I have had two experiences which made me give some limited consideration to Celine, but I don't know whether they'd make me more receptive to the book, or more prone to be annoyed by it:
- Interrailing, we stayed in a wonderful semi-ruined villa in Verona. Which always had the same tape playing at breakfast. It included a very soulful, and very good live version of Bowie's 'Changes', and a Celine Dion track. And one morning there was a girl sat there in floods of tears at the Celine. It hit me that, while I didn't much rate the song, this girl was getting from it something closer to what I get from my favourite music than I suspect the average fan of eg Sonic Youth or Fugazi is deriving from their choice of music.
- Pavlovian association, during the endless reign of 'My Heart Will Go On', between the video's visual of crying Kate Winslet during her hottest phase, and the song itself. I still maintain that, covered by Suede at the time, that song would have been excellent.
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Date: 2010-10-18 01:50 pm (UTC)- Interrailing, we stayed in a wonderful semi-ruined villa in Verona. Which always had the same tape playing at breakfast. It included a very soulful, and very good live version of Bowie's 'Changes', and a Celine Dion track. And one morning there was a girl sat there in floods of tears at the Celine. It hit me that, while I didn't much rate the song, this girl was getting from it something closer to what I get from my favourite music than I suspect the average fan of eg Sonic Youth or Fugazi is deriving from their choice of music.
- Pavlovian association, during the endless reign of 'My Heart Will Go On', between the video's visual of crying Kate Winslet during her hottest phase, and the song itself. I still maintain that, covered by Suede at the time, that song would have been excellent.