| Celine Dion - Evening Standard Review | |
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steven_stuart 06:19 pm UTC 04/22/09 |
| I found the Celine Dion review I mentioned last week. It is by John Aizlewood of the Evening Standard, probably the most important paper for entertainment in London. This is an extract from the review. Please click on the link for the full review. "so poised and believable was her assault on the closing My Heart Will Go On (alas nobody in the crowd remembered to do the Titanic pose), that for a moment you almost forgot what a ghastly slab of hammy old schlock it is. Indeed, while she remains overly addicted to jobbing American songwriting hacks such as Dianne Warren and Linda Perry for her material, when she unfurled a great song everything made sense. On the genius Jim Steinman’s It’s All Coming Back To Me Now or that painfully unflinching dissection of a decaying long-term relationship, Think Twice, the drama and too-often suppressed darkness of Dion’s voice made for an almost perfect entwining of singer and song. As if to confirm that she will never be credible, an ill-conceived medley of Queen’s We Will Rock You and The Show Must Go On was unspeakably naff, but frankly who cares? Certainly not Celine Dion, the anti-diva diva." I think he is saying that sometimes she gets it wrong and sometimes she gets it right. It's great that she gets it right with a Jim song. It's not just that IACBTMN is a great song. It is that it suits Celine. The two Queen songs are also great songs but when she sang them she was "unspeakably naff". I'm not sure if the reviewer is being unfair to Dianne Warren and Linda Perry. Does anyone on the board like their songs? | |
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