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Celine Dion’s songs are known for being romantic and over-the-top — just like the Old Hollywood movie Gone with the Wind. During an interview, the “My Heart Will Go On” singer said that one of her songs “is Gone with the Wind.” There’s good reason to relate the song to the movie. 

Celine Dion’s ‘It’s All Coming Back to Me Now’ is ‘very visual’ like ‘Gone with the Wind’

During an interview posted to Dion’s YouTube channel, she discussed one of her best tracks. “The name of the single is ‘It’s All Coming Back to Me Now.’ This song is probably the biggest song I have ever recorded in my whole life so far. It’s a Jim Steinman song.” For context, Steinman was behind big power ballads like Meat Loaf’s “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That),” Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” and Air Supply’s “Making Love Out of Nothing at All.”

Dion compared “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” to a certain novel/film. “To me, it’s Gone with the Wind,” she opined. “It’s a very powerful song, very romantic, and it’s a very visual song.” For context, the song appears to reference Gone with the Wind in the lyric “It was gone with the wind, but it’s all coming back to me.”

Celine Dion revealed he is a huge fan of old movies

Steinman is known for his melodramatic lyrics and production — which suited Dion very well. “It’s my first time working with Jim Steinman,” Dion said. “I’m very fortunate that he thought of me, for me to sing that song. 

“For Jim, every single song is a movie,” she added. “And to me, he’s my guy, because — it’s never too much for me, it’s never dramatic enough. You know all that stuff — black-and-white movies? Women falling down … it’s my … I love. It give me goosebumps, I love that stuff. Jim Steinman wrote me one of the best songs I have ever recorded, and I am very fortunate because right now I am just having having a great time singing it.”

Dion’s love for classic movies really comes through in the music video for “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now.” The clip is James Dean meets The Hunger. Oddly enough, it doesn’t directly reference Gone with the Wind, but it’s for the best that Dion didn’t regurgitate a movie that glorifies American slavery.

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‘It’s All Coming Back to Me Now’ just missed a big milestone

“It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” became a big hit. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, staying on the chart for 30 weeks. The ballad appeared on the record Falling into You. That album topped the Billboard 200 for three of its 113 weeks on the chart.

Falling into You also produced two other hits: “Because You Loved Me” and “All by Myself.” The former topped the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks while “All by Myself” peaked at No. 4. While Falling into You isn’t as critically acclaimed as In Utero or Jagged Little Pill, it helped define the sound of the 1990s just as much as those records.

Dion was a big fan of Old Hollywood movies and she felt that she captured the mood of one of the big ones with “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now.”

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