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As far as standard Celine fare goes, in fact, Chances is likely her strongest non-French outing since 2002's "A New Day Has Come;" nobody unfolds a lyric with more care or nuance.
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Packing an emotional wallop, Chances should quash critics who insist that Dion's voice is stainless steel.
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Are chances taken? Not many, but there are rewards if you're willing to enjoy Dion's precise vocalizing and the hooky songs.
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It's an album of its time: it offers extravagance in the guise of self-help, which can be alluring in doses--especially those bizarre blues-rockers--but it's just too much of a very expensive yet not particularly tasteful thing.
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Entertainment WeeklyIt's cool that Dion can mimic everyone from Shakira to Sam Phillips...but her appalling Janis Joplin impression is a Chance too far. [16 Nov 2007, p.76]
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The laborious 16-track record purportedly finds the queen of adult contemporary-turned-Vegas attraction taking chances by modernizing her treacly power ballad sound with lots of overdubbed guitars and of-the-moment collaborators.
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The album is also comfortably ignorant of the times. With its feathery production and common pop arrangements, it could have come out in 1996.
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Alas, her cat-strangling whine is still a remarkably ugly sound, no matter what she's singing.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 48 out of 68
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Mixed: 4 out of 68
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Negative: 16 out of 68
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May 25, 2012
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ManuelP.Jan 3, 2008
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DavidM.Dec 19, 2007'This Time' is brilliant! Lots of other gens for those willing to give it a good listen.