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Shania Twain Covers Elvis Presley's "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" (VIDEO)

By Country Rebel

Hold me close, hold me tight
Make me thrill with delight
Let me know where I stand from the start
I want you, I need you, I love you
With all my heart

Ev'ry time that you're near
All my cares disappear
Darling, you're all that I'm living for
I want you, I need you, I love you
More and more

I thought I could live without romance
Before you came to me
But now I know that
I will go on loving you eternally

Won't you please be my own?
Never leave me alone
'Cause I die ev'ry time we're apart
I want you, I need you, I love you
With all my heart

http://countryrebel.com/blogs/videos/18371299-shania-twain-covers-elvis-presleys-i-want-you-i-need-you-i-love-you-video

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Family of missing New York woman asks Shania Twain for help

By Cristina Corbin | Fox News | June 29, 2016

Rachael Mattice (Hamilton County Sheriff's Office)

The family of a missing New York woman is asking country music star Shania Twain to help bring attention to the case as police continue to search for the 24-year-old who disappeared one week ago from a remote campsite in the Adirondack Mountains.

Rachael Mattice was last seen on June 22 after she left her parents home in Johnstown, N.Y., for the family's camp in Wells, a remote mountain town some 53 miles away. No one has seen or heard from Mattice since then, and the family is asking Twain, the young woman's idol, for help publicizing the case.

"It’s not her nature to just take off," said the woman's mother, Wendy Mattice, adding that the two communicated with each other multiple times a day.

"She has no enemies," Mattice told FoxNews.com. "She's a very loving person."

Rachael Mattice had dinner at her parents home last Wednesday before driving in her silver jeep to the family's camper in Wells. According to the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, Mattice was last seen in downtown Wells at 9:15 p.m. that same night.

Mattice, a home health care aide, had recently moved to the camp -- which has no cellphone service -- to work in the area, according to her family.

Before heading up a hill to the heavily wooded campsite, Mattice sent her mother a text message.

"She said, 'I’m at the bottom of the hill. Goodnight and I love you,'" Wendy Mattice told FoxNews.com. That was the last known communication from the young woman.

After not hearing from Mattice, the woman's father, David, drove to the camper on Friday at approximately 6 p.m. Mattice's vehicle was there, but she was nowhere to be found. 

Since then, authorities have launched an all-out search for the woman using helicopters and dogs. 

On Wednesday, Mattice's longtime friend, Cynthina Nellis, wrote to Shania Twain on Instagram, asking the singer for help in bringing attention to the case.

"You are Rachael's favorite country artist. She absolutely adores you," Nellis wrote. "Her parents used to call her Shania when she was little because she would sing your music all the time."

"I'm reaching out to you in hopes that you can make one of Rachael's dreams come true by sending a message out to her," asked Nellis. 

A representative for Twain was not immediately available when contacted Wednesday. 

The family, meanwhile, is pleading with the public for any information about their daughter, who is 5 feet, 3 inches tall with brown hair and blue eyes.

"We want her to know everybody is searching and praying for her safe return," Wendy Mattice said. "We love her from the bottom of our hearts."

Anyone with tips in the case is urged to contact the Hamilton County Sheriffs Office at 518-548-3113.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/06/29/family-missing-new-york-woman-asks-shania-twain-for-help.html

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Shania Twain @ShaniaTwain

I've heard the story of Rachael Mattice & urge anyone with information to come forward to the police & help her return to her family. Thinking of you Rachael.

2:56 PM ET - 30 Jun 16

http://twitter.com/ShaniaTwain

Shania Twain tweets for help in finding missing New York woman

Fox News | July 1, 2016

Country music star Shania Twain is asking for the public's help in locating a missing New York woman, after the 24-year-old's family reached out to the singer.

Rachael Mattice was last seen on June 22 after she left her parents home in Johnstown, N.Y., for the family's camp in Wells, a remote town some 53 miles away in the Adirondack Mountains.

No one has seen or heard from Mattice since then, and the family asked Twain, the young woman's idol, for help publicizing the case.

On Thursday, the star answered, sending out a tweet that urged anyone with information in the case to come forward.

I've heard the story of Rachael Mattice & urge anyone with information to come forward to the police & help her return to her family. (1/2)

— Shania Twain (@ShaniaTwain) June 30, 2016

Mattice had dinner at her parents home on June 22 before driving in her silver jeep to the family's camper in Wells. According to the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, Mattice was last seen in downtown Wells at 9:15 p.m. that same night.

Mattice, a home health care aide, had recently moved to the camp -- which has no cellphone service -- to work in the area, according to her family.

Before heading up a hill to the heavily wooded campsite, Mattice sent her mother a text message."She said, 'I’m at the bottom of the hill. Goodnight and I love you,'" Wendy Mattice told FoxNews.com. That was the last known communication from the young woman.

After not hearing from Mattice, the woman's father, David, drove to the camper on Friday at approximately 6 p.m. Mattice's vehicle was there, but she was nowhere to be found.

Since then, an all-out search for the woman using helicopters and dogs has yielded no clues.

"It’s not her nature to just take off," said Wendy Mattice, adding that the two communicated with each other multiple times a day.

"She has no enemies," Mattice told FoxNews.com. "She's a very loving person."

Anyone with tips in the case is urged to contact the Hamilton County Sheriffs Office at 518-548-3113. 

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/01/shania-twain-tweets-for-help-in-finding-missing-new-york-woman.html

This whole thing sounds strange...

Missing New York woman Rachael Mattice found alive

By Cristina Corbin | Fox News | July 6, 2016

A 24-year-old New York woman who disappeared two weeks ago -- prompting her family to reach out to singer Shania Twain for help -- was found alive early Wednesday, authorities said.

Rachael Mattice was last seen on June 22 after she left her parents home in Johnstown, N.Y., for the family's remote campsite in Wells, a town some 53 miles away in the Adirondack Mountains.

The Hamilton County Sheriff said in a statement Wednesday that Mattice returned to her parents' home in the early morning hours and is currently being examined at a local hospital.

Sheriff Karl G. Abrams did not indicate whether foul play was involved, saying only "there is still currently an active investigation ongoing."

The family had reached out to singer Shania Twain -- Mattice's idol -- to help bring publicity to the case. The country music star responded by sending out a tweet last week urging anyone with information in the case to come forward.

Mattice had dinner at her parents home on June 22 before driving in her silver jeep to the family's camper in Wells. According to the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, Mattice was last seen in downtown Wells at 9:15 p.m. that same night.

Mattice, a home health care aide, had recently moved to the camp -- which has no cellphone service -- to work in the area, according to her family.

Before heading up a hill to the heavily wooded campsite, Mattice sent her mother a text message.

"She said, 'I’m at the bottom of the hill. Goodnight and I love you,'" Wendy Mattice told FoxNews.com last week. That was the last known communication from the young woman.

Sources close to the case had previously told FoxNews.com that the woman's cellphone, purse and car were found at the campsite when Mattice's father showed up to check on her.

When reached by phone Wednesday morning, a family member referred all questions to the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office.

According to local station NewsChannel 13, a family friend said Mattice talked about being kidnapped and held against her will. The family friend, whom the station did not identify, reportedly said Mattice escaped by jumping from a car.

A spokesman for the The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office was not immediately available to answer questions Wednesday morning.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/06/missing-new-york-woman-rachael-mattice-found-alive.html

Something just seems fishy regarding her kidnapping story. In the article above she said she jumped out of a car to escape. Now in this article it says she was dropped off near her mom's home. Really? A kidnapper brings you back home? I could be wrong, but I think she just "ran away" for some reason.

Rachael Mattice, missing for 2 weeks, has been found alive

CBS6 Albany | July 6, 2016

MAYFIELD - Rachael Mattice, 24, has been found alive according to Sheriff Karl Abrams with the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office and family members.

In a statement, Sheriff Abrams said, "In the early morning hours Rachael Lynn Mattice returned to her Johnstown address after being gone for approximately 2 weeks. She is currently being medicaly evaluated at a local hospital. She appears to be in good condition. There is still currently an active investigation on going."

The Sheriff also confirmed with CBS6 that Mattice has been cleared from the hospital and State Police are investigating.

Mattice was reported missing on June 24th by her father after he got to their family camp in Wells and found Rachael's car, but no sign of his daughter.

During a 1:00 pm press conference, officials say that Mattice indicated that she was held against her will for the last two weeks. Police say she was was dropped off close to her mother's home.

Captain Robert Patnaude says they followed up on over 300 leads. Police say the public should maintain safety practices, including locking your doors.

http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/local/missing-fulton-county-woman-found-alive

Sketch released of suspect who allegedly held NY woman against her will

Fox News | July 12, 2016

The sketch of a man Mattice claims held her against her will. (Hamilton County Sheriff's Office)

Investigators in upstate New York Tuesday released a sketch of a bearded suspect accused of holding a 24-year-old woman against her will for two weeks, leading her family to reach out to singer Shania Twain for help.

Rachael Mattice returned to her family's home in Johnstown last week, the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office reported. Doctors evaluated her at a local hospital, where she was found in good health.

Mattice had last been seen June 22 as she headed for the family's Adirondack camp in Wells, where she worked as a home health care aide. Her disappearance sparked an intense search involving helicopters and dogs.

Shania Twain, the woman's idol, soon tweeted that police were on the case, asking people who may have had information to contact investigators.

Mattice's mother, Wendy, told FoxNews.com her daughter texted her "Goodnight and I love you" shortly before she disappeared.

Investigators said the suspect was a white man in his mid-to-late 50s who weighed 200-250 pounds. They said he had a long beard, grey hair and brown eyes, and was approximately 6 feet tall.

He was last seen wearing a navy blue T-shirt and jeans, and may have been a smoker.

The sheriff's office asked for anybody who saw suspicious activity early in the morning on July 6 -- the day Mattice returned home -- to step forward.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/12/sketch-released-suspect-who-allegedly-held-ny-woman-against-her-will.html

5 Celine Dion collaborations that need to happen

HELLO! Canada | July 19, 2016

Now that Celine has announced the release date of her French-language album Encore un soir, excitement is building for her next English album.

The singer has been tight-lipped about the project, but did reveal that Pink wrote a stunning song for her called "Recovering."

The powerful collaboration has us dreaming up other stars that we'd love to see the Canadian create beautiful music with. Click through to see who made the list!

SHANIA TWAIN

It's hard to believe that Shania and Celine have never worked together. Being that they are two of Canada's biggest stars of all time, it seems only natural that they should join forces to make some beautiful music.

We predict that with the Timmins native's songwriting ability and Celine's powerhouse vocals, the Canadian duo could create the ultimate love song.

http://ca.hellomagazine.com/music/02016071928044/5-celine-dion-collaborations-that-need-to-happen/1/

They did 'work together' also in 2002.

The single "Goodbye's (The Saddest Word)" from Céline's album A New Day Has Come was written and produced by "Mutt" Lange, Shania sang backing vocals.

I've been watching a show called "Greatest Hits" the last few weeks on ABC. They started from 1980-1985 and last night was 2000-2005. I have enjoyed it for the most part.

I had two highlights from last night's show. The first was Little Big Town singing Alicia Keys song "Fallen". They did a fabulous job with it. But, what I waited for was one of the hosts Kelsea Ballerini to sing. She is one of the new talents I am not all that familiar with, but she is good. It wasn't particularly about the time period for last night. She wanted to sing a medley of songs of performers she admired growing up. They were Shania, Train, and Britney. I am attaching it in case you want to watch if you did not know about it before.

http://partners.abc.com/kelsea-ballerini-medley-i-feel-like-a-woman-hit-me-baby-one-more-time-this-love

I thought it was surprisingly good. It is about the first 1:30 of the video


Steve

Flashback: See Shania Twain and Billy Currington's Swinging Video

Featured on Twain's 'Greatest Hits,' "Party for Two" helped bring Currington to the masses

By Stephen L. Betts | Rolling Stone | September 27, 2016

Shania Twain and Billy Currington journeyed to London to shoot the video for "Party for Two."

Shania Twain's history of duet performances are unquestionably dwarfed by her sizable solo hits, yet her brief alliances with other singers on record have yielded some interesting results. In 2004, Twain released her first-ever Greatest Hits collection, adding three new tracks to the set, which included material from all but her 1993 self-titled debut. As had been the case with her previous LPs, an international version of the collection was compiled for the pop-heavy markets outside the U.S. and Canada.

With "Party for Two" – the video for which premiered today in 2004 – pegged as the first single from the album, the call-and-response vocals were recorded in two versions: a country take featuring Twain's Mercury Nashville labelmate Billy Currington, and a pop-friendly one with Sugar Ray lead singer Mark McGrath. Currington was enjoying the success of his 2003 debut album, but still a year away from his first Number One single, "Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right." Teaming with Twain raised Currington's profile considerably, even garnering the chiseled singer some added (ahem) exposure with a Playgirl magazine cover in early 2005.

When taking their "Party" to TV screens with a music video, Twain and Currington – and Twain and McGrath for that matter – hit the streets of west London's ritzy South Kensington neighborhood, where past residents included children's author Beatrix Potter, writer Virginia Woolf and British comedian Benny Hill. In the clip's opening shot, as Twain sashays down the street on her mobile phone, trying to entice Currington to join her sexy soiree, the rotunda of the iconic Royal Albert Hall can be spotted behind her. Once the celebration gets going, with Asian décor, lighting and their own personal waiter on call (played by British actor/writer/director Sebastian J. Brook), Twain and Currington cozily dance on a table before swinging together from a red rope tethered to a swaying chandelier. Not exactly what Roger Miller had in mind when he wrote "England Swings," but Twain managed to pull off the same feat in the nearly shot-for-shot version featuring McGrath.

"Party for Two" was Twain's 16th consecutive Top Ten country hit (and her last to date). It was also Top Ten in the U.K., Austria, Belgium, Demark and Germany and just missed the top spot in her native Canada. She and Currington performed the song (minus acrobatics) on the CMA Awards telecast in September 2004 and the duet was nominated for CMA Musical Event of the Year in 2005, losing to George Strait and Lee Ann Womack's "Good News, Bad News."

http://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/see-shania-twain-and-billy-curringtons-swinging-video-w442321

Nick Jonas Shares His 5 Favorite Songs From 'Lifetime Crush' Shania Twain

By Billboard Staff | December 5, 2016 

The 24-year-old singer-songwriter Nick Jonas has called Shania Twain his first celebrity crush and thanks her for “breaking barriers of genre to allow other people to think outside the box and push the envelope.” Here, his favorite tracks by the woman he calls a “true inspiration.”

“Don’t Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)” 1997
This is the first Shania song I ever heard. I remember the country-pop feel of the song was unlike anything else out there at the time, and I became a lifelong fan in that moment.

“That Don’t Impress Me Much” 1997
Shania was always so incredible at making iconic visuals for her music, as well as being cutting-edge production-wise. This video and song are, in a word, legendary.

“Forever and for Always” 2003
This song has been a major source of inspiration to me melodically. Back in the day, my brothers and I would warm up to this with our band, getting our harmonies locked in before the show.

“I’m Gonna Getcha Good!” 2002
The production and vocal performance on this are next-level. My brothers and I covered this song in 2008. I played drums and sang my favorite part, the pre-chorus, so the rest of the time I could rock out.

“You’re Still the One” 1997
I got the chance to see Shania’s Vegas show, and when she performed this song onstage with a white horse at her side, it really sealed the deal for me: Shania Twain, lifetime crush.

​This article originally appeared in the Dec. 10 issue of Billboard. Billboard's Women In Music event takes place on Dec. 9 in New York City and airs on Lifetime Dec. 12.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/women-in-music/7597390/nick-jonas-shania-twain-favorite-songs

In Advance of His Hard Rock Live Concert, Country Singer Billy Currington Reflects on His Hit-Filled Career

By Jeff Niesel | Cleveland Scene | March 16, 2017

After graduating from a Springfield, Ga. high school, Billy Currington moved to Nashville to pursue his hopes and dreams of a career as a country singer. He admits the change of scenery initially took some adjustment on his part.

“When I was getting ready to graduate from high school, I had made up my mind that that’s what I wanted to do,” he says in a recent phone interview from his Nashville home. “Nashville was the first place I had been outside of my hometown. Prior to that, I had really only spent time in small towns for most of my 18 years. When I went to Nashville, it was big to me and something different. I had to learn how to live in a city and meet people. It was a learning experience. It taught me how to communicate with other people and I had to learn to sing in a studio. I learned so much in the early years before I ever started making records.”

Currington, who performs at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 23, at Hard Rock Live, would have a huge hit with his 2003 self-titled debut, which yielded the singles “Walk a Little Straighter” and “I Got a Feelin’.”

But to hear him explain things, his association with country singer Shania Twain, who collaborated with him on her hit “Party for Two,” played an instrumental role in shaping his career. 

“I got a call from the guy running Mercury Records who said that Shania Twain and her husband Mutt Lange wanted to work with me on the song,” says Currington. “They sent me a copy and told me to let them know if I was interested. I wasn’t going to sit there and go ‘not interested.’ Within a week’s time of saying I was in, I was on a plane to hang out with them in Europe and record the song. While there, we also did the video. Everything went so fast, I barely had a chance to learn it. It became something that to me brought me more acclaim than my first two singles did. Shania was so huge at the time. Being connected to her name blew things up for me.”

Currington, who issued his latest studio effort, Summer Forever, in 2015, has churned out a slew of hits over the course of the past 20 years. His six studio albums have resulted in close to 20 Top 40 hits.

“I don’t feel pressure to continue to deliver hits,” he says. “I just go about it and do it naturally. I am careful to only record songs that I’ve sat and lived with for a while, not something I found that day or wrote quickly. I always feel like I try to take my time, whether it’s a couple of years or a few months to get to know if I really love the song. Only then will I record it.”

He says that as he started to assemble the songs for Summer Forever, he found a common theme.

“Some of them were happy songs about being around the ocean,” he says. “There was a song called ‘Summer Forever’ so maybe that helped with the direction of the album. It wasn’t like we said, ‘Let’s do a beach album.’ It just happened that those songs have a summery type feel.”

The album opens with the rousing “Don’t It,” a song that features a driving guitar riff as Currington references singing karaoke and drinking shots. As much as the album makes allusions to partying and having a good time, songs such as the moody “Wake Me Up” and the tender ballad “It Don’t Hurt Like It Used To,” which, with its "hey-yeah" refrain, sounds like a cross between Train and the Lumineers, give the album some balance.

“That was a song that came about naturally,” Currington says of “It Don’t Hurt Like It Used To.” “I didn’t set out to write a song that day. This guy was playing a guitar in the room I was in and that brought these lyrics out of my mouth. They just started falling out. I thought we should write it down because I didn’t know what I was saying. Before you know it, we had a whole song. It came out in a way that songs never have. I usually sit down and think about what direction I want to go in. I guess I must have been hurt and broken-hearted, and it finally came out in the song.”

Currington, who says he’s started to assemble tunes for his next studio release, admits that having a great deal of success so early in his career has been a “blessing.”

“Friends of mine had put their first albums out and never had hits,” he says. “We were there in the Top 10 from the start, and it’s not an easy thing to do. I think about it every day and every time I hear one of my songs on the radio. I know how hard it is."

http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2017/03/16/in-advance-of-his-hard-rock-live-concert-country-singer-billy-currington-reflects-on-his-hit-filled-career

Man! I feel like a cover: Sheer Mag covered Shania Twain at a wedding

Their version of ‘Man! I Feel Like A Woman’ is every bit as glorious as you think it is.

DIY magazine | May 31, 2017

Philly bunch Sheer Mag recently announced that their debut album proper, ‘Need To Feel Your Love’, will be out this summer - three cheers all round!

In advance of its release, and being no strangers to the DIY house show circuit, they were recently performing at a wedding in North Carolina and in the process decided to bring out a version of Shania Twain’s 1997 county-rock crossover chart smash ‘Man! I Feel Like A Woman’. And it’s every bit as amazing as you think it is.

Straight from the recognisable opening melody, Sheer Mag put a bit of a bluesy, scuzzy spin on the tune and obviously got everyone up and dancing. Now where can we book Sheer Mag for a future wedding…?

Watch Sheer Mag cover ‘Man! I Feel Like A Woman’ below.

http://diymag.com/2017/05/31/sheer-mag-cover-shania-twain-wedding-watch

Ashley Graham Channels Shania Twain on This Week's 'Lip Sync Battle'

By Alexandra Holterman | Billboard | June 26, 2017

Ashley Graham Performs Shania Twain's “That Don’t Impress Me Much” on Lip Sync Battle. 

Ashley Graham performs Shania Twain's "That Don’t Impress Me Much” on this week’s episode of Spike TV's Lip Sync Battle, and let us just say: we’re impressed.

The model, dressed in a two-piece leopard print outfit reminiscent of Twain’s from her 1998 music video, gyrates to the music and even crawls on the stage floor, while mouthing the lyrics to the country-pop hit.

Watch below as audience members -- and co-host LL Cool J -- go wild for Graham’s performance:

Graham’s performance against actor Jermaine Fowler airs this Wednesday (June 28) after Orange is the New Black stars Danielle Brooks and Uzo Aduba square off. From the looks of Brooks’ dramatic rendition of Bon Jovi’s 1986 hit “Livin’ on a Prayer,” the competition between the two co-stars will be fierce.

The Brooks-Aduba and Graham-Fowler episode of Lip Sync Battle airs on Spike TV this Wednesday, at 10 p.m. ET/PT and 10:30 p.m. ET/PT, respectively. 

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/television/7842222/lip-sync-battle-sneak-peek-ashley-graham-shania-twain

Kelsea Ballerini Talks 'Legends', Says Shania Twain Is Her Idol

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Good song!

Shania is still hanging out in London, England...

Wimbledon still the one for Twain

The Guardian | July 11, 2017

Wimbledon is full to the brim of celebrities enjoying freebies in exchange for publicising a brand so it was refreshing to hear that Shania Twain has been coming to Wimbledon for the past three days with her own tickets, which she actually paid for. A huge tennis enthusiast, Twain visited the British Tennis fan zone and signed autographs. “The court is my gym,” she said.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jul/11/wimbledon-diary-extra-roof-inequality

Haim covers Shania Twain’s “That Don’t Impress Me Much”: Watch

As part of the sisters' appearance on triple J Radio's Like a Version

By Alex Young | Consequence of Sound | July 27, 2017

As children of the 90’s, HAIM grew up to listening to Shania Twain on the radio. Today, the sisters still profess their fandom for Twain and recently debuted a cover of “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” during an event celebrating the release of their sophomore album, Some to Tell You. While in Australia recently, the sisters tackled another Twain classic, “That Don’t Impress Me Much”, as part of their appearance on triple J’s Like a Version. Watch the video above, and do note: If you want to date one of the Haim sisters, being a fan of Shania Twain is a prerequisite.

Twain herself is also gearing up to release a new album, Now, her first full-length record in 15 years. Perhaps she’ll return the favor and cover a HAIM song in the near future?

http://consequenceofsound.net/2017/07/haim-covers-shaina-twains-that-dont-impress-me-much-watch/

Top 50 Country Love Songs of All Time

By Chuck Dauphin | Billboard | August 2, 2017 

The 50 Best Country Love Songs Ever

Over the course of the genre’s history, country music has had more than its share of sweet, romantic moments. It seems that love songs have seemingly helped to define the careers of many of the format’s biggest stars, and perhaps created a handful of lovebird relationships along the way. We’ve gone back into the history books and picked out fifty of the top country love songs in the genre’s storied past.

This is – by no means – a definitive list. It’s likely that a song that may have a special place in your love story might not have made this list. In fact, it’s highly probable. However, these are some moments that are worth visiting time and again when trying to set the mood for a romantic moment!

8. Shania Twain - "You’re Still The One"

Click Link Below For Complete List

http://www.billboard.com/photos/7864974/country-love-songs-top-50

Investigating Shania Twain and Nick Jonas' Unlikely Friendship On and Off Stage

By Mike Vulpo | E! News | August 28, 2017

Okay, so you're Shania Twain? That does impress Nick Jonas very much.

While she may be a country music superstar and he may be a boy band alum, one thing has become crystal clear in recent years.

Nick is truly one of Shania's biggest fans.

As the woman behind huge hits like "You're Still the One," "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" and countless others celebrates her birthday today, we decided it was the perfect time to acknowledge a friendship some may not have expected. Everyone, however, can totally get on board.

Last year, Nick sat down with Billboard to sing his praises for a woman he calls a "true inspiration."

According to Nick, the love for Shania began when he heard "Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)" in 1997.

"This is the first Shania song I ever heard," he shared with the publication. "I remember the country-pop feel of the song was unlike anything else out there at the time, and I became a lifelong fan in that moment."

When Nick found himself on some pretty big stages with the Jonas Brothers, the band would warm up to "Forever and for Always." And in 2008, Nick and his brothers jumped at the chance to cover "I'm Gonna Getcha Good."

What truly sealed the deal, however, is when Nick headed to Las Vegas to see Shania perform. "When she performed ['You're Still the One'] onstage with a white horse at her side, it really sealed the deal for me," he confessed. "Shania Twain, lifetime crush."

Imagine the thrill then when Nick was able to present Shania an award at Billboard's Women in Music event this past December in New York City.

"That moment your lifelong crush knows you exist…#StillTheOne," Nick wrote on Instagram with a photo from the special moment. Shania added, "@nickjonas—such a pleasure to accept the @billboard honour from you. Excited to see your Shania cover band anytime! #womeninmusic."

Perhaps the interaction could get any Shania fan to feel a little—shall we say—jealous?

But life was about to get extra good at the 2017 Stagecoach Festival when Shania was headlining night two of the three-day festival.

http://www.eonline.com/news/876016/investigating-shania-twain-and-nick-jonas-unlikely-friendship-on-and-off-stage

SHANIA Twain’s big butt has her feeling like a woman!

The Canadian star, whose comeback album Now drops next week, says she’s embracing fellow singers with big bums because she reckons she has a large booty herself.

Shania said: “It’s actually fashionable to have a bigger butt now.

“I remember feeling like, ‘I cannot get my butt into these pants!’” I’m not gonna lie – that peachy backside doesn’t Impress Me Much. It’s not a patch on Nicki Minaj’s!

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/goss/646799/Anne-Marie-karate-Ed-Sheeran-Fergie-Bella-Hadid-Nandos-Shania-Twain-Paloma-Faith

How Shania Twain Empowered an Unlikely Group of Female Artists

Lindi Ortega, Caitlin Rose and other progressive singer-songwriters reflect on how the superstar helped shape their identity

By Marissa R. Moss | Rolling Stone | October 12, 2017 

It might be a surprise to some that, 15 years after releasing her last record, Shania Twain was able to beat out Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato for the coveted spot atop the all-genre Billboard 200 with her new LP Now. To others, it was evidence that Twain's role as rule-breaker and rule-maker in an evolving country climate hasn't waned; and that, in the world of popular music, youth isn't the only serviceable commodity.

It what she meant, and still symbolizes, for a new generation of artists – including Lindi Ortega, Caitlin Rose, Caroline Spence, Kalie Shorr and Michael Anne – was something different. In Twain's era – one that bred Trisha Yearwood, Faith Hill and Reba – women weren't an uncommon sight in the upper echelon of the country radio chart. But what was absent was a woman who was fearless when it came to lyrical content, and who could embrace both love and independence; monogamy and carnal impulses; strength and softness. All in a way that was packaged for the mainstream.

"Reba's brand was 'somebody should leave,' Trisha's was a little 'please don't leave' and Faith had 'no one would ever leave me, obviously,'" says Rose, "but Shania's brand was, 'I will take no sh*t and all of your money, thanks!' and it worked. Nobody stepped on Shania, especially not the men in her songs."

Much has changed since the Canadian-born Twain first made her entrance, ready to prove that lineage didn't really matter when it came to power and prowess on Music Row. In 1995, that moment was "Any Man of Mine," which hit Number One on the country charts and burst through to the Billboard Hot 100, without the help of a Nelly-provided rap refrain or American Idol alumnistatus to shatter the pop ceiling. Layering a commanding fiddle undercurrent to producer and co-writer Mutt Lange's mad-genius mix of Def Leppard vamps and her smartly twanged power vocals, the song broke boundaries not because it was inherently designed to do so – but because its sticky, melodic chorus was enough to make even the most diehard city-slicker contemplate buying a pair of Wranglers. Deep in the South, it prompted a generation of kids raised on Hank Williams to consider the genre of their birthright as more dimensional than they once thought: pop hooks, y'all.

While one of country's most common cult complaints is to bemoan its genre dissolution (hello, Midland's authenticity debate), Twain represented a period where transition was celebrated, and she used that platform to shake convention thematically too. Taking the reins from the outlaw rebels and Countrypolitan crooners, she co-wrote her own songs and molded her image, drawing more lines to Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton than history first gave her credit for. Twain gets plenty of credit for her groundbreaking success – 1997's Come on Over is the biggest-selling album by a female of all-time (over 40 million copies worldwide) and its sonic pattern was a blueprint for future Taylor Swifts – but she isn't always recognized for how she disrupted gender role convention and redefined the woman on country radio as much more complex than just homemaker or home-wrecker. "Shania was a catalyst for change and she was trendsetter," says Ortega.

Twain's lyrics were empowering, but they also took ownership. Listen to "Any Man of Mine": in title, it sounds innocuous enough, but this isn't some casual ode to a for-better-or-worse partner. Instead, she's laying out the rules for anyone eager to court her attention – taking, as Rose put it, no sh*t from anyone. In the song's video, she's roping horses and hopping into a pick-up truck, motifs usually found in today's waning bro-country playground – but here, Twain was driving. She represented the complexity of a woman not always afforded in mainstream country – just because she had the upper hand didn't mean she couldn't offer a gentle touch, too.

"Shania's brand was, 'I will take no sh*t and all of your money, thanks!'" - Caitlin Rose

"She was vulnerable and got hurt and was a 'fool for love,' but at the same time she was strong and stated what she wanted, what she expected, what she would or wouldn't take," says Michaela Anne. "It felt fierce while tender and honest. She was unapologetically sexy, but also fun and assertive. Culturally, I think we've generally had a hard time seeing women as multi-dimensional, complex, diverse beings. When I think back to the impression she left on me at the vital age of 13 when I loved her the most, it was that: that we as women could be all of it."

Many of Twain's songs, while sonically diverse, did just that by following the Loretta tradition of lacing an aggressive narrative in deceptively sweet (or in Twain's case, catchy) ribbons: "Honey, I'm Home" flips the housewife on its head, with a tired working woman demanding care – and an, ahem, "bone" – from her doting husband; "I'm Not in the Mood (to Say No!)" is about not being afraid to do something (or someone, really); and her iconic video for "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" played with her freedom to be both stereotypically male and indulgently female, telling the story through a Robert Palmer "Addicted to Love"- esque theme where she both flirts with androgyny and cleavage-bearing ball gowns.

"The memory of dancing around to a tape of 'Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under' at a second-grade sleepover is among the earliest I have of testing out my own variety of 'girl power,'" says Rose about Twain's hit from The Woman in Me. "It was OK to be sassy with Shania even if you weren't that kind of girl."

Indeed, Spence recalls that Come On Over, Twain's third record, was the first album she bought with her own money. "When I would sing along to 'That Don't Impress Me Much,' I felt like I deserved the world and nothing else would do," she says. "When I would sing along to 'Man! I Feel Like a Woman!' I felt empowered and proud. She gave us anthems for the right kinds of things: feeling good about yourself, wanting to surround yourself with people who weren't superficial, standing up for yourself. She made me feel wise beyond my years."

For Shorr, who has tackled the unjust climate for women onthe country charts in her own writing, Twain was and is a "feminist icon." "In the country genre, owning the label 'sex symbol' has always been a little bit off-limits. Shania not only owned it but pioneered it; and opened doors for other women to do it too," she says. "She created a brand that was sexy but never compromising, powerful but still feminine, and vulnerable but never weak. Now, she's still proud of all those sides of her and even more multidimensional and honest than she was in the Nineties. Hearing Shania's raw unfiltered attitude in her songs as a young girl made me more confident to show those sides of myself in my own music as an artist 15 years later."

These messages of empowerment reached far beyond gender – Brandon Stansell, an openly gay country artist, found her to represent a sort of freedom to lead with individuality, not convention. "For the first time in my life, I got to see someone successfully pursuing country music without having to remain within the confines of what people expected of a country music singer. I know that story – that’s my story," he says.

Decades since her debut, Twain's story is still evolving – and Now is a tale of a woman in progress. She's vulnerable and hurt, but as empowered as ever, turning turmoil, pain and the drag of aging into a wisdom that drives her forward. Artists like Ortega, Rose, Spence, Shorr, Stansell and Anne, along with scores of others, from Margo Price and Little Bandit to Maren Morris and Miranda Lambert, are doing the same. 

They may not sound like Twain, but they don't sound like anyone else either, singing of complex characters that might not fit into the box at the top of Billboard's Country Airplay chart. But that don't impress them much, anyway. 

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