Singer Céline Dion has released this Friday her new song, ‘Dansons’ (Let’s Dance), written and composed by Jean-Jacques Goldman, the first track of an album expected to be released in a few months.
It is her first French-language song in 10 years and her 26th original song with Goldman, who catapulted her to fame in France by writing and composing ‘D’Eux’ (1995), the Canadian singer’s 13th studio album and 10th in French.
Written and composed in 2020, during the confinement, the new song has been saved until now. “It was 2020, the world had stopped and people were dancing, confined to their homes,” Goldman explained in a press release.
“Six years later, no virus, but no need to change a word; the world has not improved and we are still dancing ‘over the abyss’,” he said.
While this new song celebrates the fighting spirit and resilience in the face of the world situation, it also reflects the health problems of the singer, who has been suffering from stiff-person syndrome for several years.
The recurring refrain acts as a common thread of exhortation to stay strong: “Let’s dance to stay upright, because we owe it to ourselves, for all those who can’t move (…) since we can only dance standing up,” the lyrics say.
With a slow melody, Céline Dion sings about a world “that has gone out of control” and invites us to move forward in spite of everything.
The release of this single was preceded with the disclosure three days ago of a cryptic video on Dion’s social networks, with a couple dancing in each other’s arms in different places in Paris.
The footage, barely fifteen seconds long, showed a young couple dancing in each other’s arms at various landmarks in the city, including the banks of the Seine by the Pont Neuf, a subway platform at the Saint-Lazare station and a crosswalk in front of the Opéra Garnier.
Without music or dialogue, the video relied solely on the ambient sounds of the city, while the overprinted text ‘Céline Dion x Jean-Jacques Goldman’ appeared.
In 2016, after the death of her manager and husband, René Angélil, Goldman wrote for her ‘Encore un soir’. Other songs created for her by the Frenchman are ‘S’il suffisait d’aimer’ or ‘Pour que tu m’aimes encore’, among others.
The Canadian star is scheduled to perform sixteen concerts for his grand return to the stage next fall in Paris at the La Défense Arena, which has a total capacity of up to 45,000 spectators.
The concerts will take place between September 12 and October 17.
His last public performance had been precisely in the French capital, at the opening of the 2024 Paris Olympics, where he performed Edith Piaf’s ‘Hymne à l’amour’ from the top of the Eiffel Tower.
It was also a long-awaited comeback, reported Agencia EFE, given that the previous year she had had to cancel her Courage World Tour due to serious problems caused by the stiff-person syndrome (SPR) she suffers from, which affects her nervous system and causes spasms.
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