

His favorite bands were Ministry and Metallica.

Jim didn’t want to end the film with a pop song. Randy Gerston ( music supervisor, Titanic): We had done a record deal with Sony to do the soundtrack - just the Horner score - and I think the label imagined that they would get an end-title song into the film. The movie was meant to come out July 3 in April, it was still almost five hours long. Titanic was the film that was going to bring down two studios, Fox and Paramount. Simon Franglen ( co-producer, “My Heart Will Go On” ): The buzz was terrible. Billboard spoke with her - as well as the song’s producers, Titanic team members and actor Billy Zane - about tales of tension at the Grammy Awards, Kate Winslet’s real feelings about the song and even menstrual cramps in the studio. In honor of the song’s 20th anniversary, Dion, 49, will perform “My Heart Will Go On” at the Billboard Music Awards. In 2016, according to Nielsen Music, “My Heart Will Go On” garnered 60 million on-demand audio and video streams, making it Dion’s most streamed song of the year, and the Titanic soundtrack is one of only seven soundtracks to be certified diamond by the RIAA. After Titanic’s release, it was memorably spoofed on Saturday Night Live (on Ana Gasteyer’s “The Céline Dion Show”) and South Park, and it continues to inspire countless memes (recently, “Titanic Hoops,” which sets basketball clips to the song’s climax). Twenty years later, the anthem’s global influence shows no sign of abating. So the demo is the actual recording but after that, I've sang it at least three gazillion times."īut if Dion is one of the original members of the "I wasn't a fan of 'My Heart Will Go On'" club, there are others out there that feel the same way.Horner with his Oscars for best original song and best original dramatic score.

And my husband said, 'Let's hold on,' to the writers he said, 'Let's try to make it a little demo.' So I sang the song once and they built the orchestra around it. On a recent Watch What Happens Live appearance (via Today), Dion told host Andy Cohen it was the "one song that I didn't want to record, and I'm glad that they did not listen to me." She continued, explaining, "I don't know. But she admits she wasn't crazy about the song from the start. Dion is a giant in the music industry, and her signature vocal style may be why Titanic's ballad, "My Heart Will Go On," is so iconic. Unless you well and truly hate music (which we admit is possible), there is no way you could have lived over the last two decades without hearing a song by Celine Dion.
