As far as Linda Perry goes, I'm quite a fan. Her work on Christina Aguilera's "Back To Basics" was amazing.
> 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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