"Loved Me Back To Life" - Album | PRESS Reviews

[Koolan]

USA Today (thanks Ashane for the link)

 

http://www.usatoday....review/3291207/

[Ashane]

Thanks Koolan. 3 out of 4 stars is pretty good for a Celine album. USA Today is probably the largest Nationally syndicated printed press, so hopefully it will reach a large audience. However, their press is typically more lenient on Celine albums, so it will be interesting to see what Rolling Stone, Billboard, Blender etc have to say.

[LukeD]

Rolling Stone will slay Celine as usual. They despise her.

[minolli]

Rolling Stone will slay Celine as usual. They despise her.

 

My thought exactly.

[québecflower]

Rolling Stone will slay Celine as usual. They despise her.

 

i,m just curious of what they will invent this time, it will have to be new stocks

[dj4celine]

She's really, really good on this record - there's just no denying it. Her vocals are on point, her sass has caught up with the Jessie J's and Lady Gaga's of today, and she seems more marketable than ever.

 

4/5 stars Female First UK

 

Coutesy: Celine Dion Informatiepunt

Edited October 30, 2013 at 11:54 PM by dj4celine

[sourdumpling]

i,m just curious of what they will invent this time, it will have to be new stocks

i tought they said they are never going to write any review of her album anymore. saw it somewhere, dont know if its true.

Edited October 31, 2013 at 02:11 AM by sourdumpling

[québecflower]

i tought they said they are never going to write any review of her album anymore. saw it somewhere, dont know if its true.

 

sad if true

[sourdumpling]

sad if true

who cares about theirs. we've got hundrds of reviews waiting for us for the next few weeks.

[québecflower]

who cares about theirs. we've got hundrds of reviews waiting for us for the next few weeks.

 

it will be long to read in fact...hope that she will good review, for once

[sourdumpling]

it will be long to read in fact...hope that she will good review, for once

shes getting 2 positive reviews by far.

[marc-02]

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/518864/20131101/celine-dion-loved-back-life-album-review.htm#.UnN_bcuwrqA

[marc-02]

Interesting article.... she finally addresses the Daniel Merriweather issue HERSELF...

 

http://www.winnipegsun.com/2013/11/01/celine-dion-on-her-new-album-competition-and-the-vegas-strip

[marc-02]

http://www.montrealgazette.com/touch/story.html?id=9112846

 

 

On the phone recently with Céline Dion, I told her that, listening to her new album, Loved Me Back To Life, I really had the impression that she was doing her best to make the music sound as up-to-date as possible.

 

On some songs it doesn’t even sound like Céline Dion, I added.

 

The Québécois superstar didn’t miss a beat down the line from a hotel near her Florida home.

 

“Is that a bad thing?” asked the new, more assertive Dion, who never would have challenged a journalist like that back when she was first beginning her English career.

 

No, not at all, I said; au contraire, I find it interesting.

 

“Thank you,” Dion said. “Me too. First of all, the singer and the musicians, we’re here to serve the music the best we can. Every song demands a certain approach and different sounds.”

 

She talks of how she has used the same recipe for 30 years — a recipe that has worked only too well — but it has been six years since her last album in the language of Katy, and she and her handlers were well aware that much had changed on the pop landscape during that time. Even when Taking Chances dropped in ’07, the big ballads that had been Dion’s bread and butter in the ’90s and early ’00s were fading from commercial radio, and in 2013, they virtually no longer exist in the Top 40.

 

It’s all-Euro-dance, all-the-time, with a little hip hop thrown in for good measure. Suffice it to say that you don’t hear a ton of melodramatic, big-voiced tear-jerkers on either Virgin Radio 96 or The Beat. So Dion, husband/manager René Angélil and their advisers realized there was a real need for some serious musical retooling.

 

The result of that rethink, Loved Me Back To Life, is to be released Tuesday.

 

Just check out the leadoff single and title track. It has a hard driving beat, with prominent percussion, leading Billboard magazine to call it “dubstep lite.” The song is co-written by Sia, best-known for co-writing Rihanna’s smash hit Diamonds. OK, Loved Me Back To Life is still at the core of its beating heart a power ballad, but it’s wrapped in a sonic package that’s light years removed from My Heart Will Go On.

 

“I didn’t know what I was going to do,” Dion said. “I didn’t ask Ne-Yo, can you write me a song? Can you sing with me? Hey Sia, by the way, wanna give me one? I didn’t do that. The people I work with told people in the industry I was about to record a new album and if they were interested, they could send songs. Then we started the process of listening to songs. I received a lot of songs and I’m very thankful, because I don’t write my own material. And I was ecstatic when I saw Sia wrote me a song.

 

“Even my son (René-Charles) said — ‘Sia? That can’t be true. Mom, she writes for Rihanna. She can’t write for you. That’s not possible.’ ”

 

For Dion, it was all about finding the right songs. Watching the electronic press kit for Loved Me Back To Life, you can see the pleasure Dion had making this collection. She’s belting out Incredible with R & B singer and songwriter Ne-Yo and is seen working intensely with British producer Eg White, who twirled the knobs for Adele, and with Oklahoma singer-songwriter Audra Mae, who penned two songs for the album.

 

“I know what I feel,” Dion said, of the arduous process of picking just the right tracks to relaunch herself in English. “It’s when it’s doing it, when it’s making me want to dance, to sing, and I can’t wait to go into a recording studio. I know I can do a job with that one and it suits me. And I feel like singing that repertoire now. So it talks to me. Then when I go into the recording studio, that song that spoke to me, it demands a certain approach.”

 

Dion talks of how they focused much more on “drying” the voice, and you can hear that toning down. There are almost none of the chest-thumping histrionics of The Power of Love or All By Myself. “If you dry your voice, there’s no reverb on it, and so when you keep the voice very dry, it pushes the voice forward and you can hear all the details of it, all the colours. So for me that’s a very different approach. And it suits these songs. I think it’s a modern sound and it suits me. They’re very powerful songs. I’m not here to reinvent myself. I’ve been doing this for 30 years. I’m not starting all over again. But even if I can’t reinvent myself, still what I’ve done is what I’ve done. So I have to come with something new.”

 

One of the highlights of the collection is her cover of Janis Ian’s 1975 Grammy-winning hit At Seventeen, a folky ballad that you could think of as a quiet meditative take on the same theme as Nirvana’s grunge classic Smells Like Teen Spirit. This song about teen angst, struck a chord with the singer.

 

“I grew up in this amazing family,” Dion recalled. “When I went to school, I had to wear my brothers’ jeans, my oldest sister’s jackets and the shoes of my cousin. We didn’t have money to have (fashionable clothes). It was a little intimidating for me. I was not feeling my best. I was very skinny. I had teeth problems. I wanted to stay home, to stay with the people who loved me so much for who I was. But I had to be in society. I had to go to school. So it’s not always easy. And what I went through is nothing compared to what a lot of kids have to go through today.”

 

But the 45-year-old woman singing At Seventeen has come so far from those awkward teen years — and not just in terms of fame and fortune. She’s a much more self-assured person, comfortable in her own skin, so different from the shy young woman I met more than 20 years ago just before the launch of her first English album.

 

It’s clear that being a mother is a big part of that transformation. Her twin boys just turned 3, and René-Charles is set to celebrate his 13th birthday in January, which has Dion marvelling at the concept that she will soon be mother to a teenage boy.

 

“We all have to do our best. It’s not written in a book and the parents have to follow the rules. We all have to do what we think is right for our own children. What’s right for me might not be right for you and vice versa. But it’s tough for kids today.”

 

Dion has tailored her concert schedule in Vegas to allow time for her family, and the planned sale of her pricey Florida compound is also designed to let the family spend more time in Vegas. She thinks that will be better for René-Charles, and interestingly enough, given what she said about her high-school days, they have decided to home-school their son.

 

“It started to be difficult for him. He’d start a project and then he’d never be able to finish it with the group (because they were travelling). He never feels he’s part of the group and that emotionally is not healthy at all. So we had to find a non-stress way of learning. So he can be emotionally balanced and be with the family.”

[manolo19]

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/11/01/avril-lavigne-celine-dion-albums-go-toe-to-toe-who-wins

 

Avril vs Celine

 

let the hate reviews begin..

[québecflower]

http://www.torontosu...to-toe-who-wins

 

Avril vs Celine

 

let the hate reviews begin..

 

that one is really harsh

[manolo19]

At least he bashes the two singers.. I'm ready for Rolling Stones doing the same.. She could record the best song ever they will say it sucks

[DionFanAlways]

"more money than God" "Adult contemporary power ballads for your great-aunt."

[Miha]

http://www.torontosu...to-toe-who-wins

 

Avril vs Celine

 

let the hate reviews begin..

 

Honestly can we call this a review???

Makes me spit into this guys face.

[smw]

With the good always comes the bad... There have been scathing reviews for Falling Into You as well. At the end of the day, it's only people's opinions -- whether they think it's brilliant or trash.

 

Let's just enjoy this wave of promotion and Celine's career and not fan the fires of any haters. This is the first English release since 2007!! I think back to where I was in Nov 2007 -- and it's crazy how much time has passed.

[dlh1]

Anyone got this months GayTimes? Apparently her album is mentioned in there. Not sure what the review says though as i don't have a copy.

[chocolatechip15]

Interesting article.... she finally addresses the Daniel Merriweather issue HERSELF...

 

http://www.winnipegs...the-vegas-strip

 

This is a great interview! Very interesting.

 

 

 

Also loved when she was talking about Eg White's microphone:

 

"But instead of using the modern thing (there's) this old sock, this old pantyhose and I'm like, 'Ohhhh.' I wonder how many people have spit in that one?"

[BLM]

Wow!!

http://chucktaylorblog.blogspot.com/2013/11/celine-dion-edison-ballroom-october-29.html

[bilinkew]

Not yet - but will def. buy today and get scanned for you guys - have seen small image of cover on their website and it simply says . . . 'Celine Dion is still amazing!' yeah x URL here http://www.gaytimes.co.uk/

[marc-02]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/11/02/celine-dion-loved-me-back-to-life-interview/3189581/

[québecflower]

Grande admiratrice d’Adele, Céline Dion a eu l’occasion de travailler avec l’un de ses collaborateurs, en la personne d’Eg White. Le Journal s’est entretenu avec le producteur anglais.

Comment cela s’est-il passé avec Céline en studio ?

Elle était très chaleureuse. Ce n’était pas ce que j’avais imaginé, que quelqu’un d’aussi célèbre soit aussi chaleureux et simple qu’elle. Je crois que je vais devoir aller vous visiter au Québec, si vous êtes tous comme ça! Ce n’est définitivement pas comme ça à Londres.

De quelle façon se comportent généralement les autres chanteurs avec qui vous travaillez ?

Je fais vraiment attention à la façon dont je leur demande de faire des choses. C’est du chant très primitif. Parfois, j’entends quelqu’un chanter et je me dis: «oh non, pourquoi fait-il ça?» Mais il n’y a rien que je puisse faire. Je ne peux pas toujours leur dire, car c’est très sentimental, la façon que les gens chantent.

Céline était différente. Souvent, les chanteurs qui vont faire une fausse note vont essayer de régler le problème par eux-mêmes. Céline m’a dit: «non, je veux que tu m’aides, que tu me diriges. On doit trouver ensemble ce qui cloche.» C’est inhabituel que quelqu’un dise ça parce que la plupart des gens n’aiment pas être dirigés.

Est-ce que Céline prenait bien les critiques ?

Oui, et c’est la deuxième chose qui m’a le plus surpris. Je me souviens lui avoir dit: «peut-être si tu essayais de cette façon». Et elle le faisait immédiatement. C’était vraiment incroyable! Parfois, elle reprenait la chanson comme si de rien n’était et en plein milieu, elle se mettait à chanter d’une façon que je n’avais jamais entendu. C’était merveilleux. Ça arrivait de nulle part. Il y avait une transformation complète dans l’énergie. C’était stupéfiant.

Comment Water and a Flame est-elle venue aux oreilles de Céline ?

Il y a environ trois ans, j’ai écrit cette chanson avec Daniel Merriweather. Nous voulions écrire des chansons up tempo. En écoutant Daniel chanter, on s’est dit que ce serait bien d’en faire un duo. J’ai demandé au gérant d’Adele si elle pouvait le faire. Elle a accepté et la chanson s’est retrouvée sur l’album de Daniel.

Je sais que Céline s’est mise à beaucoup écouter Adele il y a deux ans. Quand on a su qu’elle faisait un nouvel album, on a essayé d’entrer en contact avec son équipe. Céline a entendu la chanson et elle a dit qu’elle voulait vraiment la chanter.

Où placeriez-vous Céline parmi tous les artistes avec qui vous avez travaillé ?

C’est une bonne question. Dans cette industrie, c’est remarquable qu’une telle chanteuse veuille recevoir des directives, qu’elle se fasse aider. C’est unique, en fait. C’était la plus grosse différence.

Dans la deuxième moitié de Water and a Flame, son interprétation m’a tellement surpris, on dirait que ce n’était pas une voix humaine, mais une voix de cristal. C’était adorable. J’adorerais travailler de nouveau avec elle. Je vais continuer à écrire. Haha!

Vous avez composé quatre chansons pour Adele, dans le passé. Pensiez-vous qu’elle connaîtrait un tel succès ?

Non, jamais de la vie, bien sûr. Mais je savais qu’elle était la meilleure chanteuse et la personne la plus brillante qui soit. Elle est une auteure incroyable, très gentille et honnête. Je savais que ça irait bien pour elle. Mais nous vivons dans un monde bien étrange, aucunement prévisible. Je ne pensais pas qu’elle voulait être une star mondiale. Je pensais qu’elle voulait juste faire de la musique.

Mon dernier contact avec elle remonte à il y a plus d’un an. Mon gérant parle à l’occasion à son équipe. Je sais qu’elle travaille sur son prochain album, alors on verra pour la suite.

* Chanson : Des mots qui sonnent Album : Dion chante Plamondon Année : 1991

Journal de Montreal 31 dec http://www.journalde...moi-une-chanson

 

translation

Great Admirator od Adèle, Celine had the occasion to work with one of her producer, Eg White. The journal had a talk with the english producer

How did it worked with Celine in studio?

She was very warm.It wasn't what i was thinking., to have someone as known to be simple and kind. I think i will have to go see you in Quebec if you are all like that. It is not like that in London.

 

How are the singers with who you worked generally?

 

I'm very careful with the way i talk to them, how i want the things done.It is very primal, the singing. Sometimes, i hear someone sing and i say to myself: : Oh no, why does he do that.But there is nothing i can do, i can't always say to them because it is very sentimental the way people sing.

Celine was different.Often, singers that do a false note will try to resolve the problem themselves. Celine told to me: i want you to help me, that you manage me.We have to find what is not ok. It is not often that you hear that because most singers don't like to be managed

 

Did Celine was ok with Critics?

Yes, and it is the second thing that surprised me.I remember telling her : Maybe you could do that that way, and she was doing it immediately. It was incredible. Sometimes she would change her way of singing in the middle of the song, and sing the rest in an other way i never heard before. It was marvelous.It was coming from nowhere, complete transformation of the energy. Stunning

 

How Celine have heard about Water and a flamme?

About three years ago, i've wrote this song whit Daniel Merryweather. We wanted to write up tempo songs.Listening to Daniel Singing it, we realise it would do better in duo.I've asked to Adele manager if she could do it. And the song finished on Daniel album. i know that Celine have begun to listen to Adele two years ago. When we learned that Celine would do an album, we tried to join her. Celine heard the msong, and liked it.

 

Where would you put Celine amongst the others srtist you worked with?

Good question. In this industry, it is remarkable that someone wants to be managed , to be helped. It is unique in fact. That was the biggest difference.

In the second section of Water and a flamme,her interpretation surprised me so much, one could say it was not a human voice, more a crystal one. It was adorable. I would like to work more with her. I'll continue to write. hahaé

 

You worked with Adele in the past, Did you think she would have so much success?

No, never in my life.But i knew she was the best singer and the most brillant person.She's an incroyable author, very kind and honnest. I knew it would go well . But we live in a strange world, i don't thing she wanted to become a world star. I think she just wanted to do music. My last contact with her goes back to more than a year. My manager talked to her team once in a while. I know that she works on her next album, we'll see.

Edited November 2, 2013 at 04:38 PM by québecflower

[DionFanAlways]

 

 

She has another follower in Eg White!

[smw]

Two big things need to happen:

 

-Oprah needs to get involved in this album's promotion. She should tweet/facebook/etc. something like "GO BUY CELINE'S ALBUM! CELINE MAKES ME PROUD TO SPELL MY NAME W-O-M-A-N!!!!"

 

-A Music Video must be shot for LOVED ME BACK TO LIFE and INCREDIBLE. People are now finding LMBTL on YouTube -- I've seen more recent comments about how people have just found out about this song because of her recent TV appearances. So now's the time for a music video!!!! How can we make our voices heard about this??

 

Let's post on the official site!

[khader]

Celine Dion’s new album gets some musical retooling

http://www.vancouver...3838/story.html

Edited November 2, 2013 at 07:26 PM by khader

[khader]

Celine Dion Is Getting Used to Singing 'I Need a Drink'

http://www.usprocycl...drink-1822.html

Edited November 2, 2013 at 07:27 PM by khader