I suspect your excellent analysis will — as usual — prove to be spot-on.

RE: your love for My Love… — “It’s Not Right But It’s Okay” and “Heartbreak Hotel” get more spins on my playlist than the entire remaining Whitney canon combined.

Obviously what this is all about is Clive redeeming his ultimate protegee. Davis feels about Houston the way Steve Jobs felt about Apple when he returned to the company in 1997: i.e., This is my legacy — the thing that goes in the opening paragraph of my obituary — and I’d better save it from self-destruction. He’s been trying to get Whitney clean and in a studio for more than a year (and I’ll bet Houston is so strung-out it’s proving harder than the old man thought). So anyway, I wouldn’t put it past Davis to actually pull a Steve Jobs and announce a new product with a splashy winter announcement. I.e., Whitney at the Grammys = the kickoff of the formal comeback campaign/new album.

I’m not a Houston fan, but some of my cynicism was melted away by the late-’90s My Love Is Your Love record — full of good singles. So depending on whom Clive has lined up, the comeback album could be okay.