FinnFreak
12-17-2004, 2:53am
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
Shania’s greatest hits
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SOUNDS FAMILIAR By Baby A. Gil / The Philippine Star 12/17/2004
Shania Twain’s Greatest Hits collection made me realize several things. First, this lovely import from Ontario, Canada and her husband, producer and songwriter Mutt Lange were responsible for two of the most meaningful love songs ever written. Both come from the album Come on Over which was released in 1999. It has already sold nearly 20 million copies and is the biggest selling album in country’s music history and the biggest seller ever by a female artist.
If you are getting married and want something different and more pop-sounding than the usual Ikaw or Looking Through the Eyes of Love, then listen to these two songs. They say the right sentiments, have bright melodies and being truly famous are guaranteed to hold your guests’ attention. One song is From This Moment On which has this refrain, I do swear that I’ll always be there/I’d give anything and everything and I will always care/ through weakness and strength/ happiness and sorrow/ for better, for worse/ I will love you.
The other one is You’re Still the One, which says Looks like we made it/ look how far we’ve come my baby/ we mighta took the long way/ we knew we’d get there someday.
I also learned through the 21-cut CD that Shania has made a lot of hits with only four albums released in a span of 10 years. Her first Shania Twain has no contribution to the greatest hits compilation although I do believe that God Ain’t Gonna Get You for That and Dance with the One That Brought You should have been included. What we have are the hits from The Woman in Me, Come On Over and UP! and these are most impressive.
From The Woman in Me came No One Needs to Know, You Win My Love, (If You’re Not in It for Love) I’m Outta Here, Any Man of Mine, Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under? and The Woman in Me (Needs the Man in You). Aside from You’re Still the One and From This Moment On, the phenomenal Come On Over yielded the title cut, Man! I Feel Like a Woman, That Don’t Impress Me Much, Honey I’m Home, Don’t Be Stupid (You Know I Love You) and Love Get’s Me Every Time. From her last solo recording UP! comes Forever and for Always, I’m Gonna Getcha Good, Ka-Ching! and UP!
The sequence of the songs goes backwards with the cuts from UP! coming first, followed by those from Come On Over and The Woman in Me. What I find truly interesting is that this gives the listener a look into how Shania evolved from talented country singer into a big pop star through the years. It shows her music starting at country, the country getting some rock which changes into power ballads, that lightens into pop, where it gets that bright beat that has become her trademark.
Now that she is on top of the game, you won’t believe what she does. She goes back to country. Shania introduces three new songs in the album, two of them Don’t! and I Ain’t No Quitter are country songs. The other Party for Two strikes a balance between pop and country and is probably where Shania wants to be, enjoying both worlds.
http://www.philstar.com/philstar/NEWS200412171703.htm
John - :)
Shania’s greatest hits
http://www.philstar.com/philstar/main/20041217/images/ent3.jpg
SOUNDS FAMILIAR By Baby A. Gil / The Philippine Star 12/17/2004
Shania Twain’s Greatest Hits collection made me realize several things. First, this lovely import from Ontario, Canada and her husband, producer and songwriter Mutt Lange were responsible for two of the most meaningful love songs ever written. Both come from the album Come on Over which was released in 1999. It has already sold nearly 20 million copies and is the biggest selling album in country’s music history and the biggest seller ever by a female artist.
If you are getting married and want something different and more pop-sounding than the usual Ikaw or Looking Through the Eyes of Love, then listen to these two songs. They say the right sentiments, have bright melodies and being truly famous are guaranteed to hold your guests’ attention. One song is From This Moment On which has this refrain, I do swear that I’ll always be there/I’d give anything and everything and I will always care/ through weakness and strength/ happiness and sorrow/ for better, for worse/ I will love you.
The other one is You’re Still the One, which says Looks like we made it/ look how far we’ve come my baby/ we mighta took the long way/ we knew we’d get there someday.
I also learned through the 21-cut CD that Shania has made a lot of hits with only four albums released in a span of 10 years. Her first Shania Twain has no contribution to the greatest hits compilation although I do believe that God Ain’t Gonna Get You for That and Dance with the One That Brought You should have been included. What we have are the hits from The Woman in Me, Come On Over and UP! and these are most impressive.
From The Woman in Me came No One Needs to Know, You Win My Love, (If You’re Not in It for Love) I’m Outta Here, Any Man of Mine, Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under? and The Woman in Me (Needs the Man in You). Aside from You’re Still the One and From This Moment On, the phenomenal Come On Over yielded the title cut, Man! I Feel Like a Woman, That Don’t Impress Me Much, Honey I’m Home, Don’t Be Stupid (You Know I Love You) and Love Get’s Me Every Time. From her last solo recording UP! comes Forever and for Always, I’m Gonna Getcha Good, Ka-Ching! and UP!
The sequence of the songs goes backwards with the cuts from UP! coming first, followed by those from Come On Over and The Woman in Me. What I find truly interesting is that this gives the listener a look into how Shania evolved from talented country singer into a big pop star through the years. It shows her music starting at country, the country getting some rock which changes into power ballads, that lightens into pop, where it gets that bright beat that has become her trademark.
Now that she is on top of the game, you won’t believe what she does. She goes back to country. Shania introduces three new songs in the album, two of them Don’t! and I Ain’t No Quitter are country songs. The other Party for Two strikes a balance between pop and country and is probably where Shania wants to be, enjoying both worlds.
http://www.philstar.com/philstar/NEWS200412171703.htm
John - :)