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Sara
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
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Posted - 13/05/2008 : 23:53:31
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Yeah Janie, where's our report?!
 
Sara x |
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Janie
Administrator
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 14/05/2008 : 07:59:05
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Originally posted by Sara
Yeah Janie, where's our report?!
Sara x
Janie's been a busy bee!   
I very much enjoyed the concert. It was a good 'production' piece - brilliant lighting, dance sequences and of course Celine strutting her stuff....and strutt it she did.
The music machine has turned her into a quasi rock-chick which doesn't sit well, leastways it didn't with me.
She sang a lot of her big hits plus things like 'I Drove All Night' (not a patch on Cyndi Lauper's interpretation), 'We Will Rock You', 'How Can I Get You Alone'......I wish she would stay in trousers or long dresses as she looked really good in them but those SHORT dresses/skirts - they were enough to bring a girls tea back up again . Isn't it ironic that I never found the sight of Tina Turners legs a real turn-off but Celine's.......well.....must be something to do with muscle tone I think, or possibly a distinct lack of it . She has though put on a little weight and is nowhere near as skinny looking as she used to be .
Her accent (she is French Canadian) has really toned down which makes her 'sound easier' on the ear for a pleb like me, although in speech she still talks about 'my 'uuzband Rene'!
Whilst she has a good voice (in my opinion anyway, I know there will be those who strongly disagree) I really don't think she is up there with the greats by a long, long chalk. For me she didn't engage with the audience on any level - I know the O2 is a big arena and some may claim its impersonal but, as you all know, I have been there umpteen times now and it IS possible for an artist to actually 'say' something to the audience rather than just strutt and sing.
Btw, she over acted what she referred to as an emotional song, 'almost a prayer' about 'luuuve'.......she reckoned it nearly brought her to tears each time she sang it. 10 out of 10 Celine because you brought me to tears when you sang it - it was atrocious. Dusty could have taught her a thing or two about how to interpret lyric. Actually that's a pretty decent way to leave this little diatribe..........Celine can give it what for but she ain't an interpreter of lyric......so maybe I've just contradicted my own comment her about being able to sing???????!!!!!!
I had a wonderful evening though - the company was the best .
Janie x54
p.s. Could somebody please tell me why I always get allocated a ticket where I have to sit next to a female who is worse for wear on alcohol? This particular young Irish lady was a delight I have to say but my lord did she carry on some. I nearly had my eyes poked out umpteen times as she got over excited, arms flailing in the air  ...... she sang every word at the top of her voice and stank like a brewery - I was in morbid fear that if I were to be stopped by the police on the way home I would be done for drink driving because of the fumes I must have inhaled . She enjoyed herself though, and I guess that's what counted and she was an OK girl - not like that one at the Streisand concert  . |
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Carole R.
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
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Posted - 14/05/2008 : 09:39:03
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Thanks Janie, for that brilliant and incisive report.
Your opinion is much the same as the critcs, in the parer I read.
I was hoping that you'd come back saying that Celine was wonderful and marvellous.
However, it seems that we were 'right' re her personality.
She lacks that 'certain something' and doesn't connect with her audience at all, because of it.
Anyways I'm glad you enjoyed the evening, and once again, found the only drunkard in the O2 sitting alongside you.
If this happens again, we'll be within our rights to think that someone is spiking your apple juice.
Thanks again... and if Celine is reading this She'll be distraught to learn that I'll be giving her Manchester Show a miss.
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Edited by - Carole R. on 14/05/2008 09:41:58 |
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treking
Wasn't Born To Follow
United Kingdom
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Posted - 17/05/2008 : 22:43:24
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Ta for the review.
I think that's what puts me off her..her failure to engage with an audience and this somehow false emotion when she does talk.
She doesn't interpret a song either as you say she just belts it out.
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Earthbound Gypsy
Something Special
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Posted - 17/05/2008 : 23:26:35
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Thanks for your review Janie. I still feel as if she just doesn't have a great British following, for whatever reason. All her reviews in Las Vegas were all outstanding.
As for her Canadian French accent. Did you know she only learned to speak English as an adult as she wanted American fame? I wish my French was as good as her English!
I personally have mixed feelings about her myself, but I do think she is very talented. My mixed feelings are basically that I think she comes off as a "DIVA" now in the bad sense of the word and has become a bit full of herself. Of course I do not know her in person, so perhaps it isn't fair for me to judge her this way, but I guess I'm entitled to my opinion.
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