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04-23-2004, 5:19am
If you read the letters page on line daily in Shania's local home town paper, you will notice some speaking badly about the Shania Twain Centre and Shania herself:
This letter below, will be emailed to the editor of that paper, but don't expect them to publish. A vocal minority in Timmins even post on the Shania Twain Centre's own message book there hate filled posts for all to read.
I have kept this 17 year old Girls name private, but this is my reply for what it is worth!
Dear xxxx,
As you get older you will find your viewpoint on life and values will change. Things become not as black and white anymore.
You should read Eilleen Twains Biography by Robin Eggar.
It is a tale that leaves you breathless, with more twists and turns than an Agetha Christie Murder story.
You will learn lessons from Shania's childhood that would stand anyone in good stead as lessons for life, and how to survive the cruel things it can throw at you from time to time.
Shania is one of a very rare breed of performer who never forgets her humble background, or the support of those who believe in her, and just like Dolly Parton, will eventually make it into the hall of fame of Artistes who's life's work has changed Music row for ever.
The comment I made about Shania feeling uncomfortable about having a 'shrine' like the Shania Twain Centre actually bringing in thousands of visitors from all over the world during her lifetime was a direct quote.
Go to the sites
http://www.shaniaforums.com or http://www.shania-twain.org/mb
if you wish to find out where and when she said that.
Once Timmins had built the centre she lost no time in giving them priceless artifacts to display, and Fed Ex's all her costumes within days of using them direct to the Centre.
At the last fan convention we were taken behind the public areas and actually got to hold up and model the gown she wore on TV just a week previous, and also hold and examine the I'm gonna getcha good' pleather suite worn in the video.
With Nashville talking her down, Shania never fires back, saying instead that she does not care too much about her critics in Music Row, but listens to her fans.
As long as she pleases her fans she is happy and her latest album pretty well proves that point.
It pleases us and we don't give a fig what the Country and Western people say about it.
As an aspiring singer/songwriter yourself, you could do a lot worse than take a leaf out of Dolly Parton and Shania Twain's life stories, both came from humble starts and through sheer determination and hard work have got to where they are now.
After Shania's death Music Row and Nashville will be all over her memory like a rash, claiming her songs as all time C & W classics, just as they do with Elvis.
Outside North America, Elvis was and is still regarded as Rock and Roll and Pop. No mention of C & W in any country.
It is the Joy and happiness that Shania has brought to me that have inspired me to move shortly to Timmins and give back a little to the community that helped make Shania the person she is today.
I am not the only one in the world who thinks that way About the Shania Twain Centre where every year they build on a success story that has a long ways to run.
Fan Convention number one only had 39 people attending from 4 countries. This year with months to go, you have many more countries already pre-registered including, Finland, England and Scotland.
There are a minority, a very VOCAL minority in Timmins who through jealousy or whatever seem to thing that Shania Twain owes Timmins a living....
She Does NOT, no one does. Shania has already done SO MUCH for Timmins, giving you a loss making concert back in 1999 at the end of the Come on over tour. During that amazing rainy day she endorsed dozens of local shops.
If that is not enought Eilleen gave the whole town a big plug with heaps of filmed inserts round Timmins during the Special's DVD which was sold all over the world marketed as "Live in Miami" outside of North America.
What does she get in return. The Timmins Daily press printing an item from her eldest brother Mark, later proved to not be true. Attacks on her native heritage and her duel nationality and readers letters saying how Shania should do this and give to that.
Letters saying how she has turned her back on Timmins.
If Shania was to give her entire fortune to sort out what is wrong with Timmins it would still not be enough. Sort your own problems out yourself like the rest of the World has to do.
She does not owe Timmins ANYTHING. Only last week after a local fire, Oooh Shania should give and buy us a new building... Excuse me!
So much for the Timmins local press. Shania has a music career to look after, she can not do that being based in Timmins.
Your local taxes are ridiculous and getting higher, how can you expect a superstar to give up 95% of there income to pay for a new library and police HQ and on and on, were she to live locally.
Your local government spends your tax money like water. Why don't the people who actually use the services pay for them as they use them. That way only those who benifit from local services pay the bill. Single people like me, high wage earners with no family end up paying the most.
It is exactly because of this most very high earners move to Switzerland where they can keep most of there earnings and use them in a more effective manner to help others.
At every concert Shania does she raises thousands of dollars for children's charities all over the world, using a raffle system where the winner gets to go on stage and get a photo taken alongside Shania.
Why you don't like Shania's music, especially as a lot of it is biased towards a female point of view. Your point of view, is totally beyond me.
I suggest you gather all 4 of her albums together and spend a night really listening to the words of each song and think again.
With a deceptively simple hook laden chorus most songs are more addictive than Heroin or Tobacco.
People who say her lyrics are just plain daft, have not listened to songs like Honey I'm home or "If your not in it for love" or the "Woman in Me" "No one needs to know" or from the new album "Only Hurts when I breathe" and don't deserve any of my time in the form of a Shania defense.
If that is the way they think about Shania's songwriting, then I will never change there attitude.
Her ballads such as "From this moment on" and "Still the One" are timeless, classless, and of universal appeal.
Shania is bigger than Nashville and they just don't like that one little bit.
Fact is Nashville does not exist outside of North America.
Country Music Television and all its offshoots do not exist outside North America.
They seem to think they can call the Shots, well I guess Shania has called there bluff on that one, entering the popular music charts of dozens of countries around the world, with ease again and again.
All without any help from the composers of Nashville and Music Row.
---------- end of Rant.... for now ;) ----- till next time.
This letter below, will be emailed to the editor of that paper, but don't expect them to publish. A vocal minority in Timmins even post on the Shania Twain Centre's own message book there hate filled posts for all to read.
I have kept this 17 year old Girls name private, but this is my reply for what it is worth!
Dear xxxx,
As you get older you will find your viewpoint on life and values will change. Things become not as black and white anymore.
You should read Eilleen Twains Biography by Robin Eggar.
It is a tale that leaves you breathless, with more twists and turns than an Agetha Christie Murder story.
You will learn lessons from Shania's childhood that would stand anyone in good stead as lessons for life, and how to survive the cruel things it can throw at you from time to time.
Shania is one of a very rare breed of performer who never forgets her humble background, or the support of those who believe in her, and just like Dolly Parton, will eventually make it into the hall of fame of Artistes who's life's work has changed Music row for ever.
The comment I made about Shania feeling uncomfortable about having a 'shrine' like the Shania Twain Centre actually bringing in thousands of visitors from all over the world during her lifetime was a direct quote.
Go to the sites
http://www.shaniaforums.com or http://www.shania-twain.org/mb
if you wish to find out where and when she said that.
Once Timmins had built the centre she lost no time in giving them priceless artifacts to display, and Fed Ex's all her costumes within days of using them direct to the Centre.
At the last fan convention we were taken behind the public areas and actually got to hold up and model the gown she wore on TV just a week previous, and also hold and examine the I'm gonna getcha good' pleather suite worn in the video.
With Nashville talking her down, Shania never fires back, saying instead that she does not care too much about her critics in Music Row, but listens to her fans.
As long as she pleases her fans she is happy and her latest album pretty well proves that point.
It pleases us and we don't give a fig what the Country and Western people say about it.
As an aspiring singer/songwriter yourself, you could do a lot worse than take a leaf out of Dolly Parton and Shania Twain's life stories, both came from humble starts and through sheer determination and hard work have got to where they are now.
After Shania's death Music Row and Nashville will be all over her memory like a rash, claiming her songs as all time C & W classics, just as they do with Elvis.
Outside North America, Elvis was and is still regarded as Rock and Roll and Pop. No mention of C & W in any country.
It is the Joy and happiness that Shania has brought to me that have inspired me to move shortly to Timmins and give back a little to the community that helped make Shania the person she is today.
I am not the only one in the world who thinks that way About the Shania Twain Centre where every year they build on a success story that has a long ways to run.
Fan Convention number one only had 39 people attending from 4 countries. This year with months to go, you have many more countries already pre-registered including, Finland, England and Scotland.
There are a minority, a very VOCAL minority in Timmins who through jealousy or whatever seem to thing that Shania Twain owes Timmins a living....
She Does NOT, no one does. Shania has already done SO MUCH for Timmins, giving you a loss making concert back in 1999 at the end of the Come on over tour. During that amazing rainy day she endorsed dozens of local shops.
If that is not enought Eilleen gave the whole town a big plug with heaps of filmed inserts round Timmins during the Special's DVD which was sold all over the world marketed as "Live in Miami" outside of North America.
What does she get in return. The Timmins Daily press printing an item from her eldest brother Mark, later proved to not be true. Attacks on her native heritage and her duel nationality and readers letters saying how Shania should do this and give to that.
Letters saying how she has turned her back on Timmins.
If Shania was to give her entire fortune to sort out what is wrong with Timmins it would still not be enough. Sort your own problems out yourself like the rest of the World has to do.
She does not owe Timmins ANYTHING. Only last week after a local fire, Oooh Shania should give and buy us a new building... Excuse me!
So much for the Timmins local press. Shania has a music career to look after, she can not do that being based in Timmins.
Your local taxes are ridiculous and getting higher, how can you expect a superstar to give up 95% of there income to pay for a new library and police HQ and on and on, were she to live locally.
Your local government spends your tax money like water. Why don't the people who actually use the services pay for them as they use them. That way only those who benifit from local services pay the bill. Single people like me, high wage earners with no family end up paying the most.
It is exactly because of this most very high earners move to Switzerland where they can keep most of there earnings and use them in a more effective manner to help others.
At every concert Shania does she raises thousands of dollars for children's charities all over the world, using a raffle system where the winner gets to go on stage and get a photo taken alongside Shania.
Why you don't like Shania's music, especially as a lot of it is biased towards a female point of view. Your point of view, is totally beyond me.
I suggest you gather all 4 of her albums together and spend a night really listening to the words of each song and think again.
With a deceptively simple hook laden chorus most songs are more addictive than Heroin or Tobacco.
People who say her lyrics are just plain daft, have not listened to songs like Honey I'm home or "If your not in it for love" or the "Woman in Me" "No one needs to know" or from the new album "Only Hurts when I breathe" and don't deserve any of my time in the form of a Shania defense.
If that is the way they think about Shania's songwriting, then I will never change there attitude.
Her ballads such as "From this moment on" and "Still the One" are timeless, classless, and of universal appeal.
Shania is bigger than Nashville and they just don't like that one little bit.
Fact is Nashville does not exist outside of North America.
Country Music Television and all its offshoots do not exist outside North America.
They seem to think they can call the Shots, well I guess Shania has called there bluff on that one, entering the popular music charts of dozens of countries around the world, with ease again and again.
All without any help from the composers of Nashville and Music Row.
---------- end of Rant.... for now ;) ----- till next time.