Published article April 24, 2024
“My Heart Will Go On” may be the most famous song from a movie soundtrack, but the song that is associated with both Celine Dion’s career and the movie “Titanic” was one step away from seeing the light of day. of the day.
“My Heart Will Go On” added extra emotion to the dramatic scenes of Titanic, and Celine Dion was rewarded with an Oscar, a Golden Globe and several Grammy awards. The Canadian artist’s voice was the only thing that convinced director James Cameron to use the song in his film. He considered the project already “great”, so it seemed to him that a pop song would not fit and would not add anything. Cameron was adamant about his positions and refused the music. Everything changed, however, when he heard Celine sing.
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“I played the song for a demo and didn’t play it again to record it officially. They used my voice drawn in one piece”she said in an interview with Vogue France.
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“James Cameron, the director of the film, didn’t want any songs. He said, ‘My film is already great. I don’t need any songs.’ The composer came secretly, I was in Las Vegas with Rene (her husband-no) and he played the song for us. My husband was looking at me and the composer and told him to stop, let’s go to Los Angeles to do a demo on it. When he said that, I realized that I messed up. I didn’t want to sing the song, the director didn’t want a track in his film, and I knew that when I walk into the studio and hear the music, I get into a character and I’m told a short story of movie, I’m already in tears, but it’s just a demo, just to put my voice on it, a single take, something quick, just to show it to the director, I never sang it again to make it into a official recording. They used my voice from that demo out of one piece”Celine Dion told about the most famous song of her career.
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Titanic had a budget of $200 million, and after its December 1997 release, the film grossed $600 million at the domestic box office and $1.84 billion worldwide.
Also read: James Cameron, the truth about how “Titanic” was filmed. The film far exceeded the proposed budget, and the studio panicked
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