YMMV / Céline Dion

• Awesome Music: For her English-speaking fans, arguably her power ballads in the early 90s. And when she sang those hits live... hoo boy.
  • "Loved Me Back to Life" could also count.
  • If you think a Power Ballad singer can't rock, try her French song J'irai ou tu iras for some headbanging.
  • And she's done some killer dance tunes, even on her English albums which tend to be more adult contemporary-oriented than her French albums. Some examples: "Unison", "Love Can Move Mountains", "Misled", her cover of "I Drove All Night".
• Can't Un-Hear It: A version of "My Heart Will Go On" with voice clips from Titanic (1997) got massive airplay on Radio Disney. Anyone who listened to this version first will have a hard time listening to a normal one without imagining "Are you ready to go back to Titanic?" at the beginning or Jack and Rose talking during breaks.
• Covered Up:
  • Jennifer Rush co-wrote and originally performed "The Power of Love" almost a decade before Dion covered it. It charted for other artists before Dion (including another big-voiced brunette, Laura Branigan), but hers was far and away the most successful in North America.
  • Jim Steinman's "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" was first performed by Pandora's Box in 1989.
  • "If You Asked Me To" was first a minor hit in 1989 for Patti Labelle.
  • Dion's cover of Roy Orbison's "I Drove All Night" is arguably better known than that by Cyndi Lauper, although Lauper's version was a much bigger chart hit.
• Fan Nickname: "Titanic Song" for "My Heart Will Go On" for obvious reason, so much that for many this song even become associated with the historical RMS Titanic herself.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Has quite the fanbases in Iraq, China, Ghana and Jamaica. In fact, in Jamaica, she was still breaking ticket sales records as late as 2012.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Many of her sadder songs have become this given that her husband has died.
    • "My Heart Will Go On", performed as an encore on her 2019-20 Courage world tour, doubled as a tribute to Rene, with Céline blowing a kiss skyward after finishing the song.
    • "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" is about a woman being haunted by the death of the man she loved. Listening to it now, it seems uncomfortably like a Grief Song about Rene's death.
    • There's even one time when she sang All By Myself, nearly broke down in tears and almost couldn't finish the song.
    • A similar case happened with her French song Et Je T'aime Encore ("And I still love you"), which contains lyrics such as Mais ou es-tu? Si loin sans même une adresse (But where are you? So far away without even an address).
    • "Immortality" is now more heartbreaking, with her husband, her brother Daniel, and two-thirds of The Bee Gees (who wrote the song and also sung the backing vocals) no longer with us.
  • Given R. Kelly's legal troubles over the past few years, Céline's duet with him, "I'm Your Angel," comes across as somewhat creepy now. Understandably, she's since removed it from sale on iTunes.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: One year before Céline gave birth to her first son, a magazine published an erroneous story that said she was pregnant with twins, which displeased her enough to launch a lawsuit. Then she eventually had her first son, ultimately debunking the false story. Fast forward a decade later, she ended up with twin sons for real.
• Signature Song:
  • English: Besides "My Heart Will Go On"? Good choices would be "Where Does My Heart Beat Now", "Because You Loved Me", "It's All Coming Back to Me Now", "That's the Way It Is", or even "A New Day Has Come" (hey, the first three words of this song's title was the name of her Caesars Palace residency).
  • French: "Pour Que Tu M'aimes Encore" (So That You Love Me Still), her biggest French hit. She has even occasionally said that she makes it a point to include that song in her every concert, French or English. Another choice would be her Eurovision Song Contest-winning song "Ne partez pas sans moi".
• Suspiciously Similar Song: "(If There Was) Any Other Way," a Unison single, bears more than a passing resemblance to "Don't Rush Me" by Taylor Dayne as well as "Cruising for Bruising" by Polish vocalist Basia (which was on the Canadian charts at the same time as "Any Other Way"). Add to that the fact that Dion sounded a lot like Ms. Dayne vocally on her early English albums (in fact, she and Dayne both released versions of the song "Send Me a Lover" as singles).

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