00:00Everyone believes that Céline Dion jumped at the chance to sing
00:02My Heart Will Go On from the Titanic soundtrack.
00:05Well, not at all.
00:06She refused; she didn't want to sing it at all.
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00:12She found the demo too classic, too much of a disaster walk.
00:15She thought Titanic would just be another disaster movie.
00:18And it was her husband René who encouraged her to try it just once.
00:21She arrives at the studio almost backwards.
00:23and James Horner plays the melody for him on the piano.
00:26Céline does a single take, without forcing it, without listening back.
00:29She thought it was a demo to be reworked later.
00:32And the result is that this single take became the final version.
00:36Well done, Céline.
00:37Horner was so upset that he didn't change anything.
00:41Even the breathing that we hear just before the first chorus has been kept.
00:44The most ironic thing is that James Cameron, the director of Titanic,
00:47hated the idea of having a song in the credits.
00:50And when they played it for him at the end, in secret,
00:53Once the film was finished, James Cameron finally cracked.
00:56Let me know in the comments if you knew that.
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