Circa 1999 I went on a road trip with some college friends to the Lava Beds National Monument in Northern California and Crater Lake in Oregon. The Lava Beds is in the middle of nowhere close to absolutely nothing of importance. I can't remember if we forgot to pack enough cassette tapes of music1, or we wanted to see what was on the radio, but we discovered an all Céline Dion, all the time radio station. It was the only station that came in, so we listened to it for a while. It didn't play any advertisements, so we suspected it was a pirate radio station. It is entirely likely that during that trip was the most recent time I've listened to as much Céline Dion as I did for Falling Into You.
The album hit #2 in its first week on the charts. Apparently it's her most successful album by number of sales and has won many awards. It featured the song Because You Loved Me written for the movie Up Close & Personal. I don't think I've ever heard the song before nor watched the movie (and I won't be remedying the latter).
It may not surprise you that I didn't care for this album, and I will not be listening to it again. I guess lots of people like(d) it, but lots of people can be wrong: there's evidence of that everywhere, just look around.
- The car didn't have a CD player and 1999 was before iPods and cell phones that played music, kids! ↩︎