Celine Dion fans stage protest outside Rolling Stone offices after Greatest Singers snub
Dubbed "The Red Heads," protestors chanted "Rolling Stone is stoned" in response the magazine's failure to include Dion on a list of greatest singers
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Today, in “Oh thank god, something completely trivial to get worked up about for once” news: The offices of venerable rock magazine Rolling Stone have found themselves beset by the mustered forces of Celine.
That’s right: Responding to the magazine’s recent publication of a list of the “greatest singers of all time,” a hardcore crew of Dion fanatics have decided that their rage will go on, traveling to the Manhattan offices of Rolling Stone this week to launch a protest movement of refreshingly trivial aims. Dubbing themselves “The Red Heads” after—we’re assuming—Some Kind Of Celine Dion Thing, the group held up signs and sang Dion songs, eventually meeting with the gamely amused members of the magazine’s staff themselves. (Who seemed especially tickled at a sign declaring that “Rolling Stone is stoned,” suggesting that the only reason one might leave Celine Dion off a list of the 200 greatest singers of all time is some fairly mild and legal intoxication.)
French Canadian talk show host Julie Snyder was also on hand for the protest, leading Rolling Stone to question how much of the protest was a genuine expression of Celine mania, and how much was simply a TV stunt. (There are also some difficult-to-avoid questions about holding any kind of protest, even a very silly one, two years after the January 6 insurrection; Snyder acknowledged the heaviness of the date, but asserted that, “We think also we can protest with our heart and our song and that the song can help people to get better.”) Rolling Stone also reports that, “Another protester entered the building and asked to speak to RS‘s Editor in Chief Noah Shachtman in an attempt to give him a DVD of Celine’s greatest moments,” and hot damn but do we wish we could get our hands on that DVD.
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I mean, they aren’t wrong.
Yeah, even though she’s not in my song rotation, I can’t deny she’s got some amazing pipes.
Her voice isn’t bad either.
She’s got the pipes, but if only she did anything positive with them. Doesn’t make the cut for 1000, never mind 200.
Yep. There’s 200 better singers than her? I don’t think so.
I mean, opera singers and Motown could probably get you most of the way there.
They purposely excluded opera in favor of mainstream recording artists (says so in the opener), so no, we still don’t have 200 (!) better singers than Celine Dion.
“200 (!)“Everybody keeps saying that like its a big number, but it really isn’t when we have over a hundred years of recorded artists out there.
“Mustered?”
The past tense isn’t really working for me but, yes, her hair is very yellow.
Mean Mr. Mustered
She never stops, she’s a go-getter.
If that’s the case, I could “dye” her hair white in a minute
You’re getting her confused with Celine Dijon.
COTD (Condiment of the Day)
This is the best pun I’ve seen in a very long time. Congrats.
Two years after the insurrection.
I’m so glad the weekend’s here. Time to kick back, get stoned, and leave Celine Dion off my own list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.
Also not a fan (if that’s what you meant).
Oh Canadoh!
Damn, even Stephen Malkmus is on this list.
Why and this is coming from a fan of Pavement.
“There are also some difficult-to-avoid questions about holding any kind of protest, even a very silly one, one year after the January 6 insurrection”This might be the funniest thing ever written on this site.
She promised to walk up to the Rolling Stone offices with them, but the Secret Service wouldn’t let her.
I’m annoyed that a list is getting me peeved at all, it’s a ridiculous list put out by a modern media company, but “Best Singers of All Time” is just stupid because it’s not a list of that at all. It’s a list of some of the best mostly American singers from mainly the mid-20th century to now within a generally a narrow set of genres but sure some of them will be from something other than rock/pop/R&B, all of whom were fortunate enough to get a degree of fame. Yeah, it’s not as snappy but it might have helped to avoid a situation like this.
Once I remember that Rolling Stone started as a vanity project for Jann Woerner to meet John Lennon and it’s almost single handily responsible for the sexist underlying behind the whole pop vs rock debate, it becomes real easy to ignore lots of Rolling Stone content.
What is this wokester ranting about?
Also people have different opinions on who has the best voice.
Yeah, where’s Kate Pierson at on this list?
I used to see Love Shack on Pop-Up Video a lot as a kid, but I don’t think I really appreciated her vocals until I happened to hear Roam somewhere, which resulted in me becoming a big fan and the most annoying 12-year-old that summer as I told anyone who would listen absolutely everything I had learned about the B-52’s from my time spent on Allmusic.com.
It’s obviously whoever swallows the most jizz
Everyone knows America has the best singers
Any list of the best singers of all time that leaves out Thurg, the 10 000 BC bard who sang so beautifully about mammoth hunting, is completely invalid.
Everyone knows that Doug Ingle of the Iron Butterfly is the greatest singer ever, man.
Who of the what?
These insurrectionists get dumber every year!
I’d swap out Billie Eilish for Celine.
And I like Billie Eilish.
But the other Dion made the list.
Not Another Toxic Fandom!
I guess no. One. Asked. Her to.
Oh, yeah! I’m holding my own one man protest for not putting Harriet Wheeler of The Sundays on there. I will be blasting The Sundays and singing along, as a man trying to reach her range with a microphone, outside their office today.
Doesn’t Celine Dion have bigger problems for her fans to worry about right now?
You don’t even need to be close to the Rolling Stone offices to join the protest; near, far, wherever you are.