Shania Twain

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  • Come On Over (Special Edition)
    Come On Over (Special Edition)
    Come On Over (Special Edition)

    Among the 16 song titles that make up Shania Twain’s Come On Over, no fewer than four have exclamation points. They’re there to tell you that Twain’s excited, and isn’t afraid to say it—modesty and gender expectations be damned. But in a way, it’s the other number—the 16 songs—that says even more. Released in 1997, Come On Over proved there was plenty of room for pop-country to explore, and gave Twain the kind of space—a full hour of music—to show off the breadth of her songwriting in ways that were unheard of for most country songwriters, female or otherwise. So while the album’s biggest singles (“You’re Still the One”, “That Don’t Impress Me Much”, “From This Moment On”, “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!”) captured the dissolving border between Nashville and the rest of the world, they were also part of a wave of late-1990s albums—including Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill, Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom—that centred a feminine experience without selling it short. You could rock with it, reflect with it, night-out with it, and happily-ever-after with it—and all on Twain’s uplifting, empathetic terms. And as the work of a married woman teamed with her producer-songwriter-husband (Mutt Lange), you could submit it as proof that embracing progress doesn’t mean sacrificing tradition. Three days after its release, the Spice Girls fired their manager. It was probably just a coincidence—though you can’t help but wonder.

  • The Woman In Me
    The Woman In Me
    The Woman In Me

    Shania Twain wasn’t the first pop-savvy country superstar to embody feisty female self-determination. But her second album, 1995’s The Woman in Me, was a revelation and, for Nashville, something of a revolution, too. Despite still being fairly new to the industry, the Canadian-born artist exercised independence from a system that relied on the songwriting material, studio direction and cautious marketing strategies of Music Row pros. She co-wrote and recorded the entire album with her then-husband, producer Mutt Lange, who’d specialised in thundering backbeats and arena-rock licks in his work with AC/DC and Def Leppard. The dozen tracks were stocked with taut, galvanising hooks and an attitude that was down-to-earth, but sparkled with modern irreverence, forwardness and youthful kick. The project proved to be a broadly appealing blockbuster, spinning off a string of chart-toppers, including the frisky, fiddle-accented shuffle “Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?”, the honky-tonk stomp “Any Man of Mine” and the roadhouse rocker "(If You're Not in It for Love) I'm Outta Here!"

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About Shania Twain

Before Shania Twain’s rise in the mid-’90s, no other singer had combined two roles that, at the time, seemed entirely disparate: rootin’, tootin’ country star and glamorous pop diva. That she made it look so easy is a testament to the tenacity shown by the performer, who was born in 1965 and raised in the small Canadian town of Timmins, Ontario. After not gaining much headway during her early stint as a rock performer under her original name of Eilleen Twain, nor in her first years after becoming Shania and signing to Mercury Nashville, she made a fortuitous alliance with Robert John “Mutt” Lange. On Twain’s albums The Woman In Me (1995) and Come On Over (1997), her producer (and future husband) applied the skills he had learned making albums with AC/DC and Def Leppard to ensure that her country-pop confections had just as much impact as any arena-ready rocker. While the likes of “You’re Still The One” and “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” dominated dance floors and jukeboxes, “Forever and for Always” and other ballads showcased her warm contralto and became indispensable on wedding playlists. By the time she released her fourth album, Up!, in 2002, Twain was one of country music’s biggest-selling artists. Overcoming personal hardships such as voice and health problems that nearly silenced her as well as the end of her marriage to Lange, she again displayed her strength, as well as a new sense of vulnerability, on 2017’s Now. In early 2023 she released her sixth album, Queen of Me, a pop-country record that included the bouncy “Giddy Up!” and the pop-punk-infused “Waking Up Dreaming”. Twain returned to Las Vegas for her third residency there in the spring of 2024; that same year, she commanded the Sunday Legends slot at the historic Glastonbury Festival.

HOMETOWN
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
BORN
28 August 1965
GENRE
Country

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