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Shania Twain: A Survivor Who Remade The Good Old Girl

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Weekend Edition Saturday

Shania Twain's new memoir, From This Moment On, is not a light read. Discussing the book with Scott Simon in an interview for Weekend Edition Saturday, the hugely successful star sounds more like a Loretta Lynn-style mountain-girl survivor than the woman who showed Nashville what a midriff looks like.

The interview (which you can hear at the top of this post starting Saturday midday) is a killer listen. Twain reveals the abuse she and her mother both suffered at the hands of her stepfather and the dire poverty they endured after leaving him. She goes into detail about her humiliating divorce from her producer and primary musical collaborator, Robert "Mutt" Lange, who left her for one of her best friends in 2008. What Twain doesn't talk about much, though, is music — and the huge part she's played in inventing the current style of international pop superstardom.

"Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape," Twain says near the end of her chat with Simon. It sounds like a platitude, but it's one that offers insight into what her massive hits in the 1990s meant — not just for her listeners, but for pop in general.

The Canadian-born Twain's massive success did offer an escape, for country music in particular — she brought the genre into the modern era, when cowboys are more likely to drive SUVs than wrangle horses, honky-tonks have karaoke machines and family values make room for TGIF nights out with the girls, getting down to a little rock 'n' roll.

With the 1995 monster The Woman in Me, Twain and Lange forged a sound and sensibility that changed not only country, but pop, forever. Following in Dolly Parton's patent-leather footsteps, and running alongside a power-ballad-loving guy named Garth, the pair perfected a fusion of heartland rock and Nashville twang that perfectly articulated the changing realities of the liberal feminist-era good old girl.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/05/06/136060728/shania-twain-a-survivor-who-remade-the-good-old-girl



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Your Letters: End Time Nigh; Guns And Doctors

by NPR News
May 14, 2001

There was a huge response to a piece last week by NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty, who reported that a group of Christians believe May 21 will be the biblical Judgment Day. NPR's Greg Allen also reported that Florida is expected to be the first state to ban doctors from asking their patients if they own a gun. We also spoke with Shania Twain about her new memoir. Host Scott Simon reads listeners' e-mails and comments.

......And we spoke with Shania Twain about her new memoir, "From This Moment On," which includes accounts of growing up with an abusive father.

Ms. SHANIA TWAIN (Singer-Songwriter): There was a lot of violence due to the stress of not being able to pay bills. It made for a very insecure and instable environment for a child, which is basically what my life was for my entire childhood.

SIMON: Andrew Titon(ph) of Santa Barbara writes: As a marriage and family psychotherapist I co-lead groups for women and men recovering from the effects of growing up in abusive households. It is deeply healing for people to realize their story is not unique to them and to learn of others such as Ms. Twain who have suffered in similar ways and yet manage to break through this vicious cycle and succeed in their own healing.

http://www.npr.org/2011/05/14/136304637/your-letters-end-time-nigh-guns-and-doctors



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