celine dion smear campaign?

[Your_Su_Phu]

lately I check up on google news of celine's tour every day, and I've noticed that in the past few days articles have popped up (probably hoping to sensationalize so they can sell copies) smearing celine. as we all know there was a huge disaster with a few south africa concerts which were disorganized and there were traffic jams, thousands of fans who missed most of the show, etc. obviously this is the fault of the organizer and such in south africa, NOT celine - and if im not mistaken weren't her shows in SA all pretty much sold out? yet the articles coming out now are saying specifically "Celine dion's failed tour", her "lacklustre tour", and even one article claiming that celine's disastrous tour is now going to cause a dent in south africa's reputation (because josh groban cancelled a tour there which many believe to be due to what happened with celine's)

 

so yes, organization was horrible but they eventually fixed it and there was even an article about how much more organized and perfectly controlled the later concerts were! and they were frigging sold out! yet many articles have come out now painting celine's tour out to be a disaster as if she couldn't sell tickets and such, it's pissing me off

Edited March 12, 2008 at 04:06 AM by Your_Su_Phu

[venezia7]

its best to just ignore stuff like this....we all know its not true and people just like to make things like this up.

[Angel, You thrill me]

Sounds like their desperate for a news story so their picking on someone who's been in the spotlight recently, that being Celine.

they sound like attention wh#res!!!!!!!

 

 

[Cheerfuljane]

There were A LOT of problems with the seating at the shows. My entire family were moved around in Durban because they never took into account the light box.

 

The organization WAS absolutely disastrous in Cape Town. I was there. But luckily I was smart enough to go early.

 

I saw all this first hand in Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town.

 

Celine is the big name behind it so they will blame her. So stupid - but, in retrospect, HER people chose the venues and organises.

 

I wish they would concentrate on KUSASA (the organisers) and not pull Celine to shreds

 

I think it was Nate who, after the Cape Town show, said that he wouldn't be surprised if Josh Groban cancelled his shows there. And look what happened:

 

http://www.thetimes.co.za/Entertainment/Ar....aspx?id=724155

 

The biggest problem now is what about all those fans who missed the show because of the bad organisation?

I think Celine needs to come back to South Africa

[aicee]

Well they just need stories just to sell.

[superstarleash]

So what EXACTLY happened?? I am a bit confused...Lack of public transport??

[Your_Su_Phu]

There were A LOT of problems with the seating at the shows. My entire family were moved around in Durban because they never took into account the light box.

 

The organization WAS absolutely disastrous in Cape Town. I was there. But luckily I was smart enough to go early.

 

I saw all this first hand in Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town.

 

from what I read I totally agree and I feel horrible that you had to experience that. Apparently some fans were stuck in traffic for hours and only caught celine for a few minutes or something, while others came with tickets to certain sections then when they got there they found out those sections "didn't exist"? O_o;

 

Celine is the big name behind it so they will blame her. So stupid - but, in retrospect, HER people chose the venues and organises.

 

I wish they would concentrate on KUSASA (the organisers) and not pull Celine to shreds

 

I think it was Nate who, after the Cape Town show, said that he wouldn't be surprised if Josh Groban cancelled his shows there. And look what happened:

 

http://www.thetimes.co.za/Entertainment/Ar....aspx?id=724155

 

The biggest problem now is what about all those fans who missed the show because of the bad organisation?

I think Celine needs to come back to South Africa

 

that's exactly what I mean though I think they should focus primarily on the organizers, and though Celine's people did choose the venues it was their first time in SA. it's inexcusable what happened to all those poor fans who missed out on the show - but I don't like Celine's entire tour in SA being painted as "disastrous", "failed", etc.etc. when in some aspects it was successful was it not? If i were a casual reader and I read "celine dion failed tour" I would assume (among other problems mentioned in the article) that her tour as a whole was disastrous and could not sell, when in fact it was sold out (right?!) and there were a slew of articles talking about the success of some of the concerts right (celine plays to near capacity crowds - celine dion has performed for 300,000 south africans, etc.)? like i mentioned earlier after the debacle of some of the disorganized "disastrous" shows, subsequent shows improved markedly.

 

I care too much about trivial things

Edited March 12, 2008 at 10:18 AM by Your_Su_Phu

[Céline's Blues]

It is unfortunate that they use Céline's name and her supposed "failed tour" to capitalize the failiure that was the organization of the concerts. In no way was that Céline's fault and in no way would a sane man want to connect the incompetent promoters with her name. Basically it's all for the publicity.

[Nat27]

I dont understand why it was so difficult to organise the show in Cape Town...I know its probably not at the same magnitude, but last year the Super 14 rugby final was held there, it was a sold out match and I dont recall any problems arrising. I know that the organising staff were not the same as for the rugby match, but still the people who organised the concert must have had some idea of the surroundings and previous events at the venue? I do agree with everyone else, this is just a publicity stunt. Celine's tour of SA was sold out, and hundreds of thousands of people enjoyed an experience of a lifetime.

 

Not to shift the blame onto the fans at the CT show, but why did they arrive so late? Seeing that Celine was my first big concert, I decided to go to the PE venue at three, even though the gates only opened at six and despite the fact that I had Golden cirle reserved tickets, I didnt know what to expect so I went early so as to not be stuck in traffic or the wrong line, etc. I dont know about the rest of the concerts in SA, but the PE concert was impecably organised, you knew exactly what to do and where to go. The traffic wasnt any worse than it normally is after a big soccer match or when the stadium hosts the national rugby team. All in all I think we got outta there in half an hour if you dont count the five minutes we spent honking our horns as Celine car passed us.

[Cheerfuljane]

The Cape Town show wasn't held at the rugby stadium. It was held at a Wine Estate that had never held a concert before (mistake number 1). There was almost NO organisation outside the venue for parking (mistake number 2) and rerouting traffic (mistake number3). The venue couldn't hold the capacity of tickets they sold so had to "degrade" people into other sections.

 

It goes on and on and on.....

 

Celine was absolutely brilliant at ALL the shows. There were only sound hitches at the first show in Pretoria which didn't affect the show much. I've read A LOT of reviews from the shows and NO ONE has said that Celine herself was not up to scratch. They just choose to focus on the negative. A waste of energy.

[anna]

i can see why this critism is annoying, but it is what it is

at least now measures are being taken so this doesn't happen again

and they're correcting the problems so future stories like these will not submerge again

[Nat27]

The Cape Town show wasn't held at the rugby stadium.

 

Oh yeah! was looking at pics of the durban venue and then skipped to this topic, guess that's why I got confused. Still the organisers must've had some sort of precedent?

[celinerific]

"There is good in all misfortune that befell us" - Celine

[Cheerfuljane]

Sounds like a Chinese proverb E!

[stevethefan]

Wow I did not know that things were that bad with the SA concerts. I don't understand how anyone could blame Celine with any of that stuff that happened. It's not her fault that there were traffic jams and other problems. She is just there to try and do a show as best as she can. What do people that criticize her think that she was supposed to do about it?!

[RLAAMJR.]

What you and I can do is make it right.

 

We just can't leve them do it or many will be deceived.

[Angel, You thrill me]

It is very unprofessional and childish to use an incident that had nothing to do with Celine , to try to create gossip