And it gave us the theme for Up Close & Personal, which most girls in my sixth grade class used for a class project on pop music. It over-romanticized drama and expressed sentiment with urgency, not as an afterthought. It revamped a genre not particularly in touch with its feelings it celebrated drama and emotional declarations and octave-spanning vocals none of us could sing along to without sounding like something was terribly wrong with our bodies. I mean that without this particular album (and Céline Dion in general), pop music as we know it wouldn’t exist. On March 12, 2016, Céline Dion’s Falling Into You turned 20, and as Canadian tradition dictates, we must honour the album that made everything possible.Īnd I don’t just mean jams like “Because You Loved Me” and “It’s All Coming Back To Me Now,” which catapulted Céline into the upper echelons of the adult contemporary stratosphere.
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