Celine Dion - 1 Fille & 4 Types

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Music Review: A Girl and Four Guys= one of Céline's most personal discs
Rating: 5 Stars

Céline returns triumphantly to the Francophone music arena with « 1 fille & 4 types, » her first French album since 1998's S'il suffisait d'aimer. We find Céline with a new image: short-cropped, mussed hair, wearing a baby tee for Buff's Car Wash, looking older, wiser, and perhaps a bit edgier on the album's cover, surrounded by her four "guys" from the title: Jacques Veneruso, Erick Benzi, guitarist Gildas Arze and French superstar Jean-Jacques Goldman, who last collaborated with Céline on D'eux and S'il suffisait d'aimer.

The thirteen songs are woven from sheer poetic beauty, by turn gentle and pensive, declarations of love and loss and moving on. There are no belted love anthems here. Céline is at a point in her life that she brings gravity to the thirteen songs, makes the listener utterly entranced and hooked on each lyric (the songs were co-written by Goldman, Veneruso, and Benzi).

The songs occasionally evoke memories of earlier songs, such as Des milliers de baisers (Thousands of Kisses), with a drum intro reminiscent of Pour que tu m'aimes encore or Ne bouge pas, with the bluesy feel of Tous les blues sont écrits pour toi. As with D'eux, Céline and the gang experiment with different musical influences, such as a marked Irish rhythm and tinwhistles on Je lui dirai (I'll Tell Him), a touching declaration of Céline's love for her young son René-Charles. Ne bouge pas (Don't Change) evokes Delta Blues with its saucy slide guitar and blues harp, backed by a gospel choir. The bonus song, Valse adieu (Farewell waltz), is a folksy, five-part harmony, with acoustic guitar, and is beautiful, but much too short at a minute and a half.

One song, Je t'aime encore, was actually on Céline's "One Heart" album (albeit in an English version), but the song (penned by Jean-Jacques Goldman) is truely more powerful in its native tongue.

If you don't speak French, don't let that scare you off from experiencing this wonderful album. The emotions of the songs speak for themselves, although if you do speak French or are learning, dust off your dictionary to appreciate the beauty and simplicity of the French lyrics, which I consistently find to be more emotional and poetic than Céline's English albums. (Also, listening to music is an excellent way to accustom oneself to learning another language.)

"1 fille & 4 types" is Céline's most personal, touching work to date and a sure crowd-pleaser for music critics and Céline fans alike. Buy it today and experience the magic for yourself!

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