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If originality is what you look for in rap, odds are you won't have much time for "Music for the People."

Unlike many balladeers, Dion never tries to overpower the listener; she'd rather make her point through inflection and implication.

Trouble is, the Mark Man has little to say, and already said most of it on the last album.

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.