LISTEN > Celine Dion Covers Adele, Is Amazing at It: Who Sang It Better?
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2012/06/13 18:00:00
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One Grammy winner covering another... How could it possibly go wrong? Canadian pop singer Celine Dion kicked off a new set of Las Vegas shows last weekend, and thrilled fans with a cover of Adele's chart-topping single "Rolling in the Deep." The song spent seven weeks at the top of the charts earlier this year, and spent 65 weeks in the Hot 100.
Dion saw similar success with "My Heart Will Go On," better known as the "Titanic" theme song, in 1997. At the time, that gem broke the record for largest radio audience of all time with 117 million listeners in one month, though it only spent two weeks at the top of the charts. The current leg of her Las Vegas residency is set to run through August 19, but she'll be in-and-out of there through 2014. Check out the recording below and let us know if you think she rocked it enough to beat Adele at her own game.
Dion saw similar success with "My Heart Will Go On," better known as the "Titanic" theme song, in 1997. At the time, that gem broke the record for largest radio audience of all time with 117 million listeners in one month, though it only spent two weeks at the top of the charts. The current leg of her Las Vegas residency is set to run through August 19, but she'll be in-and-out of there through 2014. Check out the recording below and let us know if you think she rocked it enough to beat Adele at her own game.
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Depsycho 2012/06/13 22:25:31
Here's what throws me off: People love when newer artists cover a song in tribute to a more established artist.
Yet those same people turn around and attack an established artist who covers a song in tribute to a newer artist. That person is riding the coattails of the newer artist, but it isn't the same when the two are reversed.
Also, I have to ask: Why Ned Stark?
It's a common poetic theme, especially in music, when the ocean is used to symbolise depression; lost at sea, trying hopelessly to find there way back to shore, bottomless (feels lyk it's endless), that sensation of drowning, weariness, numbness n isolation etc.
One I lyk, though admittedly I don't care much for the artist, is Stan Walker's song "Black box": "There's a lot of pressure when u get deep, left me on my own at 600 feet. I was looking around for a little help but everyone was looking out 4 themselves."
Every time I hear it I think: "there's a lot of pressure when u get deep" is kind of lyk a play on words - 'Deep pressure' sounds alot lyk 'depression' ('deep' n 'press') n the feeling he's describing sounds a lot lyk depression; you get all deep (which u do when ur depressed - u get all introspective n melodramatic) n it feels lyk there's just this heaviness, crushing down on u (lyk the ocean - the deep) but I'm probably just looking too much into it.
Though, I still remember my English teacher telling me that a good composer thinks of everything n everything they do is for a reason - to add to the theme. Especiallly poetry and what is music but melodic poetry? Still, I could be wrong but maybe that's why so many artists use that theme, bcoz it sums it up so perfectly.
Not really crazy about Adele.