A new day .. performance DVD with blond hair

[Thomas]

I had forgot about the giraffes! From the preview of March 19, 2003:

 

 

 

When Celine came back out she found a giraffe waiting for her on the giant screen. She says it's her friend "Hashel". She joked a little with it, saying it's a little too late to be joining the show and the peanuts at the gift shop are really good. It was all really cute and funny.

 

Six more giraffes appear and at the end three pairs make hearts with their necks and one puts a kiss mark on the screen. The giraffes disappeared and she sang "A New Day Has Come."

[Tyler1991]

It still strikes me so odd that she didn't sing andhc or ttwii in the Vegas show. At the time those two songs seemed like the biggest locks on the board im sure

[AdrienneM]

It still strikes me so odd that she didn't sing andhc or ttwii in the Vegas show. At the time those two songs seemed like the biggest locks on the board im sure

 

ANDHC, TTWII, ABM, WDMHBN, IYAMT... all hits she ignored, hell, she ignored like 80% of both the ANDHC and OH albums when putting the show together, instead opting for 11 covers in the original show set list, only 2 of which she had actually recorded

[Tyler1991]

 

 

ANDHC, TTWII, ABM, WDMHBN, IYAMT... all hits she ignored, hell, she ignored like 80% of both the ANDHC and OH albums when putting the show together, instead opting for 11 covers in the original show set list, only 2 of which she had actually recorded

 

Yes. For all the bitching about the courage tour setlist and its covers i can't imagine how ugly it would be if message boards and fb groups existed in 2003.

 

Honestly the LTAL tour was a cover fest too. An acoustic cover medley followed by a lipped bee gees medley makes the courage tour seem AMAZING.

 

Just goes to show ditching her own songs for covers isn't at all recent of a trend.

[AdrienneM]

 

 

Yes. For all the bitching about the courage tour setlist and its covers i can't imagine how ugly it would be if message boards and fb groups existed in 2003.

 

Honestly the LTAL tour was a cover fest too. An acoustic cover medley followed by a lipped bee gees medley makes the courage tour seem AMAZING.

 

Just goes to show ditching her own songs for covers isn't at all recent of a trend.

 

Exactly. At least for Courage it’s mostly confined to a medley, and at least it’s a medley of good songs imo. Some of the songs on the LTAL tour and in AND are painful to listen to so I’m glad I’m not in that space. It still makes me giggle though how the A New Day show is heralded as a masterpiece in all aspects when really... its wasn’t at all

[Tyler1991]

 

 

Exactly. At least for Courage it’s mostly confined to a medley, and at least it’s a medley of good songs imo. Some of the songs on the LTAL tour and in AND are painful to listen to so I’m glad I’m not in that space. It still makes me giggle though how the A New Day show is heralded as a masterpiece in all aspects when really... its wasn’t at all

 

Visually it's still the greatest thing she's done. But setlist, sound, and vocals leave a lot to be desired.

[Céline RO]

It still strikes me so odd that she didn't sing andhc or ttwii in the Vegas show. At the time those two songs seemed like the biggest locks on the board im sure

 

Agreed. At least she added ANDHC after the first year or two and in the gorgeous non-remix version. Odd that at first she didn’t include the title track of the album after which the show was presumably named.

[AdrienneM]

 

 

Visually it's still the greatest thing she's done. But setlist, sound, and vocals leave a lot to be desired.

 

Exactly. Especially vocals. Also the ridiculous amount of lipping, but, to be fair, She was doing 5 shows a week

[Ukrfan]

I agree with most of what Tyler and Adruenne said above, but I have a question: didn't she open the show with ANDHC? Yet you both said she ignored it. Or did she add ANDHC eventually and it was not there since the very beginning?

[Céline RO]

I agree with most of what Tyler and Adruenne said above, but I have a question: didn't she open the show with ANDHC? Yet you both said she ignored it. Or did she add ANDHC eventually and it was not there since the very beginning?

 

I think it was added in 2004.

[SuperLove4Celine]

I agree with most of what Tyler and Adruenne said above, but I have a question: didn't she open the show with ANDHC? Yet you both said she ignored it. Or did she add ANDHC eventually and it was not there since the very beginning?

 

“A New Day...” originally opened with her cover of “Nature Boy.”

[AdrienneM]

I agree with most of what Tyler and Adruenne said above, but I have a question: didn't she open the show with ANDHC? Yet you both said she ignored it. Or did she add ANDHC eventually and it was not there since the very beginning?

It was well over a year and a half until she actually sang it live in the show, November 2004 to be exact

[Ukrfan]

"A New Day..." originally opened with her cover of "Nature Boy."

 

How did I miss that?

 

Nature Boy is a strange opener for me, although I like this song.

[Ukrfan]

Thank you for your responses. It was really strange to have A New Day show without A New Day song

[Chantemoi]

 

 

How did I miss that?

 

Nature Boy is a strange opener for me, although I like this song.

 

Although she’s never come out and said it, I always suspected Céline might be a closet fan of the movie Moulin Rouge. AND debuted a few years after that movie was released and the whole deal always reminded me of that movie : particularly the buzz and excitement of the premiere.

 

In case you haven’t seen it, the plot centers around the rehearsals and premiere of an ambitious, grandiose show called “Spectacular, Spectacular” which has all sorts of never-before-seen kind of special effects and a huge cast of dancers. The movie was part of Baz Luhrmann’s Red Curtain Trilogy and featured songs like “Nature Boy”, TSMGO, Lady Marmalade —all songs Céline has covered since then. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I never heard Céline mention Queen or David Bowie before the Vegas era, so I always wondered if she became a fan of that movie and “rediscovered” those artists (not for the first time), and as a result began delving into their repertoire.

 

Anyway, if she was a fan of the movie, then opening AND with “Nature Boy” would have been an excellent choice to reference the movie, which also begins and ends with David Bowie singing “Nature Boy”

 

[guigafs15]

 

 

ANDHC, TTWII, ABM, WDMHBN, IYAMT... all hits she ignored, hell, she ignored like 80% of both the ANDHC and OH albums when putting the show together, instead opting for 11 covers in the original show set list, only 2 of which she had actually recorded

 

Well, Celine has said herself that people didn't believe that her residency could be successful. I think it's safe to assume that they didn't believe in her repertoire as well. She didn't had much hits.

 

Besides, it might have been a tentative to get nice reviews. Critics always judged pretty hard Celine's songs.

[SuperLove4Celine]

There were so many awesome concepts that never saw the light of day. I have always wondered what song the ladders were meant to be part of in the show.

[woodstock]

How did I miss that?

Indeed.

Listen to the 2004 live album !

[Davey84]

Indeed.

Listen to the 2004 live album !

 

Yeah…. track 1, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 … and just forget the rest ever happened!

 

 

[jpatdeleon09]

 

 

Yeah…. track 1, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 … and just forget the rest ever happened!

 

You don’t like track number 2?

 

I kinda like track number 7. I always copy her singing style of Fever especially the part where her vocals warped in “fever isn’t such a new thing” lol

 

Fevah!

Edited May 26, 2020 at 09:35 AM by jpatdeleon09

[Davey84]

 

 

You don’t like track number 2?

 

I kinda like track number 7. I always copy her singing style of Fever especially the part where her vocals warped in “fever isn’t such a new thing” lol

 

Fevah!

 

No I don't like how they ommited half the medley, it ruins it IMO. They should have included TPOL and TLYM too. And Fever is way too nasal for my liking.

 

I Always find that this disc was too short and thus not captured the soul of the show. IMO they should have also included I Surrender, Seduces Me and Ammore Annascunnuto on it!

[jpatdeleon09]

 

 

No I don't like how they ommited half the medley, it ruins it IMO. They should have included TPOL and TLYM too. And Fever is way too nasal for my liking.

 

I Always find that this disc was too short and thus not captured the soul of the show. IMO they should have also included I Surrender, Seduces Me and Ammore Annascunnuto on it!

 

Yeah! I wish it was a full version. And i really love the ending of that song. I don’t know why they ignore that part.

 

Yup! Fever is nasal but it’s entertaining for me to listen to the way she sang that song. I always sing that while i’m on shower (same kind of singing hahaha)

Edited May 26, 2020 at 09:46 AM by jpatdeleon09

[AdrienneM]

The only two songs I actually listen to off of the album are the live version of Et Je T’aime Encore and Ain’t Gonna Look The Other Way

[Del]

 

 

 

 

Just goes to show ditching her own songs for covers isn't at all recent of a trend.

 

She's made a career out of it. Haha

 

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[Del]

 

Exactly. At least for Courage its mostly confined to a medley, and at least its a medley of good songs imo. Some of the songs on the LTAL tour and in AND are painful to listen to so Im glad Im not in that space. It still makes me giggle though how the A New Day show is heralded as a masterpiece in all aspects when really... its wasnt at all

How interesting. I saw AND 3 times. Once in 2006 and twice in 2007 and for me it's one of the best shows I've ever seen. This is the show that ushered in a new era in Vegas and inspired so many others. To me it's the crown jewel of her career in terms of artistry and ambition.

 

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[jpatdeleon09]

How interesting. I saw AND 3 times. Once in 2006 and twice in 2007 and for me it's one of the best shows I've ever seen. This is the show that ushered in a new era in Vegas and inspired so many others. To me it's the crown jewel of her career in terms of artistry and ambition.

 

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That’s why they need to do it again

 

A New Day Part 2

[idroveallnight]

Anyone remember those 3 birds that flew towards the moon at the beginning of MHWGO? That was one of my favorite visuals of the show in person and they left it out of the DVD

 

Luckily we have a blurry snippet of it from this performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKwtPr86m9U

[AdrienneM]

Jesus her lip synching back then was atrocious..

[joaofilho]

The A new Day era was the worst time for her vocally, it was very nasal, I only watch the DVD for the incredible images, this nasality also came with the DVD Taking Chances.

The songs get sick with this nasal tone, you can't listen for a long time.

[jpatdeleon09]

The A new Day era was the worst time for her vocally, it was very nasal, I only watch the DVD for the incredible images, this nasality also came with the DVD Taking Chances.

The songs get sick with this nasal tone, you can't listen for a long time.

 

It’s better than TCWT DVD