 The song ultimately lost to Celine Dion's popular "My Heart Will Go On" from "Titanic" (1997); critics generally agreed that "Journey to the Past" had little chance of winning against "My Heart Will Go On".Cornelius lamented the fact that the ballad lost "to that darn "Titanic" theme".Although against the odds, Ahrens and Flaherty believed they had a chance of winning, although Ahrens's own mother called her to assure her "it's an honor just to be nominated", which she interpreted as her mother's way of saying "you're going to lose."