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In 2003, Celine Dion began a long-term engagement with Caesars Palace, performing a show based on her 2002 album, A New Day Has Come, at the Las Vegas casino five nights a week. The Vegas show was such a success that the powers that be wound up extending its run, eventually closing the production at the end of 2007, over a year later than originally planned. During these long five years, Dion trickled out some new releases -- there was a new collection called One Heart that hit the stores the day the whole Sin City affair started, as well as a few French-language albums, a document of the live show, and a soundtrack to Anne Geddes baby photographs -- but she never did a full-fledged, big-screen sequel to A New Day Has Come. She was saving that for when the Vegas extravaganza wrapped up, and as soon as it was ready to close, Dion was ready with Taking Chances, her first "official" pop album in five years.
Never one for subtlety, Celine Dion hammers home that her post-Vegas years are going to be different with the very title of Taking Chances, but she doesn't stop there. Not only is this the time for her to take chances, she's also full of surprises and there's a new day dawning. She sings that "just when you thought you got me figured out," she'll do something unexpected because she's a "chameleon" -- basically, any rebirth cliché that comes to mind pops up somewhere on Taking Chances, as Celine never lets listeners forget that she is beginning the next grand chapter of her career. In the pre-release push for the album, it was suggested that Dion was, well, taking chances with her music, and her enlisting of Evanescence's Ben Moody to produce and write a couple of tracks, while hiring Linda Perry to write another couple, suggested that this would indeed be a different kind of Celine album. And it is, at least a little bit. Over its long, long 16 tracks, Celine indulges in some glossy electronic beats on "Shadow of Love," flirts with hard rock on the Aldo Nova-written "Can't Fight the Feelin'" (the great Canadian AOR rocker writes three other tunes here, including "A Song for You," which borrows a title from Leon Russell but nothing else), tries to shimmy like Shakira on "Eyes on Me," and even tries to belt out the blues on "That's Just the Woman in Me," written by former Soft Boy Kimberley Rew.
Added to this are the understated but no less significant efforts to hitch her wagon to the numerous American Idols who imitate her style. Celine attempts to snatch Heart's "Alone" from Carrie Underwood and cribs from Kelly Clarkson's operatic rock, two blatant thieveries that, when combined with the quartet of explicit changeups, gives Taking Chances a vaguely desperate vibe, as if Celine needs to prove that she still reigns supreme among all divas. Although Dion can pull off these moves with strenuous skill, all the effort is for naught because these slight changes in sound wind up serving an album that doesn't feel that different than the same old Celine Dion. The album may not be as big and spangly as A New Day Has Come -- whose glittery surfaces and exaggerated arrangements were ideal for the Vegas chapter of Dion's career -- but it does play as a refurbished version of her 1996 blockbuster, Falling into You, overhauled for a new millennium. It lacks both the epic Jim Steinman songs and the Diane Warren ballads, yet their imprint remains, as their over the top formula is given a brushed aluminum finish -- a sleek, chilly, tasteful sound that fits the mood of the late 2000s. And if Taking Chances is anything, it's an album of its time: it offers extravagance in the guise of self-help, which can be alluring in doses -- especially those bizarre blues-rockers -- but it's just too much of a very expensive yet not particularly tasteful thing.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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David A. Stewart, Composer, Lyricist - Humberto Gatica, Recording Engineer - Kara Dioguardi, Composer, Lyricist, Background Vocal - John Shanks, Producer, Guitar, Bass Guitar - Lars Fox, Editor - Vlado Meller, Mastering Engineer - Shari Sutcliffe, Project Coordinator - Mark Santangelo, Assistant Engineer - Ned Douglas, Keyboards - Jeff Chestek, Engineer - Jeff Rothschild, Drums, Programmer, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Celine Dion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - François Lalonde, Assistant Engineer
(P) 2007 Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc.
David Campbell, Arranger - Mark Gray, Assistant Engineer - Billy Steinberg, Composer, Lyricist - TOM KELLY, Composer, Lyricist - CHRIS LORD-ALGE, Mixing Engineer - Nik Karpen, Assistant Engineer - Vlado Meller, Mastering Engineer - Mark Santangelo, Assistant Engineer - Ben Moody, Producer - David Hodges, Piano - Abe Laboriel Jr., Drums - Celine Dion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Dan Certa, Recording Engineer - François Lalonde, Recording Engineer - Marty O'Brien, Bass Guitar - Michael "Fish" Herring, Guitar
(P) 2007 Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc.
Kristian Lundin, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer, Background Vocal - Delta Goodrem, Composer, Lyricist, Background Vocal - Savan Kotecha, Composer, Lyricist - Mark Gray, Assistant Engineer - Sebastian Thott, Guitar - Vlado Meller, Mastering Engineer - Mark Santangelo, Assistant Engineer - Celine Dion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - François Lalonde, Recording Engineer - Karl Engström, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmer
(P) 2007 Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc.
Mark Gray, Assistant Engineer - Paul Ill, Bass Guitar - Linda Perry, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Engineer, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards, Organ, Piano - Vlado Meller, Mastering Engineer - Mark Santangelo, Assistant Engineer - Celine Dion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Andrew Chavez, Assistant Engineer - Kristofer Kaufman, Assistant Engineer - Nathan Wetherington, Drums - Roger Sommers, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - François Lalonde, Recording Engineer
(P) 2007 SONY BMG MUSIC (CANADA) INC.
Peter Sjöström, Composer, Lyricist - Anders Bagge, Composer, Lyricist - Mark Gray, Assistant Engineer - Lucy Woodward, Background Vocal - Jamie Muhoberac, Keyboards - John Shanks, Producer, Guitar, Bass Guitar - Lars Fox, Editor - Vlado Meller, Mastering Engineer - Shari Sutcliffe, Project Coordinator - Mark Santangelo, Assistant Engineer - Kevin Mills, Assistant Engineer - Jeff Chestek, Engineer - Abe Laboriel Jr., Drums - Jeff Rothschild, Programmer, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Celine Dion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - ALDO NOVA, Composer, Lyricist - John Stahl, Assistant Engineer - Montez Roberts, Assistant Engineer - François Lalonde, Engineer, Recording Engineer
(P) 2007 SONY BMG MUSIC (CANADA) INC.
Martin Harrington, Composer, Lyricist - Ash Howes, Composer, Lyricist - Mark Gray, Assistant Engineer - Jeff Bova, Strings - Brian Warwick, Engineer, Assistant Engineer - Dorian Crozier, Drums - Kara Dioguardi, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Background Vocal - CHRIS LORD-ALGE, Mixing Engineer - Emanuel Kiriakou, Producer, Engineer, Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Piano, Programmer - Nik Karpen, Assistant Engineer - Rich Davis, Project Coordinator - Vlado Meller, Mastering Engineer - Mark Santangelo, Assistant Engineer - Pat Thrall, Editor - Celine Dion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ed Cherney, Engineer, Recording Engineer - Doug Petty, Organ - François Lalonde, Recording Engineer
(P) 2007 SONY BMG MUSIC (CANADA) INC.
Steven McMorran, Composer, Lyricist - David Campbell, Arranger - Mark Gray, Assistant Engineer - Jim Keltner, Drums - CHRIS LORD-ALGE, Mixing Engineer - Nik Karpen, Assistant Engineer - Vlado Meller, Mastering Engineer - Mark Santangelo, Assistant Engineer - Ben Moody, Composer, Lyricist, Producer - David Hodges, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Piano - Celine Dion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Dan Certa, Recording Engineer - François Lalonde, Recording Engineer - Marty O'Brien, Bass Guitar - Michael "Fish" Herring, Guitar
(P) 2007 SONY BMG MUSIC (CANADA) INC.
Mark Gray, Assistant Engineer - Paul Ill, Bass Guitar - Linda Perry, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Engineer, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Background Vocal - Vlado Meller, Mastering Engineer - Mark Santangelo, Assistant Engineer - Celine Dion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Salcedo, Recording Engineer - David Levita, Electric Guitar - Andrew Chavez, Assistant Engineer - Kristofer Kaufman, Assistant Engineer - Nathan Wetherington, Drums - Roger Sommers, Mixing Engineer - François Lalonde, Recording Engineer - Donna Simon, Background Vocal - D.C. Collard, Organ
(P) 2007 SONY BMG MUSIC (CANADA) INC.
Anders Bagge, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Orchestrator - Mark Gray, Assistant Engineer - Robert Wells, Composer, Lyricist, Piano - Vlado Meller, Mastering Engineer - Mark Santangelo, Assistant Engineer - Stockholm Session Strings, Strings - Celine Dion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Markus Bergkvist, Recording Engineer - ALDO NOVA, Composer, Lyricist - Nicklas Flyckt, Mixing Engineer - François Lalonde, Recording Engineer - Evelina Gard, Background Vocal - Per Sporrong, Violin
(P) 2007 SONY BMG MUSIC (CANADA) INC.
Tino Izzo, Composer, Lyricist - Rosanna Ciciola, Composer, Lyricist - Mark Gray, Assistant Engineer - Michael Thompson, Electric Guitar - Lucy Woodward, Background Vocal - Larry Gold, Arranger - John Shanks, Producer, Guitar, Bass Guitar - PATRICK LEONARD, Keyboards - Lars Fox, Editor - Vlado Meller, Mastering Engineer - Shari Sutcliffe, Project Coordinator - Mark Santangelo, Assistant Engineer - Kevin Mills, Assistant Engineer - Jeff Chestek, Engineer - Abe Laboriel Jr., Drums - Jeff Rothschild, Programmer, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Celine Dion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Stahl, Assistant Engineer - Montez Roberts, Assistant Engineer - François Lalonde, Recording Engineer
(P) 2007 SONY BMG MUSIC (CANADA) INC.
Mark Gray, Assistant Engineer - Lucy Woodward, Background Vocal - Jamie Muhoberac, Keyboards - John Shanks, Producer, Guitar, Bass Guitar - Lars Fox, Editor - Vlado Meller, Mastering Engineer - Shari Sutcliffe, Project Coordinator - Mark Santangelo, Assistant Engineer - Kevin Mills, Assistant Engineer - Jeff Chestek, Engineer - Abe Laboriel Jr., Drums - Jeff Rothschild, Programmer, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Celine Dion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - ALDO NOVA, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Electric Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Programmer - John Stahl, Assistant Engineer - Montez Roberts, Assistant Engineer - François Lalonde, Recording Engineer
(P) 2007 SONY BMG MUSIC (CANADA) INC.
Charles Harmon, Composer, Lyricist - Mark Gray, Assistant Engineer - Chuck Harmony, Producer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer - Shaffer Smith, Composer, Lyricist - Kevin "KD" Davis, Mixing Engineer - Vlado Meller, Mastering Engineer - Mark Santangelo, Assistant Engineer - Celine Dion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ne-Yo, Co-Producer, Background Vocal - Jesse Bond, Guitar - François Lalonde, Recording Engineer - Calvin Palmer, Bass Guitar - Damon "DJ" Jefferson, Drums
(P) 2007 SONY BMG MUSIC (CANADA) INC.
Tim Christensen, Composer, Lyricist, Drums, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards - Mark Gray, Assistant Engineer - Martin Sutton, Keyboards, Mixing Engineer - Christopher Neil, Producer, Background Vocal - Vlado Meller, Mastering Engineer - Mark Santangelo, Assistant Engineer - Celine Dion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rune Nissen-Petersen, Recording Engineer - François Lalonde, Recording Engineer - Belle Erskine, Background Vocal
(P) 2007 SONY BMG MUSIC (CANADA) INC.
David Stenmarck, Composer, Lyricist, Background Vocal - Peer Astrom, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Arranger, Drums, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Programmer - Mark Gray, Assistant Engineer - Tommy Andersson, Engineer - CHRIS LORD-ALGE, Mixing Engineer - Nik Karpen, Assistant Engineer - Vlado Meller, Mastering Engineer - Mark Santangelo, Assistant Engineer - Ulf Forsberg, Strings - Celine Dion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Lasse Marten, Engineer - Sebastian Nylund, Guitar - ALDO NOVA, Composer, Lyricist - François Lalonde, Recording Engineer - Linda Lampenius, Strings
(P) 2007 SONY BMG MUSIC (CANADA) INC.
Mark Gray, Assistant Engineer - Michael Thompson, Guitar - Lucy Woodward, Background Vocal - Larry Gold, Arranger - Jamie Muhoberac, Keyboards - John Shanks, Producer, Guitar, Bass Guitar - Lars Fox, Editor - Vlado Meller, Mastering Engineer - Shari Sutcliffe, Project Coordinator - Mark Santangelo, Assistant Engineer - Kevin Mills, Assistant Engineer - Jeff Chestek, Engineer - Abe Laboriel Jr., Drums - Jeff Rothschild, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Kimberley Rew, Composer, Lyricist - Celine Dion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Stahl, Assistant Engineer - Montez Roberts, Assistant Engineer - François Lalonde, Recording Engineer
(P) 2007 SONY BMG MUSIC (CANADA) INC.
Terius Nash, Composer, Lyricist - Mark Gray, Assistant Engineer - Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, Composer, Lyricist - Thaddis Harrell, Composer, Lyricist - Jaycen Joshua, Mixing Engineer - Kuk Harrell, Producer, Recording Engineer - Vlado Meller, Mastering Engineer - Dave "Hard Drive" Pensado, Mixing Engineer - Mark Santangelo, Assistant Engineer - C. "tricky" Stewart, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer - Celine Dion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Lee Blaske, Strings - Fred Nelson, Piano - Terius "The-Dream" Nash, Producer - Christy Hall, Project Coordinator - Judi Acosta-Stewart, Project Coordinator - François Lalonde, Recording Engineer
(P) 2007 SONY BMG MUSIC (CANADA) INC.
Shelly Peiken, Composer, Lyricist, Background Vocal - Guy Roche, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Keyboards, Recording Engineer - Tim Pierce, Guitar - Mark Gray, Assistant Engineer - Sean Hurley, Bass Guitar - CHRIS LORD-ALGE, Mixing Engineer - Nik Karpen, Assistant Engineer - Vlado Meller, Mastering Engineer - Dushyant Bhakta, Recording Engineer - Celine Dion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Randy Cooke, Drums - Tom Murphy, Recording Engineer - François Lalonde, Recording Engineer - Tim Pierce, Nicholas Stratton, Guitar
(P) 2007 SONY BMG MUSIC (CANADA) INC.
David A. Stewart, Composer, Lyricist - Humberto Gatica, Recording Engineer - Kara Dioguardi, Composer, Lyricist, Background Vocal - John Shanks, Producer, Guitar, Bass Guitar - Lars Fox, Editor - Ned Douglas, Keyboards - Jeff Chestek, Engineer - Jeff Rothschild, Drums, Programmer, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Celine Dion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - François Lalonde, Assistant Engineer - Steve Fernandez, Re-Mixer - Vince Maria, Re-Mixer
(P) 2007 SONY BMG MUSIC (CANADA) INC.
Album review
In 2003, Celine Dion began a long-term engagement with Caesars Palace, performing a show based on her 2002 album, A New Day Has Come, at the Las Vegas casino five nights a week. The Vegas show was such a success that the powers that be wound up extending its run, eventually closing the production at the end of 2007, over a year later than originally planned. During these long five years, Dion trickled out some new releases -- there was a new collection called One Heart that hit the stores the day the whole Sin City affair started, as well as a few French-language albums, a document of the live show, and a soundtrack to Anne Geddes baby photographs -- but she never did a full-fledged, big-screen sequel to A New Day Has Come. She was saving that for when the Vegas extravaganza wrapped up, and as soon as it was ready to close, Dion was ready with Taking Chances, her first "official" pop album in five years.
Never one for subtlety, Celine Dion hammers home that her post-Vegas years are going to be different with the very title of Taking Chances, but she doesn't stop there. Not only is this the time for her to take chances, she's also full of surprises and there's a new day dawning. She sings that "just when you thought you got me figured out," she'll do something unexpected because she's a "chameleon" -- basically, any rebirth cliché that comes to mind pops up somewhere on Taking Chances, as Celine never lets listeners forget that she is beginning the next grand chapter of her career. In the pre-release push for the album, it was suggested that Dion was, well, taking chances with her music, and her enlisting of Evanescence's Ben Moody to produce and write a couple of tracks, while hiring Linda Perry to write another couple, suggested that this would indeed be a different kind of Celine album. And it is, at least a little bit. Over its long, long 16 tracks, Celine indulges in some glossy electronic beats on "Shadow of Love," flirts with hard rock on the Aldo Nova-written "Can't Fight the Feelin'" (the great Canadian AOR rocker writes three other tunes here, including "A Song for You," which borrows a title from Leon Russell but nothing else), tries to shimmy like Shakira on "Eyes on Me," and even tries to belt out the blues on "That's Just the Woman in Me," written by former Soft Boy Kimberley Rew.
Added to this are the understated but no less significant efforts to hitch her wagon to the numerous American Idols who imitate her style. Celine attempts to snatch Heart's "Alone" from Carrie Underwood and cribs from Kelly Clarkson's operatic rock, two blatant thieveries that, when combined with the quartet of explicit changeups, gives Taking Chances a vaguely desperate vibe, as if Celine needs to prove that she still reigns supreme among all divas. Although Dion can pull off these moves with strenuous skill, all the effort is for naught because these slight changes in sound wind up serving an album that doesn't feel that different than the same old Celine Dion. The album may not be as big and spangly as A New Day Has Come -- whose glittery surfaces and exaggerated arrangements were ideal for the Vegas chapter of Dion's career -- but it does play as a refurbished version of her 1996 blockbuster, Falling into You, overhauled for a new millennium. It lacks both the epic Jim Steinman songs and the Diane Warren ballads, yet their imprint remains, as their over the top formula is given a brushed aluminum finish -- a sleek, chilly, tasteful sound that fits the mood of the late 2000s. And if Taking Chances is anything, it's an album of its time: it offers extravagance in the guise of self-help, which can be alluring in doses -- especially those bizarre blues-rockers -- but it's just too much of a very expensive yet not particularly tasteful thing.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 01:17:11
- Main artists: Céline Dion
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Columbia
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
(P) 2008 Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc.
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