There are movie themes and then there are movie themes - songs that seem to not only perfectly define the film in which they were featured, but the time in society in which they were released.
It's the way for Whitney Houston's beloved I Will Always Love You cover from The Bodyguard, and it's the same for My Heart Will Go On, Celine Dion's blockbuster theme for Titanic, the highest-grossing film of all time for 12 years, from 1998-2010.
From the moment that My Heart Will Go On Starts, you can basically feel the overwrought emotion and dramatism dripping from Dion's voice. "Every night in my dreams, I see you, I feel you, that is how I know you go on..." we mean...come on.
There is melodramatic and then there's that. But My Heart Will Go On's un-dying passion was perfectly suited for Tiantic, a sprawling three-hour epic that seemed transplanted from another age; a Golden Age spectacle that somehow came out in 1997, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
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