History Music / CelineDion

** In 1993, she recorded "White Christmas" with a host of other stars, including Johnny Mathis, Wynonna Judd, Tammy Wynette and Tom Jones, for producer David Foster's Christmas album, and sang a few lines of the song in French.

* ButtMonkey
** Like her contemporaries Music/MichaelBolton and Music/BarbraStreisand, Dion is frequently the target of jokes, both in Canada and the U.S., as an example of providing "terrible" music, due mostly for her propensity for ballads and the ubiquity of hits such as "My Heart Will Go On".
** One example came in the ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "Memoriam", where the team was investigating Reid's father. When they received his background check, JJ noted, "aside from purchasing Celine Dion tickets, (he's done) nothing questionable."
** An episode of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' reveals that FallenAngel Balthazar went back in time and prevented the Titanic from sinking simply because of just how much he hated James Cameron's movie and Dion's song.
--->'''Balthazar:''' That godawful Céline Dion song made me want to smite myself.\\
'''Sam:''' Who's Celine Dion?\\
'''Balthazar:''' Oh, she's a destitute lounge singer somewhere in Quebec — and let's keep it that way, please.
** ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' has used her as a Butt Monkey on a few occasions. In one strip, Jason posts on the Internet a false rumor that the new ''Franchise/StarWars'' movie will include a Celine Dion ballad over the opening credits in surround sound, his aim being to keep fans out of the theaters to increase his own chances of buying a ticket on opening day.
** Averted with Dion's French-language albums, which generally receive more favourable critical notice due to their more diverse mix of styles. Dion's reputation in Quebec is more that of a general pop singer than of specifically adult contemporary ballads, as her French albums have included more material in dance and even rock styles. Her English debut, ''Unison'', has similar stylistic diversity, which would largely be left by the wayside as subsequent English albums placed her firmly in the AC ballad box. On more recent albums, however, she's included more ballads with an EDM flavor as opposed to her heavily orchestrated '90s hits, such as the Music/{{Sia}}-penned title song from 2012's ''Loved Me Back to Life'' and Lauv's "Imperfections" from 2019's ''Courage''.
* CallingMeALogarithm: Super-producer David Foster recalled that when he first met Dion, he used the phrase "bitchin'," and Dion, who had just recently become fluent in English, was insulted, thinking he was calling ''her'' a "bitch."

** ''Film/BicentennialMan'''s ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYjqojwp2hQ Then You Look At Me]]'', by Music/CelineDion, a popular singer in America during UsefulNotes/TheNineties. It doesn't describe any specific moment in the story, but is used as the love song between Andrew and Portia (with Little Miss substituting for her childhood years). The official music video [[VideoFullOfFilmClips takes clips from the relationship]] and displays them in a monitor in the background.

---> Dehors les néons s'allument [[note]]The neon lights outside[[/note]], All right!\\
J'préfère regarder la lune [[note]]I prefer watching the moon[[/note]], All night!
** "Tous Les Blues Sont Ecrits Pour Toi" (All the blues written for you") is practically a half-English song, with a few phrases such as "I woke up this morning, baby", "Nobody knows" and "Nobody cares" even being repeated a few times during the song. Notably, it's the only French song she performed on the U.S. leg of her 2019 ''Courage'' tour.
** She sometimes invokes GratuitousFrench instead, such as her English version of "Je T'aime Encore" which is English except for that specific phrase (while the French version of that song, "Et Je T'aime Encore", is fully French), as well as her rendition of Brahmm's Lullaby, which is English but has some French lines in the middle of the song.
*** In 1993, she recorded "White Christmas" with a host of other stars, including Johnny Mathis, Wynonna Judd, Tammy Wynette and Tom Jones, for producer David Foster's Christmas album, and sang a few lines of the song in French.

** CensoredForComedy during her Karaoke Pool stint, where at one point she was bleeped upon hearing James Corden sing her song.

* ''Dion chante Plamondon'' [[note]]Meaning ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dion Sings Plamondon]]''; this is an album containing songs written by French-Canadian lyricist, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Plamondon Luc Plamondon]], eight of which are [[CoverAlbum covers]]. This album was released in other Francophone countries as ''Des mots qui sonnent'', meaning ''Words That Resonate''.[[/note]] (1991)

** Her 1987 French-Canadian hit, "Lolita (Trop jeune pour aimer)" ("Too Young for Love"), includes the English phrase "I love you" a number of times, especially at the end of the song. Mind you, her English-language debut album was still three years away.

*** Of course, he now has his own satellite characters - in Quebec, if an artist gets picked up by René Angelil, you know he or she is gonna be a big star, at least in the French-speaking world. Prior to meeting Celine, Angelil managed the career of Rene Simard, a French-Canadian pop singer so well known even in English Canada that he was parodied on ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision'' as Rene Sitard. Angelil even made a cameo as an Mafia Godfather in a recent movie ''Omertà''- every Quebec critics said it was perfect casting as soon as it was announced.

* SingingVoiceDissonance: She sings in French with only the barest Québecois accent. When she speaks however, her accent's so thick, a common joke is that even the people of Québec have trouble understanding what she says. And her French-Canadian dialect is also much more noticeable when speaking English than when singing in it - which has become even more noticeable in recent years as the dialect has actually thickened.

* ShoutOut: The song "A New Day Has Come" features a reference to being "touched by an angel." Dion guest-starred as herself in an episode of [[Series/TouchedByAnAngel the CBS series of the same name]], and re-recorded her early '90s hit "Love Can Move Mountains" (which she also sang on the show) for the series' soundtrack album.

Her first American hit song was "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" and she attracted even more attention through her Oscar- and Grammy-winning theme song to Creator/{{Disney}}'s 1991 [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon animated classic]] ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', but it was a [[BreakthroughHit pair of movie themes]] later in the '90s that made her a true household name: "Because You Loved Me" from ''Up Close and Personal'' and "My Heart Will Go On" from ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}''.

* AmbiguouslyChristian: Like many Quebecers, Céline was raised Roman Catholic. She married and buried her husband in the Church and has been known to make the Sign of the Cross during her shows. However, she says organized religion has never been a big part of her life and she is more spiritual than religious. Part of this stems from a sour experience her mother had with a priest, who barred her from his church when she told him off for meddling in her home life.
-->'''Céline:''' ''[in a 2014 interview]'' I say that to believe in yourself is to believe in God. For me, God is life itself, the birds, the air, the sunrise and the sunset, the children. Yes, that is where I find God. ... That is the way we were raised. That is the strength and belief we had. I didn't have to go to church and get on my knees to find something to hold onto.

* AmbiguouslyChristian: Like many Quebecers, Céline was raised Roman Catholic. However, she says organized religion has never been a big part of her life and she is more spiritual than religious. Part of this stems from a sour experience her mother had with a priest, who barred her from his church when she told him off for meddling in her home life.

* AmbiguouslyChristian: Like many Quebecers, Céline was raised Roman Catholic. She both married and buried her husband in Montréal's Notre-Dame Basilica and was noted to make the Sign of the Cross on occasion during her shows in Vegas. However, she says organized religion has never been a big part of her life and she is more spiritual than religious.
-->'''Céline:''' ''[in a 2014 interview]'' I say that to believe in yourself is to believe in God. For me, God is life itself, the birds, the air, the sunrise and the sunset, the children. Yes, that is where I find God.
** She recalls that her mother once stood up to a priest for meddling in her home life and that the priest replied that she was no longer welcome in his church.
--->'''Céline:''' She replied, "As far as I'm concerned, I'm the God in here with my children. This is the house that I believe in." That is the way we were raised. That is the strength and belief we had. I didn't have to go to church and get on my knees to find something to hold onto.

* TheShowMustGoOn: Played straight, as Dion released a cover version of the Music/{{Queen}} song of that title after her husband's death. Also, she went ahead with a concert in Miami the day after her mother's death, dedicating the show to her and performing a rendition of [[Creator/JudyGarland Judy Garland's]] "[[SomewhereSong Over the Rainbow]]" as an encore while a photo of her mother displayed behind her.

* TheShowMustGoOn: Played straight, as Dion released a cover version of the Music/{{Queen}} song of that title after her husband's death. Also, she went ahead with a concert in Miami the day after her mother's death, dedicating the show to her and performing a rendition of [[Music/JudyGarland Judy Garland's]] "[[SomewhereSong Over the Rainbow]]" as an encore while a photo of her mother displayed behind her.

** The track "Perfect Goodbye" on 2019's ''Courage'' features another rare instance of Dion cursing on one of her English-language albums: "This sh*t is perfect."

* IncrediblyLongNote: Very common. Listen to "If You Asked Me To", "The Power Of Love", "All By Myself" and "My Heart Will Go On" for some examples.

* LyricVideo: Starting from ''Loved Me Back To Life'', she began to release these kind of music videos more than cinematic ones.

* PrecisionFStrike: The track "Perfect Goodbye" on 2019's ''Courage'' features possibly the first documented instance of Dion cursing on one of her English-language albums: "This sh*t is perfect."
** Wrong; that was the song "I Got Nothing Left" on 2013's ''Loved Me Back to Life''. It contains the lyric "When it came to loving me, you just weren't concerned / You never gave a damn so I guess now it's my turn".

* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: The narrator of "Everybody's Talkin' My Baby Down" on ''The Colour of My Love'' is determined to stay true to her man despite criticism from friends and relatives wondering why she stays with him.

Céline Marie Claudette Dion [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever CC]] (born 30 March 1968) is one of the most popular [[CanadaEh Canadian]] singers of all time. Born in [[UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}} Quebec]], ''the'' Canadian province whose majority of populace speak French[[note]]Canadian French, that is. It has evolved in a different direction compared to European French since it stopped being a French colony.[[/note]]. Thus, she spent her early years speaking and singing only French. Met her future husband, music manager René Angélil in 1981, who remained her manager ever since (although he officially stepped down as his health deteriorated later in his life). Started singing English in the late 1980s and released her first English album in 1990, and to this day has maintained successful careers singing in both French and English and has recorded in several other languages, including Spanish and even Japanese. Married René in 1994 and lived happily together along with three sons despite [[MayDecemberRomance the two's age difference]] until René passing due to throat cancer on January 14, 2016, 21 years into their marriage.

Céline Marie Claudette Dion [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever CC]] (born March 30, 1968) is one of the most popular [[CanadaEh Canadian]] singers of all time. Born in [[UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}} Quebec]], ''the'' Canadian province whose majority of populace speak French[[note]]Canadian French, that is. It has evolved in a different direction compared to European French since it stopped being a French colony.[[/note]]. Thus, she spent her early years speaking and singing only French. Met her future husband, music manager René Angélil in 1981, who remained her manager ever since (although he officially stepped down as his health deteriorated later in his life). Started singing English in the late 1980s and released her first English album in 1990, and to this day has maintained successful careers singing in both French and English and has recorded in several other languages, including Spanish and even Japanese. Married René in 1994 and lived happily together along with three sons despite [[MayDecemberRomance the two's age difference]] until René passing due to throat cancer on January 14, 2016, 21 years into their marriage.

Prior to her international breakout, she represented [[GuestFighter Switzerland]] in the Series/EurovisionSongContest 1988, winning with the song "Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi". [[CanonDiscontinuity She's never performed it since]].

** ''Film/BicentenialMan'''s ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYjqojwp2hQ Then You Look At Me]]'', by Music/CelineDion, a popular singer in America during UsefulNotes/TheNineties. It doesn't describe any specific moment in the story, but is used as the love song between Andrew and Portia (with Little Miss substituting for her childhood years). The official music video [[VideoFullOfFilmClips takes clips from the relationship]] and displays them in a monitor in the background.

* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: There was once a song by Jean Jacques Goldman called ''Puisque tu pars'', which is basically the [[TearJerker tearjerking]] complaint of a parent who sees their child leave them to experience life in the outside world. Then Céline decided to [[TranslatedCoverVersion sing it in English]], with lyrics that have [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning nothing to do with the original's]]. You might know her version as "Let's Talk About Love"

** CoveredUp: Some of her covers outfamed the originals, such as ''The Power Of Love'' (from Jennifer Rush and a chart hit for several others, including Laura Branigan, prior to Dion's version), ''It's All Coming Back to Me Now'' (Pandora's Box), ''All By Myself'' (Music/EricCarmen), ''The Last to Know'' (Music/SheenaEaston), ''Unison'' (British R&B singer Junior, also covered by Laura Branigan), ''I Drove All Night'' (Music/RoyOrbison and also a hit for Music/CyndiLauper), and ''If You Asked Me To'' (Music/[=PattiLaBelle=]). So much so, that many people tend to mistakenly attribute those songs to having been originally sung by her. This is also despite the fact that "All by Myself" and "I Drove All Night" were bigger hits for others prior to Céline recording them (Orbison and Lauper respectively).

* IAmNotShazam: "My Heart Will Go On" gets called "The Titanic Song" or even "Titanic" pretty often.

* {{Adorkable}}: Young Céline in the early years of her career in Quebec. In a CBC interview from 1983, the then-15-year-old can be seen nervously giggling her way through the first sentence she ever spoke in English in an interview (she was not fluent in the language at the time). Her 1987 album ''Incognito'' was a deliberate attempt to leave that behind by [[TheMakeover recasting the then-19-year-old]] as a sophisticated, sexy young woman, both in her image and in the subject matter of her songs.

* YourCheatingHeart: "(If There Was) Any Other Way" is sung from the POV of a woman telling her (presumably extramarital) lover she can't see him anymore, because her (presumably) husband has found out about the affair despite her attempts to cover her tracks. Unusual subject matter (at least for one of her English-language singles) given the passionate love ballads to come.

* AbsoluteCleavage: In ''Then You Look at Me'', she wore a low-cut cat-suit.

* AwardBaitSong: It started with ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', and she went on to sing a few more, winning some Grammys (such as "Because You Loved Me") and Oscars ("My Heart Will Go On") along the way. Parodied with "Ashes" in ''Film/Deadpool2.''

* [[MesACrowd Me's A Crowd]]: She split into copies of herself in her video ''Et s'il n'en restait qu'une (je serais celle-là)'' (which translates into ''[[StealthPun And If There Was Only One Woman Left (I Would Be That One)]]'')

* UpToEleven: In her music video to the song ''Ashes'', SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} tells her the song is ''[[SelfDeprecation too good]]'' for his [[Film/Deadpool2 trashy superhero sequel]] and she should phone it in more - "You're at like, an eleven, we need to get you down to a five, five and a half tops." Celine's response? "This thing[[note]][[BadassBoast pointing to herself]][[/note]] ''only'' goes to eleven, so ''beat it'', [[AccidentalMisnaming Spider-Man]]!"

* LanguageBarrier: Super-producer David Foster recalled that when he first met Dion, he used the phrase "bitchin'," and Dion, who had just recently become fluent in English, was insulted, thinking he was calling ''her'' a "bitch."

Céline Marie Claudette Dion [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever CC]] (born March 30, 1968 in Charlemagne, Quebec) is one of the most popular [[CanadaEh Canadian]] singers of all time. Born in [[UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}} Quebec]], ''the'' Canadian province whose majority of populace speak French[[note]]Canadian French, that is. It has evolved in a different direction compared to European French since it stopped being a French colony.[[/note]]. Thus, she spent her early years speaking and singing only French. Met her future husband, music manager René Angélil in 1981, who remained her manager ever since (although he officially stepped down as his health deteriorated later in his life). Started singing English in the late 1980s and released her first English album in 1990, and to this day has maintained successful careers singing in both French and English and has recorded in several other languages, including Spanish and even Japanese. Married René in 1994 and lived happily together along with three sons despite [[MayDecemberRomance the two's age difference]] until René passing due to throat cancer on January 14, 2016, 21 years into their marriage.

** "Tous Les Blues Sont Ecrits Pour Toi" (All the blues written for you") is practically a half-English song, even with a few phrases such as "I woke up this morning, baby", "Nobody knows" and "Nobody cares" being repeated a few times during the song. Notably, it's the only French song she performed on the U.S. leg of her 2019 ''Courage'' tour.