D'Elles
Celine Dion
D’Elles is Céline Dion’s 2007 French‑language studio album and a distinctive concept project built entirely around women’s voices as writers. Released in May 2007 by Columbia/Epic, it is her twenty‑second studio album (and thirteenth in French), running about 47 minutes across 13 tracks that were all penned by prominent female authors from France and Quebec, including Françoise Dorin, Christine Orban, Nina Bouraoui, Marie Laberge, Lise Payette, Denise Bombardier, Nathalie Nechtschein, Janette Bertrand, Jovette Bernier, and George Sand. The title plays on her earlier landmark album D’eux (“about them”), switching the pronoun to the feminine elles and signaling a thematic focus on womanhood, identity, relationships, and lived experience from a female perspective.
Musically, D’Elles sits in a pop and pop‑rock space with elements of soft rock, balladry, and folk, composed and arranged by familiar collaborators such as Erick Benzi, Jacques Veneruso, David Gategno, Gildas Arzel, Marc Dupré, and Jean‑François Breau, under the overall supervision of Jean‑Jacques Goldman. The album’s singles—“Et s’il n’en restait qu’une (je serais celle‑là),” “Immensité,” and “À cause”—frame Dion’s voice in modern, radio‑friendly settings while the deeper cuts (“La diva,” “Femme comme chacune,” “Lettre de George Sand à Alfred de Musset,” “On s’est aimé à cause,” “Berceuse”) explore different facets of female experience, from public scrutiny to everyday love and memory. Critically, D’Elles was praised as one of her most ambitious French projects in years and earned Juno nominations for Album of the Year and Francophone Album of the Year, while commercially it debuted at number one in Canada and France, topped Belgium’s Wallonia chart, and achieved multi‑platinum and gold certifications across several countries.
D'Elles
Celine Dion
D’Elles is Céline Dion’s 2007 French‑language studio album and a distinctive concept project built entirely around women’s voices as writers. Released in May 2007 by Columbia/Epic, it is her twenty‑second studio album (and thirteenth in French), running about 47 minutes across 13 tracks that were all penned by prominent female authors from France and Quebec, including Françoise Dorin, Christine Orban, Nina Bouraoui, Marie Laberge, Lise Payette, Denise Bombardier, Nathalie Nechtschein, Janette Bertrand, Jovette Bernier, and George Sand. The title plays on her earlier landmark album D’eux (“about them”), switching the pronoun to the feminine elles and signaling a thematic focus on womanhood, identity, relationships, and lived experience from a female perspective.
Musically, D’Elles sits in a pop and pop‑rock space with elements of soft rock, balladry, and folk, composed and arranged by familiar collaborators such as Erick Benzi, Jacques Veneruso, David Gategno, Gildas Arzel, Marc Dupré, and Jean‑François Breau, under the overall supervision of Jean‑Jacques Goldman. The album’s singles—“Et s’il n’en restait qu’une (je serais celle‑là),” “Immensité,” and “À cause”—frame Dion’s voice in modern, radio‑friendly settings while the deeper cuts (“La diva,” “Femme comme chacune,” “Lettre de George Sand à Alfred de Musset,” “On s’est aimé à cause,” “Berceuse”) explore different facets of female experience, from public scrutiny to everyday love and memory. Critically, D’Elles was praised as one of her most ambitious French projects in years and earned Juno nominations for Album of the Year and Francophone Album of the Year, while commercially it debuted at number one in Canada and France, topped Belgium’s Wallonia chart, and achieved multi‑platinum and gold certifications across several countries.