November 20, 1993

Inhuman synthesizers and drum machines all but kill the emotion that Dion summons with her powerful, octave-soaring voice.

November 27, 1993

A big-league affair that should push her to new realms of pop stardom.

December 9, 1993

Dion has a fluid voice but horrid material.

December 18, 1993

If there's a fault with this disc, it's that Dion isn't as convincing on the dance-pop tracks as she is on the slower stuff.

January 2, 1994

What a waste of great pipes.

January 28, 1994

It's no accident that Celine Dion keeps recording all those movie-theme duets -- she's got the perfect voice for wide-screen romance, all unbridled power and telegraphed emotion. What she doesn't have, however, is much in the way of soul, which is why "The Colour of My Love" seems such an uneven effort.

February 10, 1994

Dion's latest album tries to do many things at once and fails at many of them.

February 17, 1994

With her attempt at soul, you can categorize Dion as fairly shallow, sort of a female Michael Bolton.

February 17, 1994

It's formula stuff.

February 18, 1994

There's no doubting her technical ability