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Gigi wrote:

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How do you think Shania's chances are performing at the CMAs this year or the ACMs in April?

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The CMA Awards are November 8. I'd say it's a guarantee she'll be performing. Probably at the ACM Awards too. 

It looks like Shania's appearance on "Ellen" will air on September 29. The show will probably be recorded on the 28th as Derek Frank noted up above.

Kelsea Ballerini, Shania Twain Listed For Upcoming “Ellen DeGeneres Show” Episodes

The two country stars are headed to “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”

By Charles Suchs | Headline Planet | September 15, 2017

Two popular female country stars — one fairly new to the scene, the other a genre icon — are headed to “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”

Tentative listings issued to TV providers say Ballerini, the former, will appear on the September 27 episode. Shania Twain, the latter, is set for the September 29 broadcast.

The listings do not specify either artist’s role for the shows, but both will presumably be performing. Additional details will be provided upon availability.

It is of course worth noting that “Ellen” lineups tend to be very subject to change. Headline Planet will provide an update in the event either performance is moved.

https://headlineplanet.com/home/2017/09/15/kelsea-ballerini-shania-twain-listed-upcoming-ellen-degeneres-show-episodes/

Tommy wrote:

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September 20: Performance on "America's Got Talent"
8:00pm ET/PT on NBC.
Website https://www.nbc.com/americas-got-talent

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Source: http://www.derekfrank.com/

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We'll have to wait and see the next couple days but it doesn't look like Shania will be performing on the live "America's Got Talent" finale show Wednesday night. She isn't listed on my DirecTV on-screen program guide.

Tanya wrote:

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Tommy wrote:

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Tommy wrote:

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September 20: Performance on "America's Got Talent"
8:00pm ET/PT on NBC.
Website https://www.nbc.com/americas-got-talent

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Source: http://www.derekfrank.com/

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We'll have to wait and see the next couple days but it doesn't look like Shania will be performing on the live "America's Got Talent" finale show Wednesday night. She isn't listed on my DirecTV on-screen program guide.

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 And this event isn't also in Derek Frank's list.

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That's true. Yesterday it was still listed on his "Calendar" page and now he removed it... 

Cory Churko @corychurko

Rehearsals today!

7:31 PM ET - 19 Sep 17

http://twitter.com/corychurko

Based on how well her single is doing on the AC charts in the USA she picked the right song choice which was life's about to get good. She looked beautiful as well 

I don't quite like the old-lady-style gown. The bottom looks great but the top is size increasing and shapeless.

Shania Twain @ShaniaTwain

It was an honour to sing with the incredibly talented @mandyharvey on @AGT, she really made 'You're Still The One' her own. Beautiful.

Video clip - https://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain/status/910892532141297667

11:44 AM ET - 21 Sep 17

http://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain

"America's Got Talent" red carpet interview - "Access Hollywood"

Tanya wrote:

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I wonder what she is saying at about 1:15: "I was in ??? anyway"?

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"I was in awe ... anyway" 

Shania seemed to have a wardrobe malfunction on AGT! A string from her sleeve was caught on her dress, lifting it when she raised her arm.

Shania Twain on her songwriting: "I just sort of wrote myself out of my misery"

CBS News | September 22, 2017

Shania Twain with correspondent Lee Cowan, at the singer's studio, at her home in the Bahamas.

Country music superstar Shania Twain opens up to Lee Cowan about her music, her songwriting process after divorce, her childhood and more in an interview for CBS' "Sunday Morning," to be broadcast on the show's 40th season premiere on September 24.

Twain, who with ex-husband producer Mutt Lange was behind some of the biggest songs of the late 1990s and early 2000s (including "Man! I Feel Like a Woman" and "Any Man of Mine"), is back with her first new album in 15 years. It's also the first album without Lange's studio expertise.

"I was now, for the first time in many years, standing on my own as a creative, artistic, recording artist," Twain told Cowan.

She admits she had self-doubt, but she was also determined to overcome those feelings. "As the songwriting evolved, I just sort of wrote myself out of my misery," she said.

Cowan catches up with Twain at her home in the Bahamas, where she spent two years working on her new album. Twain reveals she wrote many of the songs in a bathroom overlooking the ocean, in what she described as her "contemplative space."

Twain also talks with Cowan about her childhood; singing in dive bars when she was eight years-old; the loss of her parents; and finding love after divorce with Fred Thiebaud.

Cowan asked if she ever pinches herself, considering her successful career and lifestyle. "I do, I do," Twain replied. "But there's also another part of me that says, 'You know what? I worked really hard, and there's part of me that feels like I deserve it.'"

The Emmy Award-winning "CBS Sunday Morning," hosted by Jane Pauley, is broadcast on CBS Sundays beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET. Executive producer is Rand Morrison.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shania-twain-on-her-songwriting-i-just-sort-of-wrote-myself-out-of-my-misery/

Shania Twain @ShaniaTwain

Tune into @CBSSunday from 9am ET tomorrow! I'm on the show talking about my journey that has led up to #ShaniaNOW 😘

Video clip - https://twitter.com/WTVYNews4/status/911581018318098432

6:30 PM ET - 23 Sep 17

http://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain

"CBS Sunday Morning" interview.

Shania Twain on finding her voice again

CBS News | September 24, 2017

A country mile -- and more -- separates singer Shania Twain from the health crisis that threatened her career a few years ago.
She talks about the road back this morning with Lee Cowan: 

"I like being close to the fans, physically. I like touching them, I just like that. I'm just one of them, and then I forget about who I am."

Those fans have waited a long time for Shania Twain to put out some new music. But a series of personal setbacks left the country music megastar feeling less like songwriting, and more like hiding away.

"Getting a divorce with the person that you work with for 15 years of your life, is getting a divorce from every element of your life," she said.

Legendary rock producer Mutt Lange, known for his work with Def Leppard and AC/DC, had been her partner both in music and in marriage.  Together they created some of the biggest hits of the '90s -- many of them empowering anthems, such as "Man! I Feel Like a Woman."

Shania Twain was the Queen of Country Pop, blending her lyrics with Lange's Southern rock roots to earn her five Grammys and unrivaled popularity. To this day, she remains the best-selling female country music singer ever.

But their hit-making collaboration ended -- and so did their marriage, after Twain says Lange had an affair with one of her best friends.

"I was now, for the first time in many years, standing on my own as a creative, artistic, recording artist," Twain said.

"Was there a part of you that wondered if you could do it?" Cowan asked.

"There was self-doubt, for sure, but I was going to overcome that. That was my determination. I'm like, I am not going to let that stand in my way. I just have to try this."

The result? "Now," Twain's first studio album in 15 years. The first single is aptly called "Life's About to Get Good."

Oh! Life's about joy, life's about pain
It's all about forgiving and the will to walk away
I'm ready to be loved, and love the way I should
Life's about, life's about to get good.

"As the song writing evolved, I just sort of wrote myself out of my misery," she said.

She spent two years working on the album at her island getaway in the Bahamas. She wrote mostly from her second-floor window in her "other studio."

Yes, her bathroom. It's not about the acoustics in here, or the view; it's about the solitude.

Cowan asked, "You need that sort of isolation so that you can sing it out loud and have nobody judge or hear?"

"Exactly. Exactly. I need to just make mistakes."

It's a lifestyle that doesn't just look exotic -- it is, and she makes no apologies.

Cowan asked, "Do you kind of pinch yourself that this is your life, that this is where you live?"

"I do, but there's also another part of me that says, You know what? I worked really hard, and there's a part of me that feels like I deserve it."

Twain grew up Eileen Edwards in Ontario, Canada. Her family had little money -- she went to school hungry most days -- and she says her mother, Sharon, suffered frequent abuse at the hands of her stepfather.

"I remember so often the police coming in and, you know, banging in the door and the radios radios going and the guns, and you're just a child," she said. "It's just like a war zone."

"But as all of that was going on, it didn't sound like you really told anybody about it. You just kept it all inside?"

"You're afraid to tell anybody, because you think you're going to get taken away."

As therapy, she would grab her guitar and head out into the Canadian woods. By the time she was eight, her mother had her singing in dive bars.

"The performance scared the heck out of me," Twain said.

"You didn't like being on stage?"

"I didn't like being the center of attention, period. First of all, I was an ugly kid, okay? So I was very insecure. I really was, oh my gosh!"

"I've seen pictures -- you were not an ugly kid!"

"My teeth were all spaced out, and my hair was frizzy …"

"So, did you feel as if your mom was pushing you on stage?"

"Yes, of course my mother was pushing me! My mother was definitely a stage mom." 

But when Twain was just 22, her mother and her stepfather were both killed in a car accident -- a blow that almost stopped her from pursuing music altogether.

"It was very shortly after my parents died, a friend of my parents, she said, 'You can't quit music. You've got to do something about this.'"

Eventually she moved to Nashville, but she wasn't like most country artists at the time. She had a different sound, and a different look.

Cowan asked, "Did you feel like it was a risk? Did you feel like you were out on a limb?"

"I was told I was out on a limb!" Twain laughed. "'Belly button' and all this stuff."

"Your midriff was the topic of a lot of conversation."

"I had no idea it was going to be such a problem!"

Her c0cktail of sex and songwriting worked. Her career skyrocketed, but she wasn't feeling it. "I was confused a lot of the time by, you know, Why am I so unhappy? Why am I so miserable?" she said. "I have everything that anybody could ever want. I should be just jumping for joy at all these things."

Instead of enjoying the success, she worked harder … and then came a wake-up call: She noticed her voice wasn't sounding the same. "I couldn't get any volume, and when I did it was just this really witchy sort of crying sound. It was awful."

It's a condition called dysphonia -- a side-effect, she thinks, of Lyme disease. It almost ended her career.

"I went through a phase of letting go and grieving over that loss, that I would never be a singer again," she said.

"That's huge."

"It is huge. It was terrible. It was really, really, really a terrible thing."

Years of vocal therapy brought her voice back. It's a little lower than it used to be, she says, but good enough that she mounted a successful two-year run in Las Vegas.

And her voice wasn't all she found…

She found love again, too, but with a tantalizingly complicated twist. In 2011 she married Fred Thiebaud, the former husband of the woman she claims had an affair with her first husband.

"I didn't feel like jumping back into marriage myself," Thiebaud told Cowan.

"Either, yeah," Twain added.

"I was a little careful, too," Thiebaud said. "I'm like, Okay, where is this going?"

Cowan asked, "Was there a moment you remember that it switched from being a friend to something more?"

"There was a moment, for sure," Twain replied. "It was the first time that we kissed. I just never felt like that ever before in my life. And I thought to myself, How could I have not seen you this way before? And I said that to him: 'How could I have not seen you all these years?' And he said, 'Because you weren't looking.'"

After a patch of rough sailing, at 52 Shania Twain seems to have finally found some calmer seas -- a chance to find her course again, with music as her compass.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/shania-twain-on-finding-her-voice-again

Tommy wrote:

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September 27: Performance on "The Late Late Show with James Corden"
12:35am ET/PT | 11:35pm CT on CBS.
Website http://www.cbs.com/shows/late-late-show/

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Source: http://www.derekfrank.com/

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Strange. Shania isn't listed on any shows this week (repeats air on Friday). Macklemore is scheduled on the 27th. The show is taped and airs the same night (like when Shania was on in April for Stagecoach). Unless she tapes the performance on the 27th but it doesn't air until the 28th for some reason. Maybe she'll be added to the list later.

Shania Twain @ShaniaTwain

Catch me on @enews #DailyPop tomorrow! 😘

Video loop - https://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain/status/912787817423663104

5:15 PM ET - 26 Sep 17

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***"E! News: Daily Pop" airs at 12:00pm-2:00pm ET/PT on E!

Tommy wrote:

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Shania Twain @ShaniaTwain

Catch me on @enews #DailyPop tomorrow! 😘

Video loop - https://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain/status/912787817423663104

5:15 PM ET - 26 Sep 17

http://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain

***"E! News: Daily Pop" airs at 12:00pm-2:00pm ET/PT on E!

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Shania is on "E! News: Daily Pop" now.

Walking into the studio - https://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain/status/913082240795471872

***Edit*** She was on about 10 minutes. Nothing new. Talked about divorce, Brad Pitt story, writing in Bahamas, songs from Now are multi-genres, etc.

Tommy wrote:

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From Headline Planet:

Shania Twain appeared as a discussion guest on an April edition of “The Late Late Show With James Corden.”

On October 3, she will return to the show as a musical performer.

The performance will come in support of Twain’s new album “Now,” which hits stores the preceding Friday.

http://headlineplanet.com/home/2017/09/25/shania-twain-scheduled-perform-late-late-show-james-corden/

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Shania is taping her performance on "The Late Late Show with James Corden" tonight...

From Cory Churko on Facebook:

It's about to go down.. Special welcome to our extended bandmates Charlean Carmon, Kenya Hathaway and Sharlotte Gibson!

Austin Clark Derek Frank Joshua Ray Gooch Elijah Wood

#jamescorden #latelateshow #cbsstudios — at CBS Television City.

Shania Twain @ShaniaTwain

I'm on @TheEllenShow tomorrow performing Life's About To Get Good. Be sure to tune in! #ShaniaNOW

8:23 PM ET - 28 Sep 17

http://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain

REMINDER: Shania will be performing on "The Late Late Show with James Corden" tonight at 12:35am ET/PT | 11:35pm CT on CBS. (The show was taped on September 27.)

Tommy wrote:

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Shania Twain @ShaniaTwain

I'm on the @latelateshow with @JKCorden tonight! Tune in 12:37/11:37c 😘

1:15 PM ET - 3 Oct 17

http://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain

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 According to people who attended the taping last week, Shania performed LATGG and SWMEC. However they only aired SWMEC on TV.

Here is the introduction segment from last night on "The Late Late Show with James Corden"

It's sad that SWMEC didn't get much justice on iTunes from her appearance on the show..

Interview with Kix Brooks - Part 2

Watch Shania Twain on Kix TV. In Part 2 of this visit, Shania details her passion for cooking. Plus, Shania and Kix continue their conversation about songwriting.