'I Wanna Dance With Somebody' review: Whitney Houston is remembered as a queer icon, dazzling and troubled

Dec 21 2022 by Mashable

 

Of all the songs to name a Whitney Houston biopic after, why "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"? Sure, it was a global hit and one of her best-known songs. But as we head-bop along, we might well take it as a blithe pop song. That is, unless we've seen what this song might have meant to a closeted young woman who felt trapped by the spotlight. 

In the Kasi Lemmons–directed biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody, which was made in cooperation with Houston's estate, this titular track becomes a...

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