If you like listening to a live performance without the video than this one is for you... the DVD is just a teaser that has some interesting information about Celine, but doesn't have the live Las Vegas show I wanted to see. Again... save your money and wait until we can buy a DVD with her live stage performance that will have some entertainment value. I gave it two stars... very disappointed! C'mon Celine ... make it right for your fans... give us your live Las Vegas show on DVD! and make everyone happy!

Don't get me wrong, I am a huge fan of Céline Dion's! And I still think she deserves that respect of mine for her phenomenal accomplishments in these short years. I think, however, I miss those days before All The Way... A Decade of Song, when she was really consummate in all her works. She did also admit that she was very disciplined in training her vocals as a professional. After her hiatus - and the baby - she began to sound all so nasal (she was in the first place, but she's getting more so!). This album totally proves that fact. Rather than the really majestic soaring voice she once had, she has been barely gratifying her fans now with very nasal thin vocals. What happened? Her rendition of What A Wonderful World in this album is one of the worst I've heard by a professional artist. Not forgetting the lackadaisical effort to please her fans with just 2 (2??) new songs. "I Ain't Gonna Look The Other Way" is good (but nasal still), but "You And I" was a disappointment, more suited for the new fans since A New Day Has Come. Bring back David Foster, Diane Warren... Bring back Céline Dion PLEASE.

Don't get me wrong. I've been a Celine Dion fan from the time I heard "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" in November 1990, back when I was just 7 years old. I've grown up with Celine's music, and have bought her albums as fast as I could since I first picked up "Falling Into You". There's a definite history of my listening to, and being captivated by, her music.

That said, this is easily the worst album she's ever done. Even some of the more cringe-worthy demo-style recordings she occasionally did as a child prodigy in Quebec are moot compared to this. This is supposed to be the audio to a great spectacle of a show. And therein lies its shame.

For a supposedly great show, this only ends up sounding mediocre. Her accent, while pleasant on her previous live records, grates on the nerves here because it's so thick as to make her virtually impossible to understand. The supple quality of her voice has vanished, and is replaced by something that sounds like a death rattle. One is forced to wonder if that is the sound of a singer who knows her time is almost up.

The few songs of hers don't stand up to their studio counterparts, and the new recordings of the remakes she's done live in concert turn out to be rather lifeless and dull. Even her try at Peggy Lee's "Fever" -- always a fun, snappy tune in my book -- sounds shockingly boring. Sorry, but Eva Cassidy's version was more bluesy, and Madonna's club jam remake was funkier.

The only memorable track is one oven-fresh from the studio, "You And I". The single is a bouncy club-lite anthem to the beauty of love, which has topped the Adult Contemporary chart in her native Canada. That song, and the album art, alone is why I gave this album two stars. The second studio track is yet another yawn-inducing ballad that her hardcore detractors have come to expect from her.

The accompanying DVD isn't terribly impressive either, as it contains many scenes that most Celine fans have already seen before, and doesn't do much more than act as a half-hour commercial for the "A New Day..." concert. The semi-humourous commentary by Wayne Brady and the sadly brief scenes of Celine working in the recording studio and rehearsing dance steps for "New Day" are the only parts that save the DVD from being a total waste of laser etchings.

Oh yeah, and the prominent anti-piracy stickers all over the casing and CD labels tick me off as well. I happen to be a downloader who usually downloads albums to see if I like them, and then buys them. I didn't take that precaution with this one. Being a hardcore Celine fan, I simply bought this right off the bat, assuming that Celine would give me my money's worth, as I've been able to depend upon in the past.

I was sadly mistaken. Don't make the same mistake I did. Save your hard-earned cash and download "You And I". Or, if you're afraid of the feds coming after you, tape it off the radio and wait for the CD single to be released.

Celine's Live English album A new day... Live in Las Vegas is wayyy awesome! If you've been to the show already, you can relive your favorite moments over and over again with this CD, but if you haven't been yet, you can still listen to her Live Las Vegas concert on the album whenever you want. And the Celine DVD is also amazing! The one year... one heart that comes with this CD. It is 36 minutes long, and is wonderful! I HIGHLY recommend that you buy this album if you don't already have it, I just bought my copy last weekend. :-)

As much as I have enjoyed Celine Dion's talents holding in the place as one of the best vocalists, this CD does nothing to showcase any of her skills. I felt let down to a certain degree and the live DVD/Video will probably be a better showcase of her talents. When all you can do is hear a show live, you want to hear some nice vocals. For much of the CD, Celine sings really low and does none of the vocal acrobatics and tricks she is known for which makes the CD very ho-hum, run of the mill. From a singer like Celine, I at least want to hear the climax in BECAUSE yOU LOVED ME and MY HEART WILL GO ON but she does those notes in her mid to low range voice which is nothing special. Do not get me wrong because she can definately sing as the CD shows but when you sing live, you have to do something new or even better than the original. Here, she presents the songs in a more boring, a more reserved fashion than the original. The two new songs also show the direction Celine's music is heading as they are very bubblegum and disposable. I know that a new day has come and that Celine is older but as far as selecting material, she needs to get better at doing it because all of this more mature Britney Spears poppish stuff is not working for her. This is certainly a CD for Celine purists, Celine diehards because it does nothing new or spectacular. Visually seeing the live will do better for me because the audio does nothing.