33 1/3 : Whitney Houston - I'm Your Baby Tonight

Whitney Houston’s first two albums propelled her to international fame, but criticism followed that she had diluted her racial identity to appeal to white audiences. With her third album, 1990’s I’m Your Baby Tonight, she confronted those charges by more fully embracing a Black musical lineage. The album revealed the racialized pressures often placed on Black crossover artists and demonstrated how Houston charted her own path while redefining the terms of pop success.