Video: Owen Pallett - The Power of Love

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that is in some way relevant to their recently published books. Carl Wilson is one of the music critics I respect most. Not swayed by hype, he focuses on songwriting and performing talent and his Zoilus posts and Globe and Mail columns are must-reads for me. Wilson's 33 1/3 book on Celine Dion, Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste , is an odd addition to Continuum's series on seminal albums. While every [...]

When we heard Final Fantasy cover Mariah Carey earlier last year, well we thought he couldn't get more diva-liciously awesome. But oh god were we wrong. Check out his take on Celine Dion's (yes you read that correctly) "The Power of Love" The performance was a part of the 33 1/3 book series' evening dedicated to "Let's Talk About Love - A Journey to the End of Taste". It's shockingly pretty, but then again what do expect from someone with a voice of gold and violin of steel? [...]

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A video of Final Fantasy's performance of Celine Dion's "The Power of Love" at my book launch last Wednesday surfaced on YouTube over the weekend. (If someone has video of the other performers out there, please let me know.) Too bad about the laughing, but that's entirely predictable of course. (See discussion of the "ironic cover" in my book - though this is by no means one, that's what people are trained to expect.) By the second half, ain't nobody laughing. And here's a first-person account of the event . One small [...]

Wow, this is insane - and rather great. Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) covered Celine Dion's "The Power of Love" at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto last week as part of an event from the fantastic 33 1/3 book series , an evening dedicated to their latest book release "Let's Talk About Love - A Journey to the End of Taste" by Carl Wilson , which explores the phenomenon that is Celine Dion's career, in a quest to understand the very nature of taste itself. [...]

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