Liz Smith wrote the following:R "I just spoke to somebody who has heard Whitney Houston's new album-her first studio effort in some time.  My friend says the big Whitney/ Mariah Carey gospel-like, insprational number, "If You Believe", is so dynamic, so full of vocal swoops and such that "no doubt it will be in Patti LaBelle's act any second". But seriously,folks, the word on this is that Whitney sings like she never sung before!"