Random news, thoughts and common questions about Celine (closed)

[Tyler1991]

Yesterday I forced my Dad to listen to some Celine.

 

Listened to the vegas performances of TLYM and RDMH. I made him WATCH both on my iPod and he was a bit surprised at how hot Celine was in RDMH, lol!! And then he was laughing at the karate kick in TLYM. We then had a discussion about all of her weird stage antics and I showed him the ABM performance from the FIY Tour in Montreal where she did her typical weird thing after the big note and he thought it was hilarious, lol! I then told him that for the last tour she added a new element where at the end of the final note she laid down on the ground with her geet behind her back while her back was arched up and arms back and he was like "WTF??" lol....

 

So I was looking for a good video to show him that and found the ABM performance in Phoenix (which btw, when listening to it on my iPod I noticed the word "any" in their twice for the first time...never been able to hear it before).

 

Gotta love Celine's weird stage antics.

 

2 Big notes in ABM, Ending note in TPOL, talk to me in taking chances, karate kick in vegas TLYM and TC Tour Alone, (and Brunei LCMM), chest thump in various songs, air guitar in various songs.... what else?!?! lol

 

Oh, and who can forget the Jerry Lewis Telethon performance of If I Could where she was going crazy with her facial expressions and punching...it's the best. lol.

[Claudette]

You forgot the sliding on her butt on the catwalk one:

. This one had me laughing so hard... Got to love Celine... Edited September 7, 2009 at 06:33 AM by Claudette

[Scramasboy]

Celine is just fricken amazing like that

[Claudette]

She is certainly like no other singer out there... My friend always sais that she sometimes wonders if Celine is really 41 because she is like a little girl (but she means it in a good way of course). There is definitely a childlike playfulness about her which I think is one of the reasons people love her so much. Edited September 7, 2009 at 06:46 AM by Claudette

[Tyler1991]

She is a rocker at heart, lol....She has so much fun with what she does. It makes it all the more enjoyable for us fans, to know she enjoys it too.

[angelil78]

aww thanx for those videos! Céline is soooo wonderful

[fancelinedion]

bjrs les fans

 

je vous ecris car je voudrais savoir si un de vous aurez les photos en hq de la promotion d elles car je voudrais avoir

merci

[LaFeeRailleuse]

Tu aurais dû écrire dans la section française, mais j'ai ça, je vais t'en passer....

 

 

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Edited September 7, 2009 at 09:59 AM by nelemy

[René-Charles]

Merci

[unicorn]

Hi

I just wanna know how many international superstar fiends she has.

I know that Gloria Estefan, Patty labelle, Luther Vandross(was), Bryan Adams, Rosie O`donell are good friends of her, but has she others?

Who they are?

[Tyler1991]

Jay Leno, Oprah, Josh Groban, and more...

[SensationalCeline]

DID ANYBODY SEE CELINE ON THE JERRY LEWIS TELETHON THIS MORNING?? SHE WAS ON!! IT WAS A PREVIOUSLY RECORDED SONG, MY LOVE BUT SHE DID SAY A FEW WORDS BEFORE THAT FOR JERRY'S KIDS IN HER DRESSING ROOM. IT WAS AWESOME. I WAS SOO SHOCKED.

[fyoung98]

DID ANYBODY SEE CELINE ON THE JERRY LEWIS TELETHON THIS MORNING?? SHE WAS ON!! IT WAS A PREVIOUSLY RECORDED SONG, MY LOVE BUT SHE DID SAY A FEW WORDS BEFORE THAT FOR JERRY'S KIDS IN HER DRESSING ROOM. IT WAS AWESOME. I WAS SOO SHOCKED.

 

I know she was on during last year's telethon and they showed her singing "My Love" from the "Taking Chances" tour. Was this the same message or a new one?

[Scramasboy]

Hi

I just wanna know how many international superstar fiends she has.

I know that Gloria Estefan, Patty labelle, Luther Vandross(was), Bryan Adams, Rosie O`donell are good friends of her, but has she others?

Who they are?

I believe she is also friends with Shania Twain, and Cher seems to think she is a pretty rad lady, but IDK if they are friends.

[Tyler1991]

So I've been thinking of ABM Tour performances for awhile today and wanted to share with you all a theory, and I'd like to know what you all think...

 

Is it possible that the playback used for the whole tour could have actually came from a 100% live performance taken from the second show (2/16/08)?

 

This is what I've been pondering over....

 

Watch this video from the first show (2/14/08). You can see it is definitely live. Not only does it sound different, but look at Celine and her gestures. She is not standing straight, but nearly leaning back. She has no "googly eyes" as they are shut. Her face is in a more painful look then that of the playback face.

 

2/14/08: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swBWm3gC7Wg

 

 

Now....for the show on 2/16/08. The audio is that of what we hear on the remaining 131 shows for the big note. However, look at her posture and face. It is the same of that in the first video. She is leaning back, eyes shut, look of pain on her face. It really looks like she is singing it. Her gestures/postures in this video are completely different then any of the other performances that follow it, but look similar to the one before, along with other live performances in the past. It looks like this was an extremely hard note for her to hit (as it is).

 

2/16/08:

 

 

Now take a look at this video from one of the North American concerts. Notice her posture and facial expressions in the big note. She is standing up completely straight with her eyes wide open and doing that googly eye scary look. It looks completely effortless.

 

10/18/08: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydrq5HJnHNw

 

 

While the audio in 2/16 and 10/18 are the same, the way she stands and looks in the face is so far off. But if you compare the 10/18 video with any other ABM performance (excluding the 2/14 and 2/16 performances) then you will get a nearly identical motion in how she stands and looks in the face and eyes.

 

I'm not doubting that the note was lipped throughout the tour, but I think it's possible 2/16 could have been live. Why would she sing her hardest note live just two days prior if she already had a playback track recorded? How about because there was no track recorded at the time. (While 2/14 may have been a special charity show, the normal lipped numbers such as TPOL, TLYM, and others were still lipped.) And with all that was going on at the time, I think it is unlikely that she got into a recording studio and re-recorded the note in just that one day between the two shows.

 

What do you think?

Edited September 7, 2009 at 11:06 PM by Tyler1991

[Scramasboy]

Could be. That clip from 2/16/08 definantly looks live! Sounds live too, "Any" doesn't sound as thick as it sometimes does. It all sounds smooth like one continuing performance to me. :]

[autumnskies00]

People are gonna flip out over that post lol. 'omggg lip sync talk aagaain??"

 

Call me naiive, but I always thought that note was live. It sounded different in some videos. I feel like a lot of stuff that sounds lip synced is only because it sounds the same every night. But she was doing a ton of shows, a lot back to back, some of it may have just been routine..including the gestures. I have no doubt some of the more obvious songs were lip synced TPOL and IDAN...but some stuff we may just be over thinking. I mean, its Celine Dion...she has the talent. The ones I think are lip synced are the ones that sound like they are from the CD and are more obvious. If she didn't record live vocals from that from a previous show...why would she even bother for the others when they obviously don't mind using years old tracks. The ones that don't sound like CD tracks I think are live.

[QueenCeline]

So I've been thinking of ABM Tour performances for awhile today and wanted to share with you all a theory, and I'd like to know what you all think...

 

Is it possible that the playback used for the whole tour could have actually came from a 100% live performance taken from the second show (2/16/08)?

 

This is what I've been pondering over....

 

Watch this video from the first show (2/14/08). You can see it is definitely live. Not only does it sound different, but look at Celine and her gestures. She is not standing straight, but nearly leaning back. She has no "googly eyes" as they are shut. Her face is in a more painful look then that of the playback face.

 

2/14/08: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swBWm3gC7Wg

 

 

Now....for the show on 2/16/08. The audio is that of what we hear on the remaining 131 shows for the big note. However, look at her posture and face. It is the same of that in the first video. She is leaning back, eyes shut, look of pain on her face. It really looks like she is singing it. Her gestures/postures in this video are completely different then any of the other performances that follow it, but look similar to the one before, along with other live performances in the past. It looks like this was an extremely hard note for her to hit (as it is).

 

2/16/08:

 

 

Now take a look at this video from one of the North American concerts. Notice her posture and facial expressions in the big note. She is standing up completely straight with her eyes wide open and doing that googly eye scary look. It looks completely effortless.

 

10/18/08: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydrq5HJnHNw

 

 

While the audio in 2/16 and 10/18 are the same, the way she stands and looks in the face is so far off. But if you compare the 10/18 video with any other ABM performance (excluding the 2/14 and 2/16 performances) then you will get a nearly identical motion in how she stands and looks in the face and eyes.

 

I'm not doubting that the note was lipped throughout the tour, but I think it's possible 2/16 could have been live. Why would she sing her hardest note live just two days prior if she already had a playback track recorded? How about because there was no track recorded at the time. (While 2/14 may have been a special charity show, the normal lipped numbers such as TPOL, TLYM, and others were still lipped.) And with all that was going on at the time, I think it is unlikely that she got into a recording studio and re-recorded the note in just that one day between the two shows.

 

What do you think?

 

So if you say that she has no time to hit the studio and record the note afterwards, how soon was her next show after the 16th?? Would it be feasible for her to hit the studio between those two shows?? Maybe as her shows went on she changed her movements up a bit little by little until she got googly eyed. IDK

 

Oh, and in the Tacoma Dome - you can also hear the double "any"s.

Edited September 8, 2009 at 12:13 AM by QueenCeline

[Tyler1991]

The following day (2/17) I believe.

 

But I don't think that what your saying makes sense (if I understand you correctly)....what your saying implies that she goes into the studio and records it EXACTLY the same as she did in the 2/16 show.

 

The audio in 2/16 is IDENTICAL to every performance after....what I am implying is that the audio from 2/16 is taken and then used for every show that follows.

[QueenCeline]

Oh that's embarrassing. I totally understood what you said, but then forgot it all, and thought you said she recorded it afterwards. Nevermind. No wonder you're confused!!!

[Tyler1991]

I would like to find some video of the 2/17 show now and compare her posture/facial expressions with that. Everything other then the 2/14 and 2/16 shows I've seen has looked identical in terms of the posture and face. I just think with 2/16 being different in that element AND with it being the first time we hear the note in the "playback way", it should be considered that it is the original recording. Especially since two days before it was different and without a doubt live (and their being slim chance in a playback being recorded between 2/14 and 2/16 and an even slimmer chance in recording a playback beforehand and then deciding to sing it live the first show for the hell of it). Edited September 8, 2009 at 12:24 AM by Tyler1991

[Tyler1991]

Okay, here is one from 2/23 or 24 (about a week later).....

 

She SLIGHTLY leans back at the beginning and from there keeps that exact same posture never changing.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tda78dLu2KM

 

Notice in the 2/14 and 2/16 note she is at first leaning back a slight bit, and then continually leans back further and further as the note progresses. By the end of it, I wonder how she hasn't fallen down.

 

This is the exact way she did it in LIVE performances like Las Vegas and Memphis from the FIY Tour...

 

Vegas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3qq_F3ktlA

Memphis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XzUyLAOsfc

[Claudette]

You are not gonna believe me, but I had that same theory for a while... I didn't want to say anything, because I was afraid people were gonna start bashing me again for claiming it was live that one night. I think you are right. I was at that show on the 16th and to me it sounded live and you could tell that she was in pain hitting that note. There is another reason why I think that they used the audio of an actual live performance throughout the rest of the tour: The fact that she cracked the note slightly. If she recorded that in a studio, wouldnt she have sang it until it was perfect? Edited September 8, 2009 at 07:33 AM by Claudette

[Claudette]

Has anyone else seen the rubbish that Celine is going on a ''My Love'' tour in 2011 going around on YouTube. Where the hell do people get that from?

[Tyler1991]

You are not gonna believe me, but I had that same theory for a while... I didn't want to say anything, because I was afraid people were gonna start bashing me again for claiming it was live that one night. I think you are right. I was at that show on the 16th and to me it sounded live and you could tell that she was in pain hitting that note. There is another reason why I think that they used the audio of an actual live performance throughout the rest of the tour: The fact that she cracked the note slightly. If she recorded that in a studio, wouldnt she have sang it until it was perfect?

 

 

Yeah, well to me I think if it was actually live, then it was the best she hit that note live. Notice on all the live performances, she always ends that note going a bit lower. Such as 3:24 on this performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XzUyLAOsfc

 

The tour performance is just about the only one I've been able to find that she doesn't end low.

[sazzlepop123]

Has anyone else seen the rubbish that Celine is going on a ''My Love'' tour in 2011 going around on YouTube. Where the hell do people get that from?

 

No idea - they wish!

[elsietang]

Hi! I was just wondering if anyone has ever had any Celine withdrawal symptoms if they haven't had a chance to listen to her music every day.

 

I know I do, especially if I am really into one of her songs. I have recently re-discovered her One Heart Album and I am absolutely love it. I am ashamed to admit that I never really given it a chance when it first came out but now I am totally loving this album.

 

Both my 3 & 1/2 yr loves Love Is All We Need, In His Touch and Stand By Your Side. My daughter can have me put Love Is All You Need on repeat for the whole trip to and from the shops. She listened to it 3-4 times and know the words to it already and there I am struggling to keep up with her when she is singing it at full pelt along with Celine!! lol!!

 

The amazing thing is that she can make out Celine's voice from the backing vocals. She never sings the parts the backing vocals sing and only sings along to Celine's voice. I have noticed this when she sang Because You Loved Me!! Sometimes, she only makes me sing the backing vocals while she sings Celine's parts.

[takeachance]

So I've been thinking of ABM Tour performances for awhile today and wanted to share with you all a theory, and I'd like to know what you all think...

 

Is it possible that the playback used for the whole tour could have actually came from a 100% live performance taken from the second show (2/16/08)?

 

This is what I've been pondering over....

 

Watch this video from the first show (2/14/08). You can see it is definitely live. Not only does it sound different, but look at Celine and her gestures. She is not standing straight, but nearly leaning back. She has no "googly eyes" as they are shut. Her face is in a more painful look then that of the playback face.

 

2/14/08: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swBWm3gC7Wg

 

 

Now....for the show on 2/16/08. The audio is that of what we hear on the remaining 131 shows for the big note. However, look at her posture and face. It is the same of that in the first video. She is leaning back, eyes shut, look of pain on her face. It really looks like she is singing it. Her gestures/postures in this video are completely different then any of the other performances that follow it, but look similar to the one before, along with other live performances in the past. It looks like this was an extremely hard note for her to hit (as it is).

 

2/16/08:

 

 

Now take a look at this video from one of the North American concerts. Notice her posture and facial expressions in the big note. She is standing up completely straight with her eyes wide open and doing that googly eye scary look. It looks completely effortless.

 

10/18/08: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydrq5HJnHNw

 

 

While the audio in 2/16 and 10/18 are the same, the way she stands and looks in the face is so far off. But if you compare the 10/18 video with any other ABM performance (excluding the 2/14 and 2/16 performances) then you will get a nearly identical motion in how she stands and looks in the face and eyes.

 

I'm not doubting that the note was lipped throughout the tour, but I think it's possible 2/16 could have been live. Why would she sing her hardest note live just two days prior if she already had a playback track recorded? How about because there was no track recorded at the time. (While 2/14 may have been a special charity show, the normal lipped numbers such as TPOL, TLYM, and others were still lipped.) And with all that was going on at the time, I think it is unlikely that she got into a recording studio and re-recorded the note in just that one day between the two shows.

 

What do you think?

 

Didnt she totally sing "all by myself" live in Phoenix when she was ill? and that totally sounded live cause she was sick as dog im confused , it always appears to me she does the big note live, why would she not have used the recording the very night she would have needed to? i.e when she was ill

 

 

She did the googly eye thing here too? but this was live ? weird.

Edited September 8, 2009 at 08:09 PM by takeachance

[Tyler1991]

That was definitely not live. She struggled to hit notes not even close to the big one (in terms of difficulty), yet the hardest one of all was perfect. Makes no sense. It's hard to tell (try using headphones with an iPod), but you can hear two any's before the anymore note.

 

I put all of my words into a video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZWpOhZ4kwY

[Thomas]

I think it's more likely that after the first show it was realised she couldn't do it live each night as was planned and a playback was recorded the following day for use througout the tour. Or a playback was already prepared incase she felt it was too much and they just switched to that after the first show. I know she has good technicians but surely there would be too much interferance in the vocal track from her band, audience etc? And this note is "sang" acapella, it has to be absolutely 100% just her voice and totally clean and crisp.

 

As for the pose, she did it live the night before and so was probably just copying what she did then. As the tour progressed she got lazier with her playback poses and so it started to look easier. Look at the TPOL, at one time she used to make it seem really live, it would have been hard to tell it was playback unless you knew about it - with LAP as a good example. Over time it looked more like a walk in the park. I think the fact she had done it live the previous night made it natural for her to do the exact same thing the night after, but I guess we will never know for sure how it all worked.