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let's add YSTO a 5th time lol

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Shania-Twain-Come-On-Over-Diamond-Edition-Walmart-Exclusive-Red-Apple-Vinyl-Country-2-LP/3862194295

Shania Twain @ShaniaTwain

My new favourite game, asking you the tough questions 😂 So... what's the best single from Come On Over? 👀

https://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain/status/1681701989850152961

12:26 PM ET - 19 Jul 23

http://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain

I can get both editions of COO for a few bucks each, brand new. If you want to pay a premium for the photobook, that's fine with me.

HD bluray audio version of both versions of COO, 4k uhd of COO tour, CD3 with demos/unreleased tracks...I can see paying $60.  They are just not serious with this release.

matteotempo wrote:

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I'll say it again: releasing a Diamond Edition like this one for the Best-Selling Country Album of all time and the Best-Selling Female Album of all time, is a crime. Maybe it has something to do with her label change, or maybe Mutt hasn't give pemission to release something more.
Anyway, I definitely won't buy it.

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I agree. It's absolutely ridiculous! She better not be doing a big promotional media tour. What the hell for??? It's the same old stuff. Plus the 25th anniversary was last year. Nobody really cares about this Diamond Edition. Especially the general public.

Shania Twain @ShaniaTwain

One year ago today, Not Just A Girl was released to the world via @netflix ! I was so nervous (and excited) for your reaction!! Working on the documentary allowed me to reflect and appreciate the successes in my career and with each album, particularly Come On Over... That moment in my career was such a whirlwind, a total blur of memories! The great thing about releasing Come On Over: Diamond Edition is that I get to enjoy it again, as a total celebration with you all! ❤️‍🔥 shania.lnk.to/ComeOnOverDiamond

Documentary trailer clip - https://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain/status/1684202012177571842

10:00 AM ET - 26 Jul 23

http://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain

With Come On Over, it was important for me to give what I thought was the best record of my life - no holding back! Especially as a follow-up to the certified Diamond ‘The Woman In Me’. I knew I had more in me than one Diamond album 😉 And with that, I’m happy to announce ‘Come On Over: Diamond Edition’ 💎 will be released on August 25th and you can pre-order it now: shania.lnk.to/ComeOnOverDiamond

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Lbl1bHLpA

Shania Twain @ShaniaTwain

Did you ever think you would hear You’re Still The One and want to immediately go out dancing?! Because @DJFrankWalker's remix has got me wanting to get back to Vegas and party!! 💃 shaniatwain.lnk.to/StillTheOneFWR

https://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain/status/1684963721267847168

12:27 PM ET - 28 Jul 23

http://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDiMJscemwg

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFgqTlczyWU

Shania Twain @ShaniaTwain

Let's Go Girls isn't just a saying, it's a state of mind 😂 This exclusive Come On Over: Diamond Edition 💎 t-shirt is available to pre-order now! shania.lnk.to/ComeOnOverDiamond

Promo - https://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain/status/1685032379935776768

5:00 PM ET - 28 Jul 23

http://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain

Shania Twain @shaniatwain

Breaking down a bona fide hit 😘😂 VICE 💎 shania.lnk.to/ComeOnOverDiamond

Video clip - https://www.facebook.com/ShaniaTwain/videos/1452092548944124/

4:58 PM ET - 1 Aug 23

https://www.facebook.com/ShaniaTwain

Full Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00YWgZvCIo8

portacoino wrote:

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It seems that Holding On To Love/Impress Me Much medley was made for "Superfan" TV program.

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Yes, that's what I've heard Shania will be performing on the show. 

Melissa wrote:

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I think the Woman In Me, Come On Over And Up released all in one package would have been interesting. I am not sure why Shania ain't promoting this album with a "Today" show performance or something else big? I think this album deserves such a huge promotion. I just don't see it selliing because everyone has already got the entire album lol Regardless it is one of the best albums ever made in history. Seems like her new record label wouldn't be allowed to release the album? Come On Over is a Mercury release doesn't it stay that way Tommy?

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Shania was just on the "Today" show July 12 to announce the Diamond Edition release. So she won't be making another appearance. I guess there's a chance Shania might fly back to the U.S. towards the end of the month to do some promotion but I doubt it. Plus talk shows are on Summer break (airing repeats) until mid September when the new Fall season starts. (If the writers/actors strike is over.)

Yes, Come On Over: Diamond Edition is a Mercury release. (under CD One - US Album)

Tommy wrote:

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Shania Twain @ShaniaTwain

Which artwork are you choosing? 👀😈😂 shania.lnk.to/ComeOnOverDiamond

https://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain/status/1688450810810662913

3:23 AM ET - 7 Aug 23

http://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain

***Probably neither!

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 Why neither?

Fair, I kinda just assume she meant which one is your fav, that’s how most people who commented seems to have took it, even though she does have the link to purchase them.

I'm bringing it BACK! (Excessive Punctuation) 😂 #shorts #comeonover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuWrfodpLmU

Shania Twain: How Dancing at Gay Bars Inspired ‘Man! I Feel Like a Woman!’ (Exclusive)

The singer-songwriter spoke with The Messenger ahead of a new reissue of her smash-hit 1997 album 'Come On Over,' due out Aug. 25

By Alan Light | The Messenger | August 17, 2023

According to Shania Twain, it was her gay male friends who first helped her to "feel like a woman."

The country star spoke to The Messenger this week ahead of a new reissue, dubbed the 25th Anniversary Diamond Edition, of Come On Over, her 1997 LP that remains both the best-selling country album of all time and the best-selling album ever by a solo female artist. Fittingly, one of the album's most enduring tracks is "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" which, with its rousing, "Let's go, girls," opening and its iconic video that gender-flipped Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love," has become not just an anthem of female empowerment but also a staple for the gay community. That's only appropriate since, as Twain explains here in an excerpt from an interview that will publish in full soon, that same community was actually a key inspiration for the song.

"When I was in my late teens, I was sharing an apartment with friends. They were all going to college, and I would stay home during the day and write songs. But Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, we would all go to the gay bars together," the singer explained. "All the guys in our group would wear makeup, and they would help me — I didn't know how to wear makeup. I dressed more like a boy. I didn't love being female. I didn't love being undressed by men with their eyes and stuff like that. It just made me uncomfortable, so I down-dressed my body, and I didn't enjoy my femininity.

"But the guys would dress me up, and they would put makeup on me, and we would share this experience together," she continued. "And then I would go to clubs and I felt safe there. I could shake my body around and feel good about being female, and there was something liberating about it. I wasn't self-conscious about it."

These experiences, she explained, directly led to her now-iconic pledges to "let it all hang out" and "go totally crazy."

"So when I wrote 'Man! I Feel Like a Woman!' I reflected back on how sad it was that it had taken me so long — I was already in my 30s and I was finally embracing my curves, and being upfront about rejecting the sexism and embracing, for the first time, a confidence in being female," she said. "That's why it was such a statement — not just 'I Feel Like a Woman,' but 'Man! I Feel Like a Woman!' and I love it and I'm enjoying it and I'm wearing it well."

For Twain, who has long been open about her LGBTQ allyship, recent attacks on the drag community have been troubling to see.

"When I look back at those late teens, I was with all these guys and I didn't know if they were gay or if they were just dressing up on the weekend. There was no need to judge or even decide anything among ourselves — we were just being free-spirited about dressing and makeup and all these things," she said.

"So I find it sad that there's so much room and time to criticize each other and to judge each other for our personal decisions and choices. It robs us of some innocence, and that's why I bring up the self-consciousness that I felt at the time — that the only place I could feel safe wearing anything form-fitting was in a gay club. How can that be right? So of course I'm a bit sentimental about how it feels to not be accepted and to be objectified or judged, or not being able to be yourself and who you truly are. Of course you have to be who you truly are. That goes without saying."

The 25th Anniversary Diamond Edition of Come On Over is out Aug. 25. Twain has also recently announced her third Las Vegas residency, to kick off in 2024. Stay tuned for more from The Messenger's conversation with the singer-songwriter.

https://themessenger.com/entertainment/shania-twain-interview-man-i-feel-like-a-woman-gay-bars

Worst promotion I've ever seen for such an impressive album. Releasing what exactly? The same stuff we have already heard. The Queen of Me album was poorly promoted and didn't ever get a third single. I am not trying to complain but what an embarrassment for Come On Over in terms of promoting or anything new like old demos. I know some fans will complain that I am attacking Shania but I am not just speaking the truth. I don't expect her new Vegas show to ever top the Let's Go! residency because that was amazing.

Tommy wrote:

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Shania Twain: How Dancing at Gay Bars Inspired ‘Man! I Feel Like a Woman!’ (Exclusive)

The singer-songwriter spoke with The Messenger ahead of a new reissue of her smash-hit 1997 album 'Come On Over,' due out Aug. 25

By Alan Light | The Messenger | August 17, 2023

According to Shania Twain, it was her gay male friends who first helped her to "feel like a woman."

The country star spoke to The Messenger this week ahead of a new reissue, dubbed the 25th Anniversary Diamond Edition, of Come On Over, her 1997 LP that remains both the best-selling country album of all time and the best-selling album ever by a solo female artist. Fittingly, one of the album's most enduring tracks is "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" which, with its rousing, "Let's go, girls," opening and its iconic video that gender-flipped Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love," has become not just an anthem of female empowerment but also a staple for the gay community. That's only appropriate since, as Twain explains here in an excerpt from an interview that will publish in full soon, that same community was actually a key inspiration for the song.

"When I was in my late teens, I was sharing an apartment with friends. They were all going to college, and I would stay home during the day and write songs. But Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, we would all go to the gay bars together," the singer explained. "All the guys in our group would wear makeup, and they would help me — I didn't know how to wear makeup. I dressed more like a boy. I didn't love being female. I didn't love being undressed by men with their eyes and stuff like that. It just made me uncomfortable, so I down-dressed my body, and I didn't enjoy my femininity.

"But the guys would dress me up, and they would put makeup on me, and we would share this experience together," she continued. "And then I would go to clubs and I felt safe there. I could shake my body around and feel good about being female, and there was something liberating about it. I wasn't self-conscious about it."

These experiences, she explained, directly led to her now-iconic pledges to "let it all hang out" and "go totally crazy."

"So when I wrote 'Man! I Feel Like a Woman!' I reflected back on how sad it was that it had taken me so long — I was already in my 30s and I was finally embracing my curves, and being upfront about rejecting the sexism and embracing, for the first time, a confidence in being female," she said. "That's why it was such a statement — not just 'I Feel Like a Woman,' but 'Man! I Feel Like a Woman!' and I love it and I'm enjoying it and I'm wearing it well."

For Twain, who has long been open about her LGBTQ allyship, recent attacks on the drag community have been troubling to see.

"When I look back at those late teens, I was with all these guys and I didn't know if they were gay or if they were just dressing up on the weekend. There was no need to judge or even decide anything among ourselves — we were just being free-spirited about dressing and makeup and all these things," she said.

"So I find it sad that there's so much room and time to criticize each other and to judge each other for our personal decisions and choices. It robs us of some innocence, and that's why I bring up the self-consciousness that I felt at the time — that the only place I could feel safe wearing anything form-fitting was in a gay club. How can that be right? So of course I'm a bit sentimental about how it feels to not be accepted and to be objectified or judged, or not being able to be yourself and who you truly are. Of course you have to be who you truly are. That goes without saying."

The 25th Anniversary Diamond Edition of Come On Over is out Aug. 25. Twain has also recently announced her third Las Vegas residency, to kick off in 2024. Stay tuned for more from The Messenger's conversation with the singer-songwriter.

https://themessenger.com/entertainment/shania-twain-interview-man-i-feel-like-a-woman-gay-bars

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Shania Twain on the Runaway Success of ‘Come On Over’ and Why Country Music Must ‘Put Inclusion First’ (Exclusive)

In a conversation with The Messenger, the singer-songwriter looks back on the era when her newly reissued third album took over the world, and assesses the fractious state of country music today

By Alan Light | The Messenger | August 23, 2023

"I started in country music," Shania Twain told The Messenger, "but by the time I was 16 years old, the bars that I was playing stopped hiring country bands. They only wanted Top 40 and rock, so my repertoire swapped. I was also a big folk-music fan, and Dolly Parton was one of my biggest songwriting teachers. I was always going to be a hybrid stylist with my music, so I guess it makes sense that my audience is so diverse."

That would be a bit of an understatement. The Canadian superstar's following in fact got so big that her 1997 album Come On Over sold 40 million copies around the world, making it both the best-selling album ever recorded by a woman and the top-selling country album of all time. This week, Twain is releasing a 25th-anniversary edition of the record, which includes a bonus disc of remixes and live duets with Elton John, Chris Martin, Alison Krauss and the Backstreet Boys.

The album's success was unprecedented, but it didn't come out of nowhere. Twain's previous album, The Woman in Me, had been a breakthrough smash, eventually earning a rare diamond certification by selling more than 10 million copies in the U.S. (It eventually exceeded 12 million in sales.) For the follow-up, though, the singer-songwriter and her then-husband, the mysterious producer John "Mutt" Lange (who had helmed juggernauts by AC/DC and Def Leppard) shot even higher, going so far as to prepare a separate "international mix" for overseas markets.

With such immortal singles as "You're Still the One," "That Don't Impress Me Much," and "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" (and its iconic introduction, "Let's go, girls"), Come On Over truly conquered the world and took country music — with a heavy infusion of pop, dance and rock — to a new stratosphere. With more than 20 million copies sold, the album is only one of a small number of albums ever to be diamond-certified twice.

Twenty-five years later, Twain, who turns 58 next week, remains a force: Her Queen of Me tour (named for her most recent album) picks up next month in the U.K. and returns to North America in October, and she just announced her third residency in Las Vegas, beginning in May 2024. She even paid a visit to Coachella last year, where she joined Harry Styles (who has called her his "main influence") during his headlining set.

"I didn't enjoy it as much as I'm enjoying it now," Twain said on a recent Zoom call, looking back at the Come On Over explosion. "There was no time to celebrate in the moment, to really appreciate how appreciated it was, by the fans and the industry, and how respected it was. I really only feel that now, and it's so great. I'm loving it — and I'm absorbing it, too."

Does the 25 years since Come On Over feel like a long time or a short time?
It does feel like a very long time, but revisiting it now makes it feel more immediate. Especially live, because a lot of the audiences are the little kids that were listening to it 25 years ago with their parents — they were three or four, and they grew up and now they have kids, and they bring their own four-year-olds. So it almost makes it feel like I'm back in that moment.

You were coming off a huge record with The Woman in Me, so what was the ambition and what was the pressure going into this record?
I felt the pressure was off, for two reasons. One, it's rare to have one diamond album, so I probably shouldn't expect the second one to be a diamond album, as well. The second reason is that I hadn't toured on The Woman in Me, and I thought, OK, that's a whole other thing. This could be the beginning of something bigger or it could be the beginning of the end of the peak. But I didn't want to tour till I had enough hits to not do covers in my show — you go out there with your first album, you've got two hits, what are you going to do for the next hour? Maybe that might have been a good thing, a silver lining, to just take my time and find the best songs.

Once the album was off and running, was it all a blur or were you able to enjoy it?
Once it really started taking off and it was single after single — there were 12 singles on that album! — I got busier and busier. I had no breaks for probably 20 months straight. The tour started, then there were red carpets and television appearances, there was more promotion for every single. There were videos to put together, and I was very involved with all of that—with the styling, with the concepts, and then the editing. Each video took three days to edit. Long, long days, 18-hour days, crazy, inhumane hours. The only word I could use to describe my schedule was "uncivilized." But I was chasing what was happening. Once it was out, it was just going, and I was just trying to keep up with it.'

You've said that "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" was influenced by drag queens.
When I was in my late teens, I was sharing an apartment with friends. They were all going to college, and I would stay home during the day and write songs. But Thursday, Friday and Saturday, we would all go to the gay bars together. All the guys in our group would wear makeup, and they would help me — I didn't know how to wear make-up. I dressed more like a boy. I didn't love being female. I didn't love being undressed by men with their eyes and stuff like that. It just made me uncomfortable, so I down-dressed my body, and I didn't enjoy my femininity.

But the guys would dress me up, and they would put makeup on me, and we would share this experience together. And then I would go to clubs, and I felt safe there. I could shake my body around and feel good about being female, and it was liberating. I wasn't self-conscious about it.

So when I wrote "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" I reflected back on how sad it was that it had taken me so long to embrace my curves, and reject the sexism and embrace, for the first time, a confidence in being female. That's why it was such a statement — not just "I Feel Like a Woman," but "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" and I love it and I'm enjoying it and I'm wearing it well.

What do you think about the attacks that the drag community is currently facing? 
I find it sad that there's so much room and time to criticize each other and to judge each other for our personal decisions and choices. The only place I could feel safe wearing anything form-fitting was in a gay club. How can that be right? So I'm a bit sentimental about how it feels to not be accepted and to be objectified or judged, or not being able to be yourself and who you truly are. Of course you have to be who you truly are. That goes without saying.

Right now, there's so much debate about who country music speaks for, who's represented in the genre. What do you think of that discussion?
I don't know whether it's more sensitive than it's ever been in my lifetime, but it's certainly a very sensitive time for everyone. As a race, as a human race, we're all being put through so many stresses. I know with my family, we talk about things, we get confused, sometimes we have to talk things through and really try to understand. So I'm not surprised that there's a lot of divide on many levels.

But I think in the end that if you put love first — if you really, really do — and you put inclusion first, you will find the right answer. I have a bleeding heart; I have a hard time understanding hate. We need each other. So it makes me sad that we have all of this conflict, but we have to just appeal to our humanity, our love and the goodness in ourselves.

https://themessenger.com/entertainment/shania-twain-come-on-over-25th-anniversary-interview 

On February 9, 2023 Tommy wrote:

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Scott Mills

🤠 Giddy up! The amazing @ShaniaTwain joined me today on @BBCRadio2 and gave me my own cowboy hat! 📻 You can listen back on BBC Sounds!

Interview starts at 1:13 mark - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001hm96

https://twitter.com/scott_mills/status/1623717107803295744

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Where are my Shania's at? @bbcradio2

https://www.tiktok.com/@shaniatwain/video/7270956541249948960

LifesAboutToGetGood2000 wrote:

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The IHOTL/TDIMM medley includes the part that was cut after the "Superfan" commercial break and has a long ad-lib section.

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 It's a great medley and I'm a fan of the original "That Don't Impress Me Much", not so much of the International Mix. The final section is really, really great, I LOVE it. 

Come On Over: Diamond Edition email sent out today which included the note from Shania inside the CD booklet.

https://us.umusic-online.com/5O8T-KTM8-9CF616F2E58552744F3K11EC93F893D6A1618F/cr.aspx

Shania Twain Come On Over Diamond (Deluxe Edition) Unboxing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWvdcU0uAC4

portacoino wrote:

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It’s ok except cd 3 , doing that I would prefer a 4cd edition with the Dallas and Miami audio cds

Putting that chronological dates with mistakes it’s for killing the artist director

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Come On Over booklet timeline

Release date: November 4, 1998