Hooray! Celine Dion rumour false! +movie casting

[rodeodangerqueen at yahoo.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:
> Catherine said:
> 
> > I checked the Leaky Cauldron today, and it mentions that Warner 
Bros
> > have confirmed that there is no truth in the rumour that Celine 
Dion
> > is contributing to the soundtrack.
> >
> > Phew!  One other thing I can stop worrying about!  I am really
> > excited about this film now - Celine Dion was really putting a
> > dampener on things!
> 
> I second that!!  I've been so busy recently that I didn't get a 
chance to
> comment on this before.  The idea of Celine Dion warbling 
soporifically over
> the credits of this film gave me nightmares and daymares.  The only 
thing
> that might conceivably be worse is something 'spooky' from the 
Backstreet
> Boys or a song by Steps (imagine the coordinated dance routine as 
they
> simulate broom riding and wand waving, and the outfits: robes and 
pointed
> hats, complete with glasses and forehead scars...): //shudder//
> 
> when the time comes.
> 
> Neil and Catherine,

I TOO winced a bit at the idea of Celine Dion doing a ballad that 
gets played during the end credits of the movie.  I can only imagine 
what that "supposed song" sounded like..."supposedly"....it would 
probably go something like...


(Celine Dion singing) The boy who....LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVED
                      (ridiculously high note held for               
obscene number of seconds)

(more singing) because the power of love...is the strongest magic one 
can GIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE (here's where I change radio 
stations)

well...you get my idea.

I TOO thought (with trepidation) of the Backstreet Boys before 
reading your entry, Neil...but I have to say the imagery you provide 
had me howling with laughter for minutes!!!!!!!!  Yeah, I am just 
shuddering at the thought of a soundtrack with the Backstreet Boys, 
Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Ricky Martin (something that 
sounds like "Shake Your Bon-Bon" placed however briefly somewhere in 
the movie would just make me scream).

If they HAVE to put pop music in at all...let it be mostly 
British/Irish pop and maybe some more "alternative artists" from both 
sides of the Atlantic...but actually, I think it woudl be best if 
they just let John Williams take care of it ALL...however we should 
be prepared for the fact that they're probably going to try to market 
the movie with SOME pop song.

I apologize ahead of time to those I may have offended with my 
opinions...but music, like any art form (literature, film, etc.) has 
the power to provide such a field of grey matter in terms of the 
various feelings it provokes both within us and amongst us.

Sorry about any typos...it's  late.

N ;)