I Surrender (Celine Dion song)

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"I Surrender"
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Celine Dion performing 'I Surrender' in Las Vegas, 2007
Song by Celine Dion
from the album A New Day Has Come
Released22 March 2002
RecordedJanuary 2002
Studio Montreal's Piccolo Studios
Genre Pop
Length4:47
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Simon Franglen
Audio video
"I Surrender" on YouTube

"I Surrender" is a power ballad written by Louis Biancaniello and Sam Watters, and recorded by Canadian singer Celine Dion from her seventh English-language studio album, A New Day Has Come (2002). [1] A lushly orchestrated love song that has been covered numerously, it is about an enamoured individual who would surrender everything just to be with their lover. [2]

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Background

Having a tempo of 57 beats per minute with syncopation, the song is written in the key of G minor and it would feature piano, string ensemble, drums and a synthesizer. [2] The chorus uses the common chord progression of vi–IV–I–V, with Dion's vocal range spanning from note D3 to D5. It uses a Neapolitan chord of Ab major before a suspended chord at the end of the verses. [3] The song was described as a "bombastic, heart-pounding" ballad, which has become a popular song choice for contestants on reality television singing competitions like American Idol . [4] The song was produced and arranged by Grammy award winner and Golden Globe nominee Simon Franglen. [5] [6]

Reception

According to Chuck Taylor from Billboard , "Dion does not disappoint with ballads like the rafter-shaking 'I Surrender' where she sings of forbidden love amid a firestorm of utterly volcanic instrumentation". [7] People Magazine wrote, "When Dion sings about letting down her defenses and giving in to love on "I Surrender", it's the song that gets belted into submission." [8] Slant Magazine critic Sal Cinqueman states that 'I Surrender' is a "power ballad only a singer with Dion's voice could pull off." [2] Christopher Smith from TalkAboutPopMusic said that it "has much drama and theatrics, so much so that you almost begin to think the producers are really looking to shape Celine into the next Barbra Streisand rather than herself." [9]

Live performance

Celine Dion performs this song in her video album Live in Las Vegas: A New Day... , where she is surrounded by artistic backup dancers, who visually and dramatically express the song's lyrics in a miming manner. The clip is on her VEVO account on YouTube, acting as the official music video of the song, and has over 37 million views of as January 2019. The music video starts when backup dancers are running to their positions and imitating statues, the Versailles-style crystal chandelier was used to make the song performance more romantic [10] "I Surrender" from the DVD was first released on the deluxe edition of Dion's album Taking Chances from November 2007. [11] The song was also performed in most her concerts from her second Las Vegas residency show, Celine (concert residency) from 2015 through 2018. [12]

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