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He made her fully rewrite "This Man Of Mine" to get "Any Man Of Mine". But I don't see it as a bad thing. He wanted good songs, hit songs. She has never blamed him for corrections he had made.

Shaniafanforever wrote:

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when did you hear about mutt telling shania that song is not good enough? I never hear that.

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It was if I'm not wrong, on Times magazine .

RL: I don’t want to dwell on the ugly journey of the broken marriage, the shock of discovering your husband is having an affair with your best girlfriend and the divorce. It’s like a country song in itself! You’ve been through the mill, but I will ask since you describe all this as a healing year and your voice coming back, do you think you really had to go to the very bottom in order to get back to the very top and appreciate it?
ST: I think the contrast is necessary in order to appreciate both. You have to have the bad to appreciate the good. I’m always grateful for that part of the bad. You’re just so glad when it’s over, and you come up for fresh air and you’re just like, “Wow, there’s fresh air here, and I’m just so grateful for the simplest things.” I think you learn to appreciate the simpler things whenever you come out of a difficult time. I thought I never wanted to find love again. I didn’t want to. But now I have, and it’s become very beautiful.
Getting my voice back and getting my confidence back is a day-to-day struggle, and it’s really all about finding my expression again. It has been and is very cathartic, and that’s the perfect word for it. It’s rediscovering soft expression that I slowly lost for many years and until it was more than I could bear. I was petrified of writing a new song -- it was a whole new world for me. It had been many, many years since I wrote by myself. That was new and scary.
But the song ["Today Is Your Day," released yesterday] really, every day, cheered me up so much, I thought I should share it. It really set me off ready to get back into the studio. It revived my creativity. I’ve written a whole bunch of other things, and I’ll record those over the summer. Some of the new material might not even be released in time for Vegas because I am not going to put pressure on myself ever again. When it is ready, it will be ready.

It was here.

I don't see any negativity against Mutt here. She never blaimed him and actually he's made her the artist we know. I don't think we should mix up their creative work and personal lives together. I personally like their songs. I like Any Man of Mine more than This Man of Mine. And I like any of Shania's old songs more than Today Is Your Day because it is too simple for such a songwriter!

I appreciate their work together. She's never told anything bad about Mutt as a producer even after his betrayal. I think if she had insisted on writing any song alone, he would  probably have let her the way he let her write Leaving Is The Only Way Out alone. The fact is that she wrote something and he wrote something on their own and then combined things - this is the way she used to talk about it in the 90's and the yearly 00's. And being a good songwriter doesn't mean being a good producer or even a composer as she does not have any finished musical education and does not play professionally any musical instrument. Even with Today Is Your Day she had to find a producer to record the song as she couldn't have done it by herself. What you are trying to do now is call names and blame somebody you don't know for something you can only guess about. Do you really now rank Mutt's works with Shania with "the garbage we have on the radio"? Shania has said she respect the songs they've written together. Let's respect them too. I am glad she is free now, if it is really the case. But wasn't she talking the same way about Mutt in 90's? After some years of working with Nashville producers who didn't allow her to write herself at all, Mutt let her freedom to write her own songs and made some corrections - for her sake as well. And I'll never believe she was a slave who had no right to say. If she was, the only author of the songs would be Mutt. Let’s be objective. At the end he awfully betrayed her personally but her time with Mutt had been wonderful for her as an artist and as a person. She says she has no regret. She’s become insecure as an artist and as a songwriter because of the success. But it was her choice after all. Why bash Mutt now?

He's certainly a low human being (I'm not going to write what more I'm thinking about him)
Well, you don’t know him personally to say that. As to their divorce, when a marriage falls apart, there are at least two responsible people. His action is awful, but we don’t know what the reason was. Shania did say she shares the responsibility of it with him, too. That only shows how mature she is to understand that and how dull-witted some people are who watch this situation only at one angle.
That's just prove my point how she was depend on him sure she needed a new producer after him! doing all for her
It is as if he didn’t do all for her. What’s wrong with you? He has made her a star! He found (HE FOUND! himself) a singer who was about to being fired from her label. Her album had failed. He insisted she had talent to write her own songs, he gave her the opportunity to sing her own songs. If she depended on him as a producer, it’s not his fault. It’s more likely that she felt she was in a safe place after years of struggling and could rely on him as a producer, didn’t want to take the responsibility on her. If she wanted to, she could have written songs alone – the way she did with LITOWA. There’s nothing wrong with the song. It’s just the only song that Shania had written alone. Although it’s not a hit, it’s a good song. So if she had wanted to, he would have let her write without him.
Some things can't just be ignored anyway after all we're here for Shania, Sarit.
We’re all for Shania here that’s why let’s be objective. Mutt has done a lot for her as her songwriter and producer. We’ll see how good she can be without him in near future. Let’s just leave Mutt alone as a person because we’ve heard only one side of it. Even Fred did not say much about it as this is a private thing. I’m sad for Mutt now because he had been treated with much respect in the past and after this story he became a bad person, who did not do his best for her as a producer/songwriter, used her (for what? He was already famous and successful) etc. If she was dependent on him, it’s her problem. It seems she understands that and tries to recover to be able to work on her own. I don’t understand why some of the fans blame Mutt for it.

It's hard to leave Mutt alone when you feel he has done a wrong and that's how I feel, he has done a wrong!!! I never liked or disliked like Mutt--but now I have a reason to NOT like him. For better or worse and fooling around is a WRONG!!!!!

Bruce springsteen in the inception of his career was at the same situation of Shania maybe worst, when he still didn't make it after two studio Albums, both of them failed. He didn't give up and continued to writing songs and the rest belong to history. Don't be so sure if Shania had never met Mutt she couldn't make it by her own as Bruce did. After all she was the mind of spirit for not few hits.  

He made her a star so what He made her suffer too for so many years and God knows what could have happened to her if Fred wasn't there to support her. What he did for her musically doesn't worth the sorrow and pain she had gone through because of him. You say that We don't know the reason to his actions? That's behind being naive. He cheated on her while she fully trusted him. This action of his is perverted, nasty and heartless when that jerk knew life was more than harsh for Shania, but she survived. He knew the day of the loss of her partners was coming but He didn't care, He didn't care from anyone's feelings. Shania is not the one to be blamed for HIS own only pig actions. Loss of a love said to be equal to losing a parent, well that went for the third time! We don't have to be expert to understand a VERY simple situation that happened because the result is right here in front of us for over 10 years Shania had no whole studio recording, SHE LOST HER VOICE and Mutt was there to push it to the limit. There is one obvious thing here and is that you trying to protect Jerk Mutt and that's just disgusting!!