“My Heart Will Go On” was originally composed to assist in marketing efforts; however, the “Titanic”The song could have been performed by a different singer. A 2019 appearance “Watch What Happens Live,”Celine Dion shared that the one song she wasn’t keen on recording was “My Heart Will Go On.” When “WHHL” host Andy Cohen inquired as to why, she replied: “I don’t know, it didn’t appeal to me. I was probably very tired that day.”Dion decided to try the song anyway, at her husband’s insistence. “And I sang the song once and they built the orchestra around it. I never re-sang it for the recording. So the demo is the actual recording.”The “All By Myself”The songstress also made a joke. “But after that I’ve sang it about three gazillion times.”
An earlier appearance “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,”Dion shared a similar story. “And the ‘Titanic,’ one thing is that, um, I’m glad I sang the song,” Dion started, “I think I said it before, but I don’t do television so much, so I didn’t want to record [‘My Heart Will Go On’].”Dion eventually revealed that she is “happy that my people don’t listen to me, everything I say.”