60 Songs That Explain the '90s

Rob Harvilla

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Chapter 1

  • CĂ©line Dion helped define the decade but did not let the decade define her, and this is a pop star's greatest challenge, the eternal conundrum, the nigh-impossible mission: How to achieve true domination without getting trapped in the bejeweled amber of your prime. How to sow ecstatic chaos without succumbing to it. Her strategy? Sing harder. Sing louder. Sow even more chaos, ever more ecstatically. Baffle the masses even as you entrance them; get weirder as you get huger. That's how your songs go on, as does your legacy, as does your heart.