| re: Celine Dion, Meat Loaf, more: the weird, wonderful and sometimes sad history of ‘It’s All Coming Back to Me Now’ | |
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MasterMoose 08:54 pm UTC 02/22/16 |
| In reply to: | Celine Dion, Meat Loaf, more: the weird, wonderful and sometimes sad history of ‘It’s All Coming Bac ... - rockfenris2005 05:55 pm UTC 02/22/16 |
| "Jim always liked to tell me that there were all these fights on the internet, fans going back and forth about which version was the best, and he’d like to tell me that I was still winning" I agree, Pandora's Box version is the winner! One of the best Steinman articles I have read in a long time. > 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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