Most nineties kids were into Britney, NSync and the
Backstreet Boys. It was the height of the pop sensation and boy bands ruled
over all my friends’ ear buds. But I would go home afterschool and put in my
Celine Dion tape and have a solo sing along. It’s as weird and sad as it sounds
and I’m not going to try and make it sound better. I loved that nutty Canadian.
Believe it or not weird obsession had nothing to do with the
Titanic craze. In fact I hated the movie. My best friend at the time tried to
make me watch it all the time. Considering the fact that I had to go to his
house before and after school every day, I saw that movie a lot. It didn’t grow
on me either. Really it just pissed me off. In my humble eight-year-old opinion
Rose was a greedy whore that could have easily slid her rich ass over a few
inches to make room for the “love of her life”. But noooo, she let him drown
and then cried about it like she didn’t play a part in it. Then she throws that
giant rock into the ocean at the end which kills me. Every time I saw her do
that I just thought about how much her kids could have sold that for. Like I said, didn’t like the movie.
So where then did this intense devotion come from? If it was a particular moment I do not recall
it. All I know is that I listened to that tape every day until my tape player
refused to open one day and I was separated from my life’s soundtrack. A sad
day in the Heller household indeed.
But now thanks to the glory of Youtube I can once again
indulge myself in some good old Dion balladry. Ahh, nostalgia.
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