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She's Still The One: Shania Twain Is Back With A Vengeance

By Tiffany Bakker | The Daily Telegraph (Australia) | September 23, 2017

It’s a warm evening in New York City — and Shania Twain isn’t getting the chance to make the most of it. The Canadian-born singing superstar, who dominated radio airwaves in the ’90s with her irresistible hit singles that blended classic country music and chart-grabbing pop, is instead hunkered down inside Electric Lady Studios, one of the city’s most storied recording spaces.

It feels apt that such an iconic studio — founded by Jimi Hendrix in 1970, it’s seen the likes of the Rolling Stones, Blondie, David Bowie, Patti Smith and Prince walk through its doors — should play host to one of the most successful female country music stars of all time. Twain was a one-woman juggernaut in her heyday, moving more than 85 million records thanks to hits like ‘From This Moment On’, ‘You’re Still The One’, ‘Man! I Feel Like A Woman!’ and ‘That Don’t Impress Me Much’.

But that was a lifetime ago — just as Twain was embarking on her chart domination, Taylor Swift was entering Year 1. It’s been 15 years since Twain last released a new studio album, so she’s understandably unsettled as she walks to the front of the room to introduce songs from her latest album, Now, to a pack of excitable record label employees and a sprinkling of media. The 52-year-old clears her throat. “I’m actually really nervous,” she laughs. “I hope you remember my voice.”

Who could forget it? Judging by the euphoric response from the room, not many. A few weeks later, Twain is home in Switzerland, where she has lived for the better part of the past two decades. Asked about that loved-up reaction during the listening session, Twain admits she is still startled by all the goodwill. “It really is great,” she tells Stellar, “and it’s unexpected. I’m feeling missed and I’m feeling welcome. It’s wonderful — and I’m enjoying every minute of it.”

New music from Twain has been a long time coming, and for a variety of reasons, most of which played out publicly in the press over the past 10 years. She went through a messy divorce from husband and longtime musical collaborator Robert “Mutt” Lange (with whom she has a 16-year-old son, Eja). She also endured a debilitating vocal cord injury brought on by Lyme disease, which left her barely able to talk — singing, she was initially told, would most likely not be possible again.

“I feel like I’m at the other side of the transition, but then again, I feel like I’ve been in a transition for a long time,” Twain says, with another laugh. “So I kind of feel like I’ve seen the light at the end of the tunnel and now I’m in the light.”

Twain and Lange divorced in 2010, though their personal and professional relationships came to an abrupt end in 2008 when the singer found out her husband had being having an affair with her best friend, Marie-Anne Thiébaud. Things got even stranger when Twain announced, in late 2010, that she was engaged to Thiébaud’s ex-husband, Frédéric. Twain admits to feeling “scared” about recording new music without Lange, who collaborated on all of her post-1993 catalogue, including her 1997 smash Come On Over, which remains the best-selling country album of all time.

“Any writing for me is very isolating, but I would be writing, and I’d always think to myself, ‘Oh, I wonder what Mutt’s going to think of this,’” she says. “You know, this was the person I had collaborated with for 15 years and suddenly he wasn’t there anymore.

“For the longest time I just wasn’t ready,” she continues. “I didn’t have the songs and I was milling around wondering where to even begin: ‘What type of songs do I write and what do I say, what don’t I say?’ The self-doubt creeps in. But now it’s like I’ve embraced where I’ve been, which has been tough, and I’ve come out the other side of it. It’s been a bit of an emotional venting process.”

Shania Twain wrote her first song when she was eight, and tells Stellar that art has always helped her deal with personal pain. Her family struggled financially, which meant she had to sing in late-night bars — also from the time she was eight — to earn money for her parents. Then she lost her mum and stepdad in a car accident, which left her, at 22, the sole guardian to her three younger siblings.

“I’m lucky to have songwriting because it’s my therapist,” Twain says. “It doesn’t judge me, it doesn’t talk back... but it forces me to reflect, and it’s always very true and very honest.

“Sometimes I say it’s similar to talking to your dog: they don’t argue or judge you. What’s so great about songwriting is the truth comes out. You feel sorry for yourself; there are all these uncomfortable ranges of emotion — you can be happy and sad in the same five minutes. So why not lay that all out there?”

The album’s first single, which was released in June, is ‘Life’s About To Get Good’. Jaunty as it is, it also belies a darker underbelly. Twain says that dichotomy can be found throughout the whole project: “The experience of going from dark to light, from pain to happiness... I’ve worked through so many things just by writing this album.”

While making Now she was also forced to work with her “new voice”, given her vocal cords were severely damaged by the Lyme disease she contracted years ago, after being bitten by a tick. She now admits that, “I’m a different singer now — I’m an injured singer, and I just have to do the work.”

This means regular — and difficult — vocal physiotherapy sessions. It also means that she’ll never be able to sing at the drop of a hat again, without a lengthy warm-up, or, as she quips, “No more friends’ weddings.”

Was Twain ever worried she wouldn’t sing again at all? “I mean, the mystery was worse,” she maintains, referencing the period before her diagnosis. “It’s like knowing you’re not well — but you don’t know what’s wrong with you.

“It took me a long time to determine what was even wrong. Initially I had just settled for the fact that it must be stress — I felt like my voice was closing and I didn’t have control over it. But over that long period of time, and feeling like there was no answer, I did feel like, ‘Well, if there’s no explanation, how can I fix it?’

“So now I’m happy I know, and I know what I can do to manage it. I’ll never be able to it, but I can manage it.”

Twain says her hiatus from music provided an unexpected bonus: allowing her to “reflect” on the success she achieved in the ’90s and early 2000s. “In retrospect,” she says, “I’m amazed by it and feel very, very lucky and fortunate. But in the moment, I was just an overworked, hardworking artist and I wasn’t really living the pleasure of the success in the moment. Now I’m actually living it, after all of this time.”

She refers to the overwhelmingly positive response to her return as an example. “I’m among people again — fans and industry — who I’ve been away from for so long, and they’re so appreciative that I have new music. They are so expressive about missing my music and looking forward to hearing my music. So this response is like, ‘Wow’. I didn’t realise the impact I’d had. I realise it now.”

Twain says her hiatus from music provided an unexpected bonus: allowing her to “reflect” on the success she achieved in the ’90s and early 2000s.
Twain is thrilled when she considers the slew of artists who have covered her songs: Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood and Luke Bryan have all performed her tunes; even Miranda Kerr trilled ‘You’re Still The One’ at her wedding to Evan Spiegel in May. More recently, US pop rock band HAIM stripped back ‘That Don’t Impress Me Much’ for Triple J. “How cool was that?!” Twain exclaims. “It was a huge compliment. I’d love to hear my whole album done like that. It really made me... proud is not the right word, as I don’t want to take credit for what they did to the song. They just complemented the song. I was like, ‘Yes! This is a really good song!’”

Twain is bullish about the current state of music, suggesting the industry is “more diverse now than we were even 10 years ago”. She’s a fan of Ariana Grande (“her voice is incredible”) and Ed Sheeran (“the singer-songwriter of our time”), while 16-year-old son Eja has turned her on to Shawn Mendes and Twenty One Pilots. But hold up: does Eja realise his mum is, er, Shania Twain?

Twain lets out a long laugh. “Um, he does now, but he didn’t before!” The singer, a self-confessed homebody, says she didn’t raise Eja (pronounced Asia) as a “backstage kid”; she was not touring or working during his younger years. “I was very much there making banana bread and pancakes, and having sit-down family dinners,” she adds. “I’m a nurturing person. I love to be with the kids and their friends and the dog and just live a very normal, down-to-earth life.”

Eja only started to realise his mother’s far-reaching fame when she began a Las Vegas residency in 2012. “That’s when I think he really grasped it, and could absorb it. By now, a few years later, he’s mature enough to be able to get it.”

Twain has not made a decision on how extensively she will tour the new album — that will depend on the health of her voice. For now, she’s lined up dates in the United States and Canada from May to August next year. She also says she has another batch of songs percolating — so the next album should take less than 15 years to arrive. And she’d like to get back to Australia, given her trip here in 1999 during the Come On Over world tour sticks in her memory for more reasons than one.

“I had a fantastic time in Australia,” she recalls. “I mean, the touring part was exciting because the fans are crazy in Australia, by which I mean crazy good.” The natural environment agreed with her, too. “I went horseback riding,” she remembers. “And it was awesome. That’s what I took back with me: experiencing the nature of Australia. It was wonderful. It was very special to me.”

As for the sister who joined her on the tour? Twain laughs. “My sister is petrified of c0ckroaches. She’d never seen c0ckroaches that big in her entire life. The c0ckroaches are crazy in Australia! She didn’t get a lot of sleep on that tour.”

Now is released on Friday.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/lifestyle/stellar/shes-still-the-one-shania-twain-is-back-with-a-vengeance/news-story/3703e825981a99ef7eed669c76955027

Tonight on my way to work, I was listening to Shania’s GH and Now’s pre-released songs on shuffle and for the first time ever, I finally saw the change in her voice that everybody was talking about. She had such a clear voice than. It’s not a major change, she still sounds like her just more raspy. It was interesting to hear a song from TWIM or COO followed by a song from Now. Friday is so close but still so far away! From every thing I’ve heard so far, I know I’m going to love this album. It’s going to be on repeat, driving everybody in this household nuts!

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Husband's affair: that don't impress Shania much

Shania Twain tells Barry Egan about the tragic death of her parents in a car crash, and how she has 'forgiven' but can't 'forget' the 'horrible, betraying' friend who stole her husband

Independent - Ireland | September 25, 2017

Truth is stranger than fiction. Ask Shania Twain. Or indeed the elegant Swiss man sitting in the room adjoining her suite in a five-star hotel in Mayfair. The Swiss man is Frederic Thiebaud who Shania married in Puerto Rico on New Year's Day in 2011. Three years earlier, Shania separated from her husband of 14 years, her producer Robert 'Mutt' Lange, after he allegedly had an affair with Shania's best friend - and Frederic Thiebaud's wife - Marie-Anne Thiebaud. Shania and Mutt divorced in 2010.

"You let me go, you had to have her/ You told me slow, I died faster," Shania sings on I'm Alright from the new album, Now, her first studio album in 15 years. "I still can't believe he'd leave me to love her," she sings on Poor Me. The mournful song Who's Gonna Be Your Girl?, she explains, is "about not being loved back. And having to come to terms with the one you love the most, loving someone else.

"We leaned on one another through the ups and downs, taking turns holding each other. We've become closer and stronger through it all," Twain wrote on her website in 2009 of Frederic. "And having gone through the suffering of his family" - Frederic and Marie-Anne have a teenage daughter, Johanna - "splitting apart at the same time and under the same extreme circumstances, he understands me better than anyone."

Marie-Anne Thiebaud (37) was Mutt and Shania's long-time personal assistant; she managed their 46-room chateau in La Tour-de-Peilz in Switzerland.

A friend of Twain's in Switzerland told People magazine in 2008 that "It's a multiple betrayal because it involves all the people around her, the people she is closest to. She is in absolute, total shock. [Twain] moved to Switzerland without knowing much about the community; she didn't know many people at all. And then Marie-Anne became her employee. They were a similar age and shared similar interests.

"They were very good friends," said the source, adding that Shania and Marie-Anne were so close that Shania would often do Marie-Anne's makeup if they were going out to a social event together.

Being worth an estimated $700m, being the top-selling female country singer of all time with over 60m albums sold didn't lessen the grief she went through.

"I was ready to die," Shania wrote in her 2010 memoir, From This Moment On. "I was disgusted that another woman's lust for a lifestyle upgrade was worth the devastation of my family." Shania even revealed in the book that she wrote a letter to Marie-Anne. It read, heartbreakingly: "I am so low, so broken-hearted I can't take it any more. I wish you love and happiness, but I am dying, and I can't take it any more. This is killing me. Have mercy. I loved him so much, and I can't cope any more. I don't want life or love any more. I just want peace."

Shania's first husband's betrayal of her also had a physical effect - there was the heartbreak of discovering her husband's affair the day after he asked for a divorce. Then the singer literally lost her voice - the nerves connected to her vocal cords seized up, when she contacted dysphonia as a consequence of Lyme disease she developed during that dreadful period of her life.

Did she lose her voice from the stress of the divorce from Lange?

"No. I want to correct that. I lost my voice from Lyme disease. The stress of the divorce added to the dysphonia, which is a tension around the larynx. The divorce is part of it, but it wasn't the root of it," says Shania who with her new album has - in more ways than the obvious - found her voice again.

"I never thought I would sing again," 52-year-old Shania says. "I never thought I would ever record again." What added to her anxiety levels was that acclaimed producer Mutt (his CV includes Def Leppard, AC/DC, and Celine Dion) also gave Shania the sound that made her mega-selling albums - The Woman In Me from 1995, Come On Over from 1997, and UP! from 2002 - such colossal hits internationally. (Clearly, he wouldn't be producing Shania's new album Now.)

"There were three albums and 15 years of our collaboration," she says. "So the fear was acute of not knowing where to begin after all that time, and knowing that the expectations would be high - because Mutt is a genius...

"There were a lot of moments when I was just too afraid to tackle it, thinking that it was too stressful and I didn't need the stress. Maybe I should just leave it where it was."

Shania went through a lot of soul-searching. In that process, she found, she says, "courage and took the leap of faith in myself. I took the risk because I decided it would be worth the risk".

Shania Twain was born with a very rusty spoon in her mouth in Windsor, Canada. Her childhood was lived not on but below the poverty line. "The perpetual undertow of financial instability took its toll in other ways, as it usually does, compromising my parents' love for each other at times and no doubt feeding my mother's recurrent bouts of depression," wrote Shania in her 2010 autobiography.

It was a tough life for Shania and it was to get tougher when on November 1, 1987, her mother Sharon and stepfather Jerry were killed in a car crash: a head-on collision with a logging truck on an Ontario highway. It was said that all Jerry and Sharon Twain could have heard was a horn.

Born Eileen Regina Edwards on August 28, 1965 in Windsor, Ontario, Shania began performing at eight years of age with the house band at Timmins' Mattagami Hotel, and wrote her first song (Mama Won't You Come Out to Play) when she was 10 years old. She appeared on Canadian television at 11.

After her parents' death, 22-year-old Shania, who was singing in Toronto, put her musical career on hold and returned to Timmins, her hometown, to physically and financially look after her younger siblings - her two half-brothers, Mark, then 14, and Darryl (13), and her sister Carrie-Ann (17), singing in the local golf resort six nights a week.

There was another sister, Jill. (The family situation of the Twains was a complicated one, as Shania told me in 2003 in Dublin when I met her for lunch before her sold-out show in Nowlan Park in Kilkenny: "Then my mother and Jerry had another son several years later and then they adopted another child, my aunt's son. My aunt committed suicide and the child - my adopted brother - was only six months old. So there's four fathers in our family.")

Shania became their legal guardian and their mother-figure. In reality, this was the same role she had been playing since she was 10 years of age: looking after the younger kids while her mother Sharon coped unsuccessfully with her mental health.

Her mother started off her life on the wrong foot. Sharon's first husband died in a car crash, an ominous tragedy when you consider the grim fate that awaited Sharon and her third husband 25 years later.

"My mom ended up being a single mother from a very young age," Shania told me. "It all got very difficult after that." Her mother remarried, to Clarence Edwards, a railroad engineer with personal problems. The marriage didn't work. "It was a very dysfunctional relationship," Shania said of her father Clarence who allegedly abandoned the family when Shania was a young baby.

Sharon and Clarence's divorce came through when Shania was three. The family moved in with Shania's grandmother in Timmins.

Three years later, Sharon married Jerry Twain. It was a hand-to-mouth existence.

Five kids in three rooms, the Twains were so strapped for cash that sometimes they couldn't afford food, Shania remembered. She brought mustard sandwiches to school in her homemade lunch-box to avoid the humiliation of being seen to have nothing to eat. She lived in constant fear that her teachers would find out that her parents couldn't afford to feed her, and she'd be taken away by the social services.

"If we were to have been discovered somehow, at that time the authorities would step in and you got taken away by Children's Aid. And if there was a particularly bad week or whatever, it would be, like: 'Nobody bring anybody home from school. Don't bring your friends over this week'.

"It was very stressful," said the singer, looking back. "I spent a lot of those years really hiding all of that as much as I could. We were hungry a lot of the time, We couldn't pay our bills. We were struggling. Then I got married and I'm in love and my career takes off. It was all wonderful."

Did Shania feel she didn't deserve the fairytale her life became? "I felt guilty about the privilege all of a sudden, because I was so poor all my life, and my family was so poor. I felt I deserved the musical success because I worked hard since I was a child. That was not luck.

"It is not the worst life that anyone has lived. That is for sure. All that it has done for me is given me compassion for people that are suffering. I never knew my biological dad growing up. That is really bothering me now. I want to know why. My mother is gone and she can't explain why."

What answers would she want from her mother if she could have asked questions? "I would want to know why he didn't help us when we were starving. Why he didn't send us money. Why he didn't want to know if we were OK. Things like that."

Three years ago, in fact, Shania met her biological father. She was visiting an old house that the family used to live in, in Timmins. "I was 16 years of age when we lived there. We couldn't afford our own place. So we moved into my grandparents' basement. My grandparents were on welfare. They were was no toilet. Six of us lived there," Shania says.

So Shania went back to that house in Timmins to "reconnect". The woman recognised her from the television and magazines and let Shania look around. At the end of the impromptu tour, she told Shania that her husband used to work on the railroad with her father, Clarence.

Shania didn't react. It was only when the woman said, "And he still lives across the street", that Shania took a photograph of the license plates of the car in the driveway and asked the police to see if it was her father. When it was established it was her birth dad, Shania knocked on the door of the house. Her heart was "trembling", but he wasn't in.

Shania went back another day and met him "and asked him some questions. I never knew my father. So it was like meeting a stranger. I could see myself in him".

Did she ask him why did he leave them all those years ago? "I did. But you know what? I felt bad putting pressure on him. I never said, 'Why didn't you make sure we were OK?'"

There was no point in being angry, I say. "No. It was too long ago."

A positive, I say, was that he never asked her for money when he knew she had long since become rich and famous, in stark contrast to his own financial situation.

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"He is not a bad man," she says. "That is what I am taking from it."

I ask Shania has she forgiven Mutt and Marie-Anne.

"You know what? I definitely forgive. I just don't forget. This will haunt me forever. It is impossible to forget."

Did Shania blame herself? Did she feel she had a part to play in the break-up?

"You do feel that is part of it, for sure. I never thought it was entirely my fault. But I certainly felt that I obviously missed something.

"Where have I been! Hello? How dumb can one be!" she laughs. "In the moment, I just felt very stupid. I just felt like an idiot. Of course not now. You put things in perspective over time." Asked how she did that, Shania answers that she "realised what deserved importance... and my parents' dying is by far the most devastating, the deepest grief, the greatest loss I have ever experienced. I lived through that".

Shania says she "appealed to the emotional evolution" and found, she says, "strength".

"So, I started comparing it," she says referring to her mother and stepfather's tragic deaths and her husband's playing away from home with the woman she thought was her best friend.

"And it empowered me. That was the perspective."

I say to Shania Twain that some people might find it hard to believe that she is married to the husband of the woman who her husband had the affair with! "I don't believe it either!" she roars with laughter. "We both can't believe it still. It's incredible. It is a beautifully incredible thing that is like a miracle. That, you know, I had to meet this horrible friend to..."

I thought you forgave her, I say to Shania. "It doesn't make her any less horrible. Of course not! She is not not horrible!" Shania explains, laughing. "It is not like, 'Oh, she is a really great person!'

"My point is, if you're a thief, you're a thief. 'I can't forgive you for stealing my... So I had to meet this horrible betraying friend in order to meet this extraordinary man. And I had to meet Mutt to have this child who is the absolute centre of my life," she says meaning Eja (pronounced "Asia"), who was born on August 12, 2001.

Apropos of the title of her album, Now, Shania says she has learned "a healthy fear of rushing on to escape the past. You have to live. You don't know what tomorrow will bring. I didn't know that my parents would be killed in a car crash".

Shania Twain's new album Now is released on September 29. Shania Twain plays the 3 Arena in Dublin on September 26, 2018, and the SSE Arena in Belfast on September 29, 2018. Tickets available from Ticketmaster nationwide from 9am this Friday.

http://www.independent.ie/style/celebrity/husbands-affair-that-dont-impress-shania-much-36159783.html

Perez Hilton posted an Instagram Stories with a 15-second song from Shania's new album. Apparently it's "Light Of My Life"

Alright, I know it's most likely too soon to say this, but just from that 15 second clip of that song, I actually really like it and think it should be a single at some point, especially if the rest of the song sounds as good as that. Plus, to be honest, "Light of My Life" is actually the song from "NOW" I'm curious about the most, ever since Shania's interview with Amazon back in July.

God Bless U Shania!
I Can't Wait!

I just heard another snippet of Roll Me on the River, I have to say this is the Shania we all want to hear! It's addicting, loud and straight-up SHANIA! I can't wait till Friday but I'm sure this one will be on repeat!😜😜😜😜

At this rate the whole song will be leaked before the 29th. But I must admit, I really like this song so far. I don't understand anyone who doesn't like it. Sure "Roll Me On The River" sounds more like what we would call a "Shania" song, but I love this laid back approach that Shania has taken with a few of these tracks so far, especially this one "Light Of My Life".

Gonna skip Poor Me and Light of My Life. Hate both.

Shania Twain: 'I had to get my top hat back from a museum'

By Neil Smith | BBC News | September 26, 2017

After years out of the limelight, Shania Twain is back with her fifth studio album. We caught up with the 52-year-old country star during a hectic week of promo.

Back in July 2003, she performed in London's Hyde Park. I know because I was there, reporting on the gig for this very website.

If you'd have told either of us then it would take 14 years for her to sing there again, I doubt we would've believed you.

Back then Shania - no surname required - was riding the crest of a wave. She'd had hit after hit, recorded the best-selling country album of all time (1997's Come On Over) and been the half-time act at the Super Bowl.

Not long afterwards, though, it began to go wrong. Her marriage to producer Robert "Mutt" Lange collapsed, and she developed debilitating vocal problems that forced her to temporarily give up recording and performing.

The comeback trail began in Las Vegas with a two-year residency at Caesars Palace that paved the way for a "final" tour in 2015.

Now, 20 years on from Come On Over, Shania is back - with a new husband, a new album (called Now) and a new voice.

"It is different," she says of the celebrated purry twang that brought us tracks like You're Still The One, That Don't Impress Me Much and Man! I Feel Like A Woman.

"I've got smokier sounds I never had before, and I've got a lower register than I used to have before."

The singer blames Lyme disease for her dysphonia, an ailment that causes the vocal cords to seize up when speaking or singing.

"It'll never be solved," she tells the BBC. "It's a permanent problem.

"But with a lot of physical and vocal therapy, I've got better at understanding my voice and better at managing it."

Our interview takes place towards the end of a hectic week that also includes appearances on The One Show, Strictly Come Dancing and Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park.

If Shania is feeling the strain, though, it's not showing on a face once adjudged to have a perfect set of geometric measurements.

Now, she insists, is not a break-up album - despite having songs that specifically reference the extramarital affair Lange had with her best friend.

"Can't believe he'd leave me to love her," she sings on Pour Me, the record's most transparently autobiographical number.

"That's my divorce low moment," she admits. "That's me indulging and just feeling sorry for myself. But there are so many songs on the album that have nothing to do with my divorce at all.

"It's about the journey of my whole life and all the disappointments I've been through. It's about the ups as well as the downs."

The former are perhaps best illustrated by Life's About To Get Good, a breezy singalong that serves as the album's lead single.

The video for the song was shot in the Dominican Republic - thankfully before Hurricane Irma - and required the loan of a certain piece of headgear.

"I actually borrowed the Man! I Feel Like A Woman outfit for the video, top hat and all," she says of a costume that now has pride of place at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame.

"It was really fun for me to revisit that image, but we had to rush it back for the display before anyone missed it."

It's a busy time for Shania, who'll be seen next year making her big-screen acting debut opposite John Travolta in racing car drama Trading Paint.

"John reached out and asked me to do it," she says of the Grease and Pulp Fiction star. "I play a schoolteacher, so it's a whole new zone."

The new husband, by the way, is Frederic Thiebaud, the former husband of the same best friend with whom her ex had that affair.

While we chat in an adjoining hotel room, the genial Swiss sits with a computer on his lap, hunting online for a vegetarian restaurant where they can have dinner later.

I am sorely tempted to make a comment about Twains never meating, but I fear my pun may get lost in translation.

Now is released on Virgin EMI on 29 September.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41311606

This is a really cool marketing campaign that I hope she will keep up with. Good way to connect with young people who may not know she's got new music coming out.

RiteChappy wrote:

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Gonna skip Poor Me and Light of My Life. Hate both.

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 Same 😂 Already deleted 'poor me' from my phone, find the song very annoying.

 

I changed my iPhone music setting yesterday and afterwards listened to LATGG. it sounded way more layered then before. Never heard the 2nd voice of Shania singing higher pitched pre-choruses. Sounds awesome! 3 more days..

LJ-R wrote:

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RiteChappy wrote:

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Gonna skip Poor Me and Light of My Life. Hate both.

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 Same 😂 Already deleted 'poor me' from my phone, find the song very annoying.

 

I changed my iPhone music setting yesterday and afterwards listened to LATGG. it sounded way more layered then before. Never heard the 2nd voice of Shania singing higher pitched pre-choruses. Sounds awesome! 3 more days..

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 Oh what a coincidence, me too. LATGG is actually still one of my favorites out of the 4 officially fully released songs so far. Also I must admit, I really like WGSTD, currently jamming to this song right NOW! Both songs sound so awesome! At least to me they do. 3 more days.... So exciting!

-- Edited by ShaniaFanSince03 on Tuesday 26th of September 2017 02:31:05 AM

Ok Shania, we're just 3 days away from the release of "Now". There are still 3 songs of the standard edition to preview. I'm waiting today for the preview of "WGBYG", "I'm Alright" or "You Can't Buy Love"

Shania Twain @ShaniaTwain

Oh I've walked so many miles, I think I'm gonna stay a while, Cause I'm home now #ShaniaNOW THREE DAYS https://shaniatwain.lnk.to/NOW

"Home Now" US Open promo clip - https://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain/status/912693274866999296

11:00 AM ET - 26 Sep 17

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Does anybody know when pre-orders from her official website will be shipped? I expected them to be shipped out prior to the release date, but I'm not certain.

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People on Facebook are saying they'll be shipped on the 29th. If that's the case, that stinks. 

The previews of "Light of My Life" reminded me of Christina Aguilera's "Falling In Love Again (Can't Help It)" song.

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Terry wrote:

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Does anybody know when pre-orders from her official website will be shipped? I expected them to be shipped out prior to the release date, but I'm not certain.

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People on Facebook are saying they'll be shipped on the 29th. If that's the case, that stinks. 

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 Yes! I received an e-mail from Amazon stating my copy should arrive Oct 3rd or 4th so I cancelled my pre-order and will be getting it at Walmart after work. Luckily, I'll still be able to the iTunes version until then.

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 Oh wow, that's strange. I also pre-ordered mine from Amazon but it says it will be shipped tomorrow (September 27th), and it should arrive on the 29th, the day it comes out. But I also selected 2-Day Shipping, so I don't know if there's a difference between my order and yours. But I didn't pre-order from Shania's official website, just Amazon.

-- Edited by ShaniaFanSince03 on Tuesday 26th of September 2017 07:15:50 PM

I ordered it from Amazon and it will be delivered Friday.
Anyway, I'm sooooo glad "Because Of You" is a love song for Fred.
I really can't wait anymore

I'm so excited! Just a few more days!

 

I haven't listened to anything else from Now besides LATGG and SWMEC. 

 

Everyone please don't forget to pre-save the album on Spotify and stream it even if you purchase it! 

 

http://www.shaniatwain.com/now-presave

Wow! Just read the Wall Street Journal review and it's fantastic! Ill post the link but you have to subscribe and pay to read it.

www.wsj.com/amp/articles/now-review-shania-twain-tells-her-story-her-way-1506462417

Tommy wrote:

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RiteChappy wrote:

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Wow! Just read the Wall Street Journal review and it's fantastic! Ill post the link but you have to subscribe and pay to read it.

www.wsj.com/amp/articles/now-review-shania-twain-tells-her-story-her-way-1506462417

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You paid $12? 

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 Yeah 😔 I'm a bit obssesed this week. 🤣 

Counting down the hours and mintues!!!!!!!!!!! plus catching up with all the news, times and such with the website. Thank you, Tommy, for all the reminders today. It's going to be busy for quite awhile!