Whitney Houston reveals little in comeback album

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Unlike schoolteachers and tax accountants, creative types with personal demons are often able to take what doesn’t kill them and emerge not only stronger, but with a new sort of depth and pathos — and often, a wider audience for the pain they turn into art.

“I Look to You,” Whitney Houston’s first album in seven years, doesn’t pretend to offer the unblemished 21-year-old we met on her smash 1985 debut, but it never truly lets listeners inside the heart and head of the woman she is today.

A number of tracks obliquely reference her well-documented dark times, from the midtempo club jam “Nothin’ but Love” (“I could hold on to pain but that ain’t what my life’s about/ I ain’t blaming nobody if I don’t have my stuff worked out”) to the soaring, shamelessly schmaltzy title track (“every road that I’ve taken/Led to my regret”).