Posted on 19/01/08
Learning to love Céline Dion
LET'S TALK ABOUT LOVEA Journey to the End of TasteBy Carl WilsonContinuum, 164 pages, $10.95When Carl Wilson hears Céline Dion, he hears nothing he likes - or rather, nothing he's supposed to like. Within the heartstring-tugging, globe-conquering songs that helped transform the gawky kid wonder from Charlemagne, Que., into the marginally less gawky Las Vegas diva of today, he searches in vain for "sonic innovation, verbal inventiveness, social criticism, rough exuberance, erotic charge or any of the other qualities I and a lot of critics listen for," as he writes in Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste.
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