Celine Dion, Classic or Dud

Just listened to 5 x Celine hit singles in a row*, and surprised at how wrong my idea of "really grating & loud" was. Voice actually mostly very pleasant, even when belting. Maybe a bit unfairly maligned yeah.

Material still crap though.

*) Every time I hear "My Heart Will Go On", I do so for the first time. I'm confused about how such a hookless song can be remembered in listeners' minds long enough to be a world No 1 etc. Maybe it's just that its tempo falls beneath my personal w number**, the same that also renders me helpless in identifying slow movements of the most obvious classical works etc.

**) Invention of Tom E: the Westlife Factor, IIRC, beneath which everything sounds the same.

sw00ds OTM re Carpenter/Dion.

(Hating it is totally understandable but I'm a little amazed someone could find "My Heart Will Go On" hookless.)

Ultimate dud.

"i'm your lady" is killin it this morning

don't give up on your faith
loves come to those who believe in it
and that's the way it is

yeah, classic

it's time.

^looooool

uh ur right

PERFECT morning for celine

*ugh

anyway, i'm on hold right now w/ a bank & the music is an instrumental version of "my heart will go on" -- i'm not sure what this means

jordan why are you always doing something with the bank

you're like the bank's best customer

haha -- well this was some random bank in VA that i was calling for my job

what job are u workin?

for a private investor -- it's actually a dece job

wow!! v cool

well, i won't be talking to steve buscemi anytime soon, so it's not that cool

haha stop :P

Céline Dion Shuts Down 'Ridiculous Pictures of Céline Dion' Blog

http://soundclash.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/bigger-than-jah-celine-dion-in-ja/

Seriously considering checking out a greatest hits compilation.

(after hearing "My Heart Will Go On" on the radio and remembering how much I love it)

Probably worth doing. She had two or three really good songs on most albums. Don't forget about the French stuff, though. Je danse dans ma tête might be my favourite song of hers.

je sais les hivers
je sais le froid
mais la vie sans toi (SANS TOI!)
je sais pas (je! sais! pas!)

french stuff is amazing.

i suppose it's too much to hope that celine is somewhere in the list of shitty boring polls that will clog up ilm for the next decade

remember the barbra duet

Celine on Larry King following Hurricane Katrina remains completely amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXD4BGvPngM

"How come it's so easy to send planes to another country to kill everyone in a second... to destroy lives... we need to serve our country and for me, serving our country is to be there right now to rescue the rest of the people"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2406471/Celine-Dion-adds-dubstep-style-beat-eagerly-awaited-new-single.html

^ now that's a URL to conjure with

I thought this revival was going to be about her $72 million home for sale. The place doesn't look like a house, it looks like a resort. It's weirdly fascinating. 500,000 gallon water park built in! I'd love to learn how much it costs simply ("simply") to staff and operate. Like, what are the monthly electric bills?

Also, I could be wrong, but I could have sworn she gets paid $500K per Vegas performance. That's insane! I only know the one Celine Dion song.

It's the highest-grossing Vegas show since Elvis, iirc.

Yeah, I think the show so far has made $500 million?

I only know the one Celine Dion song.

Interesting: I didn't know who Calvin Harris was but I'm very surprised by this tbh. AC radio and its biggest hits seem to be completely unavoidable ime, more so than top 40 or classic rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f5KuRXtjeE

New! Not totally amazing but decent enough. Always thought that Mylene-Farmer-style dreamy electro would be a good direction for her. This doesn't totally nail it.

So I'm devouring Carl Wilson's book right now and his argument that her French songs carry much more subtlety has piqued my interest. However, when I Google "Best French Celine Dion songs" the recommendations come from her English fan base, who I presume prefer the same OTTness in that catalogue that attracted them in the first place. Can anyone here provide guidance to a fool just trying to carve a little space in his heart for a national hero?

the only french song of hers i know is "je sais pas" which is not exactly subtle but give it a listen anyway :P

I'm no expert but as a kid growing up in Ottawa my favourite Celine song was this one, which is FR and relatively subtle by the standards of later things -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY7A17Uq4L8

Yep, that's also my favourite. The Dion Chante Plamondon album is good in general.

The fact it was her 15th or 16th does highlight exactly how dauntingly large her French back catalogue is though and i can't claim any real expertise there.

Not so bad! I find myself actually looking forward to the stuttering hook in the chorus. The movement here is just the listener getting progressively locked into the groove. I could see Madonna covering this.

Why is it that French pop uses smooth jazzy fusion as a base? How did that become the norm there and not the Anglosphere?

The arrangement is very much of its time I find. I remember people here in Québec thinking the d-d-d-d-d part was ridiculous and making fun of her about it, but I think it sounds good.

Usually when critics talk about her French stuff being more subtle they're referring to her work with Jean-Jacques Goldman, specifically her album D'eux, her most critically acclaimed and comercially successful album. Her early teenage material is just as schmaltzy as her English songs if not more.

Céline is a widow.

RIP, René.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ipIq7JV3ZQ&index=5&list=PLIrbp7pqBZJHo-s7wRBcxpdaJ7H_fy9TG

She also lost her brother on Saturday.

With all the (bad) news about her the past few days, I was trying to remember the one single of hers I liked at the time. Must have been "Nothing Broken but My Heart"--just played the video and it still sounds pretty good.

Horrible news <3

yes, very sad. it was known that she had health issues, but this is a bad diagnosis.

not counting on seeing her again live, although the show we have tickets for hasn’t been cancelled yet (I bought them in 2019 for her 2020 tour).