Taking Chances: Cd+dvd - Celine Dion

After 5 years treading the Las Vegas Circuit for reported millions, Celine Dion is back in the charts with a new English-language album. The album was recently accompanied by one of those silly An Audience With... ITV programs, where she actually only performed 3 songs from the album. A pointless exercise in promotion then. You have to wonder what the material is like when the only moderately good Taking Chances is her first UK single in eons, and she is too frightened to air the rest of it. Taking Chances opens with a gentle guitar chorus before bursting into a soaring chorus that tackles the upper elements of Celine's voice. As I mentioned already, its ...

Taking Chances is, astoundingly, the 35th album release in Celine Dion's career, which has spanned more than 25 years. The 13th English-speaking album from the Canadian chanteuse (the others are in French), Taking Chances comprises a lengthy, and at times varied selection of sounds and musical sounds from a wide selection of well-known producers and song-writers. Rest assured, however, that in spite of the album title, Ms Dion takes relatively few chances here and fans of her material will not go disappointed; but there is nothing groundbreaking here. Taking Chances will convert few fans to the sound of Celine. The singer's powerful vocals are as evident as ...