Watch Whitney Houston Belt With Stevie Wonder at VH1 Divas 2003

As Rolling Stone reported last month, VH1 will revive their Divas special for the first time since 2004 on September 17th with a live show featuring Kelly Clarkson, Leona Lewis, Miley Cyrus and Adele broadcast straight from New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music - Howard Gilman Opera House. Buzz over this year's event is already building on the show's brand-new Website, Divas.VH1.com, where special clips of ultimate Divas moments from years' past will be posted. And Rolling Stone has an exclusive video right now: click above to watch Whitney Houston and Stevie Wonder's powerhouse performance of "I Was Made to Love Her" from VH1 Divas 2003.

Houston — perhaps the ultimate diva — will be making her grand return this fall with her first studio album of fresh material since 2002. Rolling Stone was there when Houston debuted I Look to You at a star-studded New York gala, where the 46-year-old star said, "I had plans to live on this little island and open a fruit stand a call it a day. But I got this call from Clive [Davis], and he said, 'No, that's not what you're gonna do.' "

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Song Stories

“Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Nirvana | 1991

"Smells Like Teen Spirit," named after a brand of deodorant marketed to girls, was Kurt Cobain's attempt to "write the ultimate pop song," he said, using the soft-loud dynamic of his favorite band, the Pixies. Cobain "had that dichotomy of punk rage and alienation," the song’s producer, Butch Vig, told Rolling Stone, "but also this vulnerable pop sensibility. In 'Teen Spirit,' a lot of that vulnerability is in the tone of his voice." Sadly, by the time of Nirvana's last U.S. tour, in late '93, Cobain was tortured by the obligation to play "Teen Spirit" every night. "There are many other songs that I have written that are as good, if not better," he claimed.

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