Celine did not sing the Beijing 2008 Olympics theme song

January 19, 2008 at 03:15 PM

It would be cool if Céline won!

January 19, 2008 at 10:43 PM

SO don't get your hope too high. But it's cool she would sing a new song at the Beijing concert.

Well, this is something we should all do indeed, but for me it'll not work! :giggle: It's just part of myself. I hold my expectations too high and then I get disappointed. I really pray that she's the chosen one, but I'd understand perfectly if they chose a chinese singer, after all it's their country!

And it's really cool she's singing a new song... I'm curious to know how it'll sound now! :yes:

January 19, 2008 at 10:45 PM

Ooooo. Let's hope Celine will be there. :w00t:

Cross all your fingers, toes, and limbs! :lol:

January 20, 2008 at 05:38 AM

Hmmmm..... I would prefer a new song and not " A World To Believe In." But if there's none "A World To Believe In" is fine.

Hmmmmm.... I think I would like a new song with a title "Just Believe", the title would sound strong right?

In my own opinion though.

January 20, 2008 at 07:18 AM

Anyone mentioned " A World To Believe In" in this topic earlier? :blink:

January 20, 2008 at 07:53 AM

Hmmmm..... I would prefer a new song and not " A World To Believe In." But if there's none "A World To Believe In" is fine.

Hmmmmm.... I think I would like a new song with a title "Just Believe", the title would sound strong right?

In my own opinion though.

Anyone mentioned " A World To Believe In" in this topic earlier?

:blink: :blink: :blink: :blink:

Exactly...

OMG!

...for once, I'm lost for words at all this randomness, thoughts, and impossible wishes... :mdr: :mdr: :mdr:

Edited January 20, 2008 at 07:55 AM by Love,

January 25, 2008 at 06:35 AM

DION LIMBERS UP FOR BEIJING OLYMPICS
Movie & Entertainment News provided by World Entertainment News Network (www.wenn.com)
2008-01-24 20:32:39 -

CELINE DION has written a song she hopes will be chosen as the official theme of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
The Canadian singer has submitted a song to the board responsible for choosing a track. The winning song will be
revealed on 8 August (08) when the games begin in the Chinese capital.
And, perhaps in a bid to sway judges, Dion is visiting China in April (08) for her first ever concert there.
It won't be the first time the 39-year-old has provided the music of the games - her song The Power of the Dream was
the theme of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

She didn't actually write the song, did she? :confused:

January 25, 2008 at 11:14 AM

No....but that's normal business these days... the more news is taken over, the less of the actual news is correct..

January 26, 2008 at 04:01 PM

Any updates if she will sing the olympis song? How many applicants are left? Is Celine still one of them?

January 28, 2008 at 11:17 AM

Can't you read? It says the winner will be known only on the date it all starts. That is still 7 months away.

February 8, 2008 at 11:07 PM

I would luv to see that

March 6, 2008 at 04:02 PM

i know that we wont find out til august who the performer and what the song will be but is there anyway still to vote for the candidates??

i would so love celine to sing the theme song - it would be the first olympics opening ceremony that i would properly pay attention to coz i usually find them all pomp and circumstance!!

although part of me is wishing that she doesnt get it coz my dream would be for her to open the olympics in london 2012 coz hopefully im gonna be there as i live in london so that would be amazing!

anyway... sorry for the rambling on!!

March 6, 2008 at 05:55 PM

And what is,if she did wrote ba song?That`s not impossible.

P.S.I`m just dreaming

March 6, 2008 at 09:58 PM

Hmmmm..... I would prefer a new song and not " A World To Believe In." But if there's none "A World To Believe In" is fine.
Hmmmmm.... I think I would like a new song with a title "Just Believe", the title would sound strong right?
In my own opinion though.
Anyone mentioned " A World To Believe In" in this topic earlier?
:blink: :blink:
Exactly...
OMG!
...for once, I'm lost for words at all this randomness, thoughts, and impossible wishes... :mdr:

:sofunny:

Can't you read? It says the winner will be known only on the date it all starts. That is still 7 months away.

Nopes, Mathias...he can't read cos he's too busy making Celine the "Biggest Selling Female Artist in Phillipines...errr.. Asia..err.. the World" :shifty: :innocent:

:mdr:

March 6, 2008 at 10:11 PM

I HOPE SHE DOES I VOTED! GO CELINE XO

March 12, 2008 at 01:06 AM

Hmmmm..... I would prefer a new song and not " A World To Believe In." But if there's none "A World To Believe In" is fine.
Hmmmmm.... I think I would like a new song with a title "Just Believe", the title would sound strong right?
In my own opinion though.
Anyone mentioned " A World To Believe In" in this topic earlier?
:blink: :blink:
Exactly...
OMG!
...for once, I'm lost for words at all this randomness, thoughts, and impossible wishes... :mdr:

Can't you read? It says the winner will be known only on the date it all starts. That is still 7 months away.

Nopes, Mathias...he can't read cos he's too busy making Celine the "Biggest Selling Female Artist in Phillipines...errr.. Asia..err.. the World"

am sure we will know before it starts who is singing !!! ...you guys seem quite rude...so be nice to fellow fans

March 12, 2008 at 03:02 AM

i'm still hoping

March 12, 2008 at 03:18 AM

This would be great!

March 12, 2008 at 04:34 AM

hmmm i think that "world to believe in" fits to the olimpic opening...

and that being played during the games on radio can help her sell more cds...

and maybe extend her tour to places like south america (wildest dream)

:drool:

:cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer:

March 12, 2008 at 06:27 AM

I just hope that, chosen or not, the song will be included in the reedition of TCH.

March 20, 2008 at 04:51 PM

Song of love for sporting event
By Chen Jie (China Daily)
Updated: 2008-03-20 07:14

"If God had a singing voice, it would sound a lot like Andrea Bocelli," Celine Dion once said. Fitting then that the great Italian tenor has lent his vocal talents to a composition that may be chosen as the official song of the Beijing Olympics.

Composed by Tan Dun and produced by 14-time Grammy Award winner David Forster, the song One World One Dream was submitted last week to the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad.

Featuring traditional Chinese instruments - the guzheng and erhu - and a world-music-style orchestration and chorus, the song showcases the universal love, friendship and warmth Chinese people bring to the world, Tan said.

Bocelli is joined by rising Chinese star Zhang Liangying, with each of them singing in both Chinese and English.

"For the past eight years, I have been seeking a voice to sing for the Beijing Olympic Games," Tan said.

"The voice had to be both of China and of the world, be warm, full of love and able to last forever.

"David and I planned to have Celine Dion and Bocelli sing the duet, but when he (David) heard Zhang's voice, he said she was the perfect match for Bocelli," he said.

An internationally renowned composer, Tan's musical credits include winning an Oscar for the score for the hit movie Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

Canadian producer Forster said in Beijing yesterday: "This is my first visit to China, but I can already tell why everybody loves this country.

"I always knew my life would not be complete until I had discovered music in Asia and worked in Asia. Tan has given me a great opportunity to achieve that goal," he told China Daily.

"I respect Tan. He is a genius, like Mozart or Beethoven. He is also one of the few people I know who works well on both classical and pop music," he said.

"Tan has the vision, and I believe he knows how to make a piece of music belong to both China and to the world.

"But I have never worked so hard: Tan kept changing things. The finished song is actually the 18th version," Forster said.

The English lyrics were written by Amy Foster and Chinese lyrics by Tan Dun and Jane Huang Jingjie. "Stand next to me, I want to see you in this place. You are everywhere I look, as the light falls around your face. Stay and take my hand. How many moments do we get. All is right in this world of ours and time will go as time must go. Time will do what we both know."

"I hope the song expresses the love between East and West, old and new, God and man, and men and women," Tan said, adding that his inspiration came from the scenes of people celebrating the end of World War II in 1945, in Times Square, New York.

"Strangers were hugging and kissing each other," he said.

"At the opening ceremony, I want there to be that kind of passion and love that we want to share with the people standing next to us, even strangers."

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-03...ent_6551381.htm

"David and I planned to have Celine Dion and Bocelli sing the duet, but when he (David) heard Zhang's voice, he said she was the perfect match for Bocelli," he said.

Why David? Why? I think the is one of the most anticipated submission for the Olympics theme song. Why not ask Celine sing it? They did wanted to invite Celine to sing it before. Is it because she already submitted another song? :unsure:

March 20, 2008 at 06:21 PM

Very strange that David Foster would go with someone other than Celine... Something's going on!! :hmm:

March 20, 2008 at 06:38 PM

BTW, Zhang Liangying(Jane Zhang)'s voice is no where as good as Celine's. And she's a lamb, she sounds more like a worse copy of young Mariah Carey, kinda like Leona Lewis, but more whistle notes like Mariah. I don't think her whistle voice would blend well with Andrea at all.

March 20, 2008 at 07:21 PM

BTW, Zhang Liangying(Jane Zhang)'s voice is no where as good as Celine's. And she's a lamb, she sounds more like a worse copy of young Mariah Carey, kinda like Leona Lewis, but more whistle notes like Mariah. I don't think her whistle voice would blend well with Andrea at all.

I thought the same. Hope David would rethink after listening to the duet demo ^^.

March 20, 2008 at 07:38 PM

I doubt david will rethink after publicly endorsing someone lol

i think the celine reference may have been to give the chinese singer more publicity/name dropping <_<

Edited March 20, 2008 at 07:38 PM by Your_Su_Phu

March 20, 2008 at 07:41 PM

David should be BANNED from this forum!

March 20, 2008 at 07:44 PM

eww besides the whistle notes her voice sounds horrible o_o;;; that's what david thinks fits well with andrea?

im seriouslyi getting over all the hype about whistle registers nowadays. whether it's christina or leona lewis or whatever, it's nice to hear as ornamentation but it gets annoying. at least mariah's whistle in her early career was astounding though it got annoying, but these new imitators don't even come close to that anyway

Edited March 20, 2008 at 07:47 PM by Your_Su_Phu

March 21, 2008 at 09:43 AM

Something wrong...anyway Celine song will win....

March 22, 2008 at 01:59 PM

And now, will Celine still perform the special song in her Beijing April Concert

in order to support the 2008 Summer Olympic Games?

As the news is that the international countries may boycott the Games for prevailing problems

on violation of human rights in China.

This is one of the campaigns boycotting the Games: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0607/4525.html

March 22, 2008 at 02:18 PM

Who cares about the losers boycott it? :giggle: Obviously Celine supports it.

And this is not a political forum, so don't even try to start a debate about human rights in China.

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