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Shania talks new album and tour - USA Today interviews


Shania: 'Enough songs for two albums'

Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY 12:53 p.m. EDT June 4, 2015

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Shania Twain planned to have a new album ready when she finished her Las Vegas residency in December.

But things didn't work out the way she planned.

"Vegas was a giant undertaking," says the singer. "That's slowed the album process down."

If Twain couldn't get it done during two years in Vegas, does she have a chance of finishing it during her three-and-a-half-month Rock This Country Tour, which kicks off Friday in Seattle?

"It won't be any easier," she says, "and it will be frustrating for me."

Fortunately, she says, the songs are written: "I've got enough songs for two albums at this point, because I've been at it for two years."

She also has a good start on the tracking. "We've already tackled, I'd say, half the album, as far as a first draft on production.

"It's like building a house. The planning stages take the longest. Once the hammers and nail start going, it rolls along a lot faster."

While Twain's producers, whose names she has yet to reveal, work on the music, the singer plans to record her vocals as she travels. "My voice will be in good shape, because I'll be singing every day," she says. "That will lend itself to this end of the record."

Twain hasn't released a studio album since 2002's Up!, which shipped 11 million copies, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. It was her third album to sell at least that many; Come On Over, released in 1997, has sold 20 million copies, making it the top-selling album ever by a female country singer.

Those albums, along with 1993's The Woman in Me, made Twain a superstar with a combination of big-beat country-rock songs and sweet ballads. Twain and Robert "Mutt" Lange, her husband and producer at the time, reshaped the sound of country music during that era, creating tightly structured tracks that piled on musical hook after hook and pulled in country and pop fans alike.

"Mutt was extremely talented at that because he was going from one genre to another well before I came into the picture, going from AC/DC to Billy Ocean," Twain says. "There were so many night-and-day things he did. Even within our stuff, he was able to make that departure. Now this new record will be a completely different departure again."

Twain's quick to emphasize that her fans shouldn't expect her new music to simply sound like an update of Any Man of Mine or Honey, I'm Home.

"It's so entirely different," she says. "It's better for me to say it right now. That songwriting is just so different."

Twain has written the entire album herself, where she and Lange collaborated on her previous hits.

"Co-writing is a whole other ballgame," she says. "I'm a tennis player, and the singles game is completely different from the doubles game. It's a different approach, a different strategy, different everything.

"Mutt was an amazing songwriting teacher. He never interfered with my writing style and the way I approached songs. I learned a lot from him, and I think I was a great student. I would bring in a whole bunch of stuff to him, then we would sit together and hash through stuff.

"That's the part I'm not doing now. I'm not bouncing anything off anybody else and waiting for direction or a reaction."

Twain doesn't believe her new music has taken such a dramatic turns that fans won't recognize it. "It will still be my voice," she says. "I think my writing style will still be very clear. A lot of time has passed. I guess a departure would even be expected, it has been so many years."

At one point, Twain indicated she would release the new album soon after she turned 50, which happens Aug. 28. She hedges on that deadline now, saying she doesn't want to rush the process of her producers.

"They've got me in their ear; I'm giving my direction already," she says. "But I want that direction to be creative, as opposed to my being the time master.

"There has to be a single release while I'm 50. So I've given them that extra space. The album will just follow as it follows."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2015/06/04/shania-twain-new-album-details/28418721/



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Shania tour: Expect a 'very rock and roll show'

Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY 12:55 p.m. EDT June 4, 2015

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"Nobody's going to be looking at me!"

That was Shania Twain's first reaction when she got a peak at the stage for her new tour.

"The lights are like fireworks," says the 49-year-old singer. "The way they move, it's like I'm on stage with lighting and screen robots. It's fun for me, although most of it happens above me and behind me."

For the past two weeks, Twain, who dominated the country and pop charts during the '90s and early 2000s with crossover smashes like You're Still the One, From This Moment On and Man! I Feel Like a Woman!, has been in Las Vegas, rehearsing on her set in preparation for the launch of her Rock This Country Tour Friday.

The lighting rig and video screens aren't the only mobile part of her set, created by stage designer Raj Kapoor. While Twain has access to the audience from the main part of her stage, another part will take her deeper into the halls. "I designed this little contraption that gets me all the way around the audience," she says. "I get to slap some hands and look people in the eye."

The Rock This Country Tour begins at Seattle's KeyArena. It then runs through a string of Canadian dates before returning to New York's Madison Square Garden on June 30. She currently has shows scheduled through mid-October.

True to its name, Twain's first tour in 11 years will offer "a very rock and roll show." She'll still have the fiddles that were so much a part of her sound when she was the country music's top-selling female artist, she says, "though we are going heavier on the guitar sounds."

Twain has cranked up the guitars in country once already, in 1995 when she and then-husband Robert "Mutt" Lange, previously known for producing AC/DC and Def Leppard, collaborated on the first of three albums, The Woman In Me. That album and two subsequent releases, 1997's Come On Over and 2002's Up!, combined country tradition and classic-rock sounds in a way that sold tens of millions of copies and paved the way for harder-rocking country acts such as the Dixie Chicks and Jason Aldean.

Twain's 16-year marriage to Lange ended in a bitter divorce in 2010.The songs they created together, which comprise a signifcant part of her set list, still have the power to trigger painful memories.

"It's trying, and there's a lot of sadness there," she says. "Performing is a very emotional experience. It's a little like, 'We're all together, let's go through our highs and lows together tonight.' You reminisce through all the good and the bad. Maybe 'therapeutic' is the word I'm looking for."

Twain says the Rock This Country Tour will be her last. Initially she planned to retire from performing following a two-year residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas that ended last year . "Even if I never told anybody else, I was already going through those emotions of 'This is it; I'm not coming back to the stage,'" she says.

She has, however, started work on a new album, but she's reluctant to say when it might be released.

Might she ever get on a stage and perform again once this tour's done? She won't rule out that possibility, but "I'm so focused on making records right now, I don't even know what that would be," she says. "Maybe I never will. I don't want to say one way or the other, because what if I never do?"

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2015/06/04/shania-twain-rock-this-country-tour/28418319/



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Shania Twain’s Comeback Album Is Up and Moving Again

By Laura Hostelley | June 5, 2015 3:00 PM

There is still no word on when exactly we will get to hear new music from Shania Twain, but she promises that she’s working hard on her new project and it is on its way.

Originally, the plan was to have new music to release shortly after the country star’s residency in Las Vegas concluded, but things happen, and as they tend to do, plans change.

“Vegas was a giant undertaking,” Twain tells USA Today, admitting, “That slowed the album process down.”

Twain begins her Rock This Country tour in Seattle on Friday, so that may mean an even longer delay on the new album. But don’t get too worried yet. The writing portion is complete, and the star dishes that she has “enough songs for two albums.” That’s what happens when you’ve been working on the same project for two years — fans reap the benefits!

The tour — Twain’s last ever — will find her singing hits from her previous records, which featured co-writes and production by her at-the-time husband Robert “Mutt” Lange. That means fans will hear from 1993′s The Woman in Me and 1997′s Come on Over, which blurred the lines between country and pop and really shot Twain into superstardom.

“It’s a real, kickin’ hard-hitting, fun party show,” Twain promises of the tour, offering “a completely new show, an entirely new theme than the Las Vegas show.”

The album will be a departure from the Twain we’re accustomed to, too: “It’s so entirely different. It’s better for me to say it right now. That songwriting is just so different.”

It’s been 13 years Twain released her last album, Up!, so what will a little bit longer be? After all, good things come to those who wait.

http://tasteofcountry.com/shania-twain-comeback-album/



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"Slowed down the album process...." lol

Yes, Vegas slowed down the album process. Vegas was for two years, what happened to her releasing new music from 2003 till 2012......

Always an excuse with her.

And she is such a beautiful woman, why does she have to take porn star likes pictures like the second one in this thread....her facial expression is ridiculous. 



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