"You And I" is the official Hillary Clinton campaign song!

[stevethefan]

Now I have a good reason to tune into C-SPAN.

Yeah, I know what you mean! Usually I go past the channel. I wish people would stop arguing about whether or not this is a good thing or not for Celine and the politics and blah, blah, blah. IT'S JUST A SONG!

Personally I think it's good for Celine and we should just enjoy it, regardless of the political feelings people have.

Celine is happy about it.

[brasilero]

Now I have a good reason to tune into C-SPAN.

i would stand by for hours and hours just to hear the song being played. im gonna tape it all

[Loup_garou]

Just imagine: They just changed the campaign song to get in tune with "I've got a crush on Obama"

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sudw4ghVe8

 

 

imagine if Celine was asked to sing this

[KimboCosmo]

Nah - it's just you..

LMAO!!

[CSCfan]

You and I: Clinton, Dion in 2008!

 

If a theme song is tricky for a politician, it can be downright hazardous for the artist

 

JAIME J. WEINMAN | July 23, 2007 |

 

Hillary Clinton's campaign for president of the United States has already proved one thing about democracy: write-in candidates are dangerous. Senator Clinton sponsored an online contest to let the people pick her campaign theme song, and they chose Celine Dion's 2004 hit You and I ("You will feel that you're soaring"). A song written as an Air Canada advertising jingle is now a political theme song: music to rally supporters, raise money, and annoy anyone who doesn't support the candidate.

 

Politicians once commissioned original songs (Grover Cleveland and his running mate Adlai Stevenson had Hurrah, Hurrah for Cleve and Steve), but today, no one is willing to pay a songwriter to find a rhyme for "Clinton" or "Giuliani" when they can just pick a catchy, familiar tune. President Bill Clinton understood that in 1992 when he famously picked Fleetwood Mac's Don't Stop: people who liked the song would associate it in their minds with the Democratic candidate. And those who didn't like Fleetwood Mac were probably Republicans.

 

Do campaign theme songs really help a political candidate? Jefferson Flanders, a political blogger, argues that they are outweighed by seemingly less important things like the issues. "George H.W. Bush's choice of Bobby McFerrin's Don't Worry, Be Happy in 1988 was loopy," Flanders wrote in an essay at jeffersonflanders.wordpress.com, but it didn't hurt him at all: "His Democratic opponent, Mike Dukakis, picked Neil Diamond's America, a more fitting song for a presidential run, and lost badly nonetheless."

 

It's true, as Flanders says, that a theme song doesn't affect how people vote; someone who likes Clinton but dislikes Celine Dion will still vote for Clinton. But a theme song can attract publicity. Clinton's contest, and the Sopranos-style ad in which she and Bill Clinton announced the victory of You And I, became a media event, knocking her rival Barack Obama out of the headlines.

 

And while theme songs don't lose elections, a wrong choice can expose the candidate to the wrong kind of publicity. In 1992, independent candidate Ross Perot provided a tempting punchline for comedians everywhere when he walked onstage to the Patsy Cline song Crazy. The choice was a deliberate parody of Perot's image. But it just proved that no candidate should pick a song that reinforces his negative image, even in fun.

 

If a theme song is tricky for a politician, it can be hazardous for the artist: if a tune becomes associated with a candidate, it might lose its appeal with the candidate's opponents. That's why a representative for Celine Dion told Maclean's that the singer is "not involved politically" with the campaign, adding that "her son always wanted to hear her music on an official occasion, like a wedding, and she is flattered that the fans voted for You and I for this occasion." Dion wants us to know that she is happy, but in a non-partisan way.

 

But at least Dion doesn't actually object to hearing her song at Clinton rallies; others have waged counter-campaigns to stop their work from being used by politicians they don't like. Bruce Springsteen pushed back against Ronald Reagan's transformation of Born in the U.S.A., an angry song about the plight of America, into a rousing Republican anthem. When George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign tried to use Still the One by the group Orleans, one of the group's founders didn't like it: John Hall is not only a Democrat, he was elected to Congress last year. "As a promoter of an 'ownership society,' " Hall thundered, "the issue of intellectual property rights is something the President should respect."

 

Other musicians get into the spirit of the campaign theme song. Frank Sinatra was so supportive of John F. Kennedy that he had High Hopes turned into a tribute to JFK, while Irving Berlin rewrote They Like Ike, a 1950 song about the Republicans' attempt to recruit Dwight Eisenhower, into I Like Ike, for Eisenhower's presidential run.

 

Some insiders are unenthusiastic about mixing music and party politics. A writer at Down With Tyranny, a blog run by music-industry executive Howie Klein, lamented that "corporate types take something hip and cool and pollute it." But the writer acknowledged that Clinton's choice of song was logical: Dion, like Clinton, has been accused of being "mechanical and bereft of true feeling." If they do nothing else, campaign theme songs can demonstrate that politicians and entertainers aren't that different after all.

[Davey84]

You and I: Clinton, Dion in 2008!

 

If a theme song is tricky for a politician, it can be downright hazardous for the artist

 

JAIME J. WEINMAN | July 23, 2007 |

But the writer acknowledged that Clinton's choice of song was logical: Dion, like Clinton, has been accused of being "mechanical and bereft of true feeling."

[CSCfan]

Well she has been....in the past..

[Davey84]

but she'll never ever get another image then that... and when was she? jeez... she worked her @$$ of from 1996 to 1999... people should give her credit instead of the always negative commentary! Edited July 23, 2007 at 10:54 AM by Davey84

[CSCfan]

They should.. And thát's the way it is!

[amelie]

i don't see why you think Celine is "feeling" more now, she seems the same to me...but anyway

[Shaun]

That's a good article which makes it clear Celine is playing no part in this political journey, her song was simply picked to be part of it and that's totally out of her control. Knowing her history with the Clintons it's hardly surprising that Celine is quietly happily.

[celine5-5]

I support Hillary Clinton, and obviously I like Celine Dion. To me, it's a match made in heaven.

[KimboCosmo]

Just imagine: They just changed the campaign song to get in tune with "I've got a crush on Obama"

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sudw4ghVe8

 

 

imagine if Celine was asked to sing this

OMG that was effin hilarious!

[CSCfan]

Clinton drops Dion campaign song: ‘You & I’

 

ABC News' Eloise Harper Reports: Less than 30 days before the critical Iowa caucuses, there's a shake-up in the Clinton presidential campaign. Hillary Clinton and Celine Dion appear to be parting ways.

 

For months, the soprano headlined Clinton's, D-N.Y., campaign appearances as Dion's "You and I" served as the former first lady's campaign theme song.

"High above the mountains, far across the sea," bellowed Dion over loudspeaker after loudspeaker.

 

"I can hear your voice calling out to me, Brighter than the sun and darker than the night, I can see your love shining like a light," the Canadian songstress would sing as the aspiring American president took or departed the political stage.

 

At first, Dion and Clinton hit a all the right notes, as they're likely to say in the inevitable VH1 Behind the Music special. Brought together in an inventive and original contest, "You and I" was unveiled as the people's choice for Clinton's destiny (not child's) filled run for the White House.

 

The song played on, from Iowa to South Carolina, without missing a beat. But, now, only the sounds of silence can be heard from the Clinton camp's Celine CD.

Instead on the trail these days, Big Head Todd and the Monsters are in and their "Blue Sky" is seemingly the campaign's favorite as the New York Senator enters and exits the stage.

 

The Clinton camp had no response when pressed by ABC News to explain why the sudden change from chick-favorite Vegas-anchored Dion to the masculine, Colorado-native Monsters.

 

Fortunately, for just these circumstances, VH1 has created some consoling music selections to document this critical juncture in the 2008 race: the top 40 break-up songs ever.

[Bellamy]

That's kinda expected. Too bad Hillary even can't stick to one song.

[Nmj]

So What..They always change their songs!

-Nmj

[keny]

Hillary flip-flops all the time. what would yo expect. Just as well. I wold rather not have one of Celine's songs forever tainted by the Clinton's.

 

 

That's kinda expected. Too bad Hillary even can't stick to one song.

[peo]

I can't believe Hilary dumped Celine's song. Well, its her loss

[PrincesseJen]

In all honesty, out of all Celine's songs, "You & I" would have been my last choice. It doesn't quite have the right vibe Hillary is looking for so I can understand why they choose to do this. Song's like "Taking Chances" or "A World To Believe In" would have been much better choices but they weren't out when the contest was going on. Her dropping the song doesn't change my support for her. I hoped she'd run for President back when she was first lady. It was just a nice coincidence for me that a Celine song was choosen in the first place.

[SuperLove4Celine]

Hillary flip-flops all the time. what would yo expect.

 

And this is why Hilary will not be getting my vote. To be honest none of the candidates are doing a thing for me. I'll probably end up voting green or something. :sigh:

 

...Joe...

[x_celinedion]

I can't believe Hilary dumped Celine's song. Well, its her loss

 

I definetly feel the same way, she shouldn't have dumped the song. The only thing was, I love You and I so much, but there are so many different songs by Celine that would have suited Hillary alot better.

[luciusbright]

Hill's going to be in Vegas next week She and Celine should discuss world peace and song selection...!

I just can't help laughing at imaging Hillary and Celine discuss world peace together. :mdr:

If people let these two ladies handle world peace, we would actually have peace in this world...

Celine definitely!!Haha :clap:

[Prince Whiskers]

It's a relief actually that not any of Celine's songs is associated with any politician.