As with many iconic songs, there’s quite the story behind Whitney Houston and George Michael‘s 2000 jam ‘If I Told You That.’
During an appearance on the We Sound Crazy Podcast, hitmaker Rodney ‘Darkchild’ Jerkins shared an interesting fact about the track – and it relates to Michael Jackson.
Full story below…
Reflecting on the creation of the song (which was originally housed on Houston’s 1998 album ‘My Love Is Your Love’), Jerkins shared that the duet version that arrived two years later was originally conceived and demoed as a duet between the songbird and the King of Pop.
The prolific producer was notably working on both Houston and MJ’s projects at the time.
Check out what he said:
Legendary Rodney jerkins talks Whitney houston #rodneyjerkins #whitneyhouston pic.twitter.com/g5O3yrJYAU
— whit (@legendofNippy) July 14, 2023
Oh, what could have been! Still, we’re all sorts of enamored with the Nippy and George incarnation of the cut.
Check out the full episode…
…and relive this iconic bop below:
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George is cute and all, and I do love his duet with my girl Mary Thee Blige, but this song would’ve been better with Michael.
m******* jackson is overrrated
I always thought it was part of an effort to reach other cultures, like her song with Enrique at the same time. I don’t think the song missed a whole lot without Michael.
She was already doing that without them.
Not with r&b. She was considered more pop until My Love Is Your Love. That’s her first r&b based album and multiple songs like “Oh Yes”, “I Was Made to Love Him” and “My Love Is Your Love” incorporated Spanish music elements.
George has really smooth vocals, he did a fantastic job.
Diva is so glad George Michael recorded the song coz MJ can’t sing for s h. I t 💅🏾 Crackney hoeston was a low key c o o n tho.
THE TRUTH
you Dog as b****,.we see your posts about white men shittn on you and pissing on you.. You a damn toilet bowl. .. Whitney was adored by white men you a ass wipe
Yeessse. Diva just tosss my beautiful White man’s salad this morning 💅🏾 yummy! I can’t believe he farts while my magic tongue is on a mission. Ugh…. What an ass but I still love him.
Right your a toilet bowl n brush
Michael would have definitely sounded great on this song.
not really
Whitney grew up in the church she was a blessed heart, singing about GOD, Clive discovered her and brought her the world.
She sold over 250 million records not including her soundtrack sales. . Like bodyguard which sold over 45 million, since she was killed.
Whitney is the top selling female artists of all time.
She was to good for this earth.
So what? she smoked crack and did all kind of drugs. She was such a bad influence for every generation. 💅🏾
She did not or she would not have accomplished so much