# Celine Dion singing "God Bless America"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 26, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celine-dion-singing-god-bless-america/151107 "2003-01-26T23:15:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celine-dion-singing-god-bless-america/151107/1 "2003-01-26T23:15:43Z")
Sorry, does anybody else find something a bit, odd, about a Canadian singing God Bless _America_? I don’t know if I’m for it or against it, I was just wondering if anybody else had at least a second thought about it. -foxy ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celine-dion-singing-god-bless-america/151107/2 "2003-01-26T23:17:23Z")
Definitely – it’s struck me as odd ever since she jumped on that bandwagon after 9/11. I guess the jingoists would say we’re such a great country that even our neighbors to the north love us… sigh… ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celine-dion-singing-god-bless-america/151107/3 "2003-01-26T23:26:41Z")
I also think it is ODD. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celine-dion-singing-god-bless-america/151107/4 "2003-01-26T23:26:59Z")
No, it didn’t strike me as odd at all, and she did a good job. I have no problem with people from other countries singing a song about my country, as long as they do it with respect–which is more than i can say for some of the versions of this song (and the national Anthem,for tht matter) that shoed up after 9/11. Besides–who says someone from another country _can’t_ love the USA? I love England–the history, the counrtyside, its art and literature, the spirit of its people–I’d gladly sing _God Save the Queen_, although not in performance, because I dont’ sign well enough, and I hate to be though disrepectful. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celine-dion-singing-god-bless-america/151107/5 "2003-01-26T23:28:17Z")
Actually, I don’t sing well enough, signing is a whole other issue. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celine-dion-singing-god-bless-america/151107/6 "2003-01-26T23:53:50Z")
THe thing that struck me as odd is that Celine Dion doesn’t strike me as the type of singer the average football fan would listen to. ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celine-dion-singing-god-bless-america/151107/7 "2003-01-27T00:04:57Z")
Well, I wonder how Canadians would feel about Christina Aguilera singing “Oh, Canada” at say, a Maple Leaf game. ---
**Author:** ![cadolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celine-dion-singing-god-bless-america/151107/8 "2003-01-27T00:09:31Z")
She did a good job. That doesn’t have anything to do with it for me. I agree that she doesn’t strike me as a singer the average football player would listen to either. I’d sing God Save The Queen too, but it does stike me as ODD and WIERD to have Celine Dion singing at this very American sporting event. Surely they could have found someone else to do it. The only thing worse would have been if they had gotten a rapper!:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Caesar\_s\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/73ab20/32.png) [@Caesar\_s\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caesar_s_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celine-dion-singing-god-bless-america/151107/9 "2003-01-27T00:58:47Z")
It struck myself and my dad too (he’s the one who first pointed it out). I mean, if she wants to sing it, fine, but why did they pick her? Did she ask to do it, or what? I dunno. I’m on the fence I guess. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celine-dion-singing-god-bless-america/151107/10 "2003-01-27T02:04:55Z")
It’s not so much that Dion is Canadian, but that it was Dion. That was absolutely awful. ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celine-dion-singing-god-bless-america/151107/11 "2003-01-27T02:35:46Z")
I have no objection to her singing it, but yeah, the first thought that went through my mind was, “Uhh… Isn’t she…Canadian…?”. I didn’t stick around to hear whether or not she performed it well, so I cannot comment on that. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celine-dion-singing-god-bless-america/151107/12 "2003-01-27T03:15:05Z")
She sholdn’t be singing because she’s canadian and she’s Celine Dion. ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celine-dion-singing-god-bless-america/151107/13 "2003-01-27T03:26:03Z")
Sorry, she’s all yours… she doesn’t know the words to the Canadian National Anthem 😉 ---
**Author:** ![stylize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@stylize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stylize)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celine-dion-singing-god-bless-america/151107/14 "2003-01-27T03:33:59Z")
For what it’s worth, she is starting some new show in Vegas so America is her “home sweet home” so I guess she can sing it. At least it sounded good. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celine-dion-singing-god-bless-america/151107/15 "2003-01-27T03:37:36Z")
“When Canada is dead and gone, there’ll be no more Celine Dion!!” –_SP:BL&U_ ---
**Author:** ![Hrdygrdymn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/77aa72/32.png) [@Hrdygrdymn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hrdygrdymn)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celine-dion-singing-god-bless-america/151107/16 "2003-01-27T03:47:04Z")
The question sounds odd to me. In order to become citizens immigrants must swear allegiance to America under God. Yet if they praise their new home publicly in song its perceived as peculiar? One might think that in a nation so wary of newcomers within its borders, that it might be refreshing to hear one singing for God to bless it rather than swearing by God to destroy it. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celine-dion-singing-god-bless-america/151107/17 "2003-01-27T03:48:22Z")
Would anyone else equate this with Neil Diamond or Barbra Streisand putting out a Christmas album? While not _wrong_, just kinda _wierd_? Happy ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celine-dion-singing-god-bless-america/151107/18 "2003-01-27T03:50:21Z")
**Hrdygrdymn** , is Celine now an American citizen? If so, then I guess I really have no problem…except for the fact that it’s still _Celine Dion_ _wretch_ ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celine-dion-singing-god-bless-america/151107/19 "2003-01-27T03:53:52Z")
I thought this the first time around, when she performed at the America: Tribute the Heroes thing. First…she’s Canadian. The only thing that’d MAYBE make it better is if she’s moved to the States for permanent residence. Second…she lip synced. Ick. Third…she’s Celine Dion. Singing. At the friggin’ _Super Bowl_. FEH! Dixie Chicks redeemed it, somewhat. At least they didn’t have Miss Dion do the national anthem, too. ---
**Author:** ![Hrdygrdymn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/77aa72/32.png) [@Hrdygrdymn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hrdygrdymn)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celine-dion-singing-god-bless-america/151107/20 "2003-01-27T03:55:00Z")
Don’t believe she is a full citizen, but she has a year-long stint in Vegas. Most “Canadian” musicians of apprecable fame (Bryan Adams, Anne Murray, Twaine, Dion) don’t actually live in Canada. Most live in the US near “the market” - Twaine being the exception. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celine-dion-singing-god-bless-america/151107.md?page=2)