Whitney Houston - Heartbreak Hotel ft. Faith Evans, Kelly Price

What this video is

Released in December 1998 as the second single from Whitney Houston's comeback album My Love Is Your Love, Heartbreak Hotel arrived at the peak convergence of prestige R&B, hip-hop soul, and diva pop in mainstream American music culture. The song's collaborative structure—uniting Houston (Arista), Faith Evans (Bad Boy Records), and Kelly Price (Island Def Jam)—mirrored the late-90s cross-label alliance trend…

Why it matters

A landmark late-90s R&B collaboration, Heartbreak Hotel codified the 'female solidarity in heartbreak' narrative subgenre that dominated R&B from 1995–2002. Its production by Soulshock & Karlin (originally written for TLC's FanMail) bridges Scandinavian pop-songwriting craft with Black American…

The director

Kevin Gerald Bray (also known by initials KGB) is an American film, television, commercial, and music video director. He attended the University of Michigan and the University of Paris (Sorbonne) before completing his studies at NYU's Tisch School of the…