Call You Tonight

Album: I Look To You (2009)
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Songfacts®:

  • This mid-tempo R&B ballad is a track from Whitney Houston's seventh album, I Look to You. The song was co-written by R&B songwriter Johntá Austin and the Norwegian-born, NYC-based production duo Stargate. The trio previously collaborated on Mariah Carey's 2008 hit "Bye Bye."
  • Lyrically, this melancholy R&B ballad is about love and not having enough time for romance.

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