2. Whitney Houston - "Saving All My Love For You"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewxmv2tyeRs
You've got your family, and they need you there Though I've tried to resist, being last on your list But no other man's gonna doSo I'm saving all my love for you
I know what you're thinking: "Whitney Houston wrote a song about wanting to cheat on somebody? The same woman who sang 'I Will Always Love You' and made my heart grow a boner for Kevin Costner? How
could she?" But just wait a second. Because she's not singing about cheating on somebody, she's singing about
being the person that a man uses to cheat on his wife
with. So...better, right? No, it's still pretty bad. The lyrics try to play it off like this is a very romantic notion, the idea of her just waiting day after day for this man to leave his wife like he's been promising. We're supposed to feel her heartbreak. But that's damn near impossible when she openly admits that, despite knowing full well he has a family whose lives could be ruined by this affair, she's going to continue "saving all her love for him." That is some cold-hearted stuff right there. And not of the hopeless romantic variety. Houston said she was going through a real-life love affair around the time she recorded the song, and that she knew later that adulterous situations "never work out for anybody." That's great reflection and all, but maybe she should have tacked that little tidbit onto the final verse.