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Shania Closing Deal To Join New ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Cast

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Shania Twain says she'd consider doing "Dancing With The Stars"

Nashville Gab | July 16, 2014

Not to get anyone overly excited or anything, but could "Dancing With The Stars" be in Shania Twain's future?

I guess it would depend on the show giving her a call because Shania says she's not opposed to the idea.

During a live Facebook chat earlier this week, a fan asked the singer if she'd ever consider doing DWTS “I’d consider it!”

Well that's not really a yes, but an I'd think about it's definitely better than a flat out no.

Aside from the many fan questions answered during the show, Caesars Palace, where Shania's Vegas show takes place, said that there's a big Vegas announcement coming soon and that if fans want to come see a show in Vegas, they better do it soon.

Since Shania has recently said that she's ready to get back out on tour, I'm thinking her big announcement is probably that she's leaving Vegas for the road. But I guess we'll have to wait and see.

You can check out the whole Q&A over on the Caesars Palace Facebook page.

http://www.nashvillegab.com/2014/07/shania-twain-wouldnt-say-no-to-dancing-with-the-stars-.html

Izy Twain · Senior Member

That would so cool. Me having a dancing background and fan of the show. Be awesome to have a Canadian on DWTS :)

Butters · Guru

This will not happen. Shania usually cannot just be honest about these type of topics and always gives her usual PC answer.

Tommy · Guru

Butters wrote:
This will not happen. Shania usually cannot just be honest about these type of topics and always gives her usual PC answer.

Exactly!

Dubyalicious · Senior Member

That entire article is really grasping at straws. Anyway, I like the idea of DWTS, it just never keeps me interested past the first couple of episodes. I would prefer to see her on Idol or The Voice or that Duets show that happened for like one season.

Melanie · Senior Member

Aren't it usually C-list celebrities who participate in these kind of shows? At least here in Germany it's like that. I also doubt that this is ever going to happen. Look what she said on this topic back in 2011 (at 4:46):

HumbleKevy · Senior Member

yea c list celebs do this, not the best selling female country artist of all time. i am pretty sure another article willl come out claiming a source says shania is close to signing on lol don't believe any of this. the media takes any comment says and blows it up .All shania answers are cheery and positive lol but s small percentage actually happen lol I as a fan would be embarrassed for her if she decided to go on this c list celeb show.

Butters · Guru

Then again, there are a lot of things Shania has done since she divorced Mutt that I would have said, "Never" in 1999....lol Like her whole cheesy show on Oprah's network....being such a confessed private person and all....lol.

barebackwarrior · Senior Member

I concur. This phase 2 in her career is disappointing so far. I'm happy to see Shania performing once again, don't get me wrong. But her professional decisions read like that of a faded star without anything new to offer and cashing in on the scraps of her glory days; as opposed to an A level star on her way to becoming a legend. The best thing Shania has going in her favor is being Canadian. In a country with 33 million people, a success like hers is extraordinary and a supernova. She is a national treasure. If Shania was American, she may not be so lucky because there are more acts with insanely high record sales as well; not to mention Hollywood actors who are ridiculously successful. Then again, we have over 300 million inhabitants.

Shania's success puts her on the same level as Kylie Minogue, Shakira, Charlize Theron and Rihanna who are not American and succeeded tremendously on a global scale.

barebackwarrior · Senior Member

I concur. This phase 2 in her career is disappointing so far. I'm happy to see Shania performing once again, don't get me wrong. But her professional decisions read like that of a faded star without anything new to offer and cashing in on the scraps of her glory days; as opposed to an A level star on her way to becoming a legend. The best thing Shania has going in her favor is being Canadian. In a country with 33 million people, a success like hers is extraordinary and a supernova. She is a national treasure. If Shania was American, she may not be so lucky because there are more acts with insanely high record sales as well; not to mention Hollywood actors who are ridiculously successful. Then again, we have over 310 million inhabitants (we're there already!). That means more pressure and fickle consumers...Bigger is not always better.

Shania's success puts her on the same level as Kylie Minogue, Shakira, Charlize Theron and Rihanna who are not American and succeeded tremendously on a global scale.

Butters · Guru

barebackwarrior wrote:
I concur. This phase 2 in her career is disappointing so far. I'm happy to see Shania performing once again, don't get me wrong. But her professional decisions read like that of a faded star without anything new to offer and cashing in on the scraps of her glory days; as opposed to an A level star on her way to becoming a legend. The best thing Shania has going in her favor is being Canadian. In a country with 33 million people, a success like hers is extraordinary and a supernova. She is a national treasure. If Shania was American, she may not be so lucky because there are more acts with insanely high record sales as well; not to mention Hollywood actors who are ridiculously successful. Then again, we have over 310 million inhabitants (we're there already!). That means more pressure and fickle consumers...Bigger is not always better.

Shania's success puts her on the same level as Kylie Minogue, Shakira, Charlize Theron and Rihanna who are not American and succeeded tremendously on a global scale.

Glad you said it and not me ;)

Shania after Mutt has been very disappointing.

barebackwarrior · Senior Member

Butters wrote:
barebackwarrior wrote:
I concur. This phase 2 in her career is disappointing so far. I'm happy to see Shania performing once again, don't get me wrong. But her professional decisions read like that of a faded star without anything new to offer and cashing in on the scraps of her glory days; as opposed to an A level star on her way to becoming a legend. The best thing Shania has going in her favor is being Canadian. In a country with 33 million people, a success like hers is extraordinary and a supernova. She is a national treasure. If Shania was American, she may not be so lucky because there are more acts with insanely high record sales as well; not to mention Hollywood actors who are ridiculously successful. Then again, we have over 310 million inhabitants (we're there already!). That means more pressure and fickle consumers...Bigger is not always better.

Shania's success puts her on the same level as Kylie Minogue, Shakira, Charlize Theron and Rihanna who are not American and succeeded tremendously on a global scale.
Glad you said it and not me ;)
Shania after Mutt has been very disappointing.

I've been trying to be as 'nice' as possible because I'm in a more positive place these days, but the truth (IMHO) must be said. What I have observed about American consumers these days (under 35) is that they are very eclectic and diverse in perspective and culturally. On many occasions when I walk down the street, I will hear a driver playing loud music by an unknown artist to myself be it in English, Spanish or Haitian Creole. Ten to fifteen years ago, I would have heard Top 40 (regardless of genre) played everywhere (e.g. coffee shops, drivers, friends, co-workers and others). Sometimes I get local hip-hop artists hawking their music and I don't live in the inner city. In a nutshell, with the advent of social networking, the meaning of celebrity is very relative and not solely confined to one demographic. There are local celebrities who live in my neighborhood and we are not millionaires.

With that being said, Shania needs to get in with the present, release her new music and not give a flip about living up to anything. Chances are that her new music may reach a hip-hop lover as well as Asians. I see that happen on YouTube daily. This generation of consumers is very open and accommodating. She can even call her fans #Twainers like other celebs nickname their fans. Shania was one of the only country singers at the time to include diversity in her band members and musical repertoire, so I don't think she suffers from a lack of awareness. Her inclusiveness to people different to her was what drew me the most to her. I thought she was the coolest country singer around because she as a woman and foreigner turned long held stereotypes of American country music on its head. Where is that Shania? Part of that woman is still there, judging by her performers and recent collaboration with Paula Fernandes. It's good to see that she's recognized the potential and power of Latin Americans in country.

Shania embodied so many things and that is what made her so popular and interesting. To some people, she was the small town Canadian gal who made it big, to others she was a country-pop phenomenon and others saw her as an icon. This is why her phase 2 sucks so bad. Please say it ain't so...

Melanie · Senior Member

Phase two of Shania's career has not even started yet. It starts with new material. It's just a greatest hits show in Vegas. She saw it as an opportunity to get back out and perform again and to find out if she's still comfortable with performing at all. "Vegas has been a really good transition for me to get back onstage again, and I guess I’m enjoying it." And now that she's rediscovered her love for music and performing, she'll start phase two.

We have only heard one song she has written without Mutt so far. I don't know how you can judge from that one song. She wasn't even trying a comeback with this song. It was just a simple little song to cheer herself up.

barebackwarrior · Senior Member

Melanie wrote:
Phase two of Shania's career has not even started yet. It starts with new material. It's just a greatest hits show in Vegas. She saw it as an opportunity to get back out and perform again and to find out if she's still comfortable with performing at all. "Vegas has been a really good transition for me to get back onstage again, and I guess I’m enjoying it." And now that she's rediscovered her love for music and performing, she'll start phase two.
We have only heard one song she has written without Mutt so far. I don't know how you can judge from that one song. She wasn't even trying a comeback with this song. It was just a simple little song to cheer herself up.

I wasn't even referring the "Today" song, but her decisions overall post-Mutt:

Release a biography with no new music
Participate in a reality series
Make small guest appearances on TV without performing
Sign on to do Vegas with no new music
Be elusive about new music

TIYD was a theme song for her Oprah backed series. To me, this is phase two. When she decides to release new music, that will be phase 3.

HumbleKevy · Senior Member

i agree with barebackwarrior 100 percent.

Butters · Guru

And I do as well. We all know what Shania is capable of. We all knew who she was before her break-up with Mutt. She is not even recognizable to me as an artist post Mutt.

Izy Twain · Senior Member

That's true but look how successful she is even more so with her SKC program that has come in full bloom of success. Before, SKC was just an idea and now it is open in 4 schools. No Mutt involved. She can do anything without Mutt. She just needs to prove herself.

Tonto · Guru

Hi,
I think she has been testing things to see if her fans would still be there now from the success of the Oprah shows and the Vegas engagement she knows that her fan base is still waiting for her. She now knows that she has old fans and new fans and that fans numbers are growing so now it the time to get new music out. She also wanted to create demand for the product...she has done that now and now we will soon get the product we have been so longing for as in new music...she is a perfectionist and she will not release new music until it is what she considers perfect. I'm sure she is also a little nervous on releasing new stuff as everyone will expect it to be like what she did with Mutt and it will not be. She is a totally different person now so the creations will reflect that.

Just my thoughts
Warmest regards as always,
tonto

Melanie · Senior Member

Tonto wrote:
Hi,
I think she has been testing things to see if her fans would still be there now from the success of the Oprah shows and the Vegas engagement she knows that her fan base is still waiting for her. She now knows that she has old fans and new fans and that fans numbers are growing so now it the time to get new music out. She also wanted to create demand for the product...she has done that now and now we will soon get the product we have been so longing for as in new music...she is a perfectionist and she will not release new music until it is what she considers perfect. I'm sure she is also a little nervous on releasing new stuff as everyone will expect it to be like what she did with Mutt and it will not be. She is a totally different person now so the creations will reflect that.

Just my thoughts
Warmest regards as always,
tonto

Exactly! So great to see at least one person on this message board who understands Shania's decisions over the course of the past few years. I almost lost my faith in common sense. And besides that she was testing herself/testing if she still can do it and if she's comfortable with it at all. I think she's made the right decisions. At the beginning of her Vegas residency her voice wasn't nearly as good as it is now. So I'm glad she didn't record an album back then or even before Vegas. Her voice and her singing improved during the Vegas residency and she even discovered new qualities in her voice “I’m enjoying the singing and I think my voice has a lot of qualities it didn’t even have before which is interesting. And I look forward to putting that down on record."

Melanie · Senior Member

Everyone mourning after the Shania & Mutt times should think about the scenario of Shania and Mutt staying together.This could have been worse for the fans than the Shania after Mutt. Maybe she would have released another album with Mutt in 2008 or 2009, but her voice was gone/damaged. So maybe that album would have been a bummer. Who knows. Maybe Shania would never have made any effort to find out what's up with her voice. Maybe they would have had another child and Shania living a life even more devoted to her family than she is now. Who knows.

barebackwarrior · Senior Member

goodlookingkevy wrote:
i agree with barebackwarrior 100 percent.

Thx smile

barebackwarrior · Senior Member

I don't mourn for Shania and Mutt to get back together. TBH, I think the man is very talented but not the easiest fellow to be with, and I am being nice. I can't look at him in a good light seeing what his ex-wife's gone through after their divorce, especially knowing that Shania's not a weak-willed person. She survived the wilderness of Northern Canada and took care of her household, not easy to do by any means. Husbands are supposed to take care of their wives and for her to wind up in Las Vegas, while his new lady's living the luxe life doesn't look good on him. There should have been a professional safety net for Shania. Instead, her career's been in the doldrums. Maybe Vegas was a way for Shania to be back in the limelight in the interim before another album...From my understanding, they had written and recorded original material prior to the divorce and that music never surfaced. We don't know if this is because of Mutt blocking Shania from being professionally associated with him or because she just wanted to start over again without him. Whatever the case, if she normally releases music every 5 years and this happened in 2008-2009, she was due for another album in 2013 or 2014. Let's hope that 2015 brings new music.

Whatever the case, let's hope for the best!