Song of the Day 8/11: Céline Dion, “My Heart Will Go On”
As El Som noted in today’s Open Thread, the musical highlight of Trump’s sparsely attended Montana rally was the syrupy tear-jerker “My Heart Will Go On” by Céline Dion – famously, the theme song to James Cameron’s “Titanic.”
People started speculating that the choice was the work of a mole in the Trump campaign. I dismissed that as a joke – until I read that whoever programmed the music also played the Sondheim classic “Send In the Clowns.”
“My Heart Will Go On” has become Dion’s signature song – ironic, considering that she didn’t want to sing it and Cameron didn’t want it used it the movie. It first appeared on Dion’s album in December 1997. Released as a single in February 1998, when the film had already grossed more than $300 million at the box office, it debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100.
The song has drawn plenty of criticism over the years, and more than a couple of punk covers.
New Found Glory! They’ve done a handful of cover albums called “From the Screen to Your Stereo” that took memorable songs from movies and put them to pop-punk vibes. “My Heart Will Go On” is the closing track to that EP from way back in 2000, and that old record has 7 bangers: “The ‘Never Ending Story’ Theme,”, “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing,” “The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough,” “The Glory of Love,” and “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” before the aforementioned Dion track.
Hope the mole selects ‘Waterloo’ next.