Who Is The Best Ever? You Decide at YouTube

A friend of mine told me about YouTube.com, which is a very cool site with lots of personally uploaded videos. One of the fun things to do with YouTube is to review vintage live performance videos of the two greatest popular female singers of all time: Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey. Clearly, neither woman can sing live today at the same incredible level they could at their peak. For Whitney, her most impressive performance would have to be "I Will Always Love You" from the soundtrack to The Bodguard. For Mariah, there's actually a lot of things to choose from, but I think probably her first single, "Vision of Love" is without question one of her best. (Her most successful single, "We Belong Together" is from 2005 but is clearly not one of her most scintillating vocal performances, though it is an impressive songwriting and production achievement.)

So, you go and watch the videos and tell me who you think is the greatest female pop singer of "our" age: Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey?