One Heart

Personnel includes: Celine Dion (vocals); Peer Astrom (various instruments, background vocals); Esbjorn Ohrwall (acoustic & electric guitar); Russ DeSalvo (guitar, piano, keyboards); John Shanks (guitar, background vocals); Chieli Minucci, Gildas Arzel, Peter Svensson (guitar); Erick Benzi (keyboards, drums, programming); Thomas Lindberg, Patrick Carroll, Yannick Hardouin (bass); Jeff Rothschild, Dan Chase (programming); Anna Nordell, Max Martin, Kara Dioguardi, Jeanette Olsson, Kimberly Brenner, Kenya Hathaway, Richard Page (background vocals).
Producers include: Anders "Bag" Bagge, Peer Astrom, Ric Wake, Kristian Lundin, Guy Roche.
Includes liner notes by Celine Dion.
The perennial Canadian chanteuse returns to the limelight with this snappy collection of contemporary pop in the vein of Cher's renaissance material, including the car-commercial-associated "I Drove All Night," and "Je T'Aime Encore," which is not, as you might assume, a remake of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin's late-'60s sheet-ripping heavy-breather, but a sensitive acoustic exploration of lost love. Dion ventures into Britney territory with "Love Is All We Need," which is somewhat under the influence of Prince's "When Doves Cry," and she seems quite at home with the anthemic pure pop of the title track. However, it's the ballads, such as the sensitive, percolating "Stand By Your Side," and the climactic "Sorry For Love" that showcase Celine's voice to its best advantage, just as they always have. ONE HEART shows Celine Dion in transition from TITANIC ballad-belter to Las Vegas diva, and it's an assured and confident effort.