th American Music Awards on January 25, 1988.

Additionally, Houston won the Grammy award for "Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female" with the song at its 30th ceremony on March 2, 1988, where she received a total of three nominations.

The music video for the song was nominated for "Best Music Video" at the 2nd Soul Train Music Awards on March 30, 1988.

Houston won the award for "Best Music Video" for the video at the 1st Garden State Music Awards.

Internationally, the song was a massive hit, becoming her most successful single at the time. It reached number one in fourteen countries.

The video for "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" (directed by Brian Grant) is one of Houston's best recognized music videos. In the intro of this video, Houston just finishes a performance onstage. She walks backstage, and the scene is intercut with more vivid, colorful images of her. The song then explodes into its beginning, with myriad locations and various outfits by Houston, as dancers trying to impress her as she dances. Towards the end of the song she manhandles a man, who has a mixture of a look of shock and surprise asking him "Don't you wanna dance say you wanna dance". The music video was in heavy rotation on music channels MTV, VH1, and BET during the song's run.

The lyrics:

Clock strikes upon the hour,

And the sun begins to fade.

Still enough time to figure out,

How to chase my blues away.

I've done alright up till now.

It's the light of day that shows me how.

And when the night falls...

The loneliness calls.

Oh I wanna dance with somebody,

I wanna feel the heat with somebody.

Yeah I wanna dance with somebody,

With somebody who loves me.

Oh I wanna dance with somebody,

I wanna feel the heat with somebody.

Yeah I wanna dance with somebody,

With somebody who loves me.

I've been in love,

And lost my senses,

Spinning through the town.

Sooner or later the fever ends,

And I wind up feeling down.

I need a man who'll take a chance,

On a love that burns hot enough to last.

So when the night falls,

My lonely heart calls.

Oh I wanna dance with somebody,

I wanna feel the heat with somebody.

Yeah I wanna dance with somebody,

With somebody who loves me.

Oh I wanna dance with somebody,

I wanna feel the heat.

Yeah I wanna dance with somebody,

With somebody who loves me.

(Somebody who somebody who)somebody who loves me,

(Somebody who somebody who)to hold me in his arms.

I need a man who'll take a chance,

On a love that burns hot enough to last.

So when the night falls,

My lonely heart calls.

Oh I wanna dance with somebody,

I wanna feel the heat with somebody.

Yeah I wanna dance with somebody,

With somebody who loves me.

Oh I wanna dance with somebody,

I wanna feel the heat with somebody.

Yeah I wanna dance with somebody,

With somebody who loves me.

Yeah,

Don’t you wanna dance with me baby?

Don’t you wanna dance with me boy?

Don’t you wanna dance with me baby?

With somebody who loves me,

Don't you wanna dance

Say you wanna dance

Don't you wanna dance... x3

Uh-huh

With somebody who loves me