To ensure Cameron understood how well the song would fit in his film, producers edited it into the end of the film and arranged a screening for him, Dion, and Angélil in NYC.
Cameron was convinced to put the song in the movie after seeing Dion cry.Horner carried a cassette with Dion's demo of the song around with him for "weeks on weeks on weeks," waiting for the perfect time to play it for Cameron, since he wanted him to be in the best possible mood. "She laid down this vocal - nonstop, OK? One take. Mottola had a very different memory of her first stab at the song, which left them all in tears. It only took one take for Dion to blow everyone away.According to Dion, she was furious because she had belly pains the day she was set to record the song in NYC ("My girlie days are starting to happen."). Dion was in a terrible mood the day she recorded the song.I thought, 'Sing the song, then get the heck out of there.'" "When I recorded it, I didn't think about a movie I didn't think about radio. Why do we need to break our nose?" she explained to Billboard.
Because I didn't want to do it! I just came out of 'Because You Loved Me,' and then 'Beauty and the Beast' was, like, huge. Fortunately her husband convinced her to make a demo, even if she wasn't thrilled about it. After Horner played Dion and her husband, the late René Angélil, the song, she was adamantly against it. Without Dion's husband, she never would have sung it.
Without input from the studio or the director, the legendary composer went off and created the song all on his own with Dion's vocals in mind.