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Creativity Quote by Celine Dion

"I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on"

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A flex this blunt only lands because Celine Dion can actually back it up. The line is a tidy inventory of cultural proof: gold, platinum, Oscars, Grammys. Not feelings, not “my journey,” not even artistry. Receipts. In a pop ecosystem that constantly asks women to be grateful, relatable, and humble, Dion flips the script and makes status itself the point. She’s not begging to be taken seriously; she’s reminding you that seriousness has already been certified by the institutions that supposedly decide it.

The phrasing matters. “And so on” is doing sneaky work: it signals abundance to the point of boredom, the kind of résumé so overstuffed it can’t be fully recited. That casual trailing off is the real power move, because it frames her achievements as almost incidental - not a miracle, not an exception, just the accumulated consequence of showing up and winning for decades.

The subtext is defensive and triumphant at once. Celebrity culture loves to mythologize Dion as the big-voice ballad queen, sometimes coded as corny, sometimes treated as a meme. This is her reclaiming the terms: you can laugh, you can stan, you can dismiss the taste profile, but the scoreboard doesn’t care. It’s also a reminder of how pop legitimacy gets measured - not by risk, innovation, or critical consensus, but by hardware. Dion’s genius here is using that shallow metric as a weapon, turning the industry’s own symbols into an argument you can’t easily talk around.

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Celine Dion (born March 30, 1968) is a Musician from Canada.

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