But the new level of mastery that Céline brings to “My Heart Will Go On” is that she’s figured out how to be super loud quietly. There is nuance. There is drama. There is precisely calibrated rising action. This song is a bear attack in a library. Which only makes that final, bellowed, gale-force chorus (“You’rrrrrre herrrrrrre”) even more overpowering and exhilarating. Because the final chorus, historically, is where Céline Dion sings the hardest and makes most of her money and kicks most of her ass. She is a self-serenading volcano impersonating a mortal human woman. And she is convincing
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