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]

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Fiery Dance-Floor Demon

[koganbot]

Fiery dance-floor demon forced to make her living doing power ballads. Well, don't know if she's forced - she probably likes 'em fine - but she won't give up on the dancefloor stomp, always puts 'em on her album, even when they almost never ever get released as singles.

I could have gotten up to ten ticks, but nonetheless THIS IS A REALLY LOUSY LIST AND IN NO WAY REPRESENTATIVE OF WHAT SHE'S LIKE AT HER BEST. I blame the record companies. I blame the fans. I blame the zeitgeist. I blame the iceberg. (Good song, sung well until she decides to outcrash the ship.)

Search: "Reveal," "When the Wrong One Loves You Right," "Unison," "Drove All Night" (I'll take any of those over anything I've heard by the Sugababes or Girls Aloud), "I Don't Know" (her best ballad, smoldering and heartbroken, with a disconcerting counterrhythm underneath), anything produced by Ric Wake (who, prior to Celine, unleashed Taylor Dayne on the world).

Destroy: Half of this list.

Re: Fiery Dance-Floor Demon

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Perhaps she has to put a disco stomper on her albums because other popstars have to put a ballad on their album full of disco stormers?

Re: Fiery Dance-Floor Demon

[koganbot]

Maintaining the cosmic balance.

Re: Fiery Dance-Floor Demon

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Lots of her songs were given boshy remixes that went down a storm (in gay clubs at least). Because you love me was infinitely better in remixed form, and I ticked it for that alone.