Content deleted Content added
No edit summary |
|||
| (15 intermediate revisions by 11 users not shown) | |||
Line 5:
| cover =
| type = single
| artist = [[Whitney Houston]]
| album = [[Whitney: The Greatest Hits]]
| released = {{start date|2000|5|2}}<ref>{{cite magazine|title=AddVance Notice / Going for Adds|magazine=[[Radio & Records]]|issue=1348|pages=59, 66|date=April 28, 2000}}</ref>
| studio =
* The Enterprise Studios (Los Angeles, CA)<ref name="booklet">Whitney: The Greatest Hits album booklet</ref>
* Crescent Moon Studios (Miami, FL)<ref name="booklet">Whitney: The Greatest Hits album booklet</ref>
| venue =
| genre =
Line 28 ⟶ 30:
| artist = [[Deborah Cox]]
| type = single
| prev_title =
| prev_year = 2000
| title = Same Script, Different Cast
Line 38 ⟶ 40:
}}
"'''Same Script, Different Cast'''" is a song performed as a [[duet]] by American and Canadian [[Contemporary R&B|R&B]] singers [[Whitney Houston]] and [[Deborah Cox]]. The song was released as a [[single (music)|single]] in the United States on May 2, 2000, by [[Arista Records]].
The song incorporates a backing track of [[Ludwig van Beethoven]]'s "[[Für Elise]]" during the intro.
== Critical reception ==
Jim Farber of New York Daily News wrote: "There's a nice tête- ... -tête with label mate Deborah Cox on "Same Script, Different Cast" which amounts to a grownup version of Brandy and Monica's "[[The Boy Is Mine (Brandy and Monica song)|The Boy Is Mine]]"<ref>{{cite news |first=Jim |last=Farber |title=Whitney Goes Half-wild Latest album set is 1 part bad ballads, and 1 part boogie bliss | url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/nydn-features/whitney-half-wild-latest-album-set-1-part-bad-ballads-1-part-boogie-bliss-article-1.872163 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210809141032/https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/nydn-features/whitney-half-wild-latest-album-set-1-part-bad-ballads-1-part-boogie-bliss-article-1.872163 |archive-date=August 9, 2021 | ___location=New York | work=Daily News |date=May 16, 2000}}</ref> JAM! Music's Jane Stevenson preferred this duet: "Toronto's own Deborah Cox fares better with Houston on Same Script, Different Cast than Enrique Iglesias does on the soppy Could I Have This Kiss Forever (Metro Mix)."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/H/Houston_Whitney/AlbumReviews/2000/05/21/771101.html |title=CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Album Review: Whitney's greatest hits and misses |accessdate=2012-08-04 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130115101547/http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/H/Houston_Whitney/AlbumReviews/2000/05/21/771101.html |archivedate=2013-01-15 }}</ref> USA Today's Steve Jones wrote that this collaboration is "most telling."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/53605510.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=May+9%2C+2000&author=Steve+Jones&pub=USA+TODAY&edition=&startpage=07.D&desc=Whitney%27s+%27Greatest%27+lined+up+in+smart+order | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130201051751/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/53605510.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=May+9,+2000&author=Steve+Jones&pub=USA+TODAY&edition=&startpage=07.D&desc=Whitney's+'Greatest'+lined+up+in+smart+order | url-status=dead | archive-date=February 1, 2013 | work=USA TODAY | first=Steve | last=Jones | title=Whitney's 'Greatest' lined up in smart order | date=9 May 2000 }}</ref> Billboard called this song a special highlight.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_PA8EAAAAMBAJ|quote=Whitney Houston.|title=Billboard|date=20 May 2000|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> The Star-Ledger Newark, NJ wrote: "Same Script, Different Cast" isn't much of a song, but gives Houston and duet partner Deborah Cox an opportunity to engage in some thrilling vocal sparring."<ref name="SL">{{cite news|last=Lustig|first=Jay|title=The greatest hits of all, but the remix is just so-so|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_multi=STL2%7C&p_product=STLNP&p_theme=stlnp&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=whitney%20houston%20greatest%20hits%20AND%20date%281/1/2000%20to%2012/31/2001%29&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=1/1/2000%20to%2012/31/2001%29&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=%28whitney%20houston%20greatest%20hits%29&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no|work=The Star-Ledger|accessdate=April 18, 2014|date=May 16, 2000}} (Full review available at [http://www.classicwhitney.com/review/music/albums/wtghrev.htm#Star Classic-Whitney.com])</ref> Sonic.net editor wrote: "Same Script, Different Cast" features plucked harp strings and piano behind a duet with Deborah Cox, the two singers bemoaning that
they chose the same loser for a lover"; Barnes & Noble called this song my "man done me wrong" pairing. Essence review called this song special gem in which laides trade sassy lines. Vibe Magazine agreed. Orlando Sentinel editor wrote: "Same Script, Different Cast" plays like a conversation in a Broadway musical. In the song, Houston warns her friend that her current boyfriend eventually will break her heart."<ref>{{cite web|last=Galera|first=Christine|title=Whitney Houston: The Greatest Hits|url=
Following Houston's death in 2012, ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' published a list of her 25 best songs and ranked "Same Script, Different Cast" at number 24, commenting "If the ''boy'' from the Brandy and Monica duet ''The Boy Is Mine'' grew up into a cad, burned Whitney, and took up with Deborah Cox."<ref>{{cite magazine | url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20569554_20572589,00.html | magazine=Entertainment Weekly | first1=Kyle | last1=Anderson | first2=Henry | last2=Goldblatt | first3=Leah | last3=Greenblatt | first4=Ray | last4=Rahman | title=Whitney Houston: Her 25 Best Songs | date=February 17, 2012 | accessdate=August 1, 2012 | archive-date=December 11, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211062743/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20569554_20572589,00.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> In November 2020, the duet was ranked number 23 by ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' in their list of her 25 Best songs writing that the "less-hyped diva down" was "much richer" than Houston's star-studded duet "[[When You Believe]]" with [[Mariah Carey]], later writing, "the conceit is clever, the vocals are massive, and the key changes are as plentiful as you could ever hope for."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/whitney-houston-best-songs-9478487/|title=Whitney Houston's 25 Best Songs: Staff Picks|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=November 6, 2020|access-date=August 12, 2025}}</ref> In March 2025, ''[[Vibe (magazine)|Vibe]]'' ranked the song at number twelve on their list of the 20 Greatest R&B Duets Of The 21st Century.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bennett |first1=Jessica |title=The 20 Greatest R&B Duets Of The 21st Century |url=https://www.vibe.com/lists/best-rnb-duets-21st-century/ |website=[[Vibe (magazine)|Vibe]] |access-date=2025-03-16 |date=2025-03-05}}</ref> == Formats and track listings ==
Line 64 ⟶ 68:
== Personnel ==
'''Recording and mixing'''<ref name="booklet"/>
* Recorded by Anne Catalino at [[The Enterprise Studios|Enterprise Studios]], LA, CA, & Crescent Moon Studios, Miami, FL
* Mixed by Peter Mokran at Enterprise Studios, LA, CA
Line 84 ⟶ 88:
=== Weekly charts ===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|-▼
! scope="col"| Chart (2000)
! scope="col"| Peak<br />position
|-
! scope="row"| Canada ([[Canadian Singles Chart|Nielsen SoundScan]])
Line 97 ⟶ 102:
|-
{{single chart|Billboardadultrandbsongs|1|artist=Whitney Houston|rowheader=true|artistid=4849}}
▲|-
|}
{{col-2}}
Line 103 ⟶ 107:
=== Year-end charts ===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
! Chart (2000)▼
! Position▼
|-
▲! scope="col"| Chart (2000)
! scope="row" | US R&B/Hip-Hop Singles (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ehEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA14|title=2000 The Year in Music: Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks|magazine=Billboard|date=December 30, 2000|access-date=July 21, 2022}}</ref>▼
▲! scope="col"| Position
| |64▼
|-
▲! scope="row"
|}
{{col-end}}
Line 115 ⟶ 120:
== External links ==
* {{Discogs master|51776|type=
{{Whitney Houston singles}}
| |||