Title: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
Content:  "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" is a song recorded by American singer Whitney Houston for her second studio album, Whitney (1987). It was released as the lead single from the album on May 2, 1987, by Arista Records. It was produced by Narada Michael Walden, and written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam, of the band Boy Meets Girl, who had previously collaborated with Houston on "How Will I Know." "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" received mixed reviews from music critics, who praised Houston's vocal performance but critiqued its musical arrangement comparing it to "How Will I Know" and Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." Despite the mixed critical response, the song became a worldwide success, topping the charts in eighteen countries including Australia, Italy, Germany and the UK. In the US, it became Houston's fourth consecutive chart topper and is certified 3x platinum with sales of over 3 million copies. At the 30th Annual Grammy Awards, "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" won for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, marking Houston's second win in the category.
Title: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (film)
Content:  I Wanna Dance with Somebody is an upcoming American musical biopic of Whitney Houston directed by Kasi Lemmons.
Title: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
Content:  The video for "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" was directed by Brian Grant and choreographed by Arlene Phillips, who also worked with Houston on the music video for "How Will I Know". The video features Houston in a pink dress and a continuous shot of a purple backdrop that never changes its angle of vision. In the intro of this video, Houston just finishes a performance onstage. She walks backstage, and the scene is intercut with more vivid, colorful images of her. The song then explodes into its beginning, with myriad locations and various outfits by Houston, as dancers trying to impress her as she dances. Towards the end of the song she manhandles a guy, who has a mixture of a look of shock and surprise asking him "Don't you wanna dance say you wanna dance". It has over 306 million views as of October 2021 on YouTube.
Title: List of songs recorded by Whitney Houston
Content:  was written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam. It was ranked at number 88 on Slant Magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Dance Songs in 2006. "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)", along with the following three singles to be released from Whitney, ("Didn't We Almost Have It All", "So Emotional" and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go"), all peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart; as of August 2013, Houston holds for the record for the most consecutive number one singles on the chart, with seven. Her third studio album, I'm Your Baby Tonight, was released on November 2, 1990. It was decided 
Title: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
Content:  "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" was written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam, who wrote Houston's 1985 song "How Will I Know," which became successful, and as a result, they were asked to come up with another song for Houston's then-new album. Originally the song that gave Merrill and Rubicam their US/UK top ten success as Boy Meets Girl, "Waiting For a Star to Fall" was intended by the duo to be a song for Houston. The duo sent it to Arista Records, but they passed on it citing it was not suitable for Houston. Undeterred by this minor setback, the pair continued working on finding a song that would be ideal for 
Title: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (film)
Content: Naomi Ackie as Whitney Houston ; Ashton Sanders as Bobby Brown ; Stanley Tucci as Clive Davis ; Nafessa Williams as Robyn Crawford ; Clarke Peters as John Houston, Whitney's father ; Tamara Tunie as Cissy Houston, Whitney's mother 
Title: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
Content:  it, as he felt it was too "country and western sounding." He said of it, "[It] reminded me of a rodeo song with Olivia Newton-John singing. I love Olivia Newton-John, but for Whitney Houston, it didn't seem right. I felt the song needed a much funkier feel. I slept, dreaming about it, woke up in the morning thinking about it, wondering what am I gonna do with this dance song. So, we just jumped in the water and lo and behold a magic record was born, Houston just knocked it out and then I knew we had a good record." For the song's production, a Roland TR-808 was used to produce the drum machine percussion.
Title: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
Content: Writer ― George Merrill, Shannon Rubicam ; Producer, arranger ― Narada Michael Walden ; Vocal arrangement ― Whitney Houston ; Drums ― Narada Michael Walden ; Synths ― Walter "Baby Love" Afanasieff ; Bass synth ― Randy "The King" Jackson ; Guitar synth ― Corrado Rustici ; Percussion programming ― Preston "Tiger Head" Glass ; Alto sax ― Marc Russo ; Simmons ― Greg "Gigi" Gonaway ; Synth horns ― Sterling ; Background vocals ― Jim Gilstrap, Karen "Kitty Beethoven" Brewington, Kevin Dorsey, Myrna Matthews, Jennifer Hall, Whitney Houston ; Recording, mixing ― David Fraser ; Assistant engineer ― Dana Jon Chappelle ; Additional engineers ― Lincoln Clapp, Gordon Lyon, Jay Rifkin, Ken Kessie, Maureen Droney ; Additional assistant engineers ― Gordon Lyon, Stuart Hirotsu, Paul "Goatee" Hamingson, Noah Baron, Bill "Sweet William" Miranda, Ross Williams, Rob Beaton 
Title: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
Content:  "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" was released as the first single from Houston's second studio album at the beginning of May 1987. It entered the Billboard Hot 100, the issue dated May 16, 1987, at number 38, her highest debut in the 1980s. Six weeks later, it reached the top spot of the chart, making it Houston's fourth number-one single in the United States, the issue date of June 27, 1987 ― the same day that Houston's album Whitney debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 (formerly "Top Pop Albums") the first time ever by a female artist. 
Title: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (film)
Content:  A look at the life & career of legendary pop/R&B vocalist, Whitney Houston.

Question: who wrote i want to dance with somebody by whitney houston?
Answer: George Merrill.
Shannon Rubicam.
George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam.