Céline being cool again

November 15, 2022 at 09:28 PM

It’s TikTok, man. That thing has magic powers.

Seriously, so many of the artists we sign now are kids off of TT. All it takes is a viral cover or two and boom, you’ve got yourself a record deal!

November 16, 2022 at 02:58 AM

That would be awesome!

November 16, 2022 at 03:08 AM

Celine really needs to do something...some strategy to make her songs go viral in TikTok, seeing the recent outburst of IACBTMN

November 16, 2022 at 08:06 AM

what record label are you working at? Is it by any chance Sony?

November 17, 2022 at 01:22 AM

Did any "big" celebrities like Celine's latest Instagram post of her recording "The Reason"?

November 18, 2022 at 11:36 AM

November 21, 2022 at 12:41 AM

The new and upgraded Titanique now has merch, including “Céline f*****g Dion” and “Shall we go for it?” T-shirts 😆

And also, a Céline-themed dance party in Montreal on Dec 2 -

https://instagram.com/stories/tapetteparty/2975856780845689300?igshid=YTY2NzY3YTc=

Edited November 21, 2022 at 12:58 AM by scielle

November 21, 2022 at 01:54 AM

Dammit... Now that the “woo girls” have gotten ahold of the song, I’ll have to contemplate whether I’m allowed to enjoy it myself :lmao:

(In case anyone isn’t familiar with the term, here is the Urban Dictionary definition for “woo girl” : https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Woo%20Girl )

Edited November 21, 2022 at 01:57 AM by Chantemoi

November 24, 2022 at 01:22 AM

Here is a pretty interesting find… an artist called Romance has dug into Céline’s repertoire and remixed her vocals into something truly ethereal.

This from their Bandcamp page for the first album, called Once Upon a Time and which features snippets from HYEBIL, ANDHC, “Tell Him”, “I Remember L.A.”, and “The Prayer” :

Romance pen an extended love note to Céline Dion, re-imagining the Canadian icon's cultural locked grooves as a set of post-vaporwave crybient zoners... Stunnnning, really.

Smelting the iconic singer’s power ballad jewels to a hazed and glistening agenda, ‘Once Upon A Time’ sees Romance dial up the sonic dry ice to enveloping levels that trigger nostalgic senses like the whiff of a former lover’s perfume or Body Shop pot pourri on a saturday afternoon. In slowing Céline to a sizzurpy haze, it feels as though we’re melded deeper into her soft-focus airbrushed fantasias, homing in on eternal moments and finding new 3D depths that lurk in her Athena glossy 2D portraits.

"Have you ever been in love?" Céline asks over the weightless granular clouds of the opener - a loving erosion of memory spiraling familiarity and alienness; the sounds have a chilly Proustian effect - false nostalgia, carefully engineered. Dion's voice is pushed into slightly irregular registers - either just too low or just too high - a piano riff is padded out with reverb to edge it into a Budd-esque slo-mo dream sequence.

Each track excavates another emotion, from euphoria and love to heartbreaking melancholy, often smearing them into each other like oil paint. It's the AOR power ballad rendered as ambient music - relentlessly clever when you think about it, cuz both genres are often considered musical wallpaper…

But it's the closer 'Crying Is The Only Thing That Gets Me Through' that has us curled up in a ball. Looping a gentle baroque refrain, Romance signals to The Caretaker's memory experiments, but views it thru a sparkling gauze of Disneyfied magic. In the wrong hands this would all have been tragically irony-pilled nonsense, but Romance are Céline Dion devotees, and their passion oozes thru the album's every pore. There's a generous quality to these treatments that isolates the most magical moments from Dion's canon, and presents it completely without cynicism. It's a sprinkle of fairy dust we didn't realise we needed, for real.

https://youmustrememberthis.bandcamp.com/album/once-upon-a-time

Part two is called In My Hour Of Weakness, I Found A Sweetness and features vocals from “Next Plane out”, “Baby Close Your Eyes”, and MHWGO. From the album’s Bandcamp page: Romance return to worship at the altar of the iconic Canadian songbird, offering another winsome assemblage of tracks that see them reconstruct the DNA of her Disney Princess Power Ballads into yearning ambient elegies.

https://youmustrememberthis.bandcamp.com/album/in-my-hour-of-weakness-i-found-a-sweetness

December 2, 2022 at 02:38 AM

Edited December 2, 2022 at 02:42 AM by scielle

December 7, 2022 at 01:11 AM

:/

Jessie J's cover is still the best cover of MHWGO imo.

December 7, 2022 at 03:05 AM

December 15, 2022 at 11:15 PM

I miss her sillinesses! Hope we get to witness it again.

December 18, 2022 at 02:48 AM

I was just watching the new episode of We're Here on HBO. If you don't know, 3 drag queens go out to some town in America and they each transform a person into a drag queen and put on a performance at the end of the show. One of the people featured on the show this week was wearing a Courage t-shirt while rehearsing and then her performance was set to Celine's version of "Alone."

December 19, 2022 at 01:16 PM

Yeah, I remember watching that at some point last year, found it surprisingly moving.

December 19, 2022 at 01:16 PM

December 19, 2022 at 04:43 PM

Didn’t get a chance to post excerpts earlier, but this is such a good read. 😊

Some fun photos in the story, too.

“MONTREAL — It was a Friday night in Montreal, and hundreds of euphoric revelers were dancing and singing “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” at a sold-out Céline Dion tribute party. One young man vogued in a homemade version of the gold-tinted headpiece of singed peacock feathers that Dion wore at the Met Gala a few years ago. Another gawked at a mini-shrine of Dion-inspired wigs, showcasing her hairstyles through the decades.

“In an era of arrogant stars, she is always authentic,” Simon Venne, the voguer, a 38-year-old stylist, gushed. “She is everything to us, a source of pride, our queen.”

If there was ever a sense that Quebec, the French-speaking province of Dion’s birth, was conflicted about Dion’s rise to global superstardom with pop hits that she often sang in English, it has been dispelled. She now occupies an exalted space here, experiencing a cultural renaissance as Quebec’s younger generation has unabashedly embraced her: Radio Canada, the national French language broadcaster, parses her life on a podcast translated as “Céline—She’s The Boss!”; a recent docuseries called “It’s Cool to Like Céline Dion” explored her appeal to millennials, and Céline Dion drag competitions have been surging.

Dion’s emotional announcement this month that she is suffering from a rare neurological condition called stiff person syndrome, forcing her to postpone upcoming tour dates, was met with an extraordinary outpouring. Québécois politicians from across the political spectrum, including both Quebec’s premiere, François Legault, and the head of a party advocating Quebec’s independence from Canada, jockeyed to express sympathy for Dion, 54. Fans commiserated over social media. A headline in Le Devoir, an influential Quebec newspaper, called her “Céline, Queen of the Québécois.” Dion, the newspaper noted, had attained the status of untouchable icon after years of being panned by critics and mocked by others.

“It’s like hearing your aunt is sick,” Venne, the feathered fan, said. “Céline is famous around the world, but here she is family.”

[…]

“Being stuck at home during the pandemic made people nostalgic for the past, and everything old and vintage is in fashion,” said Gabriel Guénette, 26, a university student and sometime Uber delivery man, explaining why he and his friends were singing “The Power of Love” during karaoke nights. Dion’s unbridled message of hope and optimism, he added, resonated during these uncertain times.

Older residents in Charlemagne still refer to her as “notre petite Céline” — our little Céline — and recall her days as a shy teenager who performed French ballads with her 13 brothers and sisters at her family’s restaurant. Younger residents — including Meghan Arsenault, 15, who attends the same high school Dion did — grew up singing her songs.

[…]

Martin Proulx, a producer who hosted the podcast, “Céline, She’s the Boss!” recalled that as a gay teenager in Montreal in the 1990s, he hid the fact that he was listening to her “Let’s Talk About Love” album on his Sony Walkman. “It wasn’t cool to love Céline when I was in high school — kids my age were listening to hip-hop and heavy rock and she was for soccer moms who watched Oprah,” he recalled.

Now, he said, he could proudly proclaim his ardor, in part because a more confident Quebec has shed some of its past complexes. The younger generation of Québécois, he said, seems less hung up than their parents or grandparents on issues of language and identity, and more likely to embrace Dion’s global stardom, financial success and bilingualism as a template for their own international aspirations.

“We used to roll our eyes — now we think she’s pure genius,” Mr. Proulx said. “She never changed. We did.”

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Quebec-born music director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, said that his first memory of Dion was from 1984, when he was eight years old. Dion, who was 16, sang a song about a dove in front of Pope John Paul II and 60,000 people at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium. Nézet-Séguin said he had surged with pride that she was a fellow Quebecer, and said that he sees Dion as a “diva” in the operatic sense of the word.

“When I think about a diva, I think about personality, having something recognizable artistically, and one can’t deny the virtuosic aspect of Céline’s singing,” he said.

“Aline,” a highly unusual, fictionalized film drawn from her life, drew buzz at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. When a musical parody of “Titanic” called “Titanique” recently moved to a larger Off Broadway theater in New York, its producers promised “More shows. More seats. More Céline.” And Dion is set to appear alongside Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Sam Heughan in a romantic comedy called “Love Again” that is expected in theaters in North America in May.

[…]

In the years since, Dion recast her analog image for the Instagram era. A Vetements Titanic hoodie she wore in Paris in 2016 broke the internet. A few years later, she stole the show at the camp-themed Met Gala, in an Oscar de la Renta clinging champagne-colored bodysuit embellished with silvery sequins. Her zany, self-deprecating appearance on James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke in 2019 from Las Vegas, during which she sang “My Heart Will Go On” in front of a replica of the Titanic’s bow at the Bellagio Hotel fountain, helped some people who had made fun of her realize that she was in on the joke.

Now her fandom seems as strong as ever.

Mario Bennett, 36, who works in a concert hall, began covering every inch of his cramped basement apartment with Céline Dion memorabilia at the start of the pandemic. He said that throughout his life, Ms. Dion’s powerful voice had been a clarion call to dream big. Among his prized possessions is an unauthorized collectible Céline doll, wearing a mini version of the midnight blue velvet gown that the singer wore to the Oscars in 1998.

“She makes me feel that anything is possible,” he said.

Guy Hermon, an Israeli drag queen who emigrated to Montreal a decade ago and absorbed Quebec culture — and the French language — by trying to embody Dion, said he had never been a fan of her music but invented his Dion alter ego, “Crystal Slippers” out of necessity on the Dion-obsessed Québécois drag circuit.

After years of mimicking Ms. Dion, he said he had come to appreciate her. “She just wants everyone to be happy,” he said.“

Edited December 19, 2022 at 04:44 PM by scielle

December 20, 2022 at 05:05 AM

I was at the party and it was AMAZING!

December 20, 2022 at 07:57 PM

New York Times arts section! Just look at that! 😍

Wish I was actually in NYC at the moment so could pick up a physical copy.

December 24, 2022 at 06:39 PM

In Rupauls Drag Race: Canada vs. The World, the final lipsync for the crown was to River Deep Mountain High!! :clap: :wub2:

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December 24, 2022 at 10:34 PM

I don't want Celine to be cool, I just want her to be healthy...

December 24, 2022 at 11:41 PM

It's about damn time she makes an proper appearance on that show.

December 25, 2022 at 01:39 AM

I take pride in liking an artist who has never been “cool”. However, in the last few years that’s changed. I’m beginning to think she’s always been “cool” but the world is finally catching up lol.

January 1, 2023 at 06:14 PM

Well, Rolling Stone obviously didn’t get the memo about it being cool to like Celine! Once again, they show her ultimate disrespect - apparently, she isn’t worthy of inclusion on their list of the Top 200 Greatest Singers of All-Time.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-singers-all-time-1234642307/aaliyah-4-1234643137/

Disgusting and disgraceful - I’ve tweeted them as it’s annoyed me that much!

January 1, 2023 at 08:11 PM

Yes, it's disrespectful. But the critics have never took English Celine seriously. The fans know better..

Eat this Rolling Stone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyahS_p725I

Happy New Year everyone!

Edited January 1, 2023 at 08:18 PM by comingback

January 1, 2023 at 09:50 PM

Rolling Stone is so unserious for this. There's an uproar out there on Twitter, she's actually trending right now lmao.

I honestly wonder if it's an omission by mistake. Now I know they don't like her and are extremely anglo-centric, but to not include her at all? When she's influenced so many others on the list and meant so much for French music globally?

Edited January 1, 2023 at 09:50 PM by Dancing_Queen

January 1, 2023 at 10:01 PM

See what artists 'topped' Elvis and that's the answer that might explain Why Celine isn't on the list.

The best thing will be to ingore whatever that might come from them.

January 1, 2023 at 10:07 PM

You have got to be kidding me??? But Kate Bush???! And Taylor Swift ?!?! They realllllly hate her I hope Rolling Stone is lambasted over this

Edited January 1, 2023 at 10:07 PM by KyleVan41

January 1, 2023 at 10:20 PM

Yes, it's disrespectful. But the critics have never taken Celine seriously. The fans know better..

Eat this Rolling Stone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyahS_p725I

Happy New Year everyone!

January 1, 2023 at 10:24 PM

She is making the news over this omission. I sent rolling stone message on Instagram - we should flood their inbox

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