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[Prince Whiskers]

Céline's Blues, on Apr 25 2008, 04:44 AM, said:

Not true. D'eux is the album vocally and if you add those lyrics to the package you got one of a lifetime achievement. Falling Into You is merely very nice.

By "diva album", I was referring to the *flamboyance* of Celine's singing. You know, belting for the sake of belting.haha

[Javito]

idroveallnight, on Apr 25 2008, 01:14 AM, said:

It's probably the most vocally supreme album in history.  For the past 2 weeks I've regressed to Vintage Celine and have been listening to FIY regularly.  Just listening to IACBTMN, DOL, RDMH, ABM, IDK... they're just completely unbelievable...her voice just blows me away.  I don't think there will ever be another singer who can match Celine's excellence.  She deserves all the wealth and success in the world and unfortunately she isn't getting much praise these days.

That is a problem of both Céline/René/their team and her label. They could change that with the blink of an eye, but sadly they don't seem to care. It seems they don't want to change anything of their poor attitude towards her status these days

[scorp82]

Gonzalillo, on Apr 25 2008, 04:14 AM, said:

idroveallnight, on Apr 25 2008, 01:14 AM, said:

It's probably the most vocally supreme album in history.  For the past 2 weeks I've regressed to Vintage Celine and have been listening to FIY regularly.  Just listening to IACBTMN, DOL, RDMH, ABM, IDK... they're just completely unbelievable...her voice just blows me away.  I don't think there will ever be another singer who can match Celine's excellence.  She deserves all the wealth and success in the world and unfortunately she isn't getting much praise these days.

That is a problem of both Céline/René/their team and her label. They could change that with the blink of an eye, but sadly they don't seem to care. It seems they don't want to change anything of their poor attitude towards her status these days

After being in show business after 25 years, Celine has already reached great depths of fame, success, and wealth.  The Falling Into You and Let's Talk About Love eras were different.  Celine still had to prove herself to music industry and the world.  The 1996-1999 time period launched her into a very high status of success and fame.  Although Celine loves to record and perform nowadays, her priorities do change, I believe.  Celine herself recognizes that you cannot aim to top everything you've done in the past.  And Celine does not have to do that any longer!  Even when she released Let's Talk About Love, she had said on an interview with Rosie O'Donnell that with that album, she would be able to leave show business and not come back and look back and feel accomplished.

Someone on this forum compared Celine's current status with that of Barbra Streisand.  Barbra still records and releases albums.  The albums are top sellers.  However, the singles are not #1 commercially.  Barbra is a legend and already well established, so certain priorities shift.  I think this is the case with Celine.  She has definitely reached the status of a musical legend.

Besides, with the unprecedented success of A New Day... which was sold out for nearly five years, so many excellent albums in English and French, recording Taking Chances and D'elles ( no one imagined she would be recording and releasing albums specially during the last year of A New Day...) and embarking on a major world tour, which is selling out and is well on its way to become one of the world's top grossing tours of 2008, are those events still not enough for some people?

Celine is doing so many things not only because she enjoys doing it, but because she wants to do it for her fans... How many artists would actually go on a world tour after ending a 4.5 year engagement in Las Vegas?  Celine said she wanted to tour to give fans an opportunity that didn't go to Las Vegas a chance to see her live.  Heck, how many artists can even boast they sell out 700+ perfomances in Las Vegas?  Not many.  And many artists wouldn't even tackle such performances!

[CelineHayatiAna]

FIY is a master piece album by female single ever!!!

[Ray]

For me the best vocal album is "Celine Dion". When I heard her sing way back in 1992 I became addicted to Miss Dion. The songs before this album are good. After are also good. But vocally she was at her top with this album: so emotional, so many belting, so much drama. Truly a diva!

[corr_azy]

I don't think she actually worked with Phil Spector on FIY.

[Ray]

corr_azy, on Apr 27 2008, 02:12 PM, said:

I don't think she actually worked with Phil Spector on FIY.

She did. He even threatened to release the songs. I wonder why he doesn't. Maybe back then it wasn't easy to get "forbidden" songs out for the public, but nowadays he just has to put them out on the internet.

[Dionism]

Falling Into You, The Colour Of My Love and 1 Fille & 4 Types are my three favourite albums of Celine of all time. (TAST too, but it's a Christmas album, so it is now off the list untill next Christmas )

The Colour Of My Love was the first full album of Celine I heard, which is by the way today exactly 11 years ago! So today is TCOML-birthday for me!

Falling Into You was the second album I heard, and my first CD. It's not comparable with TCOML, they are both different albums, but it's just as brilliant. It contains the two songs that made me a fan of Celine: It's All Coming Back To Me and All By Myself.

1 Fille & Quatre Types has its own unique sound, her voice is terriffic on this one, the best since These Are Special Times.

All three albums have in common that
1. Her voice is at its best
2. They all have their own special feeling to them
3. There is not one boring song in them
4. All songs are great
5. I never get tired of them

The worst album of Celine is Let's Talk About Love for me. It contains too many mediocre (and some even) borng songs. And even though they put a lot of work in the arrangements, it doesn't help because of the medicocre melodies of most of the songs. I also think it lacks emotion, romance (except Tell Him and MHWGO) and inpiration.

[Jan]

Falling Into You is definitely an excellent album. The songs are really catchy and fresh, also very good from a vocal point of view, however, the vocal perfection is TCOML for me.
No one has mentioned so far, but I find it very interesting that FIY contains the most covers comparing to her other albums (excluding Dion chante Plamondon, of course, which is a cover album by concept). Beside all the covers and the previous D'eux songs, there are 7 new songs out of 16! I remember some people complained before the release of Taking Chances that four covers are too many. What about FIY then?

[CelineFanInSoCal]

scorp82, on Apr 25 2008, 07:07 AM, said:

Gonzalillo, on Apr 25 2008, 04:14 AM, said:

idroveallnight, on Apr 25 2008, 01:14 AM, said:

It's probably the most vocally supreme album in history.  For the past 2 weeks I've regressed to Vintage Celine and have been listening to FIY regularly.  Just listening to IACBTMN, DOL, RDMH, ABM, IDK... they're just completely unbelievable...her voice just blows me away.  I don't think there will ever be another singer who can match Celine's excellence.  She deserves all the wealth and success in the world and unfortunately she isn't getting much praise these days.

That is a problem of both Céline/René/their team and her label. They could change that with the blink of an eye, but sadly they don't seem to care. It seems they don't want to change anything of their poor attitude towards her status these days

After being in show business after 25 years, Celine has already reached great depths of fame, success, and wealth.  The Falling Into You and Let's Talk About Love eras were different.  Celine still had to prove herself to music industry and the world.  The 1996-1999 time period launched her into a very high status of success and fame.  Although Celine loves to record and perform nowadays, her priorities do change, I believe.  Celine herself recognizes that you cannot aim to top everything you've done in the past.  And Celine does not have to do that any longer!  Even when she released Let's Talk About Love, she had said on an interview with Rosie O'Donnell that with that album, she would be able to leave show business and not come back and look back and feel accomplished.

Someone on this forum compared Celine's current status with that of Barbra Streisand.  Barbra still records and releases albums.  The albums are top sellers.  However, the singles are not #1 commercially.  Barbra is a legend and already well established, so certain priorities shift.  I think this is the case with Celine.  She has definitely reached the status of a musical legend.

Besides, with the unprecedented success of A New Day... which was sold out for nearly five years, so many excellent albums in English and French, recording Taking Chances and D'elles ( no one imagined she would be recording and releasing albums specially during the last year of A New Day...) and embarking on a major world tour, which is selling out and is well on its way to become one of the world's top grossing tours of 2008, are those events still not enough for some people?

Celine is doing so many things not only because she enjoys doing it, but because she wants to do it for her fans... How many artists would actually go on a world tour after ending a 4.5 year engagement in Las Vegas?  Celine said she wanted to tour to give fans an opportunity that didn't go to Las Vegas a chance to see her live.  Heck, how many artists can even boast they sell out 700+ perfomances in Las Vegas?  Not many.  And many artists wouldn't even tackle such performances!

DITTO.  LOL  I compared Celine to Barbra, and still stand by comparison.  I'm glad to see someone else does, too.  I am tired of people comparing her to Madonna or Mariah...  she's in a different league.  Not to say that the leagues that Madonna and Mariah are in are any less, but they are obviously different.  

As for FIY... DITTO.     This was at the beginning of mainstream success.  Previous to FIY, Celine had success with Beauty and the Beast and The Power of Love, both hugely mainstream, but the album FIY was the top selling album the year it was released, topped the charts in 11 countries and was voted Album of the Year AND Best Pop Album at the 39th Annual Grammy Awards [taken from CelineDion.com], which clearly showed the entire world that Celine was a true vocal talent.  

I would say that FIY and LTAL were some of the best English language tracks recorded by Celine, and sure, they showed off her diva-ish vocal prowess.  Considering what we could assume to be "diva" in this sense, FIY hits the mark, though I will venture to say that there are other tracks that would still be considered to be diva-esque, but as far as total album, the overall mood and color says vocal magic to me.

[Prince Whiskers]

Dionism, on Apr 27 2008, 10:59 PM, said:

1 Fille & Quatre Types has its own unique sound, her voice is terriffic on this one, the best since These Are Special Times.

Yes! Her voice is SEAMLESS on this one. Songs like Mon Homme and RNVF would have sounded quite nasal on SISDA.

It may not be as "showy" as FIY vocally, but D'eux is actually where Celine is at her most powerful. She sings the classic 12 tracks with the texture, resonance and passion that we've not heard from her before or since.

Edited by manuel morriso, 29 April 2008 - 03:59 AM.

[beautyroses]

I love falling into you album,and it is the first album I heard from celine.
all of the songs are perfect

[alextrusca]

FIY is indeed a great album, vocally speaking, but emotionally speaking I believe that TCOML is her best English album to date, followed by Celine Dion.FIY goes beyond vocal perfection, it is flawless and very beautiful, but I like more TCOML.Maybe because it was my first 100% Celine album that I really adored listening to and loved it right away.

[amelie]

manuel morriso, on Apr 29 2008, 04:58 AM, said:

Dionism, on Apr 27 2008, 10:59 PM, said:

1 Fille & Quatre Types has its own unique sound, her voice is terriffic on this one, the best since These Are Special Times.

Yes! Her voice is SEAMLESS on this one. Songs like Mon Homme and RNVF would have sounded quite nasal on SISDA.

1 fille 4 types - rofl that's where her voice is the worst!

Sisda anyday

[Jan]

amelie, on Apr 29 2008, 01:07 PM, said:

1 fille 4 types - rofl that's where her voice is the worst!

Sisda anyday

I agree, but we are off topic, I think.

[alextrusca]

her voice is the worst always!!!!!!!!!!!!      

[CellyDee87]

scorp82, on Apr 26 2008, 12:07 AM, said:

Gonzalillo, on Apr 25 2008, 04:14 AM, said:

idroveallnight, on Apr 25 2008, 01:14 AM, said:

It's probably the most vocally supreme album in history.  For the past 2 weeks I've regressed to Vintage Celine and have been listening to FIY regularly.  Just listening to IACBTMN, DOL, RDMH, ABM, IDK... they're just completely unbelievable...her voice just blows me away.  I don't think there will ever be another singer who can match Celine's excellence.  She deserves all the wealth and success in the world and unfortunately she isn't getting much praise these days.

That is a problem of both Céline/René/their team and her label. They could change that with the blink of an eye, but sadly they don't seem to care. It seems they don't want to change anything of their poor attitude towards her status these days

After being in show business after 25 years, Celine has already reached great depths of fame, success, and wealth.  The Falling Into You and Let's Talk About Love eras were different.  Celine still had to prove herself to music industry and the world.  The 1996-1999 time period launched her into a very high status of success and fame.  Although Celine loves to record and perform nowadays, her priorities do change, I believe.  Celine herself recognizes that you cannot aim to top everything you've done in the past.  And Celine does not have to do that any longer!  Even when she released Let's Talk About Love, she had said on an interview with Rosie O'Donnell that with that album, she would be able to leave show business and not come back and look back and feel accomplished.

Someone on this forum compared Celine's current status with that of Barbra Streisand.  Barbra still records and releases albums.  The albums are top sellers.  However, the singles are not #1 commercially.  Barbra is a legend and already well established, so certain priorities shift.  I think this is the case with Celine.  She has definitely reached the status of a musical legend.

Besides, with the unprecedented success of A New Day... which was sold out for nearly five years, so many excellent albums in English and French, recording Taking Chances and D'elles ( no one imagined she would be recording and releasing albums specially during the last year of A New Day...) and embarking on a major world tour, which is selling out and is well on its way to become one of the world's top grossing tours of 2008, are those events still not enough for some people?

Celine is doing so many things not only because she enjoys doing it, but because she wants to do it for her fans... How many artists would actually go on a world tour after ending a 4.5 year engagement in Las Vegas?  Celine said she wanted to tour to give fans an opportunity that didn't go to Las Vegas a chance to see her live.  Heck, how many artists can even boast they sell out 700+ perfomances in Las Vegas?  Not many.  And many artists wouldn't even tackle such performances!

I totally agree I do think that those are the albums that "put her on the map" and allowed her to flaunt her fabulous musical ability especially Falling Into You I think it's also the era when she really gained her huge fan base (Many of Us!) She is absolutely in a whole other league and classy one at that. I'm not sure which interview I read of hers but this album was really about what SHE wanted to do recording the edgier rockier songs that she listened to from her childhood.

I don't think we'll see another globally popular album like Falling Into You again, even though in my personal opinion Taking Chances is right up there. Her career now is really about doing the music she wants to because she can it pleases her to do so and she'll always have a large and loyal fan base who will still be there regardless, but I don't think we'll see her gain new mass amounts of fans from her new work unlike the Falling Into You era.

[Jour053103]

I would have to agree that "FIY" is most definitly her diva album!!! I just love the cd!!

[Prince Whiskers]

amelie, on Apr 29 2008, 07:07 PM, said:

manuel morriso, on Apr 29 2008, 04:58 AM, said:

Dionism, on Apr 27 2008, 10:59 PM, said:

1 Fille & Quatre Types has its own unique sound, her voice is terriffic on this one, the best since These Are Special Times.

Yes! Her voice is SEAMLESS on this one. Songs like Mon Homme and RNVF would have sounded quite nasal on SISDA.

1 fille 4 types - rofl that's where her voice is the worst!

Sisda anyday

Eh? You just don't like it when Celine goes rock. You are cool to TCH so I'm not surprised that you have the same attitude toward 1f&4t.   

[Bellamy]

I just find out that Falling Into You is one of the three albums to remain in the top 10 for more than a year.

Quote

It became one of three albums – along with Thriller by Michael Jackson and Falling into You by Céline Dion – to remain in the top 10 for more than a year.

http://www.liverpool...00252-20887853/

[Black Kitten]

old news bellamy...  

Edited by dhena, 11 May 2008 - 05:00 AM.

[Davey84]

Today I received the Platine Magazine from November 25, 1995. And it included some interesting facts (OR RUMOURS) about her next English album, being Falling Into You of course.

There were three interesting things in there, I just had to share with you guys!!

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Scoop: Le Prochain Album

Céline a commencé son quatrième album en anglais. Il sortira en janvier.

...

On y trouvera les versions anglaises de Pour Que Tu M'Aimes Encore et L'Amour Existe Encore,

un duo avec Aretha Franklin (déjà enregistré)

et une reprise de Phil Spector.

Quote

Scoop: The Next Album

Celine began recording her fourth album in English. It will be released in January.
...

It contains English versions of Pour Que Tu M'Aimes Encore and L'Amour Existe Encore,

a duet with Aretha Franklin (already recorded)

and a reprise of Phil Spector.

So! It was originally planned for January!! But I guess it was delayed because the Phil Spector debacle...

LAEE was recorded in English for FIY! There you finally have it, Javito! It wasn't for ANDHC! But already recorded 6 years earlier!!! I wonder what they made her record a Spanish version after 6 years!

OMFD!!! A duet with Aretha Franklin!?!?!? Did anyone heard that before!?!? And the magazine said it was already recorded!!! Now it could be that they got their information mixed up, and they mean the cover of NW Céline recorded in 1994 for the Tappestry Revised album of Carole King... But this is a very interesting thing!! IF anyone ever gets to meet Céline, ask about this! If they really recorded a duet, it's weird the never shouted that off the rooftops and strange it didn't make the album, which I can only link to Phil Spector again... maybe he produced the song? But the cover I mentioned seemed more likely...

[Javito]

OMG!!!!!! And what the hell are they waiting for to release all these? Since 1996!!??

I don't know what worst, to be totally excited about it or annoyed because we don't know what the hell is going on with them for not releasing all these material

Thanks for the shout Davey, I really love when you find these things in the least expected places!

[Celine Fan 77]

I'm sure this is just a part of all the hidden treasures they have decided to keep until something happens to Celine... and it gets harder and harder for me to mention it every time...  

[J-Man]

Wow a duet with Aretha at that time would be amazing to hear. As you say, Natural Woman seems the most likely thing they meant. But imagine a duet version of this between just the two of them!!

Great scoop Davey. Thanks  

(BTW: Why isn't there a special topic dedicated to each of her albums? Especially mega albums like FIY?)

[celinesounds]

if there is a Duet it should have been out in DUETS album by Aretha a couple of years ago, I think they are talking about NW

I wounder why the English version of L'Amour Existe Encore,  never did any cut even for CSV1

[Davey84]

nope.... at least I didn't found it, and thought this one was the most appropriate.

Hopefully a moderator will change the topic title, and the subtitle!


I doubt we'll ever hear those songs I wonder how many left overs FIY has...

[Alex_Incognito]

What a fascinating find, Davey!  I don't take the Aretha duet seriously, it just seems like crap that is made up nowadays about other starts performing duets, but "L'amour existe encore" being recorded in 1996 is fascinating!

[woodstock]

Well it's not because they printed it that it has to be true. Or maybe it was planned and did not happen for some reason. Or maybe they misunderstood and said something instead of something else...
Anyway this is the occasion to say that "Falling into you" is still my favourite Celine album. And I guess it always be!

[Chula]

Maybe the duet is Natural Woman, but it was later changed to her solo version???