Sound CheckCeline Dion’s best and worst love songs
Canadian songstress Celine Dion is the queen of sappy songs and in honour of this year’s Valentine’s Day, let’s take a look at some of her best and worst tracks about love.
THE BEST
“Because You Loved Me”
This Dion classic served as the theme song to the film “Up Close & Personal” starring Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer in 1996.
Upon its release, The New York Times deemed the Diane Warren-penned tune as that year’s “Wind Beneath My Wings."
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Favourite lyrics: “You were always there for me/The tender wind that carried me/ A light in the dark shining your love into my life/ You've been my inspiration/ Through the lies you were the truth/My world is a better place because of you.”
“All By Myself”
Featured on her album “Falling Into You,” this tune is actually a cover of Eric Carmen’s 1975 original and according to the songwriter, Dion's rendition "pretty much established 'All By Myself' as a franchise."
Admit it, it’s the sad love song you sang to before Adele’s “Someone Like You" came along.
Favourite lyrics: “Hard to be sure/ Sometimes I feel so insecure/And love’s so distant and obscure/Remains the cure.”
“I Want You to Need Me”
For some, this song says all of the things you might be afraid to admit to the person you’re interested in. Those feelings of wanting to be everything to that special person can be hard to put into words and Dion’s powerful delivery invokes passion into what she’s singing about.
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Favourite lyrics: “I want to be the face you see when you close your eyes/ I want to be the touch you need every single night/ I want to be your fantasy/ And be your reality/ And everything between.”
THE WORST
“I Drove All Night”
This song was a bit odd when Cyndi Lauper released it in 1989 and didn’t get any better when Dion included it on her 2003 album “One Heart.”
If we were to take the lyrics literally, the singer drove all night, snuck into her lover’s room and woke him up to have sex with him. She ponders in the song’s first verse, “Maybe I should have called you first.” Yes, yes you should have.
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Worst lyrics: “I drove all night to get to you/Is that alright/I drove all night/ Crept in your room/Woke you from your sleep/ To make love to you/ Is that alright/I drove all night.”
“It’s All Coming Back To Me Now”
This tune was writer Jim Steinman’s “attempt to write the most passionate, romantic song [he] could ever write,” and was influenced by one of his favourite books, “Wuthering Heights.”
There is so much back and forth in this song that it makes the relationship sound toxic and you end up feeling bad for the singer for doing everything to get over the failed union and then falling back into the same pattern once the one who left returns.
Worst lyrics: “But you were history with the slamming of the door/And I made myself so strong again somehow/And I never wasted any of my time on you since then/But if I touch you like this/And if you kiss me like that/It was so long ago/But it's all coming back to me.”
“My Heart Will Go On”
Even though this song holds an Academy Award and four Grammys, it still makes us change the station after hearing it so many times since its release in 1997 as the love theme from “Titanic.”
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Worst lyrics: “Near, far, wherever you are/I believe that the heart does go on/Once more you open the door/And you're here in my heart/And my heart will go on and on.”
