![]() ![]() All of which is, of course, preposterous-as preposterous as the song itself.ĭion mostly stood still, her vocals doing more than execute on the song’s original power. The woodwind player performed on a darkened stage across the room, allowing for high-drama camera swoops. Her dress from Stéphane Rolland Haute Couture was a white winged sculpture, strikingly asymmetric in its evocation of the angelic. Dion stood behind and then under a jeweled curtain hanging from an enormous chandelier (or jellyfish). Visually, we got pop opulence so well-executed that it transcends kitsch. But the startling thing about the performance was how arresting it was on its own terms, in the present. The now-unfashionable production choices of the original recording (those dewy keyboards!) remained in this arrangement, somewhat endearingly. ![]() Clips of young Leonard DiCaprio and Kate Winslet indeed played behind her-yes, including the “king of the world” moment. She returned to the Billboard stage on Sunday for the 20th anniversary of Titanic, and the occasion might suggest the main value of her performance would be time travel. The Beloved Filipino Tradition That Started as a Government Policy Sara Tardiff ![]() (The full version is 1 hour and 17 minutes into ABC’s telecast.) Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” saved the Billboard Music Awards, and watching it might now save your Monday. And befitting various pre-made narratives about national malaise, it came from a Canadian balladeer rehashing an adult-contemporary hit of two decades ago. Each muddled performance, we were told, was “epic.” Still, hosts Ludacris and Vanessa Hudgens pantomimed breathlessness throughout the night. The worst set-Drew Taggart of the Chainsmokers mumbling millennial Mad Libs about premature nostalgia while climbing a staircase and then sitting down-felt like a satire on the overrating of white male mediocrity. The biggest current stars seemed disposable as they performed in Las Vegas Sunday night: Drake let waterworks replace showmanship as he rapped in the middle of the Bellagio’s fountain Lorde took the concept of a fake karaoke bar to its least exciting conclusion Bruno Mars and Ed Sheeran gave new meaning to “phoning it in” by just having overseas concerts simulcast on ABC. The Billboard Music Awards is where you can have all your worst suspicions about today’s pop music confirmed. ![]()
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