8 OF OUR FAVOURITE WHITNEY HOUSTON MOMENTS OF LIFE

To commemorate 11 years since the passing of the legendary diva of all divas, Whitney Houston, and to celebrate the release of I Wanna Dance with Somebody - now on digital platforms - we present to you our eight favourite Whitney moments of all time.

We’re also giving away a great big movie prize pack thanks to our friends at Sony Canada. Click here to enter! Scroll to the end of the post to see what’s inside the prize pack!

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Do we care that it was rumoured she lipsynched this? No.

Drag Race Lipsynchs

So many important lipsynchs were done to Whitney Houston songs - the most iconic being Sasha Velour and Shea Couleé - check out this mega highlight reel. The show is nothing, nothing, nothinggggg without Whitney.

Waiting to Exhale - everything

The movie. The soundtrack. The cast. The Looks. The all of it. Scenes are hard to come by online,but check out this one with Savannah and her mom.

Queen of the night - on stage during the Bodyguard

This song and scene changed everything for us queers, in so many ways.  The outfit, designed by Susan Nininger - is otherworldly, and so fierce, drag queens around the world continue to try and emulate it, but can never replicate it. Eat up every second of this…

Whitney and Mariah and the dress

This MTV VMA award presentation for best Male Video … we have no words.

Whitney and George Michael together

We’re not sure why this never makes any great duet lists, let alone Whitney duet lists, but the way these two sing together (how dare this white British man) is undeniably perfect. It’s a match made in gay heaven.

Whitney as Brandy’s fairy god mother

Yup.

I wanna dance with somebody

The song is something we ALL still play during our DJ sets at parties, from everything to birthday parties, weddings, to major club nights, this song, no matter where it’s played gets people up, gets people happy and gets people dancing like nothing else. The video is also pure joy and captures a moment in time that were so happy exists.

Thanks to our pals at Sony Canada for supporting this article, providing us with an I Wanna Dance with Somebody movie prize pack and giving us an excuse to write and post about Whitney.  #IWannaDanceMovie