You can color me surprised by my own reaction to the recent Whitney Houston single, or even that I had one at all. Being neither fan nor detractor of the songstress, I also didn’t pay much attention to her demise, through osmosis digesting some grizzly footage of her and Bobby Brown wallowing in a tepid pool of some sort of shared filth.

When perusing the Italians Do It Better blog, I came across label chief Mike Simonetti’s edit of Million Dollar Bill, and just assumed he had updated the production on a forgotten track from her back catalog. Then I saw the accompanying video and was as impressed to realize it was a new track as I was that Houston showed no signs of her time spent in the gutter. So I have to give credit where credit is due- in what could be the greatest crackhead comeback of all time, she has seemingly aged with the quality that makes us remember a time when the term “diva” meant more than just a cunt with a record deal. It’s Whitney, bitch.

Whitney Houston – Million Dollar Bill (Mike Simonetti Edit) 5:08 mins/ 320 kbps/ 11.7MB