Shania's Very Distant Music Future

[Justin]

I have a question for all you fans out there that I want you to answer seriously and not just because you are a SUPER FAN like me. The question is what do you think will come of Shania's career from now until she is like 80 or so as far as music is concerned? Do you think she will continue to be famous and make top songs and dedicate her life to music, or is she just famous for like a 10 year period of time because people do not accept her music like they do today (which happens to many many popular artists today for example early 90's Mc Hammer), or will they be like Celine Dion and retire early in their career? Of course there are many other options but you can fill in the blanks. My opinion personally is she will continue to make music all throughout her life kind of like Cher but will likely peak in fame and sales with her next album and make another peak later on down the line. I also believe that she will always take breaks throughout her life to work on music creation like she is doing now. I believe that those breaks may get slightly longer as she gets older, but there will always be her music passion which will always drive her produce great songs. So all in all I think Shania will be around a LONG time which is ironically what I HOPE will happen! But truthfully that is what I feel will come of her career. What are your thoughts? (oh and 1 more thing I will be gone until march 9th for Spring Break but will be back and ready to talk about Shania when I get back http://www.shania.net/shaniaforum/smile.gif)

Justin

[slick]

I think she will be around for a long time like Madonna and Cher. But I also think as she gets older she will start getting into songwriting more. And start writing for other artists. But I don't think she will ever completely stop her career. And as fan I know I'll always love her!!!

[bubbalee]

I hope Shania is around forever, but I dont see her able to continue the kind of long term succsess she is currently enjoying. There will come a time where her albums will not sell like they do and she wont be able to buy a top ten hit. It stinks but it will happen. The pop charts are to fickel and older artist rarely can crack the top 40, let alone the top 10. The recent sucsess of Cher is a fluke and Madonna is definitly showing signs of fading. Shania will eventualy have to turn her focus back towards country music, because thats where her long term sucsess will really shine.

[La]

I hope Shania sticks around forever, and even think her music is pretty timeless...but somehow I think she's going to focus more on songwriting and stuff as she gets older...or I see her singing and writing mellower stuff...can't really see her doing another 'Any Man Of Mine' when she's 60 http://www.shania.net/shaniaforum/smile.gif
But I hope hope hope she never retires....what'll we do without her happy music????

[Stephania5]

I think that right NOW, Shania is sort of going to be out for a while. People, including me, are going to get tired of listening to her same music over and over again. What I mean is, she hasn't released an album since 1997, and now that her tour is over, I think that people are going to lose her. Right now, I am broadening my horizons, and starting likings for other artists. But when Shania releases her new album, I'll love it and buy it. And I think that this is true for most people: Once a Shania fan- always a Shania fan! http://www.shania.net/shaniaforum/smile.gif

[Dushyant]

Stephania5 I agree with you. I think that right now is the time where Shania's music will be "out". Its obvious that that would happen because she is not on any T.V shows or radio shows or plugging any new singles so they do not sell as much. Although I have only been listing to COO for about 5 months so I don't mind when a new album comes out but I hope it is soon :-).

Regarding her future success I think she will be successful for many, many years to come as long as she makes more albums like COO. The problem with COO is that it is so good that people will expect the next album to be better, and if the next album is better. Than the next after that to be even better and even she cannot go on like this forever (although I hope she does :-)

[sjef]

I hope she's gonna write a couple of (mature) ballads. That's gonna be good for airplay!
Plus even more people can get into her music that way.

I'm totally nuts about this wondergirl.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to see her live in concert. Hope she's coming over to Holland next year.

Thank god I have a couple of tv-shows on tape. Wonderful music to listen to while driving and working.
Do have: Miami/London/Dallas/Diva's live/Top of the Pops.
Anyone who has different venues, please let me know if you can put the music on CDR for me.
Thanks a lot.

[Zee]

Well, I hope Shania's musical future is not that distant, LOL, but I know what ya mean. LOL Yeah, Shania's got what it takes, the voice, the talent, the business savy, the looks, etc. to stay on top as long as she wants.

[Heather]

I may be a little tired of COO, but never tired of Shania as an artist. I think that the people who would be a little tired of Shania would be the fans that were into her and COO when it first came out in '97. But, since then Shania has crossed over and has broadened her fanbase. Shania is relatively new to a lot of people outside the country music community so I wouldn't say that she has worn out her welcome. I think that keeping a low profile for most of the year is a great idea. It would serve to put a lid on potential overkill. However, I don't think that Shania will run the risk of being the overkill queen like Britney Spears or Aguilera. She is a mature artist with a lot of longevity and her next album will no doubt be welcomed by old and new fans http://www.shania.net/shaniaforum/smile.gif

[RJ]

Justin,

I had a substantial idea about a great goal for Shania's future music. But I got kinda carried away and started writing my ideas like poetry. It's a pretty rough draft. Hate to post it here and have it misunderstood or treated roughly until it's developed enough to stand on it's own. Know anyone who's a poet (or songwriter) who might be interested in collaborating on it?
RJ

[Ice838]

Like I said before, Its so hard to stay on top. You have to diffrental your writeing a little, without going to far away from your original style. But I also said I think she needs to do a little more of her own work, without mutt. To get out of that mold. And maby do some writeing with others. But I have a feeling the next will be one of the hardest to write. Because even at this time she is proabaly woundering, what next? I forsee alot of ballads proably, unfourtanatly. Becuase I think her main draw, is her fast paced songs

[RJ]

Ice838, Yes, I think her fast paces songs are her main draw too. Yet she calls her favorites the softer ones like "When." I honestly think some of her ballads move me more profoundly than the stomp and shout songs. So even tho the lively ones are terrific mood lifters, I look forward to her ballads.

[rneagle]

I think Shania will be around forever , because her music will change and still will be popular in the country music business . I do hope that she does not decide to retire early . Ricky Neagle

[Ice838]

Actually I never looked at when as a slow song. But Its one of my Fav. No its not fast either. I like how she sorta talks the verses out, with the cow over the moon stuff, and that strong tight back beet. And then it kicks in to another whole area. And she sings the when parts. Chourus""" With smoth arangment for the courous. ahh spelling. But its awsome. I think she's at her best when she moves around alot vocaley in a song like that.

[Timminite2]

I think that she will continue for a little while longer to make More #1"s and work hard as you said JUSTIN and then she will slack off a little.. Besides she may get burned out and we don't want to see that ..
I pretty much agree with you justin... http://www.shania.net/shaniaforum/smile.gif

[Harriet]

Shania is still on her way up to the top!!!!!
I'm not just saying that because I'm a fan, but I mean - would Sir Elton John do a concert with her if she wasn't??? Of course, he is completely different to her, but he is at the top and I think he would know!!!! He said that she has 'something' that not everyone else has got. She's just started in my opinion and has a long way to go before she goes down or retires.

[Justin]

Hey RJ, I write music all the time and am very much involved in creating music (actually I am minoring in it at my college thanks to Shania's and her band member's inspiration), but I think it would be GREAT to look it over and maybe work on a song with you over it. my e-mail is gte888s@prism.gatech.edu

Talk to ya soon,
Justin

[Ice838]

I write too, but being sucessfull and good is too diffrent things. When I was 18 "now 28" I won many solo awards. But my writeing skills at the time sucked. It was a big thing in the 80's guitara compititons. Espically in the 80's down in Miami Beach. To say im not lieing ill tell you all my equipment. First of all I play A Peavey Wolfgang EVH, elctric. Not comercialised, but one of the best rounded guitars around. I use a old Yamaha FX500 effects proccesor for sounds. Plus a Boss Metal zone pedal. My arangements are done on a Boss DR-5 rythem machine, also a old RoLand DR 10 keyboard. And A Alesis sequncer, to hold it all. I even use a cheap Yamaha PSR 300 "real cheap keyboard" for extra synths". Other guitar include a old electric " Westone, Elctric Westone" And a acustic Gibson "Epiphone". I use Fostex 8 for recording. And thats about it. I also got some old type of nylon string acustic I use sometimes. And I use a Seymore Duncan SA-1 Acustic sound hole pickup, to record acustic guitars. Yes a 100 doller picuckup for the Acustic guitar. And I think thats it.

[RJ]

Justin,

Ok. Good. I'll send it. Have to go through an outside channel. Emails from this site require use of my MSIE 3.02 browser, which I do not have set up to send my email. I have all my stuff set up for sending thru compuserve.

As for the actual song lyrics draft, I just went right brain creative. It was great fun. But then I started to focus more on rhym and rhythm and realized it is only getting started as a poem/song. But there are quite a few meanings, sensitivities and ideas there.

I was going to access some references for rhyming words, to start balancing things out, but hadn't gotten to that part yet.

You'll find a bit of 4/4 time mixed with what might be iambic pentameter - kinda strange and unintended. Now if I was a musician/songwriter like Shania, I could change on a dime between many beats & moods, and let that actually improve the dynamics, interest and quality of the song, maybe like Ice838 was alluding to earlier.