Falling into You (Celine Dion song)

"Falling into You" is a song by Canadian singer Celine Dion, recorded for her fourth English-language album, Falling into You (1996). It was released as the first single in Europe, Australia and New Zealand on 19 February 1996. In other parts of the world "Because You Loved Me" was released as the lead track instead. The song was recorded first by Marie-Claire D'Ubaldo on her album, Marie Claire D'Ubaldo (1994). "Falling into You" reached number-one in Spain and in Greece, and became a top 10 hit in Norway (number 8) and in the UK (number 10). The single has sold 170,000 copies in the UK and 165,000 in France, where it remains undercertified (should be silver).[1][2] The song became part of 1999 All The Way... A Decade of Song (Australian edition), 2000 The Collector's Series Volume One and 2008 My Love: Essential Collection (European edition) compilation albums. Dion performed the song during her Falling Into You: Around the World tour 1996/1997 and during her Celine Dion Live 2018 tour.

"Falling into You"
Single by Celine Dion
from the album Falling into You
Released19 February 1996 (1996-02-19)
Recorded1995 Mandeville Studios, Track Recording Studios, Westlake Audio & Ocean Way Recording
GenrePop
Length4:18
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Rick Nowels
  • Billy Steinberg
Celine Dion singles chronology
"Le ballet"
(1996)		 "Falling into You"
(1996)		 "Because You Loved Me"
(1996)
Audio sample
Celine Dion - "Falling Into You"
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Music video
"Falling into You" on YouTube

Background

Dion revealed the recording process of this song in her authorized biography Celine Dion : For Keeps:

I was not satisfied with the first recording we made with "Falling into You". This is a song with many nuances, with half-tones. I found the arrangements were too violent, my voice didn't flow enough. Everybody, however, the technicians, the authors, even David and René, seemed satisfied. I said nothing. But René felt that I wasn't happy... He asked me what was wrong. I explained it to him. He seemed surprised. Then I hummed him "Falling into You" describing after every time the arrangements which I was imagining. He quickly agreed with me. He seemed amazed, as if he just discovered something... I called the director and the engineer to explain how I was feeling my song, what kind of changes. They all agreed and were happy, they said it to me... This song marked a step of my emancipation as an artist... I was becoming a mature, grown-up, autonomous artist... So we came back in studio and we recorded "Falling into You" again. It never became a big song for the stage; it is too sweet, too subtle to move a crowd. But it is, in my opinion, one of the thrillest songs on the album Falling into You. And I love the lyrics.[3]

Critical reception

AllMusic senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine marked this song as one of standouts on the Falling into You album.[4] Pip Ellwood-Hughes from Entertainment Focus called it "gorgeous".[5] Music & Media stated that it is "a slow lullaby of a ballad, punctuated in the intro and outtro by Spanish guitars, martial sounding drum rolls and a Careless Whisper type sax riff."[6] Rune Slyngstad from Norwegian newspaper Nordlandsposten noted it as "a nice thing that almost matches the irresistible "Think Twice"".[7] Christopher Smith from TalkAboutPopMusic wrote that the song is "sultry and schmoozy with only a hint of saxophone in the latter stages that add to the mood and sexiness of this down-tempo pop-ballad."[8]

Music video

The music video was directed by British director Nigel Dick between 18–19 January 1996 in Gorbio, France and released in February 1996. It begins in a small village. Dion plays a woman who belongs to a group of circus artists. She gets flowers on the door of her carriage, from a little boy. He obviously delivers them for a man. The card says "Bonne chance (Good luck)". Dion, now holding the flowers, begins to sing. Then she sits at the dressing table in front of a mirror. A clown helps her put on a long-haired wig. In evening, the circus is performing in front of a crowd of people. Various artists perform, while the singer stands leaning against a stone wall. Obviously sad, while she sings. Then a fire artist comes on stage and Dion assists him with handing him torchs, while he performs. In one scene, she reaches him one of them, but instead, he takes another. Dion runs off in the dark, driving away in a car. The video ends with her driving in a winding mountainside in daylight. There she meets a motorcyclist who is obviously waiting for her. Then they embrace each other. The video was uploaded to YouTube in 2011. In August 2020, it has got more than 11,700,000 views.[9]

Formats and track listings

Charts

Release history
Country Date Format
United Kingdom[37] 19 February 1996
  • CD
  • cassette

See also

References
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