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[winforlife]

blacktooth, on 02 June 2019 - 05:38 PM, said:

Don't be believed on what you read on RS. It's just an opinion from them. We all know how good Celine is. RS is just a crap magazine and want to use Celine on their publications just to get more attention.

It's not a crap magazine, just don't agree how they treated Céline in the 90's

[Bruno Portugal]

winforlife, on 02 June 2019 - 08:02 PM, said:

It's not a crap magazine, just don't agree how they treated Céline in the 90's

Celine was seen as an imitation of Whitney and Mariah. Today she is an icon, a legend! After much work Celine is recognised as one of the best singers of all times. Even RS surrenders to it nowadays.

[jpatdeleon09]

Céline: HA! Those B*tches!

[celinefanonline]

i think we should change the topic title to Celine did not make it to RS's top singers........
cause this is not a failure or some fault she did at all.....

[mirage]

Talking about UNRELEVANT.

[stevo]

Or should It be, (in Dr Evil voice) IRRELEVANT?! (Pinky to mouth...)

[Katie]

https://www.macleans...ut-for-her-now/

Q: In the book, you point to the lack of balance in critics’ approach to reviewing music and artists. Do you believe that these tendencies are magnified in the case of Dion? If so, why?

A: Historically, critics have tended to be suspicious of what’s massively commercially popular—to see it as cynically made product rather than as art. Not just in music but with film, literature, pretty much any area. And like intense devotees in almost any field, we have a bias in favor of the underdog and the underrecognized. Of course, those biases don’t stand up to scrutiny. All you have to do is say “The Beatles” or “Shakespeare” to prove there’s no one-to-one rule you can make about quality and popularity. So that’s one factor. What made it especially bad for Céline was that she seemed so uncool, by the standards of the day, in ways that triggered all kinds of prejudices. The music was old-fashioned, with these big showy ballads. And her style and persona were kind of ostentatious but unsophisticated—her goofiness, her sentimentality, her accent, all of that.

RELATED: Vote for your favourite Céline Dion song: Round One

Not to mention that her backstory was inscrutable to a lot of the media, especially in the States, where there’s not really a lot of understanding of Quebec, culturally. And there was sexist bias against how feminine her music and presentation styles are. So, at the height of her fame she really couldn’t win with the media—she was made fun of on South Park, and on Saturday Night Live, and by countless newspaper and magazine writers. She was caricatured as over-the-top and tacky. There always were some critics who defended her music and especially her vocal performances, but it was a minority. But she’s outlasted all that and is having the last laugh today.

[scielle]

A very on-topic summary of the issue at hand: https://www.macleans...-power-of-love/

[karatedude317]

So negative!