I'd pick up the book for the cover alone. "Hey, kid, rock'n'roll. 9. a bullseye hung upon your soul," as Joe sings here. I thought those stereotypes were unfair, and was interviewing Dion fans deliberately to undermine those notions. Copyright © 2020 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. This song, by my much-underrated fellow Toronto-dwelling 33 1/3 author Joe Pernice (he wrote the high-school-life novella that became the series' volume on the Smiths' Meat Is Murder), invokes the myth of Solomon to describe the impossible choices and the inaccessibility of wisdom that so often marks romantic dilemmas. Oprah-meets-Celine zone in its own way. Like many writers, I find music with lyrics too distracting as a writing soundtrack. Alice is a biromantic asexual. Writers chosen for publication are offered a traditional publishing … Cutie Code: Cutest" --Macy Filia, reader on SwoonReads.com"I enjoy the character of Alice and love how different this story is from other novels as the main character is asexual. Steve Reich, Music for 18 Musicians You could consider this track ground zero of the "ironic cover" (a punk-rock-scorn ritual Celine Dion's been subjected to many times, especially for "My Heart Will Go On") - a black blues singer in 1957 singing Stephen Foster's minstrel-dialect tune of an ex-slave's supposed nostalgia for the "old plantation." Claire Kann’s young adult debut novel Let’s Talk About Love, chosen by readers like you for Macmillan's young adult imprint Swoon Reads, gracefully explores the struggle with emerging adulthood and the complicated line between friendship and what it might mean to be something more. In late June, having just missed a deadline for the book, I was cabin-fevered and neurotic. Praise for Let’s Talk About Love from the Swoon Reads community: But it was the summer of 2007 and I was writing about, in part, the communal pleasures of pop music. “Let’s Talk About Love” was first published by Continuum, in 2007, as part of a series of short books about a specific album or artist. My Tragic Right Hip review I could have put a thousand John Darnielle songs in this place (I probably just didn't have the guts to name "Raja Vocative," "Korean Bird Paintings" or "Going to Port Washington") but this unreleased track was one of the songs that moved me most to sing to myself all summer. the book's page at the publisher, Denver Post review There aren't many novels … These recordings all testify to the continuing influence of old-style schmaltz in American music, usually created and represented (for complicated reasons) by immigrant "others" within the U.S. racial matrix, from the Irish tenor of the turn of the century, to the 1930s Italian-written movie hit recreated by a doo-wop group, to the all-but-forgotten Caruso-imitating crossover superstar of the 1950s, to Elvis doing a ballad to the tune of a Neapolitan aria ("O Solo Mio"). For his 2007 critically acclaimed 33 1/3 series title, Let's Talk About Love, Carl Wilson went on a quest to find his inner Céline Dion fan and explore how we define ourselves by what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate. What are we without beauty and its intoxicating, redemptive effect? Let's Talk About Love divided music critics. In the meanwhile, though, I made some substitutions, some related to the content of the book, others to the writing process, and some simply to survive a summer of being barricaded at my desk with a looming book deadline. Globe and Mail review As refreshing a music book I have read in a long time, Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste examines the basis of musical taste and biases, and even teaches a small lesson about tolerance. I didn't know that at the time... 10. This track, originally recorded on their unbelievable 1991 record with the late New York cellist Tom Cora, Scrabbling at the Lock, is a cover of a Hungarian folk song they learned via the great Budapest band Muszikas. guest book reviews Elliott Smith serves as Celine Dion's foil in the early part of the book, partly because they met upon the field of not-much-honor at the Oscars in 1998 and Dion roundly trounced my own little indie-songwriting hero. "I wish I knew/ A simple way to reach you./I'd be the king if I could say to you/ 'Cut the baby in two.' What: Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann Who: Swoon Reads When: March 13th 2018 How: A copy of this novel was provided by Pan Macmillan Australia for review. About Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love. Mind you, that would lead to a whole other bout of cabin fever and neurosis. Thank you Claire Kann! (PDF) Let's Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste by Carl Wilson | Judith Daniel - Academia.edu Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. I am literally going through the same things that Alice experienced. The only thing missing from her perfect plan? interview with the author Celine Dion forum's response to the book About Let's Talk About Love. PRI Fair Game interview with the author Part of the problem was that I lived in an apartment in a poorly soundproofed building, and my neighbours and I can hear too much of each other - from intimate details (a compromise you get used to) to the music that's playing. There are few songs less Celine Dion-like than one that begins, "Out behind the Safeway/ just before the flood/ Huffed two cans of spray paint/ And began to vomit blood." This book is simply DELIGHTFUL. « older | Claire Kann’s debut novel Let’s Talk About Love, chosen by readers like you for Macmillan's young adult imprint Swoon Reads, gracefully explores the struggle with emerging adulthood and the complicated line between friendship and what it might mean to be something more. 2. I haven't tried out this list as an actual mix (an art I revere) but I suspect it would flow, even though the second track breaks every rule of mixtape making by being an hour long in itself... 1. musician/author interviews Alice is secretly asexual, and that’s the least important thing about her. It was my recent divorce that I had in mind when I proposed the book. For his 2007 critically acclaimed 33 1/3 series title, Let's Talk About Love, Carl Wilson went on a quest to find his inner Céline Dion fan and explore how we define ourselves by what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate. Main Largehearted Boy Page The Love Vixen ultimately finds her HEA in December in My Bet's on Love. Carl Wilson and Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste links: the author's blog Praise for Let's Talk About Love: I would speculate idly about her emotional dysfunctions. The Flamingos, I Only Have Eyes For You It was the model I needed at that moment, to realize that the project of the book was really to meet people with cultural models unlike your own on equal terms and see what you could learn from one another. She's SMILING. What's the matter with big, uninhibited feelings, exactly? Note Books (musicians discuss literature) Elvis Costello, All This Useless Beauty I know I had opinions about my neighbour because she played Feist's last album (the one with the Bee Gees "Inside and Out" cover, not the one with "1, 2, 3, 4") almost every day for months - not so much because I disliked Feist as because my neighbour's attachment to "Inside and Out" and "Mushaboom" seemed tantamount to an addiction. It is yet again another different look at an authors view. Elliott Smith, 2:45 am Mario Lanza, Be My Love The Ex, Hidegen Fujnak a Szelek "Hang onto your dreams," it counsels, "until there's nothing left of them." But research on the neurology of music appreciation is, as I discuss in "Let's Talk About Love," just in its infancy. USA Today Pop Candy podcast interview with the author, Previous Book Notes submissions (authors create playlists for their book) Said the Gramophone review But unlike the other books in the 33 ⅓ series, Dion’s album is barely touched upon as Wilson chooses instead to examine what “taste” is and how people form critical opinions in culture. 4. | newer ». If I were constantly playing Celine Dion, I imagined , she would make similar conclusions about me, ones related to the unflattering stereotypes your typical downtown fan of indie rock (even very MOR indie rock) tends to believe about Celine Dion listeners. 12. Initially planned for 1998, the … Praise for Let’s Talk About Love from the Swoon Reads community: That’s what Carl Wilson sets out to discover in his look at Dion’s album Let’s Talk About Love. In Honor of My Upcoming Book, Let's Talk About LOVE. I was pretty tuned out on hot new trends while I was holed up with the book. John McCormack, Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms Ryan Dombal talks with Carl Wilson about the newly expanded version of his essential 2007 book on Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love and the changing ideas of taste in the 21st century. As John Cage showed in 4'33", however, silence can be the most distracting of all. While every other 33 1/3 book has been written by an author enamored with its subject, Wilson approaches Dion's music with a critic's skepticism, and explores her commercial (if not critical) success. The truth is probably less grand - that it was the perfect antidote to what my brain would otherwise do, that is, dart around impulsively. Meet-the-Author Recording of Let's Talk about Love; Audio Excerpt from Let's Talk about Love; Name Pronunciation with Claire Kann; Grade; 7-12; Genre; Realistic Fiction; Romance; Cultural Area; African American; LGBTQ+; Year Published 2018. Minimalism turned out to be the medium-hot bowl of porridge. In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that is in some way relevant to their recently published books. ), Wed, Jan 23, 8 pm (doors 7 pm): Happy Ending Music and Reading Series I love this book so much. Jay-Z, Umbrella One of the minor ambitions I had with the book was to take the title of the album (and thus of the book, that being 33 1/3's format) literally, and to make a connection and contrast between the sort of "love" we say we have for the art we admire and the love or separation we feel with other human beings. Now let's talk about the story. 52 Books, 52 Weeks (2006 Edition) 5. Elvis Presley, It's Now or Never (free beer! 13. He wrote that Dion's "super-charged vocals are expectedly potent and often reach for heavens" and praised the restrained Bee Gees' collaboration "Immortality", top forty border-breaking "To Love You More", Carole King/George Martin effort "The Reason", explosive "Us" and the Titanic single "My Heart Will Go On". Striking a perfect balance between heartfelt emotions and spot-on humor, this debut features a pop-culture enthusiast protagonist with an unforgettable voice sure to resonate with readers.Alice had her whole summer planned. But I flinched to imagine them being applied to me, too - that she'd think I was some sort of moron. Claire Kann’s debut novel Let’s Talk About Love, chosen by readers like you for Macmillan's young adult imprint Swoon Reads, gracefully explores the struggle with emerging adulthood and the complicated line between friendship and what it might mean to be something more. But eventually I found out. Wilson's 33 1/3 book on Celine Dion, Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, is an odd addition to Continuum's series on seminal albums. Carl Wilson, a music critic and an editor at The Globe and Mail, isn’t a Dion fan, but he earnestly wants to be one, … The Let's Talk About Love World Tour is the eighth concert tour by Canadian recording artist Celine Dion.Visiting North America, Asia and Europe; the trek supported Dion's fifth English studio album Let's Talk About Love and her eleventh French studio album, S'il suffisait d'aimer.The tour marks Dion's last worldwide tour until her Taking Chances World Tour in 2008–2009. Or put another way, what's so great about small, inhibited feelings? Non-fans regard Céline Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her (creepy) manager-husband's struggle with cancer, her knack for howling out raw emotion. The latest installment in 331/3, the book series that celebrates significant pop records, is unlike any of its predecessors in that its subject, the titular 1997 Céline Dion album, is abhorred by its author. Are we smarter or more cowardly not to use those ways when we need them? By the time I was done, it didn't seem any weirder than a bunch of young people in the early '60s trying to imitate Woody Guthrie - just different and, in a way, more touchingly traditional. It turned out that the writing process would be marked not only by a crisis of the terms of love considered in retrospect but one that was enacted in real time. 126 Franklin St., Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Among such countercultural titans, the series’s newest topic—Céline Dion’s Titanic-era Let’s Talk About Love—feels alarmingly out of place. Elliott Smith, 2:45 am directors discuss their film's soundtracks By the end of the writing, I decided that knuckling under to my assumptions about her assumptions made me not just an ass but a collaborator with the enemy - with the perverse over-coding of artistic taste as an indicator of human value. The book he sings about at arm's length, as a critic, Celine Dion reads aloud. And Broonzy's loping rhythms and stretched-out syllables do suggest the kind of sneering sarcasm you get from adenoidal emo bands like New Found Glory when they sing the love theme from Titanic. Exclaim! 6. 52 Books, 52 Weeks (2007 Edition) In his own words, here is Carl Wilson's Book Notes essay for his book, Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste:: When you write about music, the primary soundtrack is generally the music that you're writing about. Line Up of Love Vixen Releases January: Let’s Talk Love – Lizabeth Scott February: Lust or Love - Jeannette Winters March: Getting Lucky in Love – Dylann Crush April: A Warrior to Love – J.M. Macleans.ca review hipsterbookclub review My upcoming book about how to manifest your ideal relationship is a little over 1 month away in being published! It makes sense, then, that when Alice develops heart eyes for Takumi—a certified cutie and culinary whiz—she worries she’s setting herself up for another letdown like the one that recently left her reeling. When I started my book, I was mystified by the way Celine Dion thought it gave her additional cred to collaborate with Barbra Streisand or Luciano Pavarotti, as she does on Let's Talk About Love, when being a pop icon in the 1990s was surely a heavier deal than being an old-style variety diva or a straining-for-status Italian opera singer. Book Reviews. I’m so excited to help you go from feeling loveless in life into feeling FULL of love AND be able to SHIFT your mindset beliefs AND your life with regards to L.O.V.E. It would pull me around to asking myself why it had that style, who it wanted to speak to, which produced a lot of tangents in my notebooks. Nonstop all-you-can-eat buffets while marathoning her favorite TV shows (best friends totally included) with the smallest dash of adulting—working at the library to pay her share of the rent. 52 Books, 52 Weeks (2005 Edition) Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) covering Celine Dion's "The Power of Love". In this song, he provides a vague, menacing narrative that sketches a larger cultural trope - the misunderstood, abused, sensitive kid decides he doesn't need society's approval, muttering basically, "You can't reject me. A lovely book with very likable and diverse characters. Before Tin Pan Alley, though, the parlor song, borrowing liberally from Italian opera and Irish ballads, reigned supreme. Praise for Let’s Talk About Love from the Swoon Reads community: “A sweet and beautiful journey about self-discovery and identity!” —Macy Filia, reader on SwoonReads.com“There aren't many novels that have asexual characters and it's something people need more of.” —Alice, reader on SwoonReads.com“I want this on my shelf where I can admire it every day.” —Kiara, reader on SwoonReads.com. In this song, romantic and social problems meet. Claire Kann's debut novel Let's Talk About Love, chosen by readers like you for Macmillan's young adult imprint Swoon Reads, gracefully explores the struggle with emerging adulthood and the complicated line between friendship and what it might mean to be something more. Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham … Explore Related Books by. Slate music critic Carl Wilson’s Let’s Talk About Love was first published at the end of 2007 as part of the 33⅓ series of books on albums. She's in a dress! The irony is that when Dion and Smith met at the Oscars, she was so unexpectedly sweet to him that he ended up defending her to friends who criticized her, for the rest of his all-too-brief, burnt life. It's a gorgeous, haunting song, still. Her girlfriend (who ended things when Alice confessed she's asexual). LET’S TALK ABOUT LOVE is a story about a biromantic asexual black woman, Alice, in college, living with her two best friends who are dating, and working at a library where she meets Takumi, who changed her life forever. (Drones would have been too much of too little.) Cutie Code: Cutest” —Macy Filia, reader on SwoonReads.com “I enjoy the character of Alice and love how different this story is from other novels as the main character is asexual. But this song has the courage to hit that "how exactly can we bear to live and love?" A lovely book with very likable and diverse characters.Cutie Code: Cutest” —Macy Filia, reader on SwoonReads.com “I enjoy the character of Alice and love how different this story is from other novels as the main character is asexual. Available in Hardcover (01/23/18) and Paperback (06/04/2019) Not so, when the critic is Carl Wilson. There were parts that explained exactly how I feel! I got so habituated to playing the Reich box set as I worked that I came, superstitiously, to imagine that it somehow mirrored what my brain waves do as I read and write. " At least Dion does know some simple ways to reach people. Praise for Let's Talk About Love from the Swoon Reads community: A music writer for the Toronto newspaper Globe and Mail, Wilson begins Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste with an honest and engaging inventory of the cultural assumptions he himself harbored before Dion struck him as a worthy subject. I think that Let's Talk About Love: The Blog Book are great because they are so attention holding, I mean you know how people describe Let's Talk About Love: The Blog Book By Eddie D Love CPC good books by saying they cant stop reading them, well, I really could not stop reading. Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste. As Costello sings, "What shall we do, what shall we do, with all this useless beauty?". But this cover's also representative of the way that blues and country singers in the South stayed connected to the old parlor and minstrel songs of the 19th century - the underrecognized "roots" of American pop - when the pop industry as a whole had moved on to the Northern-citified sophistries of Tin Pan Alley. It didn't hurt that I had a beautiful woman at my side whose hips and mind were decidedly moved by that sense of open adventure. Reich's music, properly attended to, is very complex, but if you just turn it on in the background it provides a repetitive, trance-like sound that grows and changes just enough over time to prevent you sinking into stasis. Of course his archness protects him from being too personally implicated - oh, it's all formal exercise, folks - but here is a song that makes me cry with its ultimate surrender to the mystery of "things we're all too young to know." Let’s Talk About Love will be published through Swoon Reads, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group that invites writers to submit YA manuscript directly to its site and allows readers to have a say in what gets published. But since this book was about music with which I had an uncomfortable relationship, the songs of Celine Dion and in particular her album Let's Talk About Love -- indeed, it was as much about that uncomfortable relationship, and all such aesthetic conflicts, as about the music itself -- my listening process was unusually fraught. The Magnetic Fields, The Book of Love Let's Talk About Love Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste (Book) : Wilson, Carl : Writings of Carl Wilson along with essays on the book themes from writers, musicians and scholars use Céline Dion as a test case and thought experiment to prompt readers to second guess the way we think about our likes and dislikes and what we value. First of all, let's talk about this COVER. Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste 4.03 avg rating — 3,259 ratings — published 2007 — 19 editions Want to Read saving… How could I not have fallen in love with this song? It's an obvious choice, but a case of one of my most notorious fellow anti-sentimentalists grappling with sentiment and having ultimately to admit that it defeats him. Claire Kann is the author of the forthcoming novel Let’s Talk About Love, which comes out January 23, 2018. Book Notes - Carl Wilson ("Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste") 1. Claire Kann’s sweet, nuanced exploration of sexuality feels brilliantly real—Alice is the BFF we wish we had. I finally got to the point where I'd play Let's Talk About Love at full volume at home regularly. At once among the most widely beloved and most reviled and lampooned pop stars of the past few decades, Céline Dion's … 20th-century art was in revolt against the uselessness of beauty and dismissed it. I feel less of a burden that there’s a book with ace representation. The Mountain Goats, For TG&Y ... Other books in Continuum’s 331⁄3 series (short volumes devoted to single albums by canonical musical acts) have … So I broke my leash to my desk and headed to Lee's Palace in Toronto for a concert by one of the best live bands in the world, the nearly 30-year-old Dutch anarcho-punk-jazz-improv group The Ex. I'm rejecting you." New York magazine review ... A Journey to the End of Taste, Carl Wilson manages to produce one of the most interesting and erudite books on … 3. Claire Kann’s debut novel Let’s Talk About Love, chosen by readers like you for Macmillan's young adult imprint Swoon Reads, gracefully explores the struggle with emerging adulthood and the complicated line between friendship and what it might mean to be something more. 7. Carl Wilson is one of the music critics I respect most. Composing a book that questions the basis of musical aesthetics -- that is, why we like and dislike the music we do, individually -- I even found music with music too distracting. At the concert, they also performed a series of songs influenced by their more recent cultural-exchange projects in Ethiopia, music that proved that feedback-drenched guitars could still make your hips sway and your mind swell with polyrhythmic, polymath possibility. by Carl Wilson. 8. “Let's Talk About Love” is a studious, A-plus paper on the topic of “taste,” but it's also very dry, very quote-heavy, and very resistant (to use one of the author's, Carl Wilson's, own key words) to its own innate charms -- those charms being its personal touches: the book sparks to life in moments (like when Wilson flashes back to his ex-wife's performance of Buddy Holly's “Oh Boy” to express her feelings for … The Savage Critic(s) review, The Bryant Park Project interview with the author ***Let’s Talk Love introduces you to The Love Vixen and gives you a peek inside her life. Carl Wilson has two New York readings this week: Tuesday Jan 22, 7:30 pm: Word bookstore I moved up from there to giving the album a semi-nightly audition on my bedside table from my laptop computer's tiny speakers, hoping to absorb and adjust myself to its musical values subconsciously in my sleep. Rihanna feat. 14. The aesthetic issue is that beauty may be both humans' best and our most foolish invention. 302 Broome St., between Forsythe and Eldridge, in Manhattan. The Tyee profile of the author Billboard editor Paul Verna gave it a positive review. Big Bill Broonzy, Old Folks at Home I began by listening to the album primarily on my iPod as I walked around town, secure that what I was hearing was opaque to anyone who saw me. So it goes for Alice, who’s biromantic (i.e., capable of falling for multiple genders) but asexual (i.e., doesn’t feel that kind of attraction, period). 11. He also noted that Dion spreads her wings on tracks like the reggae-splashed "Treat Her Like a Lady" featu… by Jaclyn Johnston | Nov 20, 2018 | 0 comments. She's wealthy. ).When her blissful summer takes an unexpected turn and Takumi becomes her knight with a shiny library-employee badge (close enough), Alice has to decide if she’s willing to risk their friendship for a love that might not be reciprocated—or understood.Claire Kann’s debut novel Let’s Talk About Love, chosen by readers like you for Macmillan's young adult imprint Swoon Reads, gracefully explores the struggle with emerging adulthood and the complicated line between friendship and what it might mean to be something more. Madden A lovely book with very likable and diverse characters. A beautiful, dark-skinned black girl with an afro. Not swayed by hype, he focuses on songwriting and performing talent and his Zoilus posts and Globe and Mail columns are must-reads for me. the author's Said the Guests post at Said the Gramophone If you think romance in the age of Tinder is tricky, try looking for love when your identity can’t be summed up by ticking a box. Purchase on beauty is so clearly a corrupting influence on daily life and contemporary culture, the way that it becomes a currency in an image-oriented age.And yet Celine Dion on the other hand has a near-religious faith in beauty's excesses that seems true to the instincts of so many people around the world. The dynamic between "alternative culture" and the "mainstream" too often carries that sour defensiveness into so-called adulthood. 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Stephin Merritt, the songwriter behind the Magnetic Fields, kept cropping up as a simultaneous defender and critic of pop culture in this book, which only left me more impressed with his problematic, exclusionary and embracing at once, talent. 52 Books, 52 Weeks (2004 Edition), Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Books of the Week, Book Notes - Carl Wilson ("Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste"), Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, The Bryant Park Project interview with the author, the author's Said the Guests post at Said the Gramophone, USA Today Pop Candy podcast interview with the author, directors discuss their film's soundtracks. Joy radiates from this cover and it's one of my favorites of 2018. Nothing left of them. writing About, in part, the communal pleasures of pop music Costello. Love? I not have fallen in Love with this song to their recently published books steve Reich music. 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