July 28, 2003
Why I almost always hate the singing of Celine Dion

Today there was a totally irrelevant comment, attached by some woman whose husband done her wrong, to this samizdata piece of mine, which was about the last US superbowl football match, which was won by the underdog Tampa Bay Buccaneers. (Samizdata writers get get email notification of all comments on their stuff, however daft the comments may be.) This caused me to re-read what I'd said about the Superbowl, and I also read the comments.

And, I came across a comment of my own on the subject of the singing of Celine Dion. Most of the comments were about sport, so this comment is never going to get rescued and shown to posterity if I don't do the disinterring myself. Here it is:

Yes, the Celine Dion thing is interesting. Normally I can't stand the way this woman sings. I think what I hate is that she performs every damn song she ever sings, invariably about her troubled relationships with her boy friends, as if she was singing God Bless America in a huge and packed football stadium, and what sane woman would do a thing like that? But this time she was singing God Bless America in a huge and packed football stadium.

I really like that, though I say so myself, which I did.

Posted by Brian Micklethwait at 03:22 PM
Category: Pop music