Jennifer Hudson sang at a tribute to the late Whitney Houston’s 40 years in music. I can’t entirely tell if this is SUPPOSED to be an ’80s-tinged throwback to the decade that made Whitney famous, or if that’s just a coincidence. I could argue it either way. I poked around to see if it might be an homage to a classic Whitney look, but I found nothing — and if she were going to do that, I think I’d have voted for recreating this look from the cover of her second album. There is a real whiff of her being the heroine of a nighttime soap. There are little nits to pick — her left boob and her right boob appear to be under different levels of compression, and it honestly looks like someone put a pale cummerbund underneath it?!? But it’s also big and exuberant, like Whitney’s voice at its most affecting, so why not. Go big! Dance with somebody, get so emotional, baby, find all the man that you need, for one moment in time. That’s the greatest love of all, isn’t it?
