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[scielle]

So I'll just keep going then... because these articles just keep coming!

Full article here -  https://www.the-pool...-fashion-moment

“[...] All in all, the signs were not auspicious that Celine Dion would go on to become one of the most talked-about style plates of 2017. Yet this is what has come to pass. While most almost-fifty year-olds sit staring at Zara’s footwear section pondering whether a red ankle boot is too racy, Celine has no such qualms. In what some critics have dubbed a Dionaissance, she is having more fun with fashion than women half her age. [...]
Clearly, nothing could replace René, whom Celine had known since she was 12, but there are worse ways to deal with grief than by joining the fashion circus. It won’t mend a broken heart, but the relentless 10-week, 7-day, 12-hour international show schedule will certainly help you forget you ever had a heart in the first place.
And so Celine threw herself into attending fashion shows, clapping and whooping with an alacrity that puts more seasoned fashion-watchers to shame. As we speak, she is in Paris for the couture shows, being captured on video jumping up and down like a toddler on cake. “It’s all about composure”, one fashion editrix posted on Instagram, alongside a picture of Celine grinning like a maniac at the Giambattista Valli show, next to a serious-looking Anna Wintour. “One is a human and the other one is a robot,” ran one comment. “Celine is authentic! Anna looks like an iceberg!” went another.

And that’s the thing. Much as I’m loving Celine’s fashion Dionaissance, I’m loving her enthusiasm even more. It’s not that revolutionary to see a 49 year-old woman wearing a Gucci minidress or a Balenciaga biker: all she’s done is hire a new stylist (Law Roach), not reinvent the wheel. Besides, I find some of the breathless “OMG - she’s OLD but she’s wearing BALMAIN” commentary a little patronising. Balmain routinely costs upwards of £1000. Who do you think is buying it: bloggers?
Anyone can shuck on a designer thigh boot. It’s the pure, unadulterated fun Celine is having that sets her apart from everyone else. The world has enough po-faced, highly-curated, self-contained narcissists strutting around already. But it doesn’t have enough enthusiastic adults whooping, laughing and manifesting joy. “I’ve never been cool - and I don’t care”, she once said. And that, Celine, is precisely why you are."

[CelineDionFreak]

Every day Céline gives me more reasons to love her!

[Bruno Portugal]

The Dionaissance!!!

[incognito]

I love that after over 2 decades people are seeing and realizing what I saw and realized when I was 11. Damn, people are slow.

[scielle]

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[Your_Su_Phu]

Seriously starting to wonder if some of these journalists are members or at least lurk here

[Peppercorn1991]

scielle, on 06 July 2017 - 05:58 PM, said:

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100 million ...... WRONG

Kev x

[scielle]

Don't necessarily agree with everything, but a nice article from Brendan Kelly -

http://montrealgazet...ts-a-good-thing

Excerpt -

"So here’s the thing. All kinds of people are dumping on Dion for not being exactly the same Dion they knew and loved in the ‘90s.
But I’m not. Look I didn’t like the nude pics or the steamy dance but if that’s what Dion wants to do, I say more power to her.
Dion is 49, single, she’s got three kids, and, I’m guessing here, a pretty bloody healthy bank account. And she went through hell with Angélil’s illness in the year or two before his death, so if she wants to live it up, I say – hell yeah, you go girl. We may not agree with every decision she makes but she has every right to take control of her life.
And if sometimes she makes a fool of herself, whatever. I’ll respect her more for it. We’ve all done that. Hey she’s human. And that’s why we’ve always loved Céline. She’s real. She doesn’t pretend to be someone she isn’t, in sharp contrast to 90 per cent of the pop stars out there. If she likes watching The Price is Right, she’ll tell you.
So if she wants to grind it out on stage with a hunky dancer, that’s her business."

[Your_Su_Phu]

He's consistently covered Celine in a nice way throughout her career, but I feel like he totally missed the point of what Carl Wilson was saying.

[scielle]

Carl Wilson was not the first to latch onto this either. Various people have been writing articles in this vein for about a year, as chronicled in this thread. Given how much Brendan Kelly writes about Celine, I'm surprised that seems to be the first he's hearing of it / not buying it.

[scielle]

Yet another article -

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[GameC]

scielle, on 15 July 2017 - 05:59 AM, said:

Yet another article -

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And they use a very nice gif at the end

[Sebulba1]

She might be considered "cool" now for reasons other than her music, but I don't believe we'll be hearing her on the radio again anytime soon sadly. This (older) article about the Dutch radio station Sky Radio does a pretty good job explaining why: http://www.radioilov...y-radio-101-fm/

[scielle]

Most good music is nowhere to be found on radio, so I don't particularly care - haven't listened to music radio in years and don't know anyone who does.
Streaming platforms are where it's at, so as long as she gets on those key playlists, all is well as far as I'm concerned.

[CelinesDIVO5]

Sebulba1, on 15 July 2017 - 08:15 AM, said:

She might be considered "cool" now for reasons other than her music, but I don't believe we'll be hearing her on the radio again anytime soon sadly. This (older) article about the Dutch radio station Sky Radio does a pretty good job explaining why: http://www.radioilov...y-radio-101-fm/

This was a very good article, and makes a lot of sense. I think this is why SONY didn't market LMBTL to radio. Which, honestly I believe was the wrong move because LMBTL had that modern AC sound they are talking about. I hope they reconsider with her next English album, and focus on the Adult Contemporary market again. With the buzz Celine has been getting lately, as long as the song sounds fresh, and not the least bit dated, it will be embraced by the format. I feel like people are keeping their ears open for her right now.

[Sebulba1]

CelinesDIVO5, on 15 July 2017 - 08:51 AM, said:

This was a very good article, and makes a lot of sense. I think this is why SONY didn't market LMBTL to radio. Which, honestly I believe was the wrong move because LMBTL had that modern AC sound they are talking about. I hope they reconsider with her next English album, and focus on the Adult Contemporary market again. With the buzz Celine has been getting lately, as long as the song sounds fresh, and not the least bit dated, it will be embraced by the format. I feel like people are keeping their ears open for her right now.

I vaguely recall reading back in the day that Sony did sent Loved me back to life out to radio stations in the Netherlands, but I don't remember where. I think radio stations are just biased against Celine these days because she is known for being a soft AC singer, so they won't even give a new song a try. Recovering would probably also fit right in their new format because it was written by Pink who is basically the poster child of modern AC. Not sure if that one was marketed to radio though, probably not.

[CelinesDIVO5]

Sebulba1, on 15 July 2017 - 09:54 AM, said:

I vaguely recall reading back in the day that Sony did sent Loved me back to life out to radio stations in the Netherlands, but I don't remember where. I think radio stations are just biased against Celine these days because she is known for being a soft AC singer, so they won't even give a new song a try. Recovering would probably also fit right in their new format because it was written by Pink who is basically the poster child of modern AC. Not sure if that one was marketed to radio though, probably not.

"Recovering" isn't exactly radio friendly though.

[scielle]

LOL to both of these:

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"Is that the Young Pope? Nope, just Queen Celine leave a Parisian hotel, not caring at all about potential stains"

https://www.instagra.../p/BWkmmqZBQTD/

[québecflower]

scielle, on 15 July 2017 - 11:56 AM, said:

LOL to both of these:

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"Is that the Young Pope? Nope, just Queen Celine leave a Parisian hotel, not caring at all about potential stains"

https://www.instagra.../p/BWkmmqZBQTD/

Queen Celine is spending some time in Paris, but she's not exactly hiding from the paparazzi beneath a beret and big sunglasses.

[maria_k]

https://www.instagra...tainmenttonight

  and Gandalf is also my favorite ever

[CelineDionFreak]

maria_k, on 15 July 2017 - 01:00 PM, said:

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  and Gandalf is also my favorite ever

Omg !!!!!

[scielle]

Celine Dion's Absolutely Fabulous Mission To Outdress The World

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"Music snobs have long turned up their noses at Celine Dion’s cheesy pop songs about love and faith, her earnestness and theatricality, all of it too sentimental and middlebrow and profoundly uncool.
Sure, her love ballads may not be as musically or lyrically complex as, say, Nick Cave’s. But they are unpretentious, unapologetic, and authentic—much like Dion herself, who is finally getting the cool-girl recognition she deserves at least among fashion aesthetes. [...]
But the clothes don’t make the woman. Dion is stylish and cool because she has a theatrical, uplifting disposition and isn’t afraid of being mocked. [...]
That her fashion choices lately are as outlandish and theatrical as Dion, both the artist and the woman, makes her infinitely cooler than the music snobs out there."

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[Your_Su_Phu]

https://twitter.com/...833723905474560

I screamed.  And if you're a Buffy fan the picture on the right is even funnier

[chocolatechip15]

CelinesDIVO5, on 15 July 2017 - 08:51 AM, said:

This was a very good article, and makes a lot of sense. I think this is why SONY didn't market LMBTL to radio. Which, honestly I believe was the wrong move because LMBTL had that modern AC sound they are talking about. I hope they reconsider with her next English album, and focus on the Adult Contemporary market again.

I think Sony actually tried very hard to market LMBTL to AC radio -- if I recall correctly, they paid what must have been a huge sum of money for LMBTL to be played on the hour every hour on a ton of AC stations in early September 2013.  But the song just didn't take off at all (at least in the US). I guess some songs just don't end up clicking with an audience.

[CelineDionFreak]

chocolatechip15, on 17 July 2017 - 08:25 PM, said:

I think Sony actually tried very hard to market LMBTL to AC radio -- if I recall correctly, they paid what must have been a huge sum of money for LMBTL to be played on the hour every hour on a ton of AC stations in early September 2013.  But the song just didn't take off at all (at least in the US). I guess some songs just don't end up clicking with an audience.

Honestly I think it's cause Sia wasn't well know like she is now. I mean people knew her, but more for Titanium and Diamonds. It just wasn't marketed to the mass mass public that Sia wrote her a song. The fact that they said it's more commercial sounding (modern) and Sia wrote THREE songs gives me a glimpse of hope, even if only just a little.

[scielle]

Another good article to add to the collection -

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[scielle]

Can't. Keep. Up.
These articles are now coming fast and furious.

http://www.cbc.ca/li...s-all-1.4216712

[GameC]

scielle, on 21 July 2017 - 04:37 PM, said:

Can't. Keep. Up.
These articles are now coming fast and furious.

http://www.cbc.ca/li...s-all-1.4216712

"So, vive la Celinaissance! She's already carved out a comeback that even legends like Madonna haven't been able to accomplish in recent years and turned 49 into a joy-filled ode to dorky dance moves, ornate attire and glass-shattering high notes. We can't wait to see what she does with 50."

Me too

[mike_z]

I hope we get a music video after all this. And a "Believe"-like comeback!

[scielle]

I wasn't able to post excerpts to this  and this  earlier, but for those who don't bother clicking on these links - voila!
Enjoy the best bits.

When Did Celine Dion Become Cool?

As a certified gossip hound who spends an awful lot of my time online looking up stuff on celebrities – for entirely analytical purposes, you understand – I’ve found myself becoming increasingly drawn to coverage of Quebec’s finest, Ms Celine Dion. Her music does nothing for me and I’d never given her much thought before, but recently, I’ve been completely taken by her bonkers charm and wholehearted dedication to doing the absolute most at any given time. Every outfit is lavish to the point of baroque, even if it’s just for the photographers watching her go from the hotel to the car; Each encounter with another celebrity highlights how immensely beloved she has become, or perhaps always was in the industry; Even the bastion of sartorial elitism, Vogue Magazine, has welcomed her under their wing with a fabulous French photo-shoot where she worked the fashion better than women half her age. At the age of 49, after close to 37 years in the industry, Celine Dion is having a moment, and I am living for it.

Dion’s music has always been defined by its seeming aversion to the notion of ‘cool’. While the range and marvel of her voice, powerful but immensely controlled, has never been denied, her genre choices have been something of a punching bag for music critics since she hit the big time.She’s an easy listening queen: Big ballads, lavish declarations of love, key changes to shatter glass, and teeth-rotting in their sentimentality. It’s pop with the whitest soul imaginable, and ready for the biggest audience possible. No moment is so big that it can’t be bigger. That’s worked out well for her, as the 250m worldwide sales can attest to.

Dion herself has also been consistently easy to mock. She’s goofy, she’s performative, she’s utterly committed to every moment being a show. She’s always on, and that can be exhausting. When you’re uncool, you expect those things, but that’s another part of Dion’s charm that has often passed by, unnoticed by those who find her too much: She knows she’s a lot and she entirely owns it.

[…] Not much of Dion’s career has gone under any major changes. She’s still headlining at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, she’s still releasing new music in both English and French, and she’s still that same personality. The only difference is now we’re ready for it.

[…] Following Angelil’s death, Dion has marched on and continued her public grieving as well as her typically goofy celebration of life. Really, she’s not doing much now that she hasn’t for 20-odd years in the spotlight. If nothing else, the past year of her life has shown the good of a wardrobe change.

[…] In an interview with Pret-a-Reporter regarding her incredible puffy-sleeved Billboard Awards gown, [stylist Law] Roach noted that Celine ‘can literally wear, and will wear anything’. That amazing wardrobe – part opera headliner, part international jewel thief, part Parisian vampire – simply shines a brighter spotlight on everything Dion has already been. She’s never given a f***, but now she doesn’t give a f*** while wearing couture, including an oversized designer sweatshirt with the Titanic image emblazoned on the front.

Everyone else is seeing her new coolness now, or at least they now feel unashamed in expressing it. Drake gushed over her at the Billboard awards, admitting he was ‘like a year away’ from getting a Dion tattoo; Adele bowed to her as she accepted a Grammy from her; even Rick Rubin and Timbaland expressed interest in working with her. Her last English language album, Loved Me Back to Life, included production from Ne-Yo and a song written by Sia. It’s also pretty damn good.

Perhaps there’s more open love for her because it’s just not cool to hate her anymore. There are new music punching bags – Canada alone doesn’t need Dion to shoulder that burden now that Justin Bieber’s continuing to exist – and she’s not the inescapable omnipresence she once was in the ’90s after Titanic hoisted her onto every radio station for years. After so many years of supposedly being shoved in everyone’s face, a healthy distance has given everyone a chance to re-evaluate their Dion disdain, and people like what they see.

Society is exceptionally shitty to women who age. Look at how Madonna, one of the great pop stars of our age and constant pusher of the cultural zeitgeist, was tossed aside for daring to own her muscled sexiness in her 50s. It didn’t matter that her music was still great (Rebel Heart is a stomping good album) because she was ‘too old’ for young people and the radio. Dion has never been a bastion of youth culture, and she’s often seemed much older than she is, but now as she approaches 50, there’s a fascinating zest to her public persona, even as the music remains in its adult contemporary box. She’s become almost timeless, but now with thigh high boots. […]

Dion is currently in Paris for the French leg of her European tour, and every moment is glorious to watch, even if it’s simply to gawk at her latest sartorial success in walking from the hotel to the taxi. It’s always a thrill to watch women living their best lives, free of having to prove something to the world. Celine will continue to sell millions of albums, perform to sold out venues across the globe, and make her Las Vegas residency the record breaking success she pioneered. Little has changed from the days of her peak; maybe it’s just me that’s changed.

Welcome to the Celinaissance. One #Diva to rule us all

There’s no denying the ‘national treasure’ status held by Céline Dion.

Unless you’ve been engaging in a strict social media detox, you’ve probably figured out by now that the ‘Summer of Céline’ is upon us. […]

Céline’s recent return to the spotlight and new lease on life seems to be a response, at least in part, to the tragedy she experienced in early 2016, when her husband and former manager René Angélil, whom she had known since she was 12-years-old, and her older brother Daniel both passed away from cancer within two days of one another. But those of us who have followed Dion for a while know that the utterly contagious joie de vivre she exudes on a daily basis isn’t a recent phenomenon. Rather, we’ve just finally found a moment that’s uniquely built for her personality and set of skills. Céline seems to have recognized this too, and has slowly, stealthily cemented herself as perhaps the most well-rounded (and essential!) Diva of the social media age. How, you ask?

She pursued fashion icon status — and got it

[…] Céline’s sartorial ascent may have hit a peak (one can only hope her style journey is long and filled with countless peaks and valleys) with this outrageously ultra Vogue shoot and video that might just be the pinnacle of capital-F Fashion. […] Of course, since it’s Céline, the video is filled with hip thrusts, prop-work, and super silly dance moves, making it clear that…

She’s an oversharing goofball who can’t help but be herself

In an era where social media savvy, and therefore, the ability to give anyone who follows you a seemingly authentic window into your life, has become one of the driving factors of stardom, especially for female performers, Céline’s trademark candor and goofy disposition are unbelievable assets. The kooky facial expressions and body language don’t hurt either.

She’s not afraid to scarf down a hot dog while donning Versace or have a solo dance party in the Medieval Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, while the ‘cool kids’ share cigarettes in the bathroom. She can photobomb an engagement even better than our own Prime Minister. And she’ll even let Vogue post a nude Instagram of her, and somehow it feels less like a calculated stunt and more like Céline just being Céline.

“Céline has no fear,” Law Roach told Vanity Fair recently. “And when you have that type of energy, you have this attitude that we can do whatever we want and we don’t care who likes it or dislikes it.”

That’s probably because Céline’s been letting us into her family, world and adventures since long before social media ruled every moment of our days.

She’s unabashedly caring, and has been ‘woke’ for a while now

While modern Divas like Rihanna and Nicki Minaj have built their personas and empires around not giving a f*ck, Céline’s brand of fearlessness is tempered with the fact that she cares deeply about things and doesn’t think twice about showing it.

Whether it’s giving a rousing standing ovation to one of her favourite designers while much of the Fashion Week audience claps along tepidly, throwing a nostalgic wink to her fans by letting the paparazzi snap her wearing a Titanic-themed hoodie, or publicly demonstrating a level of wokeness that other starlets can only strive for, Céline is present, engaged and passionate.

Here’s Céline back in 2005 taking the U.S. government to task for the way they handled the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: […]

She’s got epic pipes that haven’t lost their luster

A Diva just isn’t a Diva without the voice to back it up. And if you have any doubts about Céline’s unparalleled vocal stamina and range that occupies many octaves, you probably haven’t tried to tackle “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” at karaoke lately (to which I ask: WHY NOT?!?!).

[…] So, vive la Celinaissance! She’s already carved out a comeback that even legends like Madonna haven’t been able to accomplish in recent years and turned 49 into a joy-filled ode to dorky dance moves, ornate attire and glass-shattering high notes. We can’t wait to see what she does with 50.

Edited by scielle, 21 July 2017 - 11:09 PM.