Diva Canon #3: CELINE DION

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Love her or hate her (and I'm assuming most of you are going to go for the latter), our Celine has more than earned her place in pop history. Now you have seven ticks to find your favourite UK Top 40 hits from the wibbly-warbly Canadian throat-merchant!

[Poll #790597]

Comments

THE VERY DEFN. OF POPTIMISM

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Is looking past your bias towards a near-universally-hated-by-critics* figure such as Celine and making an objective decision on whether the song is worthy of your continued attention.

*ie almost everyone except ppl who don't like music - you know who I mean

Re: THE VERY DEFN. OF POPTIMISM

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I think this is pretty much spot-on!

or at least think about WHY they are hated, who they are hated by, and whether your kneejerk hatred of them is inherited from critics or actually justified (and in C's case it is justified for many of her songs, but she should certainly not be a totemic hate figure)

Re: THE VERY DEFN. OF POPTIMISM

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I can't stand "My Heart Will Go On", but I don't hate it with quite the violent bloodlust that I did when I was 16 and hence can now fully appreciate the Quality Tune that is "Think Twice" without Leo DiCaprio & Kate Winslet popping up in my mind wagging a iceberg-shaped finger going "noooooo Kat don't do it!"

Re: THE VERY DEFN. OF POPTIMISM

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I hated 'My Heart Will Go On' as much as anyone else but eventually felt that her voice on the enormous tidal wave (not iceberg) of overblown orchestral bombast when it builds up is so impressive from a technical point of view that now i cannot help but sort of admire it. CURSESES.