Titanic’s executive producer, Jim Landau, said Cameron “was skeptical that a pop song would work at the end of this very dramatic, historical drama.”ĭion recollected that Cameron simply didn’t want the song in his movie. The movie was meant to come out July 3 in April, it was still almost five hours long,” Franglen told Billboard in 2017.
“ Titanic was the film that was going to bring down two studios, Fox and Paramount. James Cameron holding 2 of the Oscar Awards he received for ‘Titanic’ in 1998 |n Mirek Towski/DMI/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images James Cameron was adamant that the song would have no place in his movie.Īccording to co-producer Simon Franglen, composer James Horner and lyricist Will Jennings began work on the song when the word spreading on the street about Titanic was pretty bad.
The film was released on December 19, 1997, by which time the soundtrack had been out for six weeks, and Dions album for five. “I thought, ‘Sing the song, then get the heck out of there.'” Director James Cameron had to be convinced as well Walter Afanasieff was brought in to produce the track and do the arrangements, turning the song into the majestic orchestral piece that became so successful. “When I recorded it, I didn’t think about a movie I didn’t think about radio,” Dion told Billboard. 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.Celine Dion posing with her 2 Grammy Awards for ‘My Heart Will Go On’ | Vince Bucci/AFP via Getty Imagesĭion went on to win two Grammys and an Oscar for her now career-defining song. 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. 'My Heart Will Go On' served as the theme song to the 1997 blockbuster 'Titanic,' and it marked the biggest chart success of Celine Dion's career. 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.
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