"Loved Me Back To Life" Album | FAN Reviews

[gafsa]

Today while in my car in a really hot day i'm listening to the HDYKTMP and Lullaby. It gives me chill. It's so nice and makes me feel peace in a hot dry day when the sun was so cruel.

I'm not hating these songs anymore but i still don't like it in this album.

[Modesta]

I've listened to the album like a million times over and I have to change my opinion about SYS. Definitely not filler, it's fun and different, catchy. Makes me wanna dance.

 

I guess the only song I really don't like and won't be listening is incredibly Incredible I'm probably the only one here who doesn't like it one bit..

[Frozen_Phoenix]

I'm so happy everyone's loving WAAF after everything that's happened. It made me really sad because I thought it was a masterpiece since I heard the original.

 

Please stop generalizing ;-)

 

I didn't like it very much by Adele and though I like the instrumentalisation of Celine's version I don't like her voice with it. I think that Adele's songs do not really fit to Celine. They seem too "heavy". Anyway I still think that Celine doesn't need Adele's songs and should stick to an own style.

[JFin95]

I've changed my opinion about SYS too! I didn't really like it first but then I found myself singing the chorus and I realised that I actually like the song it reminds me about one of Celine's songs but I don't remember which..

[Macaronie]

Nice! Put 'Water and a flame' right after 'Somebody loves somebody' and before 'Breakaway' since they are all break-up songs. I don't like it after 'Thankful'. I had made a similar list yesterday trying to include every song and I had 'Always be your girl' paired with 'Lullaby (Goodnight my angel)' just like you did. And 'How do you keep the music playing' is great after 'Didn't know love'. It's like she found love in one track and tries to keep it alive in the song that follows!

 

I did it purely to the beat/tempo/drum etc

[amelie]

Nice! Put 'Water and a flame' right after 'Somebody loves somebody' and before 'Breakaway' since they are all break-up songs. I don't like it after 'Thankful'. I had made a similar list yesterday trying to include every song and I had 'Always be your girl' paired with 'Lullaby (Goodnight my angel)' just like you did. And 'How do you keep the music playing' is great after 'Didn't know love'. It's like she found love in one track and tries to keep it alive in the song that follows!

 

my simple approach is this, all covers in the end (or leave at seventeen at its place)

 

Loved me back to life

Somebody loves somebody

Incredible

Water and a flame

Breakaway

Save your soul

Didnt know love

Thank you

Thankful

Always be your girl

 

How do you keep the music playing

Lullabye

At seventeen

Overjoyed

Unfinished songs

 

you can play with HDYKTMP, Lullabye, At 17 and always leave Overjoyed and unfinished songs for last

[Christi]

The album will be released today in SOUTH AFRICA!!!!!!!! I did listen to the songs on You tube, but only once, I want to wait for my own copy and then I will give my review.

[Pangloss76]

I just got my copy!! I've listened to the entire album and it's amazing! the only two things I resent is the order of the songs, which could have been better (we truely can tell there's two groups on the record: the single material songs and the rest) and Unfinished songs which sounds really weak compared to all the other pieces. Anyway the whole album is classy and modern, I just love it! Best album in yeaaaarz

[isurrender]

I might be the only one but I'm glad that "At seventeen" did the final cut of the album.

 

I 'm so in love with this song. I can understand that some find it boring but you should listen to it more carefully.

 

I don't think Céline has had such a deep meaningfull song so far ( in english). I know she has been singing it for the last 3 years but really happy to get an official version of it.

 

It's quite "experimental" for her : she never had so much lyrics in a song previously and beside that, it has no chorus ( I mean not a repetive one).

 

Well, I'm the only one loving it. haha

[dj4celine]

Here's my humble take on this album. A lot may change once I listen to it more but this is it for now.

 

Loved Me Back To Life : 9/10

Probably the best album opener since I'm Alive and that is saying a lot considering D'elles is my fav album of hers and I absolutely adore ESNRQ. The Ah-ah-ayes in the beginning and then the sudden drop in music at 0:25s is just superb. Once the verses start, it's magical. I just want to get up and do some sort of a funky break dance and I absolutely suck at dancing but that still won't stop me from doing that. In public. I love it that much. The falsetto towards the end is just superb. At first, when I just had the mp3 of the song, I thought it was the instrumentation but then, after listening to it from the CD and in HQ, I am amazed how wonderfully she's playing with her voice. Love love love!

 

Somebody Loves Somebody : 8/10

Like everyone said, it's very Euro-Pop-ish. The lyrics are really good but her diction is just weird, especially when she sings the refrain - Summmbbaddeeee lurves summbbaddeee The verses are pretty good and her vocals sound powerful. This is a song that needs a proper dance floor or home audio set up with a good subwoofer to pump out the bass. Headphones don't do justice to the song as this songs doesn't have much layers underneath it like, let's say the title track. I started appreciating the song after her live performance more. I think this will be a grower for me. I've been trying to listen to it a lot but I don't seem to connect too much with it. But I think it will change over a few more listens.

 

Incredible : 9/10

One of my absolute favs. I've loved this since the early listen. Heck, even in LQ it sounded so good to me. Sure, the lyrics are pretty repetitive but most RnB songs have that. The piano intro and the ensuing piano backing track reminds me of one of my all-time fav songs

and maybe that is the reason I love it so much. After watching the making of the song, I respect Ne-Yo even more at how humble and genuinely pleased he is to work with Celine. This duet beats even the one he did with Mariah on 'Angel's Cry' which I absolutely adored as well. They described it best when they said this should be sung in the big arenas prior to a big NFL game or the Olympics or something. It is THAT good.

 

Water and a Flame : 5/10

No, Celine, you are NOT Adele so please please do not try to sound like her. Celine doesn't have the dark moody tone in her voice and the forced vocals she's trying to emulate makes me not like this song even more. And then, of course, the Daniel CrappyWeather fiasco. It just set a wrong foot for me from the very beginning. Maybe I'll like this a little more later on, but for now, I tend to listen to it while doing something else and not paying much attention to it.

 

Breakaway : 8/10

Absolutely adore Ivy's version and I still stick to my statement that Ivy's version is better than Celine but that doesn't take away anything from the song, which by itself is an absolute gem. This song is so heartbreakingly beautiful that I think that anyone who went through one can immediately connect to it, no matter how many years have passed since that happened. Definitely, one of Celine's best ballads but I would not put it to the 'I Surrender' level just yet. If she performs this song live, it needs to have the crack in her voice that she does in the last refrain. Other than that, she tends to shout a couple of words, which I do not appreciate. Still, one of her all-time best ballads.

 

Save Your Soul : 9/10 and 10/10

The two ratings are for the two different versions. The one in the CD just doesn't do justice to the song IMO. The rap makes it so damn cool and amazing and modern and hip and funky and chilling.. Well, you get the drift Love the lyrics to this song and her voice sounds so airy and thin without sounding weird like she did on 'I Got Nothin' Left' and it's so fresh to bring her Unison era back with a modern twist. The staccato singing in the 2nd verse is so cool that I think I'll end up speaking like that Then, we have the LP version with the rap and OMFG, what a complete different take on this! I think a few of the peeps here know how much I've been harping about this song and praising it a lot. Well, it was cos of the rap version. It isn't tacky as THLAL and the entire just smoothly flows.

 

Didn't Know Love : 8/10

The Celine Dion we all know and love. Beautiful vocals, lyrics, instrumentation and production. This is one of her better ballads out there but still there is something lacking in it. I don't know what but I don't think I'll be able to listen to this track continuously, maybe on certain occasions like when it is raining and I'm sipping on my tea covered in a blanket. The song otherwise is very soothing and pleasing to listen to. I just didn't feel the longing she tries to sing about in this song. Instead it works better on Breakaway.

 

Thank You : 9/10

This is the modern BYLM. Very fresh and her vocals are beautiful and the resonance in her voice when she says the yoooouuus in 'Thank You' is just chilling. The production is very slick and very RnB-ish that I love. Absolutely my kind of song to show one's gratitude. Even Ne-Yo's background vocals doesn't sound out of place. I think this song could have come out during the ANDHC era as she has the pleasing tone that I heard when she sang 'Prayer' in that album. Love it!

 

Overjoyed : 1/10

I just have no words to describe how out of place this song is. For me, everything is wrong with this song - the birds twittering, the lazy production (or lack of), Stevie's annoying voice (I can't stand his voice with no disrespect to his musical prowess) and Celine trying to "duet" with him. It is almost on the weird level of 'All The Way' but for some odd reason, that one worked while this one just doesn't. This song is as vile as her crappy live performances of LCMM. They both should be locked up in a casket and thrown into the depths of the Pacific. This should have been in the Japanese edition with Open Arms replacing this instead. Period.

 

Thankful : 8/10

I feel like I'm in Church. Yes, this is so gospel-ly and her tone is wonderful to listen to. This song could have been on the LTAL album after 'Why Oh Why' and could be an introduction to 'Love Is On The Way'. So damn similar in the production and vocal level. The bridge is just WOW! The way she plays with the colours of her voice is so good and the echo effect that one gets to hear from a nice headphone/speakers is just ethereal. Although a good song on it's own, not one of my favourites. Probably, it will grow on me with more listens.

 

At Seventeen : 6/10

The song itself is beautiful. Her Grammy Nomination performance was heartfelt and true. This version, unfortunate (for me at least), doesn't work. It seems to be fake and devoid of any emotion like the studio version of 'Dance With My Father'. I picture her sitting on a stool, filing her nails and someone just brings her a mic and asks her to do a quick vocal warm-up. That's it and nothing more. The production barely has changed, which isn't a bad thing but just that her vocals are pretty much devoid of any emotion.

 

Always Be Your Girl : 6/10

I can't just stop finding this song creepy, I don't know why. From her pronunciation of 'buttons on your sleeve' which I hear as 'the bottom on your..' and I go like to her singing 'always be connected baby' and I end up imagining a mother just giving birth to her baby with the umbilical cord still attached. Yeah, I know I can have some weird imaginations but this song just amplifies that. The song itself isn't bad and I'm sure a lot of people will like it, but it's just not for me.

 

Unfinished Songs : 7/10

What a change! This is way better than the soundtrack version we all loathed. The song itself isn't that good but it's not that bad either. The background vocals in the second refrain is nice, too. I think it's the ending that works best and it's very uplifting which is why it is not a bad closure to the standard edition of the album.

 

How Do You Keep The Music Playing : 8/10

Oh, how much this song has changed for me. I didn't like it in the first few listens but then it grew on me. Love her vocals, the piano and the percussions. Her voice sounds so full and deep that I was somewhat transported as if I was listening to TAST album. Very Christmassy sounding and I just wanted to grab a cup of hot chocolate and some muffins and sit on a rug in front of a fireplace. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

 

Lullabye : 6/10

Never liked this song and don't like her rendition of this song. Glad this song is just in the deluxe edition, which I bought only because of the postcards

 

 

Overall : 7/10

Not a bad showing IMO. If it weren't for certain tracks, this album could have probably been her best since post-2000. Love it and totally worth the money spent on it. It's stronger and better than her previous English effort obviously. This is more' edgy' and 'modern' than Taking Chances and is more fluid than that album. The track order isn't perfect but still better than the mess that was LTAL when it came to track sequence. The packaging is nice and the postcards (in the deluxe edition) is a bonus. I hope someday I'll own the LP or maybe buy it as a Christmas present for my dad as he has a record player.

 

 

Damn, this is probably my longest post. Sorry for rambling on and on

[Natashja Singleton]

guys i have the full album !!! i found link on the net and it's 320Kbps , so should i put the link here or what ??

Does it have Open Arms? I bought the album 15 songs on ITunes today (south Africa) but I would love to have Open Arms that will be on the Japan version of "Loved Me Back To Life"

[Hilda]

soooo ive had it on for 2 hours now hahaha its taken a while to get into it but im warming to it now.

 

Its definitely an album of two halfs but at the same time its quite cohesive sounding, i think thats to do with that on the more modern songs she still uses the same techniques to sing them and the production wraps it all up.

 

Its actually taken me a while to get used to her new vocal sound....i never thought id say that...initially i wasnt impressed with her notably more nasal sound and on some songs quite noticeable forced or 'put on' vocal rasps....im not buying it mainly on water and flame. and i dont believe what shes singing, but at least shes trying it?

 

 

quick whip through...

 

 

 

 

Loved me back to life: 9/10 for the initial burst of brilliance it gave me...obviously its lost momentum now tho as ive heard it a gazilion times but one of the albums jewls. i dread to think of this album without those songs that had yet not been received.

 

incredible - is not incredible haha, ill take it or leave it. and celine gets out her signiture ehhhhayyyyeeeyyyyahhhh vocal slide which i dont think ive heard since the 90s haha. (in fact i think she gets it out twice on this album) 6/10

 

somebody loves somebody - 10/10 hands down favourite

 

water and a flame - kinda hate it . shes trying to be adele. and its false and i can see straight through it.

 

Breakaway - very good 7/10 very set fire to the rain sounding - hate the bit in the middle where she forces her voice to sound croaky.

 

save your soul - 7/10 its grown on me i wish she was less nasal here

 

didnt know love - start of this is soooo beautiful and promising then the chorus is just like what? bit of a different song and again theres the forced croak. you dont need the croak to be authentic celine!!! 6/5

 

thankyou - bit 'daytime' haha 4/10 verses far outweigh the chorus

 

thankful - so similar in name so different in quality - this is one of the stars of the album. 9/10 i believe her here...the emotions real

 

at seventeen - still beautiful she suits this song and does a great job. 7/10 not one of my persnoal faves tho

 

always be your girl - meh 3/10

 

unfinished songs is a lot better but still awful hahaha 1/10

 

 

gonna enjoy letting this album grow all over me now...theres just enough good songs on this album to carry it

Edited November 4, 2013 at 03:54 PM by Hilda

[LukeD]

 

Always Be Your Girl : 6/10

I can't just stop finding this song creepy, I don't know why. From her pronunciation of 'buttons on your sleeve' which I hear as 'the bottom on your..' and I go like to her singing 'always be connected baby' and I end up imagining a mother just giving birth to her baby with the umbilical cord still attached. Yeah, I know I can have some weird imaginations but this song just amplifies that.

DEAD! I hope you didn't ruin the song for me. The image your described is so live!

[mebe]

I'm listening to the album right now for the first time!!!!!!

[mebe]

oh my god Breakaway and Save Your Soul!!! Love them!!

[mebe]

Pleasantly surprised by Unfinished songs!!!

[Cuquito]

Totally in love... Once again

[littleames]

I can't pick a favorite. They are all so different and I love them all for different reasons

 

Always Be Your Girl makes me want to get pregnant though...I hope I have a boy! It's so beautiful!

[mebe]

I just finished listening to the album and the song I wanted to listen to again right after was Unfinished Songs! I'm gonna go to bed with this melody in my head...Good night!

I'll write more tomorrow about the album!

[Cuquito]

LMBTL = Multiple Orgasms

[J081113]

I'm glad that this album so far is less of the power ballad stuff that some people hate..............just great music. I'm only on breakway now awesome.

[J081113]

After first listen: 4/5 stars..............bc a few songs are softer and less edger than TC but her vocals sound great! I think the album going together well..........thank you has to grow me....Same with Always be your girl........... At 17 better in Vegas (those who go to Vegas are in for treat it's better live) 10 out of the 13 are upbeat.....I like the album. Goodnight Edited November 5, 2013 at 07:57 AM by J081113

[Cuquito]

I wasn't expecting a dance album because is NOT Celine's style. I'm extremely happy with the new, fresh, modern sounds and the amazing lyrics. I'm not skipping any song. This is my favorite album no doubt!

[J081113]

Pleasantly surprised by Unfinished songs!!!

 

Same here better than the verison on YOutube...

[manolo19]

love the album but I wanted soooo bad Mr.Paganini and climb every mountain , I would trade them for unfinished songs and lullabye

[chawatak]

Anybody who's got the album please go to review in Amazon too.

 

http://www.amazon.co...f=zg_bs_music_5

 

Thank you.

[Your_Su_Phu]

This album is good. That is it. It is just good. Not brilliant, not excellent. Just good. Her albums in the last decade were a disappointment and though this one is better than taking chances, it's not better by much. It's like she has lost all guidance when it comes to her proven vocal talents. It's almost disrespectful that she used to give it her all and now that we have become fans and spent the money that she sounds like she doesn't care as much. And, she may care but the lack of good production in the studio makes her songs sound quite similar to one another. Loved me back to life, the single, is a gem. The rest of the songs are mediocre at best. I wouldn't waste time listening to them again. All except for LMBTL. Sorry Celine. I love you..but, you can do much better. And you have let your real fans down, not just the leg humpers who would never dare say anything against you.

 

I hate these self-centered, entitled fan reviews There's having an opinion and then there's being a bratticus

 

If there’s one thing and one thing that Celine knows how to do, it’s to open her mouth and let sounds come out of it. This French-Canadian slice of pure awesomeness has really shown her patriotism by…making a career out of serenading Americans in Las Vegas. In spite of her voice, we love Celine because she exemplifies singing that is almost as good as a mix between Ke$ha, Britney Spears and, yes, the Baha Men.

 

 

 

All the songs on this CD are so good that they can easily qualify to be played in an elevator…any elevator! Loved Me Back to Life is all about how hate is the answer in life, and Somebody Loves Somebody is, again, how hate can conquer all! Both songs are really inspiring, and do you see a pattern yet on this CD, miha? Kay-kay! Another winner is Overjoyed, where Celine rightly sings about the joys of finding out about the power of hatred to heal old wounds. At Seventeen is so good that it could almost belong on Rueben Studdard’s new CD; it’s about how 17 is a magical age…at which to let hatred into your heart, mind and soul, miha.

Folks, please purchase Loved Me Back to Life from Amazon right this second. Don’t hesitate for another minute, ese. If you do, you might even consider going out and looking for a job instead of continuing to receive your Obama food stamps and unemployment benefits, and that would be unpatriotic! Loved Me Back to Life celebrates the hate in life, something we all can use more of, playa.

 

LMAO

Edited November 5, 2013 at 06:37 PM by Your_Su_Phu

[dj4celine]

I can't wait to read the reviews by the people who have got their copies today. Excited!

[LuisMa]

LMBTL = Multiple Orgasms

 

Loved Me Back To Lust

[celinefan1985]

There's really nothing more to add...you guys said it all. Overall, I think this is Celine's best record in a while. I would have preferred 10 songs instead of 13 (I'll let you guess which ones did not overjoy me as I feel they are unfinished and yes I am older than 17). Can't remember the last time that I liked so many songs. Although the only ones that blow my mind are LMBTL (still) and Breakaway. Overall 7.5/10.

 

PS. Although I felt that the original Unfinished Songs sounded dated, the new version sounds disjointed to me. I feel the new production doesn't reflect the original spirit of the song.