New French single : Bonjour, Pardon, Merci - July 3rd, 2026

[rodrigofreitas]

On 7/2/2026 at 11:05 AM, Els said:

They just sound québécois to me. I'm here for it!

I love the way she says "Galaxies" and the high notes in the song 

[jpatdeleon09]

On 7/2/2026 at 10:05 PM, Els said:

They just sound québécois to me. I'm here for it!

What’s the difference between paris french and quebec french? What’s more pleasing or proper? 

[stevo]

[rodrigofreitas]

On 7/2/2026 at 11:12 AM, jpatdeleon09 said:

What’s the difference between paris french and quebec french? What’s more pleasing or proper? 

That’s a difference in accent. For example, I live in Brazil; we speak Portuguese here, but it differs from the Portuguese spoken in Portugal in several ways. To me, European Portuguese sounds "strange and funny" hehehehe.

[Els]

On 7/2/2026 at 4:12 PM, jpatdeleon09 said:

What’s the difference between paris french and quebec french? What’s more pleasing or proper? 

There is no "more proper"; they're just different. It would be like trying to decide whether US English or UK English were the "proper" English for music... And "more pleasing" is just subjective. I personally really love when we can hear her québécois accent in her singing. You could hear it a lot more in the 80s in certain vowel sounds. On youtube you can find a lot of comparisons of the accents. I think a lot of people who speak France French are very harsh about the québécois accent, but that comes from not being exposed to it a lot (France doesn't import a lot of Québ media). I live in France, but I grew up not far from the Québec border and I really, really love québécois French.

Edited July 2, 2026 at 02:18 PM by Els

[jmiracle]

I love Québésois French. And I agree that some vowels int the song are pronounced in Québécois somehow (but not really). The strange feeling comes from the fact that in the same song, she "switches" from one prononciation to another. But I do love the song !

[jolo87]

On 7/2/2026 at 10:27 PM, CelinesDIVO5 said:

While I do like the snippet, and there’s a longer one on Instagram now…I think she does sound a bit “throaty” like she did on the Courage album. I personally never minded her vocals there, but I’m still hearing what many here have complained about, and are now praising.

I think the reality is that the throatiness (for lack of a better term -- maybe it's more of a glottal sound?) is part of her natural aging process. It stuck out on Courage because of the relative lack of anything else that resembled her technique. She still has that sound now, more or less when she's belting, but she also sounds like herself again vocally, so I think in hindsight that wasn't the actual issue people thought it was.

[jmiracle]

Anybody here who has the full HD version ?

[comingback]

On 7/2/2026 at 4:21 PM, jolo87 said:

I think the reality is that the throatiness (for lack of a better term -- maybe it's more of a glottal sound?) is part of her natural aging process. It stuck out on Courage because of the relative lack of anything else that resembled her technique. She still has that sound now, more or less when she's belting, but she also sounds like herself again vocally, so I think in hindsight that wasn't the actual issue people thought it was.

So is there the nasal voice like on Courage Yes or No? And is the production professional?

Edited July 2, 2026 at 02:36 PM by comingback

[Nmj]

On 7/2/2026 at 10:21 AM, jolo87 said:

I think the reality is that the throatiness (for lack of a better term -- maybe it's more of a glottal sound?) is part of her natural aging process. It stuck out on Courage because of the relative lack of anything else that resembled her technique. She still has that sound now, more or less when she's belting, but she also sounds like herself again vocally, so I think in hindsight that wasn't the actual issue people thought it was.

 

On 7/2/2026 at 10:35 AM, comingback said:

So is there the nasal voice like on Courage Yes or No? And is the production professional?

I don’t know what people are hearing OR maybe I’m so happy she’s back that I’m going deaf, but I don’t hear the “Courage” era throaty voice??? 
 

Just me!?

[québecflower]

On 7/2/2026 at 10:20 AM, jmiracle said:

I love Québésois French. And I agree that some vowels int the song are pronounced in Québécois somehow (but not really). The strange feeling comes from the fact that in the same song, she "switches" from one prononciation to another. But I do love the song !

peuuuur and nooooirrr , it is not quebecois, it is Celine . She probably likes it that way

[AdrienneM]

Having listened to the longer minute and a half clip on Twitter, I do notice that tonally she sounds the same way that she herself found unacceptable and it definitely has more of the dark, froggy, throaty sound than Danson does. I’m in two minds about it- I do overall find (admittedly, only an excerpt) the song to be beautiful, as is usual for her French repertoire the song is not a huge bombastic high note fest, it’s a lot more intentional, and I enjoy the variations in cadence and the modern phrasing you’ll find in a lot of French music these days, but paired with a classical Celine arrangement. On the other hand while I personally don’t mind the way she’s singing, it’s exactly what she described as her “tunnel” voice sonically, and it does make me wonder if that’s something that with time she’s realised she’ll never really be able to shake if she’s singing in a full chest voice. Roll on midnight tho, and even more so, roll on September 12th!!!

[CelinesDIVO5]

I’m getting a vocal mix of D’elles, EUS and Courage all at the same time. I really like it. She sounds fantastic. Proud of her. The falsetto at the end is gorgeous!!! I prefer this over Dansons 100x over.

[Nmj]

On 7/2/2026 at 10:47 AM, CelinesDIVO5 said:

I’m getting a vocal mix of D’elles, EUS and Courage all at the same time. I really like it. She sounds fantastic. Proud of her. The falsetto at the end is gorgeous!!! I prefer this over Dansons 100x over.

Yes I hear a cross of D’elles, and a bit but EUS but it’s that time frame of D’elles in general I feel it’s similar too… almost the tone reminds me of “You And I”. 

Edited July 2, 2026 at 02:59 PM by Nmj

[rodrigofreitas]

This song in ULTRAHD will be amazing. 

[Ajax]

On 7/2/2026 at 4:45 PM, AdrienneM said:

Having listened to the longer minute and a half clip on Twitter, I do notice that tonally she sounds the same way that she herself found unacceptable and it definitely has more of the dark, froggy, throaty sound than Danson does. I’m in two minds about it- I do overall find (admittedly, only an excerpt) the song to be beautiful, as is usual for her French repertoire the song is not a huge bombastic high note fest, it’s a lot more intentional, and I enjoy the variations in cadence and the modern phrasing you’ll find in a lot of French music these days, but paired with a classical Celine arrangement. On the other hand while I personally don’t mind the way she’s singing, it’s exactly what she described as her “tunnel” voice sonically, and it does make me wonder if that’s something that with time she’s realised she’ll never really be able to shake if she’s singing in a full chest voice. Roll on midnight tho, and even more so, roll on September 12th!!!

Exactly. For me the way she sings is EXACTLY what she herself explained as being the tunnel voice related to her disease in Hoda’s interview illustrating it by singing some lines of the Power of love with the tunnel voice and the normal one. So maybe she is now in peace with that. At least she is back to being able to « amazingly » sing and certainly with higher potential than most of the people just that this is for me not always pretty in term of tone. 

[stevo]

I just think it sounds like her 🤷🏻‍♂️ she has always been very stylised (lurrrrrverrrverrrverrve- love it or hate it) and even without what she’s gone through with SPS, her voice is maturing and changing and it’s amazing she can still do it and sound so great.

Just think of that clip from the Doc of her recording Love Again….and listen to this and appreciate the wonder of Celine!

Edited July 2, 2026 at 02:54 PM by stevo

[Els]

On 7/2/2026 at 4:43 PM, québecflower said:

peuuuur and nooooirrr , it is not quebecois, it is Celine . She probably likes it that way

I think it's a little hard to hear in the verses because of how sped up it is, but I hear the québécois triphthongs a bunch of times, especially in the -our and -oir sounds and sometimes -eur sounds. In the second verse, I think it stands out in "on en manquera toujours". But maybe I'm not referencing the same aspect of her sound that other people are describing.

But yeah, it's also definitely very Céline.  

[mike_z]

She sounds fuller and playful. Still the high belts are missing but I’m fine with that.

this repertoire fits her new voice amazingly

the song reminded me of “Tous les Secrets”

[lyn]

French as 3rd language speaker question: I had thought the weird "peur" was to make it better match the pronunciation of "intérierur"? or should those both be pronounced more flat and light

Quote

Et si parfois toi aussi tu as peur
De ne pas assez briller de l'intérieur

 

[ninetales]

Ohhh, better than Dansons by far 🥰🥰🥰

[Nmj]

On 7/2/2026 at 11:09 AM, ninetales said:

Ohhh, better than Dansons by far 🥰🥰🥰

Comparing “Dansons” to “Bonjour, Pardon, Merci” is like comparing “Fly” to “Sorry For Love” or comparing coffee to vodka. 
I’m not sure how we compare them. 
 

 

[CelinesDIVO5]

On 7/2/2026 at 11:12 AM, Nmj said:

Comparing “Dansons” to “Bonjour, Pardon, Merci” is like comparing “Fly” to “Sorry For Love” or comparing coffee to vodka. 
I’m not sure how we compare them. 
 

 

I prefer the style of song over “Dansons.” I think the vocals sound much less engineered. You can tell that Dansons had a little help in post production. She’s definitely in much better shape on BPM. 

Edited July 2, 2026 at 03:31 PM by CelinesDIVO5

[Alice]

On 7/2/2026 at 2:56 PM, cdurand54 said:

Regarde, il nous sourit
L'univers entier nous appelle
Du fond des galaxies
Bonjour, pardon, merci, je t'aime

This is so beautiful, I can't 🥹

[AdrienneM]

On 7/2/2026 at 3:59 PM, mike_z said:

She sounds fuller and playful. Still the high belts are missing but I’m fine with that.

this repertoire fits her new voice amazingly

the song reminded me of “Tous les Secrets”

This is something I’ve wondered about too, come September. Celine acknowledges, and I’m sure we all do, that at 58 her voice and her range will not be the same as it was at 28, 38 or even 48, and that even without SPS being in the picture that would still be the case. However, she also stated that she refused to accept a “new voice”, and that she wanted her own back at full capacity. Given the range of these two newest songs, being very deliberately arranged in the mid-fourth octave, it does make me wonder if she can still reliably access the fifth octave (in chest voice anyway), or if that area vocally is just not present for her anymore- and if it isn’t, how she will rearrange certain songs and interpret them in new ways (which is really what interests me most) 

Edited July 2, 2026 at 03:47 PM by AdrienneM

[Del]

At first I had a hard time fully understanding the faster parts but was only listening via the phone speaker as didn't have earphones with me. Finally sorted myself out and listened with earphones. Loving what I'm hearing, along with the faster parts which I'm now appreciating.

[CelinesDIVO5]

Some of you keep talking about the “tunnel voice” like it’s a technique. It’s not. She was simply explaining that she had to get creative and find the best channel to be able to project her voice when she felt herself tightening up. Celine wasn’t speaking of the sound of her voice more than she was explaining that she had to make a “tunnel” through her nose and use her head voice the majority of the time to get through a performance. She wasn’t speaking on it like it was a technique a vocalist uses. What she did could actually be rather harmful for the voice, but as we know, she had no choice. 
 

What some of you are describing as “tunnel voice” on this track, is not what Celine was explaining to Hoda.

[Ajax]

That s the way I understood it. But she also mentioned that the consequence was a specific sound coming from the nose. Used then some lines of Power of Love to show how it sounded. Deep nasal as a consequence of this tunnel. 

[Els]

On 7/2/2026 at 5:48 PM, Del said:

At first I had a hard time fully understanding the faster parts but was only listening via the phone speaker as didn't have earphones with me. Finally sorted myself out and listened with earphones. Loving what I'm hearing, along with the faster parts which I'm now appreciating.

Oh yes, I fully agree. The first times I listened, I just used my laptop speakers and the fast parts sounded wonky. On headphones, the whole song sounds really amazing. 

[AdrienneM]

On 7/2/2026 at 4:48 PM, CelinesDIVO5 said:

Some of you keep talking about the “tunnel voice” like it’s a technique. It’s not. She was simply explaining that she had to get creative and find the best channel to be able to project her voice when she felt herself tightening up. Celine wasn’t speaking of the sound of her voice more than she was explaining that she had to make a “tunnel” through her nose and use her head voice the majority of the time to get through a performance. She wasn’t speaking on it like it was a technique a vocalist uses. What she did could actually be rather harmful for the voice, but as we know, she had no choice. 
 

What some of you are describing as “tunnel voice” on this track, is not what Celine was explaining to Hoda.

She audibly demonstrated how her voice sounded as a result of the different mechanisms she was using to project her voice and achieve a level of stability that her body wasn’t allowing her to normally, and then demonstrated more than once (in separate interviews) how she sounded whilst freeing up all that tension in her neck and projecting a fuller, less nasal and constricted sound. On this song she has the aforementioned sound and tone to her voice, it’s not about whether or not she’s actually still having to find a pathway in her throat/face to safely project her voice, it’s about the fact that she herself stated that she not only didn’t like how it sounded, but also that she wasn’t happy to continue that moving forward during her vocal rehabilitation.