My Heart Will Go On - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• Singer Bette Midler performed an uptempo version of the song, using her stage character, Delores DeLago (a wheelchair-bound mermaid, who longs for success) in her 1999 tour, "Divine Miss Millennium." She also sang a small segment of the song during her stint at Caesars Palace, in 2008-09.
• On September 11, 2010, Matthew Wilkening of AOL Radio ranked the song No. 11 on his list of the "100 Worst Songs Ever," while stating a new rule: "From now on, the Canadian warbler, and not the captain, has to go down with this ship" in reference to the Titanic.
• The song was also featured as an episode title for the The CW series, Supernatural in 2011. The episode featured a character going back in time to stop the Titanic from sinking and save its passengers purely because he hated the song and wanted to remove the reason for its existence.
• The song appears in the Sacha Baron Cohen film Brüno, in a parodical sequence wherein the eponymous character and his gay lover strip and embrace in front of an irate crowd towards the end of the movie.
• "My Heart Will Go On" is sung by cupid statues in part of Night at the Museum 2, when Larry hears them sing it, he recognises it and refers to it as, "love theme from Titanic".