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Originally Posted by osirisboy
oh will you friggin relax. wtf is wrong with her. everyone seems to love to make fun of her or not like her for no reason
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She's just the safe choice, I guess. She's got a great voice, she's overemotive, and she's tied to Titanic in the minds of billions of people around the globe. She's ubiquitous, she's placid, she's the Enya of the tears-and-beers set.
Certainly nothing will go
wrong if Celine Dion performs, but with the list of Canadian talent in music these days punching wayyyyyy above its weight - Stars, Broken Social Scene, New Pornographers (Neko Case's voice could rival just about anything Celine Dion could throw out there) Arcade Fire, Metric, MSTRKRFT. . .and that's just in the genre of music that I personally like.
I guess it comes down to what you want at the opening ceremonies: if you're looking for artists known world wide, then Celine Dion is the way to go and will give a good performance. If you're just looking to showcase Canadian talent, any of the above will be (with maybe the exception of MSTRKRFT) able to blow people out of the water, while giving a glimpse into what the Canadian music and culture scene is like now, rather than what it was like in the mid-90s.