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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.
― anatol_merklich, Sunday, 5 October 2008 01:03 (fifteen years ago) link
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.)
― Sundar, Sunday, 5 October 2008 02:12 (fifteen years ago) link
haha -- well this was some random bank in VA that i was calling for my job
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 16 February 2011 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
what job are u workin?
― i like lucy (surm), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
for a private investor -- it's actually a dece job
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 16 February 2011 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
wow!! v cool
― i like lucy (surm), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
well, i won't be talking to steve buscemi anytime soon, so it's not that cool
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 16 February 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
haha stop :P
― i like lucy (surm), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Céline Dion Shuts Down 'Ridiculous Pictures of Céline Dion' Blog
― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 23 July 2011 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://soundclash.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/bigger-than-jah-celine-dion-in-ja/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 February 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
Seriously considering checking out a greatest hits compilation.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 02:30 (ten years ago) link
(after hearing "My Heart Will Go On" on the radio and remembering how much I love it)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 02:32 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Inte Regina Lund eller nån, mitt namn är (ShariVari), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 07:36 (ten years ago) link
je sais les hiversje sais le froidmais la vie sans toi (SANS TOI!)je sais pas (je! sais! pas!)
― dyl, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
french stuff is amazing.
― surm, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 15:06 (ten years ago) link
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
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 15:13 (ten years ago) link
remember the barbra duet
― surm, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 15:38 (ten years ago) link
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"
― Inte Regina Lund eller nån, mitt namn är (ShariVari), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 21:46 (ten years ago) link
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
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 30 August 2013 11:07 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 August 2013 11:48 (ten years ago) link
It's the highest-grossing Vegas show since Elvis, iirc.
― Inte Regina Lund eller nån, mitt namn är (ShariVari), Friday, 30 August 2013 11:51 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I think the show so far has made $500 million?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 August 2013 12:02 (ten years ago) link
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.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 30 August 2013 13:09 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Inte Regina Lund eller nån, mitt namn är (ShariVari), Friday, 13 September 2013 18:46 (ten years ago) link
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?
― Adam J Duncan, Saturday, 28 March 2015 08:20 (nine years ago) link
the only french song of hers i know is "je sais pas" which is not exactly subtle but give it a listen anyway :P
― dyl, Saturday, 28 March 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link
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
― sean gramophone, Saturday, 28 March 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Saturday, 28 March 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
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?
― Adam J Duncan, Saturday, 28 March 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link
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.
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 29 March 2015 19:04 (nine years ago) link
Céline is a widow.
RIP, René.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 14 January 2016 21:43 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ipIq7JV3ZQ&index=5&list=PLIrbp7pqBZJHo-s7wRBcxpdaJ7H_fy9TG
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 14 January 2016 21:47 (eight years ago) link
She also lost her brother on Saturday.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 18 January 2016 21:11 (eight years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Monday, 18 January 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link
BARBRA, BE A LADY!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajnu3YSkbvQ
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
that's p intense...
interesting to see the comment field full of journalists asking permission to use the vid on their sites and uploader replying with pms, wonder what he could get paid
― niels, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
Pretty cool! Let's talk about gender baby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StQXEe4bF2c&fbclid=IwAR14G2nY_AT2wy7q2XtTZrAHpGElLZuNSqLkkAgyKglP3pgNPVhnOxK9Su0
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
Video is not showing for me. What is it?
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link
An add for her new baby clothing line.
https://youtu.be/StQXEe4bF2c
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link
Célinununu (I like that name!), the Céline Dion/New Order partnership ILM has been dreaming of.
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 09:39 (five years ago) link
Widowhood has liberated her inner queer, potty-mouthed diva, says Carl Wilson:
https://slate.com/culture/2019/11/celine-dion-new-album-courage-review-comeback.html
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Sunday, 24 November 2019 00:09 (four years ago) link
I...am amazed.
There is an unofficial Céline Dion biopic playing out of competition at Cannes where they use her songs but change her name, and I fear my concept of reality will never recover. https://t.co/ZvfPaYy6Jw— Chris Feil (@chrisvfeil) June 3, 2021
My brain is short circuiting pic.twitter.com/NnZ7OR1x0x— Chris Feil (@chrisvfeil) June 3, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 June 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link
xposted to Ambient Recommendations, but this record utilizes Celine samples pretty exclusively and is fucking beautiful, I think.
https://youmustrememberthis.bandcamp.com/album/once-upon-a-time
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link
the butthole surfers dedicated this to her! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is0hVNZJTOU
― xzanfar, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 19:27 (two years ago) link
Sad day re: Céline Dionhttps://www.npr.org/2022/12/08/1141538144/celine-dion-stiff-person-syndrome-canceled-shows
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Thursday, 8 December 2022 22:46 (one year ago) link
Horrible news <3
― nxd, Friday, 9 December 2022 14:03 (one year ago) link
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).
― I did see Xhaka crotchgrab (breastcrawl), Friday, 9 December 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link