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...Association of Retired Persons and with Jon Bon Jovi headed nowhere, given his quiet 1997 solo single "Midnight in Chelsea," arena rock is rapidly nearing extinction. In its absence--if recent Grammy Awards are any indication--we face pop airwaves dominated by the mushy background music of Jewel, Celine Dion, Hootie and the Blowfish, Shawn Colvin and Paula Cole...
After concluding on a romantic note with "Lady in Red" and Celine Dion's Titanic theme, first-years collected their party favors...
...Dion seems to have adopted the sound that Mariah Carey abandoned several years back--that crushing, crashing, pomp-and-circumstance style that seeks to swallow the listener up in production and emotion. The main problem with Let's Talk About Love is that Dion's sense of dynamics is only a trifle more refined than Saddam Hussein's sense of international protocol. She doesn't build songs, she demolishes them, she overruns them, like Caesar conquering Gaul. Oh, she tries to rein herself in, but to no avail. The song The Reason starts off gently, then, out of nowhere, Dion...
...another song, I Hate You Then I Love You, Dion makes the mistake of having opera star Luciano Pavarotti join her in a duet. Now, inviting Pavarotti to sing a fluff-headed pop song is like asking Picasso to paint your house--it's just not practical. Pavarotti's big, clear tenor easily trumps Dion's showy yelp, and he doesn't stop there--he goes on to overwhelm the song's flitty lyrics and thrash its slight melody. Final score: Pavarotti: 3, Song: 0, Dion: 0. And while we're at it, give Dion a zero for this album...
...best on the track On Holy Ground: her voice scales the song, rising above the piano and the organ and the gospel choir, and at the climax hits a decisive, optimistic end note. She would have done well to have left off the song Tell Him, a duet with Dion that appears on both their albums. Streisand's too good to share billing with Dion. Hopefully, Streisand's next album will be a more fitting showcase for her transporting talents...