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Shania Twain Wants To Make Next Record Christmas Album

10/7/2012 2:30 PM ET 

In a recent interview with Up! magazine, Shania Twain says she is itching to make a new record—but not just any record, a Christmas record.

"I'm concentrating on the show and not really getting any closer to recording a new album, even though I've done so much of the writing. I'm more inclined to make my next record a Christmas album," she explains.

However, she added, she will first finish the run of shows she has scheduled at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.

"I've been dying to do a Christmas album for so long and I think now is the best time to do that. Once the show is underway I'm just going to, no pun intended, chill and fall into one of my nostalgic modes and make a Christmas album."

Twain's Caesar Palace run begins on December 1 and continues through April.

by RTT Staff Writer

http://www.rttnews.com/1978539/shania-twain-wants-to-make-next-record-christmas-album.aspx

Shania Twain Describes Her Vegas Shows

Video news report summarizing the Up! magazine interview.

KHAZ Music News: Shania Twain Wants To Make A Christmas Record

(Associated Press) – The next music Shania Twain records might have a holly, jolly jingle to it. She tells Up! Magazine that she’s been “dying to do a Christmas album for so long” and now is the best time to do that. Twain is launching her “Still The One” concert series in Las Vegas in December. She says once the show is underway, she’s going to get nostalgic and make the Christmas record happen.

http://www.hayspost.com/2012/10/10/khaz-music-news-shania-twain-wants-to-make-a-christmas-record/

Nineties Country Queens Return with 2013 Releases

By Jack Dura | Wednesday, December 5, 2012

What do Shania Twain, Faith Hill and Natalie Maines have in common? It’s more than you might think, actually. Besides riding the tide of fame in the ‘90s and early 2000s, these three country stars have been rather dormant on the music scene the past six years. That is all about to change as each songstress readies herself for a new release in 2013.

Faith Hill has already given her fans a taste of what is to come in the New Year. In early October she sent “American Heart” to radio after debuting “Come Home” at the CMAs in November 2011. Other songs off of the forthcoming album (rumored to be titled Illusion) have also trickled out from the singer in the past year, including “600 Years” and the titular tune “Illusion.” Although a release date has not been given to the public yet, it appears Hill’s Illusion will hit stores in the spring of 2013.

Also planning a 2013 return is Dixie Chick Natalie Maines. The lead voice behind such hits as “Wide Open Spaces” and “Goodbye Earl,” Maines may be just as well-known for her remark about former President Bush in 2003, saying, “Just so you know…we’re ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas.” Sweeping the Grammys in 2007 with their eclectic comeback album Taking the Long Way, the Chicks rose above the controversy swirling around them, and have since seemed to disappear altogether.

With nothing new since then, it would appear the Chicks have broken up. While they insist they have not, it has not stopped Maines’ sidekicks (sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison) from forming their own duo and recording new music. Maines is also going down a musical path of her own, taking blues and gospel singer Ben Harper along for the ride as producer. Tweeting in June that she was eight songs deep into a new album, Maines said she is hoping for a spring release of her solo rock album, which is as of yet unnamed.

What may be the most anticipated of all is an album by Shania Twain, the acclaimed queen of country pop. Still retaining the record for best-selling album by a woman (1997’s Come on Over), Twain has had nothing entirely new since Up! was let loose in 2002. A greatest hits album and a couple low-hitting singles dented the charts in the mid-2000s, as did last year’s “Today Is Your Day,” her first single in six years.

While new material is nowhere in sight for Twain, a two-year Vegas residency and possible Christmas album will highlight 2013 for the singer. On Dec. 1, Twain’s “Still the One” show at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas kicked off the first of twenty-four scheduled shows, with more pending. Also on the way is a highly likely Christmas album, which Twain has yearned to record for years.

“I’m more inclined to make my next record a Christmas album. I’ve been dying to do a Christmas album for so long and I think now is the best time to do that,” Twain told Up! magazine in September.

Twain has already had a taste of recording Christmas music, as she is featured in “White Christmas” on Michael Bublé’s 2011 Christmas album. With a Vegas residency and hopeful holiday album, 2013 will be a big year for the superstar.

Spring of next year will no doubt be another milestone in the careers of Twain, Hill and Maines, whose music has been missed by many in the past six years. While any work by these women will be welcomed, it will be interesting to see what they have to show for their long absences. Only 2013 will tell.

http://www.ndsuspectrum.com/a-e/nineties-country-queens-return-with-2013-releases-1.2965196#.UMFFS3fNkYJ

Butters wrote:

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Umm...that is a current pic?? If it is, then it was HEAVILY photoshopped......which is annoying--no need to make her look 25. She has wrinkles--show them, she has earned them.

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I find it odd too. Looks like an old picture/shoot they dug out of the closet. Strange. Plus it's so altered it doesn't even look like Shania! Can't wait to see what the others look like (if there are more in the magazine).

Supposedly the photographer, Mark Abrahams, gave the picture to the Australian Fan Club. Don't ask me why. Why them? Sounds weird to me. And as I said before, it seems strange Shania would even do a shoot for an airline magazine.

The picture is fake! I posted this picture on my Shania facebook page and that Shania Twain Australian group act like they own it. But they don't because it's fake, made by them. It does not even look like Shania!

What amazes me is they said she did a telephone interview not a one on one personal interview. Why did you believe this in the first place ? Just stop getting sources from facebook or other Shania Fan sites, Shania's Facebook, Twitter, Website and People.com are really the real sites you should be looking at more often. Just 2 cents.

Tommy wrote:

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As mentioned last August, Shania was interviewed for the March 2013 issue of Up! magazine. Apparently there was a photo shoot too. (Kind of strange for an airline magazine.) Here is a picture. I found it on the Shania Twain Australian Fan Club Facebook page. The magazine should be out soon. A digital issue will be posted on www.upmagazine.com.

Click to enlarge.

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 FAKE!

upmagazine.com now has the Q&A article from the March 2013 issue posted in text form:

Shania Twain on Vegas, her biography and her new music

She's still the one

By Mandy Savoie | March 6, 2013

What was Canadian country superstar Shania Twain most nervous about before launching her new show at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas?

It wasn’t the fact she’d be singing in front of a sold-out crowd for her first performance in eight years—or that she’d be making her entrance on a flying motorcycle.

No. Her main concern was footwear. “How am I going to be able to run around in high-heel shoes again?” says Twain.

Along with her 13-piece band, Twain, 47, is the newest performer at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, where she’s booked for a two-year run of Shania: Still the One.

Twain sat down with up! to discuss the show, her 2011 autobiography and her new music.

What are your must-dos in Vegas?

The thing I love most about Vegas is seeing shows. Every night, I’ll go to a different show. I’ve even seen some things twice. They’re just so incredible and so elaborate. If there’s anything new in town, I’m always anxious to go and see that.

Do you gamble?

No, I’m not a gambler. I don’t even know how to play blackjack, [but] I find the atmosphere of the casinos a lot of fun. I like The Strip a lot—the vibe is just interesting. People are there to have fun. The food is great and the shopping is great, so I think it’s a great place for entertainment of all kinds.

Do you have plans to tour when you’re not performing in Vegas?

No. I’m going to go back to the Bahamas [where she now lives] and carry on with life. I enjoy it. My son [Eja, 11] will want to be with his friends and get back to normalcy. We’ll enjoy tapping into the temporary performances in Vegas and then coming back to reality.

Have you considered doing a cover album?

I’d love to do a cover album with all my favourite songs. There’s just never time to do it. I always have a desire to work on my own writing and the final stage of that is recording it and it’s very satisfying to finish it. I’ve always put the cover album idea on hold, but I do believe it is something that I will do and it will be a completely self-indulgent experience.

After writing your autobiography, From This Moment On, is it easier to write songs?

No, I’m still an extremely private person. I was extreme in separating my professional and personal life to a degree that wasn’t healthy for me. I had to switch gears, dramatically. It’s a delicate balance because there are secrets that you never share and then there are secrets that you realize aren’t even secrets. I don’t feel that I can be my real self in the public eye anymore unless I can be more relaxed about the personal side of myself. Without doing that, I never would’ve been able to have gone back into the public eye after what happened with my divorce [from Robert “Mutt” Lange]. I think it’s more of a maturity than anything.

http://www.upmagazine.com/story/article/shania-twain-vegas-her-biography-and-her-new-music