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.
