Celine Dion: A New Day Has Come : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone

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No matter how awful the new Celine Dion album sounds, you have to admit: It took real artistic integrity not to do a September 11th song. For that alone, C-Boogie earns both of her stars. The grande dame of global schlock pop, never previously noted for her discretion, has returned after a brief hiatus from the music biz, a vacation we all enjoyed as much as she did. For A New Day Has Come, she assembles a team of songwriters that will astound any connoisseur of Eighties pop trash: Here's Aldo Nova, there's Corey Hart, can't forget Mutt Lange and, holy Christ, it's Charlie Dore, who sang "Pilot of the Airwaves" in 1980! Lange contributes "Goodbye's (The Saddest Word)," sure to inspire many hours of dull debate with Bernie Taupin. Dion's voice is still just furniture polish -- she doesn't have the pipes for material defined by Etta James ("At Last") or Nat "King" Cole ("Nature Boy"). But give her credit for knowing where to draw the line.

ROB SHEFFIELD

(Posted: Apr 10, 2002)

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5of 5 Stars

Well, I must admit that I knew few things about Celine Dion. But I've heard on a TV show her single "I'm Alive" and I thought: "Wow, it sounds like pop! I like it!". Later, I could hear the lead single, "A New Day Has Come" and I fell in love with it.

So, when the opportunity came over me, I couldn't resist: I just had to buy it!

And you know what? I don't regret it! Now I classify it among the best albums I've got. It has a lot of different sounds, and this makes this album very pleasant to my ears.

People who loves pop will enjoy tracks like "I'm Alive", "Right In Front Of You" and "When the Wrong One Loves You Right". For those people who like to hear the power of Celine's voice, we have the amazing "I Surrender", "Goodbye's (The Saddest Word)" and "Prayer".

Celine even shows us her ability to sing in Spanish, in the track "Aún Existe Amor" (it's aversion for her 1993 song "L'Amour Exist Encore".

Her renditions to "At Last" and "Nature Boy" are technically good, but I don't think they fit into the album style. But it doesn't mean that they're not good. She sings these songs perfectly.

So, if you like Celine Dion, if you like pop music, if you enjoyed the album's three singles ("I'm Alive", "A New Day..." and "Goodbye's", you really should go for this great work.

Thanks to it, I came to know more about past works of this great 90's-00's artist, Miss Celine Dion.

May 30, 2008 13:44:44

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