That's 20 years since our hearts were first wrenched by the love between Jack and Rose, as well as the pairing of the movie's emotional impact with a key change of momentous musical merit. If it's not perfect it doesn't work, and you only have to listen to the song once to know in this case it totally works.īoth Titanic and "My Heart Will Go On" turn 20 years old in this year of 2017. Walk with the key change, work out to it, have great sex to it, cook a pork chop, feed some ducks, text your crush! You can do anything when you're listening to the key change in "My Heart Will Go On." There's a moment of real magic that occurs when Celine hits those high notes and the orchestration swells underneath her, and it's the kind of magic you only get when everything in a song is perfectly placed and set in the correct emotional context. You're here/ There's nothing I fear/ And I know that my heart will/ Go onĮmbrace the key change. It sounds horribly technical to describe what happens at the end of "My Heart Will Go On" with a handful of letters, but it's incredible to think that the alphabet can result in such unadulterated ear-magic. The melody modulates at the end of those measures, paving the way for a jump from the E Major key of the initial verses and chorus to the A-Flat Major key of the song's final act.
Musically speaking, that bit with the flutes before the last chorus is more than just a bunch of pretty noises.
It's at this point that the flutes (the flutes!) come back and if you're a quitter you'll think that the song is going to play out. The second chorus has just ended, and if you're watching the official "My Heart Will Go On" music video, Jack and Rose have just kissed on the bow of the ship. But "My Heart Will Go On" isn't finished with you yet.įast forward to exactly three minutes and six seconds into the song. "How can this song possibly be on the banger index when I'm weeping?" you ask, through tears. By the time you get to the second verse, the story of love, loss, and longing is firmly grounded in the text and it lulls you into a false sense of security when it comes to this song's banger-ness.
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This is the kind of love they make movies about, that they literally made a movie about, and here it is laid out in plain text for you to listen to and cry about. It's sweet, it's solid, and from a storytelling standpoint, you know it's time to get misty-eyed because Jack is dead and Rose is going to dream about him every night until she croaks.
They give way to Peak Celine Dion's stunning vibrato:Įvery night in my dreams/ I see you/ I feel you/ That is how I know you go on You have the flutes - god, those beautiful, twinkling flutes - piping out a beautiful melody that makes you think of deep water and, I don't know, swirling motes of dust in the sunshine, I guess. To be fair, "My Heart Will Go On" does start out very gentle. I can't conceive of a musical moment more exciting, more enduring, more responsible for drunken karaoke-screaming in the middle of the night than the dope-ass key change at the end of "My Heart Will Go On." It's just remarkable. Some will want to tell you it's a gentle ballad about the concept of enduring love, but do not be deceived. You can barely glance at a picture of young Leo DiCaprio without hearing the intro flute playing somewhere in the back of your mind, and that's fantastic! It's fantastic because "My Heart Will Go On," written by James Horner with lyrics by Will Jennings, is an absolute banger of the highest caliber. Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" is synonymous with Titanic.
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