Shania Twain Tells You What's UP! (Parts 1 and 2)

[SHANIANUTS!]

What’s Up!? Keep reading, and Shania Twain will tell you in her own words about her new album, due Tuesday (Nov. 19). In the first of two parts, Twain talks about the social direction of Up!, the songs no one will ever hear and the common thread that runs through her energetic music. Part 2 of Shania’s interview with the CMT Radio Network will be posted Saturday (Nov. 16).

In the meantime, there’s even more when CMT Inside Fame: Shania debuts Friday (Nov. 15) at 8 p.m. The program repeats Saturday (Nov. 16) at 2 p.m. and 9 p.m. (All times Eastern/Pacific.)

CMT: I’m hearing these sounds and textures that are very worldly. How do you make worldly sound country?

Twain: (laugh) Well, any of our songwriting is written on guitars. We sit down with guitarists and we write music. We don’t write country songs, we don’t write pop songs, we don’t write rock songs -- we just write songs. We just write the best songs that we can. And only when we get into the studio do we get into the next stage of creativity, which is the production. And that can go any direction you want it to go. So we just got a bunch of Nashville musicians together, a lot of them who were on the last two albums and did a session. And that’s how you do it. So there’s no need to “countrify” anything or “popify” anything or “rockify” anything. We just simply got the appropriate musicians together [and said] “Here’s the song, jam it out.” And that’s how you do it.

CMT: There’s some chick power in this album. You’re making a social statement in this album. Was that a conscious decision?

Twain: Actually, there are quite a few songs on the album that have real social direction. I’ve just matured I think as a writer, and I feel more confident in talking about expressing deeper thoughts. I mean, I’ve always had deeper thoughts, but think I’m just a bit more confident as a writer now and just a bit more mature. These subjects are things that I feel personal about, and I just think make great songs because I think people can relate to them. I think they can really understand what I’m talking about and relate to them, and that’s always my goal -- just to make music that people can relate to. I don’t ever really want to write songs that are so much about my own personal pinpoint opinion that nobody else gets it. I’m interested in only sharing my opinion and my thoughts if I think that a lot of people will relate to that, because I make music for the fans anyway. That’s why I make music.

CMT: I read in Entertainment Weekly about a tape where you record your own personal songs just for you. What do you think would happen if you recorded those journal songs?

Twain: I’m not really sure they’re all that good. You know, they’re just my own little -- I don’t write them even in a song format. I just write musical ideas. For instance, if you were to sit and write a diary, it wouldn’t read like a book because it wouldn’t be in paragraph form probably. It wouldn’t have any flow. There would be no beginning, no end, no climax. It would just be a bunch of thoughts. And that’s what would happen if I did that with that music. It would not really have any direction. And I think when you put an album together, it’s important the whole album matters as a whole. So I’m not really sure it would be all that interesting. That’s what I think would happen. (laugh)

CMT: Is there a common thread you put through Up!?

Twain: Well, the optimism in the album, and the feeling -- the uplifting feeling and the sounds and everything -- are quite continuous throughout the album, because the intention was to make it very ‘up.’ So that I think is quite evident when you’re listening to it.
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[aFinn]

Originally posted by SHANIANUTS!
Twain: ..and I just think make great songs because I think people can relate to them. I think they can really understand what I’m talking about and relate to them, and that’s always my goal -- just to make music that people can relate to.
because I make music for the fans anyway. That’s why I make music.

:D I have found many new songs I can relate to. :)

[SHANIANUTS!]

Originally posted by aFinn
:D I have found many new songs I can relate to. :) I also.

[Raider]

IT'S THE 16TH, WHERE'S PART 2! :mad:

I don't think they update the site until later.:smirk:

[Baby Mutt]

COOL! :D:cool: Thanx for postin it Bob! :)

-Vale-

[SHANIANUTS!]

You are welcome - here is part 2:


In the second part of our two-part interview with Shania Twain, the Canadian country-pop superstar tells the CMT Radio Network about her son Eja, the brothers she helped raise, bluegrass music, her home in Switzerland and what exactly she’s been up to.

There’s even more to be found on CMT Inside Fame: Shania, airing Saturday (Nov. 16) at 9 p.m. and Sunday (Nov. 17) at 12 a.m., 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. (All times Eastern/Pacific.)

CMT: You just had this little boy, and you had some experience in raising kids in taking over responsibility for your brothers and sisters. How different is it starting from scratch, and what have you learned?

Twain: Well, my brothers were teenagers, so it was very different, and it was a very difficult time, too. So, for them, they had already been raised, I guess, to a point of teenagehood, and I was just trying to struggle to keep up. We all were as a family. It was more of a family effort, so it was quite different, but it still gave me. … It’s definitely tested me and taught me a lot things about having a lot of responsibility -- more responsibility than I was ready for, which I think a lot of people do find when they have children. They thought they were prepared and they weren’t. (chuckle) They realized they weren’t. So I think there’s a similarity there. You can never really be prepared for parenthood. I think it’s something you have to experience to understand.

That experience with my brothers really enlightened me, and what it did was make me want children later, because it made me realize there’s a lot of responsibility, and you have to be mature and ready. And that really paid off. I’m glad I did wait. I could have had a child a long time ago, but I deliberately waited, and now I’m in a position in my life where I feel there is this natural space for him, and I didn’t have to shuffle and scramble to make life work around him. He just fit right in, and I think that’s partly to do with the fact that I waited.

CMT: Is he a fan of Mama’s music?

Twain: He loves music in general. He just loves music.

CMT: Is there anything special that gets him moving?

Twain: Any beat. He loves the beat. (laugh)

CMT: The face of country has changed a lot since you’ve been gone. There’s a whole resurgence of bluegrass. Do you think that your music is still going to be able to fit in with this new face?

Twain: I don’t know, I mean … I have no idea. I never try to fit into any specific place. When I’m making my music, I actually stop listening to everything that’s going on. I don’t want to know what’s going on. I’m not trying to fit in. I’m not trying to be like everybody else. I have my own space. I’m my own thing, and whether the listeners want that or not -- that I can never know. How can I know that? I could be more sure and pay close attention to what everyone else is doing and try to follow, but I’m not a follower. I want to set my own path, and I’d rather do that and take the risk.

CMT: My boss was asking me this morning, “What would Mr. Joe in Brooklyn want to know about Shania Twain?” And I said, “I just want to know how she’s doing. I haven’t heard from her in a while.” Tell your fans how you’re doing.

Twain: (laugh) Well, I’m doing great! Life is terrific. I’ve just finished this new album. There’s a lot of music on it, and I’m just ready to share it with the world. So I’m now gearing up to share the music with really the entire world. I’ve been promoting now completely internationally, and I’m looking forward to the tour. I’m very content right now. I’ve had a nice rest. I’ve just gone through a very creative period in writing the music, and that’s a need that needs to be tended to when you’re a creative person. So that’s just been a great experience. I’m actually feeling quite complete and happy.

CMT: What’s it like to be so adored that you had to leave North America and go off and find your place in the world.

Twain: I personally just like my privacy. More so just because I want to be normal. I like to blend in. I need to live somewhere that I can completely forget about being a celebrity. And I just want to be around people who don’t care, actually, (laughs) either way. I enjoy that space, so that’s the purpose of being in Switzerland, and I really enjoy that. Then I can step in and out of what I do, and I need that balance.

CMT: I read that they truly respect your privacy there, which has got to be nice.

Twain: They’re very good there. They’re better than anywhere else I’ve ever been. They’re very discreet. A lot of them don’t even care about celebrities -- they wouldn’t know one if they saw one, really. Even if they do know who you are, they are quite reserved by nature. So they are very quiet and polite about it, and it’s not a scene. I’ve never once had a scene there. It’s nice.

[itc71]

cool interview

ref:reading how many kids will get through it all lol;)

[SHANIANUTS!]

If they do not it is their loss unfortunately. There is some real good stuff in these interviews.

[itc71]

there sure is:)

[aFinn]

Shania about having children:
"That experience with my brothers really enlightened me, and what it did was make me want children later, because it made me realize there’s a lot of responsibility, and you have to be mature and ready. And that really paid off. I’m glad I did wait. I could have had a child a long time ago, but I deliberately waited, and now I’m in a position in my life where I feel there is this natural space for him, and I didn’t have to shuffle and scramble to make life work around him. He just fit right in, and I think that’s partly to do with the fact that I waited."

This is the same thing she said in the TROS tv interview.
Also the difficult childhood and how hard it was to actually take care of the others when their parents died, she has now shared with many interviews. I do not know how much and in what fashion she talked about these issues before, but this time around she is telling how hard her childhood was in a very honest way.
She prob has mentioned it before, but these are first interviews I have seen "first hand", so I am commenting now.

[aFinn]

Twain: (laugh) Well, I’m doing great! Life is terrific. I’ve just finished this new album. There’s a lot of music on it, and I’m just ready to share it with the world. So I’m now gearing up to share the music with really the entire world. I’ve been promoting now completely internationally, and I’m looking forward to the tour. I’m very content right now. I’ve had a nice rest. I’ve just gone through a very creative period in writing the music, and that’s a need that needs to be tended to when you’re a creative person. So that’s just been a great experience. I’m actually feeling quite complete and happy.

This is the other thing that comes through. She is well rested now and very happy. Maybe because of that (finding happiness and balance in her life) she can now look back and say what went on in the past, but now she is happy..

[nds76]

In the second part of our two-part interview with Shania Twain, the Canadian country-pop superstar tells the CMT Radio Network about her son Eja, the brothers she helped raise, bluegrass music, her home in Switzerland and what exactly she’s been up to.

There’s even more to be found on CMT Inside Fame: Shania, airing Saturday (Nov. 16) at 9 p.m. and Sunday (Nov. 17) at 12 a.m., 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. (All times Eastern/Pacific.)

CMT: You just had this little boy, and you had some experience in raising kids in taking over responsibility for your brothers and sisters. How different is it starting from scratch, and what have you learned?

Twain: Well, my brothers were teenagers, so it was very different, and it was a very difficult time, too. So, for them, they had already been raised, I guess, to a point of teenagehood, and I was just trying to struggle to keep up. We all were as a family. It was more of a family effort, so it was quite different, but it still gave me. … It’s definitely tested me and taught me a lot things about having a lot of responsibility -- more responsibility than I was ready for, which I think a lot of people do find when they have children. They thought they were prepared and they weren’t. (chuckle) They realized they weren’t. So I think there’s a similarity there. You can never really be prepared for parenthood. I think it’s something you have to experience to understand.

That experience with my brothers really enlightened me, and what it did was make me want children later, because it made me realize there’s a lot of responsibility, and you have to be mature and ready. And that really paid off. I’m glad I did wait. I could have had a child a long time ago, but I deliberately waited, and now I’m in a position in my life where I feel there is this natural space for him, and I didn’t have to shuffle and scramble to make life work around him. He just fit right in, and I think that’s partly to do with the fact that I waited.

CMT: Is he a fan of Mama’s music?

Twain: He loves music in general. He just loves music.

CMT: Is there anything special that gets him moving?

Twain: Any beat. He loves the beat. (laugh)

CMT: The face of country has changed a lot since you’ve been gone. There’s a whole resurgence of bluegrass. Do you think that your music is still going to be able to fit in with this new face?

Twain: I don’t know, I mean … I have no idea. I never try to fit into any specific place. When I’m making my music, I actually stop listening to everything that’s going on. I don’t want to know what’s going on. I’m not trying to fit in. I’m not trying to be like everybody else. I have my own space. I’m my own thing, and whether the listeners want that or not -- that I can never know. How can I know that? I could be more sure and pay close attention to what everyone else is doing and try to follow, but I’m not a follower. I want to set my own path, and I’d rather do that and take the risk.

CMT: My boss was asking me this morning, “What would Mr. Joe in Brooklyn want to know about Shania Twain?” And I said, “I just want to know how she’s doing. I haven’t heard from her in a while.” Tell your fans how you’re doing.

Twain: (laugh) Well, I’m doing great! Life is terrific. I’ve just finished this new album. There’s a lot of music on it, and I’m just ready to share it with the world. So I’m now gearing up to share the music with really the entire world. I’ve been promoting now completely internationally, and I’m looking forward to the tour. I’m very content right now. I’ve had a nice rest. I’ve just gone through a very creative period in writing the music, and that’s a need that needs to be tended to when you’re a creative person. So that’s just been a great experience. I’m actually feeling quite complete and happy.

CMT: What’s it like to be so adored that you had to leave North America and go off and find your place in the world.

Twain: I personally just like my privacy. More so just because I want to be normal. I like to blend in. I need to live somewhere that I can completely forget about being a celebrity. And I just want to be around people who don’t care, actually, (laughs) either way. I enjoy that space, so that’s the purpose of being in Switzerland, and I really enjoy that. Then I can step in and out of what I do, and I need that balance.

CMT: I read that they truly respect your privacy there, which has got to be nice.

Twain: They’re very good there. They’re better than anywhere else I’ve ever been. They’re very discreet. A lot of them don’t even care about celebrities -- they wouldn’t know one if they saw one, really. Even if they do know who you are, they are quite reserved by nature. So they are very quiet and polite about it, and it’s not a scene. I’ve never once had a scene there. It’s nice.

CMT.com

[aFinn]

The third interesting point in this part 2 for me:
CMT: The face of country has changed a lot since you’ve been gone. There’s a whole resurgence of bluegrass. Do you think that your music is still going to be able to fit in with this new face?

Twain: I don’t know, I mean … I have no idea. I never try to fit into any specific place. When I’m making my music, I actually stop listening to everything that’s going on. I don’t want to know what’s going on. I’m not trying to fit in. I’m not trying to be like everybody else. I have my own space. I’m my own thing, and whether the listeners want that or not -- that I can never know. How can I know that? I could be more sure and pay close attention to what everyone else is doing and try to follow, but I’m not a follower. I want to set my own path, and I’d rather do that and take the risk.

[Baby Mutt]

Thanx for postin it, thats cool!! :D

-Vale-

[aFinn]

Yes, this has a lot of nice points :)