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Celeb News: Shania Twain breaks down her 2017 comeback album
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Shania Twain breaks down her 2017 comeback album
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When you’ve sold a bajillion albums and become one of the best-selling female artists in history, you can be allowed a little time off. So it’s been for country-pop queen Shania Twain. But after her successful two-year Las Vegas residency and 2015’s Rock This Country tour, she’s finally returning with a follow-up to 2002’s diamond-certified Up! “I’m so overdue!” says the 51-year-old. “I feel like I just need to keep making albums now.”
For her fifth studio LP, due in late Spring of 2017, Twain drew upon years of melodic and lyrical ideas that she had stored on various recording devices. “There’s, like, five of them,” she says with a laugh. “I’m forever backing things up. So if it’s a rainy day or I’m bored, I’ll go through my electronics and listen to things. They’ll have titles like ‘Fun beat’ or ‘Fab memory.’” Over the years, she’s laid down demos at home using GarageBand and Pro Tools. “It’s really fun to experiment with arrangements,” she says. “I did so many of my backing vocal arrangements — just being able to have all these multitracks and moving them around and experimenting that way. By the time I got into the studio, I was already quite familiar with what I wanted to do.”
Armed with those gigabytes of intel, Twain teamed up with producers Jake Gosling (Ed Sheeran, One Direction), Ron Aniello (Bruce Springsteen), Jacquire King (Kings of Leon), and songwriter-producer Matthew Koma to hone the material. “They’re all very different from each other,” she says of her collaborators. “And I’m a very focused person in the studio. It’s not like it’s not fun, but the joy comes in watching the whole thing grow and getting locked into that creative mode — that’s so indulgent for me.”
Twain says the finished album includes “painful and melancholy ballads that evolved into completely upbeat songs” to “triumphant” girl-power rockers. Although her ex-husband Mutt Lange, who produced Up! and 1997’s record-breaking Come On Over, is out of the picture, Twain is as confident as ever about her new material. “By the end [of the recording process], I felt like I had climbed a huge mountain and was standing on top of it, looking God in the eye, and saying, ‘I’m here! What do I gotta do next?’”
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Queen's been brewing this since 2010... better be good
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I feel like it's been coming "next year" since like 2012 though. 
Here for her comeback though. My very first fave back from when I was like five. 
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I'm so ready for this, and the fact that she said she feels like she needs to just keep releasing albums now
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This is so exciting. I can't believe it's been almost fifteen years since Up!. And frankly, the new material on her Greatest Hits album was no way to leave us.
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“By the end [of the recording process], I felt like I had climbed a huge mountain and was standing on top of it, looking God in the eye, and saying, ‘I’m here! What do I gotta do next?’”
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RELEASE IT [sooner than later]
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I'm so ready  It'll be her third diamond selling album.
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Finally!
Can't wait! 
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I'm so ready It'll be her third diamond selling album. |
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It sucks that because of the awful sales climate, the album will probably open with 150K-200K (solid sales after such a long break) and be compared with the sales of her past 3 Diamond albums.
I really hope the album is good and she proves she can make good music without Mutt. 
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Can't wait.
I just hope she's not releasing multiple version of the same album like she did with "UP!", that was such a mess  , that confused so many fans in the world, especially in the US, and till this day it's still confusing as ****.
The Green version should've been the only version available in the US because tons of her american fans ended up with the Red version or Blue version, and that's a complete different Shania than what they felt in love with and ****ed up her sales and word-of-mouth. I still read complaints on music forums about this.
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She's a LIAR!!! It's not coming out next year. 
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I didn't know her debut was too until now. Whew.
Does any other artist ever have such a massive discography with only three albums?
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This is exciting!
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My body is ready queen.
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Her music is TIMELESS. Can't wait to hear what she's created!
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I didn't know her debut was too until now. Whew.
Does any other artist ever have such a massive discography with only three albums?
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no, they don't have ha power
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Can't wait.
I just hope she's not releasing multiple version of the same album like she did with "UP!", that was such a mess , that confused so many fans in the world, especially in the US, and till this day it's still confusing as ****.
The Green version should've been the only version available in the US because tons of her american fans ended up with the Red version or Blue version, and that's a complete different Shania than what they felt in love with and ****ed up her sales and word-of-mouth. I still read complaints on music forums about this. |
The 'blue' version was TRASH too 
Anyhow, I'm here for it I've never heard any of her non-Mutt Lange material but I hope that there's still magic there 
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I'm so proud of her. Can't wait.
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It sucks that because of the awful sales climate, the album will probably open with 150K-200K (solid sales after such a long break) and be compared with the sales of her past 3 Diamond albums.
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I think it could open with double that. She's still a country artist first and country fans are more likely to buy albums.
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Shania 
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