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Celine Dion nearly rejected her biggest hit

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The definitive romantic ballad of the nineties was almost entirely scrapped because the singer thought it sounded incredibly awful. She notoriously refused to sing it until her manager convinced her to do exactly one solitary demo take. That single, highly reluctant vocal track became a gigantic cultural phenomenon that she is now forced to perform forever.

Celine Dion nearly rejected her biggest hit
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