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rockfenris2005 05:55 pm UTC 02/22/16 |
| Feb 21, 2016 Celine Dion, Meat Loaf, more: the weird, wonderful and sometimes sad history of ‘It’s All Coming Back to Me Now’ Article posted by Andrea Warner in Pop Andrew Lloyd Webber reportedly called it “the greatest love song ever written,” but depending on what side of the power ballad yay/nay binary you land on, “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” is either a swirling, bloated mess, or a gothic and grandiose weeper. It clocks in anywhere from a little over five minutes to almost eight, depending on the version. A flurry of strings, the music box-like piano, and then the bruising, violent downbeat. What follows is an almost epic battle of thundering crescendos and hushed, broken whispers. There is no middle ground in a Jim Steinman song. He is a man of excesses and extremes: he wears Darth Vader-like sunglasses inside and thinks leather is an all-season fabric. His earliest musical inspiration was Wagner. He helped create Meat Loaf. In 1996, Steinman wasn’t the most likely Celine Dion collaborator. With just three English-language albums under her belt, but already a huge star on par with Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston, Dion had worked with the likes of David Foster, Diane Warren and Ric Wake, but never somebody like Steinman. They shared a certain fondness for highly theatrical, emotional songs that were big on feelings and bombast. Sure, he’d worked with Dion’s hero, Barbra Streisand, once in 1984, but he was mostly known for those Meat Loaf collaborations (chiefly Bat Out of Hell in 1977 and the 1993’s Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell), Bonnie Tyler’s 1983 album, Faster Than the Speed of Night (“Total Eclipse of the Heart”), and Air Supply’s hit, “Making Love Out of Nothing At All.” But Dion fell in love with “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now,” a song Steinman had penned about a decade earlier and inspired, in part, by Wuthering Heights. She loved it so much that she sequenced it first on her 1996 album Falling Into You, released it as her second single in North America, and made what was rumoured to be one of the most expensive music videos of all time to go along with it with famed director Nigel Dick (Guns ’n’ Roses, Oasis, Britney Spears). As it turns out, “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” has a secret history that’s as sensational and head-scratching as the song itself, and everybody and everything it touched has been changed by its existence — and not always for the better. For the 20th anniversary of Dion’s Falling Into You, CBC Music takes you inside the funny, strange and sometimes sad history of Steinman’s confounding masterpiece, including an interview with the first woman to record the song, and a deep dive inside the filming of Dion’s epic music video with Dick. In case you’re not familiar with the “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now,” here’s Dion doing a much more scaled down version during her massive stage show. Now meet the man behind the song. More at the link, including interviews with Elaine Caswell and Nigel Dick. | |
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