"My Love: Essential Collection" album - Official Topic

[grobandion]

hahaha....probably it's because two things:

1 - I really don't feel connected with the music, nor Celine's voice (it's so hoarse in this song)

2 - I can't get the lyrics. I've studied English for quite some years, but there are still some things hard to understand.

I never got what she meant with "That's just the woman in me baby" after talking about shoes that don't shine and bent legs....

 

Anyway, I know what you mean. There are a lot of "non ballads" which are awesome!!!

saludos

Edited September 12, 2008 at 10:12 PM by grobandion

[Shaun]

Celine has been threatening to change her image since her return in 2002 but as some of you have said she has slowly slid backwards into her 90's comfort zone of years old ballads. Who is to blame for this is questionable but Celine certainly keeps making the right noises about wanting to diversify so is it Sony we should be looking at?

 

On her return she released "A New Day Has Come" and "I'm Alive", both quite different styles for Celine and both generally quite successful around the world. The platform was there for Celine to breakaway from her traditional ballads but the pattern was broken with the release of "Goodbye's The Saddest Word" which flopped everywhere. Once again though it looked like we were on the right track with the cover of "I Drove All Night" but this was quickly followed by the release of "Have You Ever Been In Love" when in reality it probably should've been something like "Reveal." Skipping the next few albums as, let's face it, "Miracle" and "Live In Vegas" were irrelevant, we get to "Taking Chances" and once more it looks like Celine is going to follow a new path but all too quickly the album is forgotten about and we're back to trhe "best of ballad album."

 

Dont get me wrong, we all like Celine's ballads - it's why most of us became fans - but it's just so frustrating to continue to see signs of her branching out into new directions but then to continously see her record company abandon all support of an album at the first sign things aren't going well. Opportunities continues to be lost, and for Sony it appears the solution is for Celine to keep releasing new albums every 12 months.

[celbabs]

Celine has been threatening to change her image since her return in 2002 but as some of you have said she has slowly slid backwards into her 90's comfort zone of years old ballads. Who is to blame for this is questionable but Celine certainly keeps making the right noises about wanting to diversify so is it Sony we should be looking at?

 

On her return she released "A New Day Has Come" and "I'm Alive", both quite different styles for Celine and both generally quite successful around the world. The platform was there for Celine to breakaway from her traditional ballads but the pattern was broken with the release of "Goodbye's The Saddest Word" which flopped everywhere. Once again though it looked like we were on the right track with the cover of "I Drove All Night" but this was quickly followed by the release of "Have You Ever Been In Love" when in reality it probably should've been something like "Reveal." Skipping the next few albums as, let's face it, "Miracle" and "Live In Vegas" were irrelevant, we get to "Taking Chances" and once more it looks like Celine is going to follow a new path but all too quickly the album is forgotten about and we're back to trhe "best of ballad album."

 

Dont get me wrong, we all like Celine's ballads - it's why most of us became fans - but it's just so frustrating to continue to see signs of her branching out into new directions but then to continously see her record company abandon all support of an album at the first sign things aren't going well. Opportunities continues to be lost, and for Sony it appears the solution is for Celine to keep releasing new albums every 12 months.

 

 

"she" didn't release anything. She sings the songs and then she's done. The studio, her management - they release songs. She doesn't. It has nothing to do with her.

[Shaun]

Celine has been threatening to change her image since her return in 2002 but as some of you have said she has slowly slid backwards into her 90's comfort zone of years old ballads. Who is to blame for this is questionable but Celine certainly keeps making the right noises about wanting to diversify so is it Sony we should be looking at?

 

On her return she released "A New Day Has Come" and "I'm Alive", both quite different styles for Celine and both generally quite successful around the world. The platform was there for Celine to breakaway from her traditional ballads but the pattern was broken with the release of "Goodbye's The Saddest Word" which flopped everywhere. Once again though it looked like we were on the right track with the cover of "I Drove All Night" but this was quickly followed by the release of "Have You Ever Been In Love" when in reality it probably should've been something like "Reveal." Skipping the next few albums as, let's face it, "Miracle" and "Live In Vegas" were irrelevant, we get to "Taking Chances" and once more it looks like Celine is going to follow a new path but all too quickly the album is forgotten about and we're back to trhe "best of ballad album."

 

Dont get me wrong, we all like Celine's ballads - it's why most of us became fans - but it's just so frustrating to continue to see signs of her branching out into new directions but then to continously see her record company abandon all support of an album at the first sign things aren't going well. Opportunities continues to be lost, and for Sony it appears the solution is for Celine to keep releasing new albums every 12 months.

 

 

"she" didn't release anything. She sings the songs and then she's done. The studio, her management - they release songs. She doesn't. It has nothing to do with her.

 

Oh sorry, there was me thinking it actually WAS Celine who released the records!!! Did I mention I also believe she personally delivers all of her albums to record stores worldwide!!!???!!

 

Of course I know it's Sony who release the songs, it was a figure of speech.

[stevo]

Now, now, let's not get tetchy with one another lol. It is frustrating- like the Will I Am thing- hundreds of thousands of youtube views and general good comments...perfect chance to release EOM with a twist and show the world tha Celine can be R n B if she wants- or at least that she's interested in it. But no. just a mimed version and some dodgy dancing. I really do blame Rene and Sony- I think he has a bigger control and persuasion on Celine than we realise.

 

I do get angry cos she has a potential that just isn't being used yet...but Ballads made her who she is-we also have to remember that she has struggled recently to remain relevant. She will never be able to compete with Rihanna, Beyonce, not even Mariah in her place as an R n B hip hop artist- so maybe the way forward is more huge, bombastic, rock ballads with the odd dance diva number thrown in. Because when people all over the world think of her, they think amazing, talented, beautiful voice- why would they abandon and sacrifice that? i dunno

[Lymon]

She will never be able to compete with Rihanna, Beyonce, not even Mariah in her place as an R n B hip hop artist

 

I don't think i'd want her to be like a carbon copy of Rihanna, Beyonce or Mariah. I think she should do some more R&B songs and dabble in it a bit, but I would never want it to be her image. Eyes On Me with will.i.am would've been amazing to release, as the reaction from viewers on YouTube was really positive, but Sony and Rene screwed that one up big time.

 

so maybe the way forward is more huge, bombastic, rock ballads with the odd dance diva number thrown in. Because when people all over the world think of her, they think amazing, talented, beautiful voice- why would they abandon and sacrifice that? i dunno

 

Rock is defanitly the way she should keep going. Rock is most defanitly her best genre, and songs like Alone, Suprise Suprise, This Time, Can't Fight The Feelin', and Fade Away perfectly showcase her amazing rocker skills. I think she should start doing more head bangin', fun rock songs like CFTF and FA, and big rock ballads like Alone and This Time. I'd love for her to do some Bon Jovi-ish stuff like You Give Love A Bad Name and Livin' On A Prayer.

Edited September 12, 2008 at 11:06 PM by Lymon

[stevo]

Like this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy8EeiMLDro Edited September 12, 2008 at 11:08 PM by stevo

[Shaun]

Yeah Stevo the Will I Am example is the most glaring recent example of mismanagement by Sony / Rene. Mariah / Beyonce etc would've done whatever it took to get Will I Am's record label on board with the project and got the single out there pretty quickly. With Celine and Sony we got what if's and maybes before all the rumours about a planned single eventually faded away, just like the "Taking Chances" album. Edited September 12, 2008 at 11:13 PM by Shaun

[Alex_Incognito]

The "Eyes On Me (Will.I.Am Remix) and the "A Cause (Remix)" go in the same bin:

Rejects with excellent potential.

[changepas39]

some of you all make me sick. why do you all call yourself celine fans if you won't support her? i just think its sad how much celine is being downed on here. i'm proud of some to say how busy and over worked celine is and we should be happy with as much as she does for all of us. i think celine would cry if she read this so called celine dion forum. Edited September 13, 2008 at 12:02 AM by changepas39

[Lymon]

some of you all make me sick. why do you all call yourself celine fans if you won't support her? i just think its sad how much celine is being downed on here. i'm proud of some to say how busy and over worked celine is and we should be happy with as much as she does for all of us. i think celine would cry if she read this so called celine dion forum.

 

Just because we are devoted fans, we have to squeal with delight about every single thing she does and buy 500 things of everything with her name on it? Most of the fustration here is directed towards Sony, her record company that isn't doing it's job properly. And yes, I am dissapointed with Celine somewhat in some things, but i'm still a devoted fan and I love her. I actually wish she could read some of the posts on this forum, because she thinks the fans love everything she's doing, but she needs to know that we want her to take the chances she wants to, sing more new songs live, cut out old hits, etc. And honestly, I think it's pretty immature that you would question someone's status as a fan because of some dissapointment they have with her career. If we were that disgusted by it, why would we still be on this forum?

 

"Busy"? Yes, she's busy, but she had a break before the North American leg of the tour, and all it takes is about 4 hours or so to shoot a music video(like with the One Heart video). The My Love video didn't even need to be some production, just a nice simple video of Celine singing and her in some different environments. I'm tired of people making these excuses for Celine like "she's busy, give her a break" "she's overworked, she can't do everything" when the things we want are really simple, and Sony has to do most of it, anyway. They're the ones who have to get the single and music video out there, Celine just needs to take a couple hours to shoot the video. It's not that hard.

[SensationalCeline]

I think that Sony doesn't realize that Celine is a true gem and no other singer is like her in the world. Just because she isn't 20 something and trying to make money off of her body like Mariah, Fergie and all these other singers, they don't have the time of day for her. Celine makes her money off pure talent, generosity and kindness. Sony must be drugged half the time because they need to get up off their lazy #ss and support Celine and actually endorse her and give her the promotion that she deserves and needs to get Taking Chances up on the charts.

[Thecolourofmylove]

I just saw TeamCeline's official track listing and they are doing Celine and her fan a huge disservice by omitting new tracks unless they are planning on re-releasing Taking Chances. I cannot believe they aren't including more new songs out of the HUGE library of unreleased english material she has recorded!!! What about 'Is Nothing Sacred' or the other songs she's done. She deserves to have the world hear her different songs!!!

[fred]

I still think it's a bit sad and a big wasted opprtunity to include the If I Can Dream (with Elvis) - we know it was recorded since it was playback, and I would much rather prefer to have that playback track rather than the audio from the broadcasting, the audience sounds o damn fake and ruins the intire song...

 

(and I Surrender!!!)

 

/fred

[SensationalCeline]

Could you list it? I think I asked earlier but I'm not sure.

[celbabs]

some of you all make me sick. why do you all call yourself celine fans if you won't support her? i just think its sad how much celine is being downed on here. i'm proud of some to say how busy and over worked celine is and we should be happy with as much as she does for all of us. i think celine would cry if she read this so called celine dion forum.

 

 

Please. This is the kind of post that makes me sick. Celine Dion does NOTHING for you. She doesn't know you exist. She sings songs so that she can MAKE MONEY. That's all there is to it. At the end of the day, she has her husband and her children. The record company has all these poor sad fans who think that Celine knows who they are and cares about them and they buy any poor little sad pathetic article they put out there. Perfume, book, recycled Cd. Celine wouldn't cry if she saw these posts. She doesn't care.

[Thecolourofmylove]

Dont get me wrong, I support Celine 1,000%, its the idiots who choose the songs and Sony I have a problem with.

[Javito]

and I agree with Gonzillio.... Céline was fresh, new when she came back in 2002. But slowly (and mainly because of AND) she went back to the 'old' 90-ies Céline. that has nothing to do with the amounts of albums she released, because frankly, those albums were neglected from day 1, well ok not day 1, but day 10 they already forgot a new album was out. But I don't care if it takes Céline 1 week, 1 year or 1 day to record an album, it's what's next that counts! if the album isn't supported, then it's a bloody shame! This new complilation is just another proove céline is 'a ballad' singer, and untill she get the balls to perform Sorry for love, Naked, Reveal, Contre Nature, You and I, à CauseThis Time etc on stage, then that won't change

 

 

but who or what is keeping her from being that totally different singer then the 'ballad' singer?! She said herself she doesnt want to sing ballads all her life, so why does she? Who is responsible for that?

 

And who is responsible to be singing BYLM for the #1.527 time on Oprah Winfrey show this week with that girl? What will people from radios, young and adults think? Again THAT song? Excuse me? is Céline Dion AGAIN with that song? Toc toc, am I in 1996, 1999, 2003 or 2009? Has she something else to sing? Ah it seems its all the same no matter what year it is!

 

 

céline also said you can't please everyone

 

nothing is wrong with ballads, I am also a sucker for ballads, but céline has recorded so many wonder diverse songs, that it is a shame that she always is promoted as a ballad singer. and 95% of the tracklist of this album prooves that once again

 

 

What's so wrong about ballads and being a ballad singer???

 

I LOVE ballads, those were what drew me near Celine, and kept me by her side as a loyal fan

I mean, I'm with her if she decides to try different ways, but if I recall my "Top 20" Celine songs, there are 90% ballads in there, for sure

There are some songs in TC like "That's just the woman in me" that I never play. I skip it all the time

I like her doing some "Fade away" now and then...but the ballads are what I want

 

Just to let you know some of us (the fans) LOVE the ballads

 

saludos

 

There's nothing wrong with them, but like Davey said, Celine is constantly promoted as a "ballad" singer, and that's ultimatly hurting her. What happened to "taking chances"? "The best is yet to come?" With what, a crappy compliation(that was supposed to be filled with "fan favorites and rare gems" but it's really "the singles compliation", as someone put it) and a tour that is basically All The Way mixed with some covers and a few shortened TC songs? The tour isn't bad, but it's certainly not going to make people rethink her image. I, personally, am sick of Celine being marketed as this woman who sings only ballads. With this, people will keep thinking she's only the "My Heart Will Go On Sappy Ballad Lady", when we, as her fans, know that she really is a diverse singer. It really is fustrating to watch this happen to her and know you can't do anything.

 

Again, I think her ballads are wonderful, her 90's stuff is wonderful, and I love her recent ballads like the stuff on D'elles and A World To Believe In from TC, but it's time to move on from the 90's image, and it's time for her and Sony to stop living in the past. How much more can they milk the 90's cash cow? It's time for her to revamp her public image into a diverse singer, go further into the new territories, and for her and Sony to get with the program.

 

Thank you very much for understanding my thoughts . I'm glad there's people here who doesn't like to compliment everything that Sony BMG and René are doing for Céline

[Javito]

Celine has been threatening to change her image since her return in 2002 but as some of you have said she has slowly slid backwards into her 90's comfort zone of years old ballads. Who is to blame for this is questionable but Celine certainly keeps making the right noises about wanting to diversify so is it Sony we should be looking at?

 

On her return she released "A New Day Has Come" and "I'm Alive", both quite different styles for Celine and both generally quite successful around the world. The platform was there for Celine to breakaway from her traditional ballads but the pattern was broken with the release of "Goodbye's The Saddest Word" which flopped everywhere. Once again though it looked like we were on the right track with the cover of "I Drove All Night" but this was quickly followed by the release of "Have You Ever Been In Love" when in reality it probably should've been something like "Reveal." Skipping the next few albums as, let's face it, "Miracle" and "Live In Vegas" were irrelevant, we get to "Taking Chances" and once more it looks like Celine is going to follow a new path but all too quickly the album is forgotten about and we're back to trhe "best of ballad album."

 

Dont get me wrong, we all like Celine's ballads - it's why most of us became fans - but it's just so frustrating to continue to see signs of her branching out into new directions but then to continously see her record company abandon all support of an album at the first sign things aren't going well. Opportunities continues to be lost, and for Sony it appears the solution is for Celine to keep releasing new albums every 12 months.

 

Agree .

 

-ANDHC singles: ANDHC radio remix, I'm Alive and... GTSW! Great, just when the album was selling millions and doing great in radios, they release this disconcerting and SAD song for radios Anyone with a good brain would have realized that a ballad, slow and sad song about a girl losing her mother is not the best song to promote on radios

 

-OH singles: IDAN: second try to convince the world that Céline is not only a ballad singer. Good try. Then One Heart, still a good try but barely with promotion. And then?? HYEBIL for third single!! Let's save the poor album sales with a ballad that isn't even a song from this album, but from the past one!

 

I'd better not mention year 2004...

 

... And here it comes 2007, "HER BIG RETURN, THE ALBUM EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT". First single, Taking Chances. Not much airplay (barely heard in many european countries). A nice video that costs a lot of money, but... has anybody seen it on TV?.

Second single? Barely played or radios, totally unknown in Europe, not even released as single, nor a videoclip. A TV performance with a top artist, Will.I.Am is broadcasted. Again, useless. No single, no video. They don't take any chance of that collaboration who could have saved the album promo those days next with the help of the CBS special. And I wonder: hello Céline, René, where is Sony??? Are you walking "ALONE" in this travel? So it seems

 

 

Now, now, let's not get tetchy with one another lol. It is frustrating- like the Will I Am thing- hundreds of thousands of youtube views and general good comments...perfect chance to release EOM with a twist and show the world tha Celine can be R n B if she wants- or at least that she's interested in it. But no. just a mimed version and some dodgy dancing. I really do blame Rene and Sony- I think he has a bigger control and persuasion on Celine than we realise.

 

I do get angry cos she has a potential that just isn't being used yet...but Ballads made her who she is-we also have to remember that she has struggled recently to remain relevant. She will never be able to compete with Rihanna, Beyonce, not even Mariah in her place as an R n B hip hop artist- so maybe the way forward is more huge, bombastic, rock ballads with the odd dance diva number thrown in. Because when people all over the world think of her, they think amazing, talented, beautiful voice- why would they abandon and sacrifice that? i dunno

 

That's all I want to say. She has a potential that isn't being used, but she knows she has it. About ballads, the question is very simple: Do ballads and covers still work for Céline Dion today? Or is the machine washed up and need some fresh oil? Does she really need to keep singing BYLM and MHWO or can the girl move on to another different thing? You should read Chuck Taylor's comments when Sony/Céline/whoever chose Taking Chances and Alone as singles. And he's a very big fan of Céline, but he also knows what he's talking about

 

And My Love as the single for this Essential collection? Its great ballad, no question about it, and I like it probably as the best song on TC. But is the right song to promote now? Again a ballad? Lets see how many TV channels put the videoclip and how many radios airplay this song...

 

Rock is defanitly the way she should keep going. Rock is most defanitly her best genre, and songs like Alone, Suprise Suprise, This Time, Can't Fight The Feelin', and Fade Away perfectly showcase her amazing rocker skills. I think she should start doing more head bangin', fun rock songs like CFTF and FA, and big rock ballads like Alone and This Time. I'd love for her to do some Bon Jovi-ish stuff like You Give Love A Bad Name and Livin' On A Prayer.

 

The problem is that she already has the songs. They're waiting for her to be sung and exploited-just the same she has done for TPOL and BYLM. She wouldn't really have to record more of those songs. She has a great album called Unison with great rock songs waiting to be presented live, but she doesn't turns her look back at them

 

She has the good material, she has the right songs, but what is she doing? She can sing some of them once, twice, and then, bye bye. We will never know about them (and that's in the better cases, many of those songs haven't ever been sung one time). And instead of offering those new catchy songs, she turns back to the start, to what? To the same songs, over and over again. And this repeats x100 since her 2002 come back. She wants, but she finally doesn't do.

 

 

The "Eyes On Me (Will.I.Am Remix) and the "A Cause (Remix)" go in the same bin:

Rejects with excellent potential.

 

Sony BMG prefers to milk the same cow since 1998, no matter how many great songs she is including in her new albums. That's all what annoys me. But the girl can take her own decissions, can't she?. She just need someone who tells her how things have changed since 1998, but that person is not her husband René They're both blind in music showbusiness today, or they don't really care about all this (and thats very sad).

 

some of you all make me sick. why do you all call yourself celine fans if you won't support her? i just think its sad how much celine is being downed on here. i'm proud of some to say how busy and over worked celine is and we should be happy with as much as she does for all of us. i think celine would cry if she read this so called celine dion forum.

 

Just because we are devoted fans, we have to squeal with delight about every single thing she does and buy 500 things of everything with her name on it? Most of the fustration here is directed towards Sony, her record company that isn't doing it's job properly. And yes, I am dissapointed with Celine somewhat in some things, but i'm still a devoted fan and I love her. I actually wish she could read some of the posts on this forum, because she thinks the fans love everything she's doing, but she needs to know that we want her to take the chances she wants to, sing more new songs live, cut out old hits, etc. And honestly, I think it's pretty immature that you would question someone's status as a fan because of some dissapointment they have with her career. If we were that disgusted by it, why would we still be on this forum?

 

"Busy"? Yes, she's busy, but she had a break before the North American leg of the tour, and all it takes is about 4 hours or so to shoot a music video(like with the One Heart video). The My Love video didn't even need to be some production, just a nice simple video of Celine singing and her in some different environments. I'm tired of people making these excuses for Celine like "she's busy, give her a break" "she's overworked, she can't do everything" when the things we want are really simple, and Sony has to do most of it, anyway. They're the ones who have to get the single and music video out there, Celine just needs to take a couple hours to shoot the video. It's not that hard.

 

TOTALLY AGREE. Couldn't have said it better :clap1:

 

Madonna also has 2 children. She's probably a busy woman too. But she has always the best releases out there. I don't know if she's behind every thing that is released with her name, but I'm sure she has a good team who cares about what she does, and give their best to put her at the top. Don't ask me where are those guys in Céline's Sony BMG team .

 

 

some of you all make me sick. why do you all call yourself celine fans if you won't support her? i just think its sad how much celine is being downed on here. i'm proud of some to say how busy and over worked celine is and we should be happy with as much as she does for all of us. i think celine would cry if she read this so called celine dion forum.

 

 

Please. This is the kind of post that makes me sick. Celine Dion does NOTHING for you. She doesn't know you exist. She sings songs so that she can MAKE MONEY. That's all there is to it. At the end of the day, she has her husband and her children. The record company has all these poor sad fans who think that Celine knows who they are and cares about them and they buy any poor little sad pathetic article they put out there. Perfume, book, recycled Cd. Celine wouldn't cry if she saw these posts. She doesn't care.

 

It wouldn't have to be that harsh, but its also true. But Céline is a great person too, probably the only singer of her time that cares that much about her fans

 

Is not Céline who should cry about the situation, but her recording company. They're losing millions with the woman they have -still- with her. They could have done brilliant things with her music but they just moved to other business. I'll never understand why, but I'll just say its not fair. Not fair to herself first, and not fair to us, her fans

Edited September 13, 2008 at 02:04 AM by Gonzalillo

[Lymon]

Rock is defanitly the way she should keep going. Rock is most defanitly her best genre, and songs like Alone, Suprise Suprise, This Time, Can't Fight The Feelin', and Fade Away perfectly showcase her amazing rocker skills. I think she should start doing more head bangin', fun rock songs like CFTF and FA, and big rock ballads like Alone and This Time. I'd love for her to do some Bon Jovi-ish stuff like You Give Love A Bad Name and Livin' On A Prayer.

 

The problem is that she already has the songs. They're waiting for her to be sung and exploited-just the same she has done for TPOL and BYLM. She wouldn't really have to record more of those songs. She has a great album called Unison with great rock songs waiting to be presented live, but she doesn't turns her look back at them

 

She has the good material, she has the right songs, but what is she doing? She can sing some of them once, twice, and then, bye bye. We will never know about them (and that's in the better cases, many of those songs haven't ever been sung one time). And instead of offering those new catchy songs, she turns back to the start, to what? To the same songs, over and over again. And this repeats x100 since her 2002 come back. She wants, but she finally doesn't do.

 

Oh, she defanitly should sing more songs from stuff like Unison, but I ment for her future albums. She should start doing more new material in the rock genre and promote that rather than promoting her same old hits. It's sad that she basically neglects her old catelogue. I'd love to hear songs like Where Does My Heart Beat Now(which she said she stopped believing in a long time ago and that it got old, but ironically it would be a refreshing chance now), If Love Is Out Of The Question, (If There Was) Any Other Way, Love By Another Name, etc. And also songs from the Celine Dion CD. I love that one, and all she ever sings from it is freaking Love Can Move Mountains. I would die to hear Halfway to Heaven live.

 

some of you all make me sick. why do you all call yourself celine fans if you won't support her? i just think its sad how much celine is being downed on here. i'm proud of some to say how busy and over worked celine is and we should be happy with as much as she does for all of us. i think celine would cry if she read this so called celine dion forum.

 

Just because we are devoted fans, we have to squeal with delight about every single thing she does and buy 500 things of everything with her name on it? Most of the fustration here is directed towards Sony, her record company that isn't doing it's job properly. And yes, I am dissapointed with Celine somewhat in some things, but i'm still a devoted fan and I love her. I actually wish she could read some of the posts on this forum, because she thinks the fans love everything she's doing, but she needs to know that we want her to take the chances she wants to, sing more new songs live, cut out old hits, etc. And honestly, I think it's pretty immature that you would question someone's status as a fan because of some dissapointment they have with her career. If we were that disgusted by it, why would we still be on this forum?

 

"Busy"? Yes, she's busy, but she had a break before the North American leg of the tour, and all it takes is about 4 hours or so to shoot a music video(like with the One Heart video). The My Love video didn't even need to be some production, just a nice simple video of Celine singing and her in some different environments. I'm tired of people making these excuses for Celine like "she's busy, give her a break" "she's overworked, she can't do everything" when the things we want are really simple, and Sony has to do most of it, anyway. They're the ones who have to get the single and music video out there, Celine just needs to take a couple hours to shoot the video. It's not that hard.

 

TOTALLY AGREE. Couldn't have said it better :clap1:

 

Madonna also has 2 children. She's probably a busy woman too. But she has always the best releases out there. I don't know if she's behind every thing that is released with her name, but I'm sure she has a good team who cares about what she does, and give their best to put her at the top. Don't ask me where are those guys in Céline's Sony BMG team .

 

I don't get that, either. People like Madonna, with a family, are still able to release radio friendly singles with a decent music video for each one. Even Britney Spears, last year's trainwreck of the year, had music videos for each of her 3 singles(well, one was animated, but that's actually a pretty cool idea). So why does Celine only have one real single for Taking Chances, and two "sort of" singles with crappy live videos? All I can think of is laziness and just not caring, which is pretty unfortunate. She has the potential, as Alex said, to still be huge as she once was, and she could be huge with this new rock image, but she, Sony, and Rene don't seem to care.

[celbabs]

why would any of them care? they're making BILLIONS of dollars annually - we buy every crappy release that's put out and lick it up with relish

[Myheartwillgoon-91]

Taking Chanes sold over 3 Million copies worldwide with only 1 single. What happens if she released "Alone" & "Eyes On Me" with a proper Music Video and a full promotion. The album will be sold like 6-8 million. If they released Eyes On Me (Feat. Will.i.am), the album will be sold like 8-10 million copies, it will be successful if they release it.

[Nmj]

but it wont happen

[celinefanonline]

mmm i think we should create another topic for this... cause now it's not about the my love album at all......

[scorp82]

As much as I understand and respect the various points of view presented here...

 

I really do think Celine has outdone herself. As we know, she was slated to perform in Las Vegas for only 3 years and then her contract was extended until the end of 2007. I do not think anyone expected her to record a French and English album (D'Elles & Taking Chances) during that time period. Most artists if performing in Las Vegas for 4.5 years would not have bothered recording new albums. In fact, most singers would not even consider undertaking such a long contract.

 

Even then, after performing for such a long time, most artists would go into seclusion and take a long vacation. Instead, Celine chose to do a world tour. She has said she wanted to give those fans who did not go to Vegas the opportunity to see her live... Seems like a win-win situation for the fans and for Celine.

 

But let us remember something... Celine no longer has to prove anyone anything with more number one singles and videos. Celine has now reached legend status. Most legendary artists will release immensely successful albums, but may not have number one singles (ie, Barbra Streisand).

 

Celine has achieved a colossal career... Her career showcases a trajectory that most artists can only dream about. She keeps getting better and better!

 

My questions are...

 

So, what difference does it make that she no longer has a number one single? What difference does it make that she no longer makes videos?

 

Has she not exceeded all expectations regarding A New Day... in Vegas? Has not she not recorded great albums, past and present? Has she not surpassed all expectations and is undertaking a massive and successful world tour?

 

Maybe the core of the dilemma does not have anything to do with Sony... Perhaps Celine is not interested in making videos! And that is fine too! If that fact does not bother Celine, why should it bother any of us?

 

So what if Alone is not number one... So what if there is not a video (and not the one extracted from the That's Just the Woman in Me special)...

 

All of us are buying her albums... All of us are listening to her songs and watching her online everyday... All of us are tracking her tour... All of us have seen her live or will be seeing her on tour soon...

 

Are we really terribly missing a video or a song that we could listen to everyday that has not been released as a single?

[bruno_oliveira]

WHAT ARE THE POSSIBILITIES OF PERFORMANCE AT THOSE AWARDS LIKE

AMAS...GRAMMY....

??

 

DO YOU THINK SHE CAN DO IT?

MY LOVE LIVE AT THE GRAMMYS?

[venezia7]

Are they seriously only releasing this in Europ and North America!!?? what about Australia and everywhere else?

[Céline's Blues]

WHAT ARE THE POSSIBILITIES OF PERFORMANCE AT THOSE AWARDS LIKE

AMAS...GRAMMY....

??

 

DO YOU THINK SHE CAN DO IT?

MY LOVE LIVE AT THE GRAMMYS?

I think there is a big possibility that she will sing My Love the most acoustique version at the MTV VMAs this fall.

[I Surrender]

I don't think she needs to worry about Queen (no Freddie Mercury, No queen) nor Anastacia (who is that woman???)

The only tough competition is P!NK...she's great and her albums sell well..she's hot

 

Celine did a duet with her at Divas Las Vegas singing "You shook me all night long". She isnt big in the US at all but her new album

will be released in the US early 2009. According to the critics her best album yet.

But who cares who releases what. Its all a matter of personal taste anyways. The people that like Celine's music will buy the cd and the

people who dont like her music, wont. Simple as that.

[Lymon]

I really do think Celine has outdone herself. As we know, she was slated to perform in Las Vegas for only 3 years and then her contract was extended until the end of 2007. I do not think anyone expected her to record a French and English album (D'Elles & Taking Chances) during that time period. Most artists if performing in Las Vegas for 4.5 years would not have bothered recording new albums. In fact, most singers would not even consider undertaking such a long contract.

 

Even then, after performing for such a long time, most artists would go into seclusion and take a long vacation. Instead, Celine chose to do a world tour. She has said she wanted to give those fans who did not go to Vegas the opportunity to see her live... Seems like a win-win situation for the fans and for Celine.

 

Nobody asked her to do this huge world tour. If I may speak honestly, I think it was a mistake going on a huge world tour right after 5 gruesome years in Vegas. Is the tour nice? Sure, but at what expense for Celine? I'd rather have more promotion done on her singles and albums rather than her just do a huge tour and totally forget about her albums and constantly go back to her 90's comfort zone.

 

But let us remember something... Celine no longer has to prove anyone anything with more number one singles and videos. Celine has now reached legend status. Most legendary artists will release immensely successful albums, but may not have number one singles (ie, Barbra Streisand).

 

See, that's the thing that really annoys me. She still has a lot to prove. She has to prove to the general public, who think she's nothing more than the My Heart Will Go On lady, that she really is a diverse singer. Every single artist has to prove themselves every single day of their lives. After some big 90's success, she can't go "Oh, well now just because i'm big, I can just not give a crap about promoting myself". What about her fans who want her to be seen well with the general public? It hurts seeing your favorite artist, the person you look up to as a better person, trashed in the media as this sappy ballad woman, all because she won't take the time to take a couple hours to shoot a music video for a good single, or that she won't stop talking about Rene-Charles and "life" for 5 minutes so she can actually talk about the album she's promoting.

 

So, what difference does it make that she no longer has a number one single? What difference does it make that she no longer makes videos?

 

Has she not exceeded all expectations regarding A New Day... in Vegas? Has not she not recorded great albums, past and present? Has she not surpassed all expectations and is undertaking a massive and successful world tour?

 

Chart positions don't matter, but it's not all about that for music videos. Maybe her devoted fans, who have been with her throughout this journey, would like a little extra. Do we not deserve it? Do we have to become her personal servents before her and Sony care about promotion? All it takes is to go on some talk shows, talk about the album and not freaking RC for an hour, sing one of the hot singles from Taking Chances insted of the usual "Old song/Taking Chances and/or Alone", and take a couple hours to shoot a decent music video for that single. Why must her and Sony constantly keep appealing to the casual fan? The casual fans do nothing but buy All The Way(and the new compliation) and they'll maybe buy a ticket to one concert. Why do they keep getting everything?

 

A New Day has nothing to do with her giving a crap about promoting hew new work and taking some time to do a tiny bit extra for the fans. Yes, she's recorded great albums, but she doesn't just have to stop at the recording studio. ALl she does is go in, sing the songs, and then she doesn't care anymore. She'll do the minimal promotion asked of her, but she'll just babble about her family and sing the oldies at these promotional stops. The little extras fans want isn't that hard. Some people act like we're asking the world of her. We're just asking for her to care about the albums she takes the time to sing about.

 

Maybe the core of the dilemma does not have anything to do with Sony... Perhaps Celine is not interested in making videos! And that is fine too! If that fact does not bother Celine, why should it bother any of us?

 

Sometimes I don't think it's just the videos, sometimes I think she just doesn't want to do a lot of things. She doesn't want to take chances, she doesn't want to do videos, she doesn't want to do proper promotion. So what does she want to do? Sing her old hits on a tour that's supposed to be her "taking chances" and performing "new and fresh material" when it's All The Way with some covers and shortened new songs? It's not fine when her fans just want the tiniest bit extra for getting her where she is today. If it wasn't for her devoted fans, she'd probably still be a little known Quebec singer with 5 children. So why is it the world to ask for a decent music video, decent promotion, decent singles, a decent setlist? Isn't that what every other artist does? Why should Celine be exempt because she's had a lot of success in the past? It's time for her to stop living in the past.

 

So what if Alone is not number one... So what if there is not a video (and not the one extracted from the That's Just the Woman in Me special)...

 

All of us are buying her albums... All of us are listening to her songs and watching her online everyday... All of us are tracking her tour... All of us have seen her live or will be seeing her on tour soon...

 

Are we really terribly missing a video or a song that we could listen to everyday that has not been released as a single?

 

It's not about something she desperatly needs to do, it's about doing something a little extra for the people who got her to where she is today. Again, I would've rather had her spend more time doing proper promotion for the album rather than rush herself into a rushed tour that is gonna wear her to the bone by the time it ends.

Edited September 13, 2008 at 01:41 PM by Lymon