with fellow cast members of Sparkle in attendance. Throughout the video, Footage from Sparkle, mainly focusing on Houston, is spliced in throughout the clip. Houston's scenes in the music video show the late singer in her acting prime as she smiles in many of the clips then cries in another. The final shot of the music video is an image of Houston from the film. “Celebrate” is dedicated to Houston's memory. Reception The video was met with positive reception. Rebecca Ford of TheHollywoodReporter.com calls it "a very positive and uplifting video". Sabrina Rojas Weiss from VH1 said "For a while now, we’ve been thinking of Sparkle as “the movie that makes us really sad about Whitney Houston.” We probably weren't alone". She concluded "which is why the release of the video “Celebrate” was a brilliant move". Tanner Stransky of Entertainment Weekly praised the video saying "It feels triumphant, in a way, that they carried on [The Video] without Houston". Byron Flitsch from MTV.com says "we're really loving is the storyline that weaves in a montage of movie scenes" he went on to say "it's the emotional, almost home-movie quality honoring Whitney's on-screen presence that gets us all kinds of sentimental". Awards and nominations Track listing Digital download "Celebrate" – 3:35 Credits and personnel Credits adapted from Sparkle: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack liner notes. Recorded at The Chocolate Factory, Chicago, IL Mixed by Serban Ghenea at MixStar Studios, Virginia Beach, VA Lead vocals – Whitney Houston & Jordin Sparks Composition, Production, Arrangement, Co-mixing, Keyboards & Additional Vocals – R. Kelly Vocal Production - Harvey Mason, Jr. Guitar - Donnie Lyle Bass - Bigg Makk Additional Keyboards - Bigg Makk, Rodney East Choir - Joan Collaso, Yvonne Gage, Pastor Chris Harris, Mike Harvey, Jeff Morrow, Lauren Pilot Morrow, Robin Robinson Recording & Programming - Ian Mereness, Abel Garibaldi Vocals Recorded by Andrew Hey at Mason Sound, North Hollywood, CA Assisted by Davad Boyd, Micheal Daley & Dabling Harward Engineering - John Hanes Assistant Engineer - Phil Seaford Charts Radio and release history References 2012 singles 2012 songs Whitney Houston songs Jordin Sparks songs Songs released posthumously Songs written by R. Kelly Song recordings produced by R. Kelly Music videos directed by Marcus Raboy RCA Records singles