Houston turned it into an international hit, reaching No. The song got a second life when Whitney Houston got a hold of it and recorded it for The Bodyguard soundtrack and released it as a single in 1993. Her persona is just all woman, which is why she did ‘I’m Every Woman’ so well.” Whitney Houston Version “With Chaka, she just is like a dynamo, unstoppable, very sexy person. “That song became very much a woman’s anthem,” Simpson adds. “We are all every woman and it’s all in us.”
“It took me a while to get comfortable singing that and once I got it and I said, ‘Ok, I understand it now.'”Īs for how she defines the empowering song, Khan sees it as a message to “many women.” “It’s really talking about in a plural way, in a collective way,” she observes. “I was reading it from an insecure place and I said, ‘This song’s not saying that you are every woman.’ The song is saying together, collectively I’m every woman and it’s all in me,” she reflects on the song’s defining lyric in the chorus.