I don’t forget you, no never… If Celine Dion has sung her unconditional love for her fans through this hit that has become a classic in her repertoire, the latter give it back to her! On Friday, January 6, 2023, several fans demonstrated with signs outside the magazine’s New York headquarters RollingStone, a few days after the publication of a ranking decried on the Web concerning, according to them, the 200 best singers of all time. Classification where the interpreter of my heart Will Go On.
Celine Dion snubbed by Rolling Stone: her fans demonstrate against the magazine
On videos posted on Twitter, we could therefore see that Celine Dion fans – in particular those enrolled in the powerful Red Heads fan club – demonstrated in front of the magazine’s headquarters, located in Midtown West a few meters from the famous 5th av. “The Power of Celine” Where “Celine is not by herself anymore” can we read on some signs, in reference to the tubes of the star. “Rolling Stone is Stoned“, can we also see, with a pun in English calling the music magazine “stoned” by drugs.
They were no less than fifty on site and had made the trip to New York from Quebec.
A demonstration led by host Julie Snyder!
Among the crowd, we noted the presence of Quebec host Julie Snyder. The one who briefly hosted a show in France – Friday is Julie on France 2 in 2000 – explained this approach to the newspaper The Press. “We tried to get an interview with the management of the magazine but they refused to talk to us. So we started demonstrating around 1 p.m., with our placards. It was a symbolic demonstration. But we made so much noise that TMZ showed up, and Variety, which has its offices in the same building, also covered the event! (…) The head of content at Rolling Stone, Steven Pearl, finally came to meet us (…) He finally agreed to grant us an interview.” An interview that will be broadcast on his show The week of the 4 Julies (at 21h).
According to Julie Snyder, who was able to rub shoulders with Celine Dion on several occasions, the ranking of RollingStone gives pride of place to a certain snobbery against the popular 54-year-old diva with 200 million albums sold worldwide. The host denounces “a small clique of happy few who think they are among themselves. Because in a top 200, It doesn’t make sense that Celine isn’t here. I wonder which artist managed to be as popular as her among women…”
Rolling Stone ranking: who is there?
The top 3 of the magazine’s maligned ranking RollingStone is made up of Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston and Sam Cooke. We also note the surprising presence of a single French star: Françoise Hardy.
“In any case, what counted most for us was the originality, the influence, the depth of the musical catalog of the artist and the extent of his musical heritage.“, justifies the magazine.
