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Writing songs is my therapy, I can't wait for you to hear what I've been working on. I shared a little about the new album with Rolling Stone, read below.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/shania-twain-on-dark-inspiration-for-new-album-w465944

1:00 PM ET - 14 Feb 17

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Has she officially confirmed that the album is primarily country? She has clearly confirmed that the music is NOT pure pop music. But I'm wondering if it's "mainstream" country. They are describing it as very"organic" and "somewhat dark". I have assumed all along that the album is a country album, just wondering if she has officially confirmed that's the case. If that's not the case, she probably wont perform on any country awards shows. If it's not country music, I am wondering which kind of radio format she will release the single...

Honestly the timing for Shania might be perfect to release a single in March and Album in May? Most of the big female singers are taking a break and a different sound of songs might score her higher hits on the charts no? I don't think up had any 1 singles on the country charts? Forever and always on the Adult Contemporary Format. So something new is what she needed anyway am I right?

Internet saying Her album comes out in may!

BoiCurtis wrote:

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I agree. Sticking with the pop/country sound would have really fit her well. She is known as the queen of country/pop. That is her signature image and people relate to her by that particular sound. Not to mention, it's pretty much what Country radio is playing today anyway. It makes me wonder- did she really want this album to be more "organic" sounding? Or is she simply so resentful toward "Mutt" that she doesn't want her new albums/songs to sound anything like his productions, just because he produced them. If she's steering away from her country/pop sound just to "get back" at Mutt or to erase him from her life, then she is doing it for the wrong reasons. I sincerely hope that she truly wants a different sound because SHE wants it, not because she just wants to simply get away from Mutt's musical sound.

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I think she just gave herself (and the producers involved) "carte blanche". And that it happens that it doesn't sound like the Mutt productions. Of course she can't (and won't be able to) duplicate the way he produces/co-wrote songs, so this is the first time we'll be seeing what she actually wants and a more "pure" Shania. 

I'm seeing oh Shania should have kept with country/pop? Honestly who cares if her album does well or doesn't? I love this artist and the fact she wrote all the music herself and wanted to do something else in music opinion was great. Your don't need beach party music to have a hit. I also believe her new album will fit in with the current trends.  Also she worked with some amazing producers and whatever sound we gets please be happy :) Remember Shania learned a lot from mutt and does keep up with the current trends. The album will be fine. She's doesn't need mutt, She just need to be herself. 

shaniafan151118 wrote:

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I'm wondering when in May it will be released. How early will she be doing promotion? Surely with this her first album in 15 years, there must be some promotion, and with stagecoach at the end of April, I'm wondering if it will come out early May so she can do US promotion before jetting back to wherever she is living now (because if she's in switzerland, those flights get to be exhausting - bahamas, doable if she is doing a late may album).

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Since this is in fact her first album in 15 years, I wouldn't be surprised if she started some promotion shortly after the lead single is released in March. I bet she'll go on some talk shows and perform the song. And probably at the ACM Awards on April 2.

Then when the album comes out in May, she can do a bigger promotional tour and possibly perform the second single from the album. I think her Stagecoach concert on April 29 will be part of the album's promotional tour. So the album will probably be released on Friday, May 5. That's my guess.

'It helped me come to terms with it': Shania Twain says her divorce from husband of fifteen years inspired first album in over a decade

Daily Mail | February 24, 2017

She took a break from the limelight after hitting the big time with You're Still The One and That Don't Impress Me Much in the late nineties.

And Shania Twain says the stress of her divorce from her husband of 15 years inspired her to write a new album after a long absence.

The 51-year-old singer told the latest Rolling Stone Magazine that she wrote some melancholy music after splitting from record producer Robert 'Mutt' Lange.

The couple separated in 2008, amid rumours he had an affair with her best friend Marie-Anne Thiébaud, and finalised their divorce in 2010.

'I've learned a lot about myself, she told the publication, adding: 'It's scary to learn how vulnerable you can be.'

Explaining ballad Who's Gonna Be Your Girl? from her new album which is due for release in May, the Canadian-native revealed: 'It's about feeling unappreciated and knowing that you are secondary.  Having to live with someone that has different priorities and accepting that you're not the most important thing in a person's life.'

'Another song, Swinging With My Eyes Closed, is about fighting back against pain. 'The fighter in me wrote that song,' she told them, 'I was thinking of a boxer taking a swing, or a baby first coming out with his eyes and fists closed. They can't even see yet and they're swinging with their eyes closed.'

The star was diagnosed with dysphonia, a vocal-cord disorder that causes hoarseness and trouble speaking which she says stemmed from the stress of the divorce from the music-producer.

Shania - who has sold over 85 million records, making her the best-selling female artist in the history of country music - says her voice has changed now in tone.

She explained: 'There was a lot of coming to terms with that. It's been one of the obstacles in my life I've just had to learn to live with.'

Shania co-wrote Come On Over with Lange, her 1997 album which remains the best-selling country album of all time - selling around 40 million copies worldwide.

However, this time around she was writing an album without him: 'It needed to be really pure and my own story and my own emotional journey. I was now alone all of a sudden, and I didn't want to shy away from it. And that's not a collaborative thing; it's a very personal thing,' she revealed.

She told the publication that she calls writing 'therapy,' adding: 'It helped me come to terms with a lot of things emotionally. It's sort of like when you finish crying. When you're done, you're done and you move on.'

She shares son Eja, 15, with her ex-husband. And his apparent infidelity with her best friend spawned one more positive for Shania - she married Marie Anne's ex-husband Frédéric Thiébaud in January 2011.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4258390/Shania-Twain-divorce-husband-inspired-writing-new-album.html

What happens if she doesn't release a single in March?

Lol good one 

Everything We Know About Shania Twain’s New Album

By Christina Vinson | The Boot | March 8, 2017

Ever since Shania Twain mentioned that she had a new album in the works, way back in 2013, country music fans have been waiting eagerly for the details.

To say things have changed for Twain since her last record, Up!, was released in 2002, is a drastic understatement: Her previous albums — The Woman in Me, Come on Over and Greatest Hits — were produced by her then-husband, Robert John “Mutt” Lange, but in 2008, the couple split following Lange’s affair with Twain’s best friend, Marie-Anne Thiébaud. In an ironic twist, Twain fell in love with Frédéric Thiébaud — Marie-Anne’s former husband — and the couple got married in 2011.

Twain stepped away from the spotlight for several years, though she spent 2012-2014 performing a Las Vegas residency and, most recently, embarked on her Rock This Country Tour, in 2015. But still, no new music has appeared — but she’s definitely still working on it.

The Title

Twain hasn’t yet revealed the title of her forthcoming new album.

The Release Date

Twain has said that she plans on releasing a new single in March, with the full album coming in May (per Rolling Stone).

The Record Label

Twain is signed with Universal Music Group Nashville. All of her previous albums were released by Mercury Nashville, which operates as a part of UMG.

The Album Cover

Although we haven’t seen Twain’s new album cover yet, all of her records thus far have prominently featured her on the front. (With her perfectly symmetrical face, no one is complaining!)

The Producers

For the first time in many years, Twain needed to find a new producer for her new project. In June of 2015, she offered an update about that process.

“I’m just looking in general for people. I’ve been listening to a lot of records and looking at a lot of music history and trying to determine, ‘Okay, who is responsible for that song that I love, or who is responsible for this record that I love or that sound that I love?’” Twain explained at the time. “I’m narrowing it down that way, as opposed to by genre.

“It’s kind of like dating for the first time,” she adds. “It’s a bit awkward, because I didn’t really know how to work with anybody else. After all those years, it’s been a real learning curve — that is a good way to put it.”

The Single

Per Twain, this project’s first single is due out in March. However, she hasn’t shared its title or what it’s about.

The Style

Fans are used to hearing pop-country hits, such as “That Don’t Impress Me Much” and “From This Moment On,” from Twain, but her new record will be “diverse,” she says.

“This album is more diverse than any other album I’ve ever done — not that I’ve done a ton of albums, but it’s the most diverse of the albums I’ve done,” Twain explains. “There’s a lot of variety there, but what I’ve learned about myself is, as a songwriter of all the songs, the emotion and the voice ties it all together as one artist.”

Twain calls this album a growth in “independence,” and though she admits it’s been “a lot of hard work,” she also says it’s “the most fun hard work I’ve ever done so far.”

Though this new album may be different than the others, fans will still recognize Twain as herself — and they’ll hear a lot of rock and country on the record.

“I do think there will be a contrast there for sure. That is already just who I am anyway. Even if I was producing it myself I would maintain a level of contrast,” Twain explains. “I think that’s why it has worked so well to make the records that I make. The rock and country is something I am attracted to so I think that wide, broad spectrum of contrast is going to remain. I don’t think I would ever make a straight rock album. It just wouldn’t feel right if I didn’t make that blend in there somewhere.”

Even though this album is coming after some of the darkest experiences of Twain’s life, don’t worry about it being a downer. She says, “It is a more soulful approach to my songwriting than I’ve probably ever allowed myself to have before. It’s fun music, too. I like to stay positive. I’ll make sure that I do some things on there that make you feel good and happy as well. I’m having a lot of fun.”

The Songs

Twain decided to write all of the songs on this album by herself: “It needed to be really pure and my own story and my own emotional journey,” she tells Rolling Stone. “I was now alone all of a sudden, and I didn’t want to shy away from it. And that’s not a collaborative thing; it’s a very personal thing.”

One of the new songs, “Who’s Gonna Be Your Girl?” is a direct reflection on Twain’s broken marriage: “It’s about feeling unappreciated and knowing that you are secondary,” she notes. “Having to live with someone that has different priorities and accepting that you’re not the most important thing in a person’s life.”

Another song, “Swinging With My Eyes Closed,” shows her resilience: “The fighter in me wrote that song,” Twain says. “I was thinking of a boxer taking a swing, or a baby first coming out with his eyes and fists closed. They can’t even see yet and they’re swinging with their eyes closed.”

Yet another track was inspired by a baseball game; it’s called “We Got Something They Don’t.” The title suggests a commentary on her newfound love, but, Twain tells Rolling Stone, “I was sick in a hotel room, and there was Major League Baseball going on just below the hotel in the dome. I was bummed out that I couldn’t go there and enjoy the game, so I wrote this song about the winning team and what I would feel like, and I just got into the spirit of the game. It’s about feeling like a champion.”

Twain explains that many of the songs on this disc were reborn throughout the album process: “Most of them started off quite melancholy and a lot darker,” she admits; for example, “”Swinging With My Eyes Closed” was totally dark at the beginning. It’s just all of a sudden the light went on and there was light as well as darkness. There’s a lot of songs that have that contrast on it that maybe are too subtle for the listener to even realize.”

The Tour

Twain embarked on her last tour in 2015; it was her first North American tour in 11 years, but she decided that she was finished with that aspect of her career.

“I just feel like I’m ready to hang my hat up in that regard,” she says. “I just really want to go out with a bang.”

http://theboot.com/shania-twain-new-album-2017/

Jacob wrote:

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Will Shania attend the Juno Awards in Canada to promote the new single? That's if she releases one of course lol

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The Juno Awards are the same night as the ACM Awards in Las Vegas - Sunday, April 2. So if, IF, she attends one it will be the ACM Awards. 

matteotempo wrote:

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I found this article on Facebook posted by Casa Twain (it's in Spanish though).. it mentions one song off the new album never mentioned before: "Life's About To Get Good"

www.mdzol.com/nota/724434-shania-twain-recupera-su-voz-y-graba-su-primer-disco-en-15-anos/

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Thanks. Yeah, it's basically a reprint of the Rolling Stone article with the mention of another song... "Others, like Life's About to Get Good, celebrate the discovery of a new happiness."

I don't get it, A single for March is starting to look unlikely unless she announces it in a few days. The ACMA awards would have been a perfect place to debut a new single but unfortunately why this is dragging on like it is seems strange. 

shaniafan151118 wrote:

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She's still in the U.S. I'm wondering if she's doing promoting right now. Was in Philly and now she's in Miami. I think she'll perform still. Why else would she be lingering around the US? 

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She isn't out promoting. We'd know it if she was (TV, radio, etc). Shania is always on U.S. vacations and excursions...

Yesterday's tweet probably doesn't mean anything. She has made "weekend" tweets in the past like this one:

Tommy wrote:

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Shania Twain @ShaniaTwain

Finally Friday 💜 #LetsGoGirls

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10:50 AM ET - 30 Sep 16

http://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain

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As far as the single being released this coming week, I doubt it. I mean she still hasn't mentioned anything about it. The single is not going to just pop up online one day without any type of announcement beforehand.