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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2011 23:14:23 GMT -5
OFFSTAGE: Shania Twain Smiles Through the PainMay 13, 2011; Written by Alison Bonaguro (CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)For someone who has been through so much unhappiness, Shania Twain sure seems happy. And she kind of won't stop smiling and laughing. That may be because beneath the abuse and poverty and betrayals and humiliation and lies and pain, Twain truly is over it all. Or because she now has a New York Times bestseller, From This Moment On. Or because she was hanging with Ellen DeGeneres on her show Thursday (May 12). Even DeGeneres sees it. "You are a kind, happy woman today," she tells Twain. And when Twain talks about the book, she says, "I'm grateful for my life. This is the personal side of my life. I'm sharing it with you for very genuine, sincere reasons." She even forgives her father for his abusive ways, saying bad things happen to good people. But at the very end of the half-hour segment, she tells DeGeneres, the audience and the world what they all wanted to hear: "Yes, I will sing again. Absolutely." Source: CMT.com
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2011 23:16:25 GMT -5
The following article is from the Official Shania Twain Site. Shania & Perez Hilton Interview Coming Next Week!13/05/2011 7:45am Shania!!!!!!!!Shania Twain! Shania Twain! Shania Twain! Shania Twain! A Canadian national treasure! A country music legend! And genuinely one of the most lovely celebs we've ever meet! Yesterday, Perez had the rare opportunity to meet Shania AND sit down with her for an interview. We got some juicy scoop from her, which her fans - like us - are gonna be so happy about! Be on the lookout for our chat next week! Photo Courtesy of PerezHilton.com Source: Official Shania Twain Site
The following Press Release is from yesterday (Thursday, May 12). May 12th Press Release
12/05/2011 1:00pm NASHVILLE – International superstar Shania Twain has been seen all over the media this past week in support of her New York Times best-selling memoir, From This Moment On and the premiere of her new docu-series on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, “Why Not? With Shania Twain”. From This Moment On was released to rave reviews from fans and critics alike and quickly placed in the top of the New York Times best-sellers list. The OWN original series “Why Not? With Shania Twain” premiered Sunday May 8th at 11pm ET/PT and debuted as the highest rated premiere to-date for the network attracting 839,000 total viewers for its timeslot. The series will move to its regular time period on Sundays at 10pm ET/PT this week (May 15th). Twain currently graces the cover of People magazine, on stands now, and will also cover the upcoming June issue of Redbook. Catch Shania on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” today and “The Talk” on May 18th. ............. Source: Official Shania Twain Site
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2011 23:52:49 GMT -5
Yes!!!! She's doing so well right now with the show and the book! The public still loves Shania, so please release a new album sooooooooooooon!
It's crazy to think she's only released 3(plus a greatest hits)albums(and the first one was before she became a star).
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2011 12:38:26 GMT -5
It's crazy to think she's only released 3(plus a greatest hits)albums(and the first one was before she became a star). 4. Shania Twain, The Woman In Me, Come On Over and Up!, followed by the Greatest Hits collection. Nonetheless, I agree with your statement. It's shocking that, with only four studio albums under her belt, she's made such an impact in the country-pop genre. The public is definitely interested and I cannot wait for "Today (Is Your Day)" to be released.
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Post by Verisimilitude on May 14, 2011 12:42:48 GMT -5
Why is she near that cretin?
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Post by KeepDeanWeird on May 14, 2011 17:17:54 GMT -5
Doesn't sound like be getting new music for a VERY long time. Shania just announced she has dysphonia, a condition that hinders the use of her voice. She has to go through rehab, learn how to breathe, etc.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2011 19:19:56 GMT -5
Doesn't sound like be getting new music for a VERY long time. Shania just announced she has dysphonia, a condition that hinders the use of her voice. She has to go through rehab, learn how to breathe, etc. She's had dysphonia for awhile and has, therefore, probably undergone some "treatment" already. An article posted earlier stated "Today (Is Your Day)" will be released following the finale of "Why Not?" so new music shouldn't be too far away. I certainly hope not, anyways. That said, I don't want her to push herself unless she's healthy and comfortable.
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Post by reidster on May 15, 2011 15:14:13 GMT -5
The Dysphonia probably started a while ago. Probably the reason she lipped Party For Two at the CMAs.
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Twain says she's penned 'quite a few' new songs, will spend summer on new musicBy Nick Patch, The Canadian Press – 5 days ago TORONTO — Shania Twain says she lost her singing voice amid the anguish over her divorce from longtime husband and collaborator Mutt Lange, but is beginning to recover now and plans to head back into the studio this summer to record new material. The country-pop superstar from Timmins, Ont., says she has written "quite a few" new songs, adding that one track is already finished and will be released sooner than the rest of the material. But Twain — whose three-album songwriting partnership with the hit-making producer Lange yielded her biggest hits, including "You're Still the One," "Any Man of Mine" and "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" — says the fresh songs could wind up sounding quite different from her existing catalogue. "I think it could be, because I am going to experiment," a friendly Twain said during an interview Tuesday at a posh Toronto hotel. "But I'm excited. I'm not afraid of that, because I don't have any expectations from the public, to be honest. I'm not really looking for that. "I would like it to be successful, (but) what does that mean? I guess I would like some people to enjoy it, to get pleasure from it," she adds, laughing. However, the aim of penning her revealing new memoir, "From This Moment On," was much different. First, she wanted to create a document of her life for her nine-year-old son, Eja, in case anything ever happened to her. Secondly, the notoriously private Twain — who has led an almost hermetic life in Switzerland in recent years, in part to avoid relentless media attention — also just thought it was time she opened up, for her own sake and for the sake of fans who might find inspiration in her painful journey. "I asked myself: 'OK, I don't like where my life is, I don't like what's going on, I'm not happy here, I'm not happy there. What am I going to do about it?'" recalled Twain, clad in a loose-fitting tan sweater, capri pants and eye-catching blue earrings. "I decided to not only write the book ... but it was sharing it, and deciding to share it, and now going through the process of sharing it that's such a big part of my own therapy." "The private Shania that everybody knows in public is the same Shania in my personal life, to the point where there will be a lot of people that have known me my whole life who will learn things about me in my autobiography that they never knew." "I was way too extremely uncommunicative and had blocked self-expression for just my whole life, really. And it manifested itself. It just really did. It literally choked my voice." In resisting her tendency toward silence, Twain made sure her book examined each excruciating heartbreak that the 45-year-old has had to overcome. As a child, she and four siblings lived in poverty in northern Ontario, sharing a series of cramped living spaces with Twain's mother and stepfather, a volatile couple who used to fight so violently that Twain worried they would eventually kill one another. The pair were ultimately killed in a car accident that left a 22-year-old Twain to provide for her siblings by taking a job at a Vegas-themed cabaret show at Ontario's Deerhurst Resort. Of course, those stories have always been an essential part of Twain's narrative. But "From This Moment On" also reveals other difficult details of the singer's almost impossibly painful life. Twain writes about her efforts to forget the unwanted sexual advances of her stepfather, as well as the way he would whisper insults in her ear as she slept (still, she kept Twain as her stage name out of respect for the man). She also recalls her anger when a neighbour maliciously killed her beloved family dog, and the ways in which any number of slimy industry types tried to take advantage of her during her early career. If you can believe it, Twain still held back some material that she wasn't comfortable writing about. "I wrote with a gauge in mind, and that was my son," said Twain, who sipped a glass of Chardonnay during the interview. "Anything that is too difficult for me to share with him, I did not write. ... You have to have some kind of boundaries as well. "There's a balance between setting yourself healthy boundaries of what's yours to keep for you." Both Twain's book and her new reality TV series, "Why Not" — which debuts Friday in Canada on OWN — seem unusually unguarded, less concerned with vanity than actually presenting something close to Twain's real life. "Authenticity was everything," Twain said emphatically. That also meant delving into the shattering aftermath of her divorce from Lange. Twain met Lange — the long-haired record producer who helmed massive hits by Def Leppard, AC/DC and Bryan Adams — in June 1993 after the two had developed a friendly phone relationship. Twain was dissatisfied with her fledgling career at the time, with her self-titled debut generating modest interest but doing little to establish Twain's personality as a composer or singer. Twain and Lange's romantic and professional relationships blossomed simultaneously, and they married six months after they met. Together, they authored a string of hits that would help Twain become one of the top-selling artists of all time. But in 2008, their marriage dissolved when Twain discovered that Lange was involved with her best friend. Twain documents her ensuing despair in unflinching detail in the book. She writes that she went a week without eating, that she was freezing cold all the time and physically ached "as though someone had sandpapered all my nerve endings." She also includes the angry letters she scrawled to her former friend. Twain says it was the anguish over her failed marriage that left her unable to sing — a doctor once told her that she suffered from an emotional block that had a real physiological effect on her voice, creating a strained, choked-up feeling. The "Why Not" series will chronicle, in part, Twain's struggles to overcome that problem. The show will also document the recording of Twain's aforementioned new single, which she calls a "serious achievement." Nearly a decade has passed already since Twain issued her last collection of new music — 2002's "Up," which was certified diamond twice in Canada and went 11 times platinum in the U.S. — and she says the new song points in the "eclectic" direction she wants to move with her next album. In the book, she writes that she wants to connect with her "singing-around-the-house voice," guiding her career more by "exploration than calculation." But she says that restoring her voice is an ongoing process. "Soon I will go into therapy to rehabilitate the physical restraining I have on the muscles, the voice therapy, speech therapy — because it's got nothing to do with singing, it's about the voice itself. "And then there's going to be a psychological phase at the end, where I'm going have to accept that, OK, I'm physically better, there's nothing physiologically stopping me ... from singing, now all I need is the confidence to know that when I open my mouth to sing, that it's going to be there. "And that in itself is a rehabilitation for me, psychologically." Another part of Twain's rehab? She's found love with new husband Frederic Thiebaud (who happens to be the ex-husband of Marie-Anne Thiebaud, woman who allegedly came between Twain and Lange). For all the pain she's endured, Twain says she's now feeling optimistic about the future. "Life is great. I've learned so much. I'm just so grateful. And I really mean that. I don't mean that to be sappy. I just genuinely mean it," she says, pausing for a few moments before continuing. "I'm satisfied and content, I guess you could say, and what more could you really ask for? And meaning that, I'm even satisfied with the past, and I'm content with that. Because then I wouldn't have Fred. And I wouldn't have all the beautiful things I have now. "So I have no regrets in that sense. And I think, really, being genuine about that is where the peace comes. And that's where I'm at." Copyright © 2011 The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Sources: The Canadian Press / Winnipeg Free Press
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2011 21:21:30 GMT -5
Back In Voice
Shania Twain Tries To Overcome A Career-Paralyzing Emotional Barrier -- All On TVBy Karl J. Paloucek Don't call her a reality star. If there's one thing Shania Twain wants people to understand about her new series for OWN, it's that it's a true docu-series, and not a scripted reality anything. After a highly traumatic betrayal involving an affair between then husband (as well as producer and professional partner) Mutt Lange and her best friend, and through the subsequent rather public divorce, Twain suffered a disconnect between herself and the voice that has sold millions of records around the world. It's been years since her public has seen or heard anything new from her, and in an effort to get back her voice, Twain boarded a bus with several treasured friends, her sister Carrie Ann and her cameraman/new husband, Fred, and went on a healing journey to confront the past that seemed to be robbing her of her present and future. The results are documented in Why Not? With Shania Twain, premiering on OWN May 8. We talked with Twain to ask the "why" question that prompts the title, as well as to find out something about her plans and how they're progressing. What made you decide to go through something so private so publicly, especially something so potentially uncomfortable?Shania Twain: I'm going through the experience anyway, of this stage of my life. And I'm sharing it with the public -- the experience itself -- then I'm also sharing what I'm doing about what I'm going through. The purpose of that is to inspire others. You know, why keep it to myself? What good is that going to do anyone else? On another level, it's also just because it is uncomfortable and unusual for me to do, and risky for myself emotionally in a lot of ways. But I have to push myself a little bit. I just feel like I need to go through a phase of forcing myself to do a few things that are uncomfortable and stop shying away from everything until I find a balance. It's been a few years since the affair and divorce now -- has doing this series made it any easier to talk about? Have you processed it enough at this point?That is why I went on this journey in the first place -- to accelerate the process of healing. I was getting very impatient with myself, upset with myself that I was still angry after months, and then even a couple of years -- I wasn't getting over it as quickly as I wanted to. And I needed to address that on many levels. ... Divorce is a very devastating thing, and I really underestimated it, to be honest. I think I just expected myself to be over it a lot faster than I was, and I really did underestimate the effects that it could have. That had to be really hard, both at the time and to work through.I really feel for people who are in a situation like that. It's pretty devastating, so I thought it was important to share it, and to shed some light on it for anybody who might benefit as well, and also to encourage people to get over it -- in their own time. I'm not saying rush yourself -- I couldn't rush it. But I did feel that it was necessary to be proactive about addressing it, and of course, again, that was all the point of being on tour with it and exposing myself more to it -- like I said, hopefully it accelerated the process a little bit. And it did -- it did do that for me. But I'll bet you never expected to end up married to your onetime friend's ex-husband.No, never! Never, never, never. In a way, it's so funny how things have a way of balancing. As shocking and as surprising as the way my marriage ended was, it was balanced out by how surprising and shocking it was that Fred and I would find each other. ... The unlikelihood of it is [that] we were compatible. That was what started it all. We could have opened with this question, but ... how are you doing?I'm doing a lot better. Vocally, I'm still inconsistent. I can't rely on it yet. But I have a plan, and I'm very confident that I will step back on the stage again and enjoy it, and not be afraid of it. And that's my goal, really, to be honest. So you're not quite ready to get back on the road again?I think it's still a ways away. What I can tell you is that I'm ready to get on that train again, and I've written a lot of music now, in the last while, that I'm so excited about. I'm way less afraid now of the process of putting the music together. ... I met up with David Foster and we worked together on the song. We worked together on the arrangements, and then I got together with Nathan Chapman. So I just feel like that scary "first date" is over and I feel better now. So I'm on that road, for sure, to new music, and I'm actually excited about it. originally posted — May 2011
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2011 22:08:34 GMT -5
Shania Twain, 'From This Moment On' GiveawayPosted May 16th 2011 8:00AM by The Boot Staff"When everything goes without a hitch, where's the challenge, the opportunity to find out what you're made of?" Shania Twain writes on the back cover of her autobiography, 'From This Moment On.'It's the inspiring story of the humble and tragic beginnings of the woman who went on to become the most successful solo female artist in country music history, and the rollercoaster ride her life has been in the wake of success. Shania reveals secrets even her biggest fans haven't heard in this candid memoir, which can be yours for free! The music icon has teamed up with The Boot to give away 10 copies of her book, along with one grand prize: an autographed acoustic guitar (courtesy of the Music Zoo), an iPad with a digital download of her 'Greatest Hits' album and a copy of 'From This Moment On.' Enter to win here, and read a full list of rules here. Shania spares no details in 'From This Moment On,' taking the reader on a journey that starts with her tumultuous childhood, as she weathered abuse at the hands of her stepfather, who was later killed along with Shania's mother in a car crash, leaving her to raise her four siblings by herself. The book chronicles her record-breaking rise to stardom and the man who helped her get there, Robert 'Mutt' Lange, the same man who later broke her heart by cheating with her close friend. But matters of the heart take a happy turn as the novel progresses, as Shania reveals the incredible love story that evolved in the wake of heartache and ended with a walk down the aisle with the true love of her life. "I am actually grateful for what I've gone through and wouldn't change a thing," Shania writes, "although I admit I wouldn't want to live it over again, either. Once was enough." The Boot
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2011 18:55:56 GMT -5
Shania Twain Previews New Song, 'Today Is Your Day'Posted May 17th 2011 1:30PM by Cory StrombladShania Twain is revealing her first new song in almost six years! A video has surfaced featuring the country megastar rehearsing her new tune, 'Today Is Your Day,' marking the first performance footage of Shania in more than five years. (Watch it below.) "I wrote this song in real time as the series developed," the songbird tells Perez Hilton, referring to her 'Why Not? With Shania Twain' television show. "I'm mixing the record now, and by the end of the series the song should be released. I'm so excited! I can't believe it!" Shania's reality/documentary series airs Sundays at 10:00 PM ET on Oprah Winfrey's OWN Network. The series finale is June 12, so if her prediction is correct, that will also be the day that 'Today Is Your Day' hits country radio!In addition to promoting the show, the singer is also on a whirlwind media tour in support of her new autobiography, 'From This Moment On,' which was released May 3. The book chronicles Shania's struggles from humble beginnings to becoming a pop culture phenomenon with over 75 million records sold. It also tells the heartbreaking story of her now ex-husband's alleged infidelity, which ironically -- and downright magically -- ended with her finding love with the other jilted party in the affair, Frédéric Thiébaud, to whom she is now married. Click below to watch Shania rehearsing 'Today Is Your Day.' It's her first recorded song since 'Shoes' from the 2005 'Desperate Housewives' soundtrack.Source: The Boot
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2011 19:24:52 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2011 15:00:09 GMT -5
The Dysphonia probably started a while ago. Probably the reason she lipped Party For Two at the CMAs. Just watched the SuperBowl performance the other day and I noticed that was lipped, too.
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Post by kylecburke on May 19, 2011 15:05:11 GMT -5
She lipped alot from UP on
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2011 15:47:36 GMT -5
I missed the second episode on Friday; so bummed.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2011 23:02:42 GMT -5
Shania Twain finds success as reality starBy Amy Amatangelo Sunday, May 22, 2011 - Updated 20 hours agoEven though she’s a country music superstar, Shania Twain knows she’s not that different from anyone else. “Pain and suffering do not discriminate,” Twain told the Herald in a recent telephone interview. “All the things I’ve gone through in my life, I think everyone has gone through to one degree or another.” The 45-year-old opens up about her struggles in “Why Not? With Shania Twain” (tonight at 10 on OWN). She talks about the violence that existed in her home as she was growing up, her parents’ sudden deaths when she was 21, the end of her 14-year marriage to music producer Robert “Mutt” Lange and her current fear of performing. “I know for myself that I’m not alone,” she said. “This phobia thing that I have is a result and a manifestation of thinking that I had to keep everything to myself and I’ve got to be strong and I’ve got to hide everything because it’s embarrassing and humiliating. I know there are a lot of people who feel the same way out there, to their extreme detriment. They’re not reaching out for all the same reasons I didn’t. I hope to say: ‘In finding my voice, maybe I can be your voice.’ ” The Ontario native received a lot of unwanted press attention when Lange’s affair with Twain’s friend Marie-Anne Thiebaud became public. “The most difficult thing to talk about would have been the betrayal and the divorce and stuff,” she said. “But to be honest, since that had already been exploited and I had already gone through the humiliation of that publicly without even being involved at all, it was almost like that was the part that I looked forward to (working through).” Twain’s new husband, Frederic Thiebaud (the ex-husband of Marie-Anne), and sister Carrie Ann join her on the series. Earlier this month, she also released her autobiography, “From This Moment On.” “I’ve never been one to care to set the record straight,” she said. “The purpose of documenting my life on pages was it was a documentation of truth for my son. An account of my life where, should I die prematurely in his life, he would have that and not be left with just confusion because there were so many different variations of my story.” Twain’s series debuted to big ratings for Oprah Winfrey’s fledging cable network. “I’m really happy it’s going to be a productive exercise of reaching people,” she said. “The more people that I reach, the more I achieve what I set out to do.” Would she consider filming more seasons? “I’ve actually had a fantastic experience,” she said. “But have I enjoyed the experience of television or enjoyed the experience of evolving? So far I’m happy with the response, but I have to sit down and decide what I’m going to do next.” Source
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2011 12:47:22 GMT -5
Does anyone have the mp3 download of the pop version of "You're Still the One" without the intro?
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2011 13:33:45 GMT -5
Thanks for posting, am I safe to assume thats US re-airs? If so, Im in Canada, so after seeing this I just went and checked and theres a re-air on Tuesday; YAYYY! Thank you for your response and help! :)
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2011 14:15:33 GMT -5
Are any websites streaming episodes? The OWN website offered the one episode, but nothing since.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2011 14:21:49 GMT -5
Does anyone have the mp3 download of the pop version of "You're Still the One" without the intro? Im tryin to dwnld the album, if I get it to work Ill send it to you. EDIT: the two torrents I tried didnt work. Ill try again later, maybe.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2011 14:23:54 GMT -5
Are any websites streaming episodes? The OWN website offered the one episode, but nothing since. Sent you a pm.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2011 0:12:24 GMT -5
Thanks for posting, am I safe to assume thats US re-airs? If so, Im in Canada, so after seeing this I just went and checked and theres a re-air on Tuesday; YAYYY! Thank you for your response and help! :) You're welcome. :) You're correct that the information shown above is for U.S. airings of "Why Not? with Shania Twain." In that link shown above, you can customize the TV schedule based on your location (any state in the U.S., the UK, or Ireland) and/or your TV provider (Ex: Comcast cable or DirecTV). However, there was no option for Canada. After reading your reply, I tried to look for a Canadian TV Schedule for the "Why Not?..." docuseries but I couldn't find one. I went to the Official "Why Not? with Shania Twain" Site and only found THIS Channel Guide for Canadian viewers. That was all I found.
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Post by SHOOTER on May 24, 2011 1:29:24 GMT -5
I really need another copy of Come on Over in my life.
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The following is a Canadian article from May 10, 2011:Shania Twain is country strongNathalie Atkinson May 10, 2011 – 7:30 PM ET | Last Updated: May 10, 2011 5:56 PM ET After a bad breakup, most women simply go out and get a bad haircut. After hers, superstar Shania Twain got a deluxe tour bus, grabbed her BFF little sis Carrie Ann and took up that most Canadian of pastimes: she went on a cross-country road trip. Twain chronicles this emotional and geographic journey to the landmarks of her life in Why Not? With Shania Twain, a new docu-series debuting May 13, and in her new autobiography, From This Moment On. Twain’s legion of fans are already familiar with the top notes of her story — from the peripatetic childhood and sudden death of both parents that left younger siblings in her care, to her subsequent big Nashville break at Ontario’s Deerhurst Resort, marriage to reclusive producer Robert “Mutt” Lange and stratospheric rise to superstardom. What’s new and surprising for the until-now reclusive artist is that she lays her point of view bare onscreen and in print — including her raw anger, disbelief and hurt at being betrayed by her spouse and best friend. Sporting a casual off-duty wardrobe that boasts an array of zip hoodies to rival Mark Zuckerberg’s, Twain retraces crucial moments of her past, starting with her hometown of Timmins, Ont. “It was very scary, making the decision to do it,” Twain says of the TV series and memoir, both unveiled on Oprah in early May. On the show, the singer spoke openly and publicly for the first time about the revelations of infidelity and divorce (and subsequent re-marriage to her former best friend’s husband, Frédéric Thiébaud). A week later, the 45-year-old Twain is perched ain a downtown Toronto hotel suite and says she’s experiencing a welcome relief now that both of the projects are out there. “Every step has had its own level of anxiety attached,” she says. The relief comes “because I’m now in the interaction with the fans and the public and sensing their connection to the book, and I’m just sensing a community spirit. We’re all in this together,” she adds. “I’m sure many people have experienced these things and I’m hoping that they relate, and benefit.” The book is raw, detailing the abject poverty of her childhood and the deterioration of Twain’s 14-year marriage to Lange that ended, in 2008, with the discovery of his affair with her best friend and confidante Marie-Anne. (The couple share son Eja and maintain a cordial relationship.) It’s brave for a celebrity to be so candid and it’s easy to imagine Sandra Bullock is texting her with encouragement. At this, Twain erupts into peals of laughter. “Maybe we need a celebrity meeting,” she jokes. Lange is notoriously private and until the breakup, so was Twain; the couple lived on a remote private compound in Switzerland. “The privacy that I protected in my public life was the same everywhere in my private life,” she says, conceding that it was too extreme. “It was too much for me because I was cramping my own self-expression. And that really did manifest itself physically.” Spoiler alert: Twain’s years of masterfully suppressing emotion date back to a childhood exposure to her mother’s domestic abuse and her parents’ death, which, compounded with the shocking way her marriage ended, is the reason she is now without her signature singing voice. “I’m telling you, it’s very real!” Twain says of the vocal condition called dysphonia; another aspect of the TV series concerns Twain’s quest to regain her performing voice and confidence. “I’m glad that now I know what it is and I can do something about it, but it’s scary that something can grip you like that. That was a very long time coming over the course of my life,” she continues. “This is why now I’m like, OK, I gottta throw myself into whatever it is I’m really scared of and just face it all head-on. I don’t care whatever happens to me in the end but when I come out the other side, maybe I will have a healthier balance of where those boundaries are.” In Why Not?, that means not only the series title but its experiences: Twain takes a literal leap by skydiving, for example. For years, Shania (her adopted stage name since the early 1990s) and the real Eilleen existed as two distinct, compartmentalized personas. “I never feel like Shania Twain, to be honest,” she explains to the docu-camera. “I’m Eilleen Twain and Shania is part of who I am.” But no longer. Twain says the Shania viewers follow onscreen is the real her. “Especially because I had the Fred-cam!” she chuckles, of her new husband’s constant home movies, “and that really was necessary in order to capture more of a documentation of the whole experience. Although I was still trying to sometimes not be myself,” she adds, “just because that’s part of my problem, the routine that I’ve developed.” Twain says that even after this promotional whirlwind ends, she plans to stay engaged with the world, and with fans, in a renewed way. “I enjoy that. I actually really enjoy the public,” she says slowly, as though only just realizing it. “You know, I don’t necessarily enjoy being center stage but what I enjoy about the center stage is the connection. That is why through my concert touring the best part was just touching people and looking at who they were. I love people-watching,” she adds. Should we expect Twitpics of dishes fresh from Twain’s beloved Aga stove from @followshania? “I like the fact that people are connected now,” Twain admits of the new star communication landscape that the internet allows. “It’s important in many, many ways – socially and politically…” she trails off. “And think I’m going to enjoy being a part of that.” Why Not? With Shania Twain debuts on Oprah Winfrey Network at 9 p.m. May 13; From This Moment On (Atria Books, $29.99) is in stores now.Source
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lancey
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Post by lancey on May 24, 2011 3:41:33 GMT -5
I miss her music.. Hoping she gets back into the studio soon...
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