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According to my DirecTV on-screen program guide, Shania will be a guest on the "TODAY" show and "TODAY with Hoda & Jenna" on Thursday, January 5 in New York City to promote her new Queen Of Me album being released February 3. It only says "singer-songwriter Shania Twain", nothing about performing. The "TODAY" show airs at 7:00-9:00am ET and "TODAY with Hoda & Jenna" at 10:00-11:00am ET on NBC.

https://www.today.com

https://www.today.com/hoda-and-jenna

If she doesn't perform the single it will make no sense. I read a comment on here she doesn't need to promote a single but this music is good, Maybe not radio style but this stuff is so dam catchy. I don't care if these songs become hits but doesn't mean she can't sing them. Giddy up! Might have a shot to be a hit if promoted. The new album is good and in concert these new upbeat songs will have fans going wild. I wanted this kind of album now for years and just wants to see these songs promoted. The Today Show she might sing and maybe other shows. Why wouldn't she do the Grammys of the album comes out near the show Airtime? Do you need a hit to promote a song or can she promote it there. 

I mean performance or not, I am glad she is actually go out and promoting. That is something a lot of artists don't really do anymore.

INTERVIEW on "TODAY" show

“Giddy Up!” We’ve got icon @ShaniaTwain in the house! And she's sharing all the details about her upcoming album "Queen of Me," out Feb. 3! ✨

https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1610998619515101184

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoLgb0Bu_gw

Fashion segment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8fHwlIqgNE

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Hoda’s reaction to Giddy Up! has made my morning 🤠 @TODAYshow @hoda @HodaAndJenna http://shaniatwain.lnk.to/giddyup

Video clip - https://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain/status/1610999928691589121

Shania on "TODAY with Hoda & Jenna"

Superstar @ShaniaTwain talks songwriting, choosing joy, and teaming up with Lionel Richie 💖.

https://twitter.com/HodaAndJenna/status/1611024131998244870

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It's time for a game of "Charading Places" with @ShaniaTwain and #M3GAN star Allison Williams! Who do you think won?

https://twitter.com/HodaAndJenna/status/1611027157513371656

Shania Twain reveals which of her songs is her all-time favorite

The iconic singer talks about her new album, "Queen Of Me," and how a scary bout with COVID-19 inspired the most personal song off her new album.

By Sarah Lemire | TODAY.com | January 6, 2023

If stranded on a desert island with only one song to play on repeat, Shania Twain says she'd choose the Beatles' "Yesterday."

“I love melancholy songs, they often tend to be my favorite songs," Twain tells TODAY.com in a sit-down interview. "Paul McCartney is one of my favorite songwriters."

Her song choice is ironic given that when it comes to her own songwriting, Twain, 57, says she tends to "write myself out of the past," and "keep moving forward" instead.

Between the two, however, she strikes a balance.

"It's just ironic that 'Yesterday' stays with me so closely," Twain explains. "I'm always running off with my own songwriting into the future.

"But as a listener, (I'm) always longing and loving the song 'Yesterday," she says. "It is a song of reflection, of the past, so I think that's very fitting."

The five-time Grammy winner and bestselling female artist in country music history has much to reflect on, including her share of difficult times stemming from a traumatic childhood, the loss of her parents in a car accident and a battle with Lyme Disease that damaged her vocal cords.

And, in 2022, Twain faced yet another challenge, when she was hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia. It was touch-and-go for several days, Twain tells TODAY.com.

"I was in a very vulnerable and tricky place with COVID pneumonia," she says. "When I got out of the hospital and survived that, I saw a minister talking all about how we take air for granted."

The experience and the minister's words stuck with her, leading Twain to write what she says is the most personal song off her new album, "Queen Of Me."

"It inspired me to write a song called "Inhale/Exhale AIR," Twain says. "The simplicity and the necessity of that action and with appreciation."

The lyrics, according to Twain, came "very easily" and revolve around all the things we enjoy in life that require air, like blowing bubbles, flying kites and skydiving.

"It really is the happiest and really most-inspired song on the album," she says.

The 'most important' song she's ever written

With a career spanning decades, Twain's catalog of music is extensive and includes chart toppers like "That Don't Impress Me Much," "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!" and "From This Moment On."

There's one song, however, that Twain tells TODAY.com that she considers the "most important song" she's penned to date.

"'You're Still The One' is the favorite song I've ever written because it means so much to so many other people," she says.

Having written the song while still married to first husband, record producer Mutt Lange, Twain says the meaning of the song has changed for her since she initially wrote the tune, but that it doesn't diminish how she feels about it.

If anything, over time, she says it's become more important to her as a song she's written.

"You get married because you think it's going to last forever," she says. "So, the song no longer applied to me in that sense."

However, she came to the realization that what mattered more was how far-reaching "You're Still The One" has been and how many people it's touched through the years.

"That just really makes it the most important song I've ever written," Twain says.

Looking ahead

With the new album, "Queen Of Me," out in February and a 70-date tour by the same name beginning in April, Twain has plenty on her plate, but says that there's still much she'd like to accomplish.

"When it comes to music, I definitely want to do a lot more recording. I have more records to make and more songwriting," she says.

She'd also like to work with other artists, sharing both her knowledge and skills to "let them shine," while not necessarily being in the spotlight herself, which Twain says was never really her goal to begin with.

"It's not something that I ever really desired — being in the spotlight, it was never something I ever dreamt of doing," she says. "It happened that way and I've really learned to enjoy it and appreciate it more than anything.'

Twain says that because she suffered from intense pressure and stage fright, for a time, she took being in the spotlight for granted.

"Then, all of a sudden, a switch went off and I realized that everybody in that audience is loving it so much. Who am I to be taking this for granted?" she says.

And it changed everything.

"I realized, wow, we're all in this together and we're having a great time," she says. "And I feel more generous about sharing and that leads to a lot of other things that are changing in my life."

Those changes, she says, include doing a nude photo shoot for her new single "Waking Up Dreaming," an upbeat dance song with an '80s throwback video.

During an appearance on TODAY, Twain told Hoda Kotb that she made the decision to be photographed nude in an effort to feel empowered and self-confident about her body, something that's been a struggle for her since she was young.

"It's time to start loving myself in my own skin and really embracing that and not be embarrassed or shy of it and this is who I am," she explained to Hoda.

There are other changes, too, Twain tells TODAY.com, including her music.

"My songwriting is going in a slightly different place," she says. "I've always wanted to inspire, but I guess my inspirations have evolved because I've evolved and I have different things to share now."

https://www.today.com/popculture/music/shania-twain-on-youre-still-the-one-rcna64501

#ShaniaTwain explains her album title 'Queen of Me'

"I'm my own royalty." 👑 Shania Twain unpacks the title of her newest album #queenofme and talks about finding a new groove and self-confidence at 57. Queen behavior!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDe8D45ZD8c

aj1995 wrote:

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From a new press release for TODAY. Sounds like a performance?

Monday, January 30

(7-9 a.m.) TODAY Exclusive: Dad Who Posted on His Wife Working Out Rather Than Cleaning Shares His Story. Citi Music Series: Shania Twain. Guest: Meghan Trainor. Travel Credits Set to Expire with Vicky Nguyen. New Tech for 2023 and Beyond with Katie Linendoll. Start TODAY: How Walking Labyrinths Can Lead to Wellness Path. 

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Yes, Shania is going to perform. She must have recorded it when she was on the show January 5. Plus the other day they aired a preview of Monday's "TODAY" show and there was a clip of Shania's interview with Hoda for the "Making Space with Hoda Kotb" podcast which will premiere Monday. Shania is wearing the pink outfit above.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-space-with-hoda-kotb/id1585499926

I have my doubts about Shania performing tomorrow morning on "TODAY". Except for my DirecTV program guide that says she is performing, everything else I see online says Citi Music Series: Shania Twain as "aj1995" posted above. It was also the Citi Music Series a few weeks ago. See video below (logo in lower right). I think it's just a preview of Shania's interview with Hoda for the "Making Space with Hoda Kotb" podcast which will premiere tomorrow. We'll see.