Londo
09-01-2000, 2:18am
I see that recently a lot of people are interested and make speculations about Mutt and his relationship with Shania. So I thought about letting Shania tell her own story on Mutt. This is a fragment of an article I found on shania.org. Some of you may have read it, but nevertheless I’ll post it. I could have shreded this into a few pieces and post them on the different topics that treated the particular aspects of their relationship, but I think it would be better to have it all in one place. Although it’s pretty long, it’s only a fragment. It could end some speculations about how things are going between them.
Note: R-reporter S-Shania
R: What do you call him? Robert?
S: (Guardedly) "Nope."
R: Robert John?
S: (Tersely) "Nope."
R: Robert John "Mutt"?
S: (Crossly) "Actually, I refer to him as "Mutt", but his name is Love to me."
R: And what about his mother? What does she call him?
S: "John, if anything. His mother called him John."
R: Do you accept your marriage looks pretty strange from the outside?
S: "It probably does, but if I could be like him I would. Him and I are so much the same. I respect, appreciate and envy him. He doesn't want to be famous and just because he's married a famous person, all of a sudden it's an issue. He's always been this way and that's a very admirable quality."
R: Do you get lonely, with him never being there?
S: "Oh yes, when I'm away from him, I don't like it. I hate it. I hate being away from him."
R: Do you ever go back from, say, awards ceremonies and say, Where wee you? I needed you?
S: "No. I don't take those seriously. A family members always comes with me. It's not like I'm sitting there holding my husband's hand going Am I gonna win, am I gonna win? That's so dramatic and I'm not like that. It's certainly nothing I would need my husband there for, my goodness."
R: Why isn't he in the wedding photographs?
S: "He's in there! He's in lots of them. I gave the press one without him, so that he wouldn't have to be anywhere."
R: Isn't that odd?
S: "Nooo. Being a celebrity couple is so tacky, common, corny and embarrassing to him and I totally understand it. What the hell does it have to do with my music? Nothing."
R: What's he like?
S: (Takes a deep breath so deep it almost sucks up the Claridge's string quartet) "You'd love him. Everybody who knows him loves him. He loves good conversation; he's a very intelligent person; he reads a lot; he's a real history buff; he loves fashion and likes to keep up with the latest of everything; he's very into the aesthetic of things, which is real fun for a girl when we're shopping. At the same time he's a major sports buff and he loves European football, and absolute fanatic. He's a wonderful guy. He's very gentle. People get a good vibe from him and they love him, he's very sweet and kind. There is no-one that he could not get along with. He's an avid gardener too."
R: So why keep saying you have a low sex drive then?
S: "Pah! Never said that. I may have said that I'm not a very sexual person, not the type who needs to flirt. My videos are sexy and I have quite a lot of fun with that, but I'm not a very sexual person, I'm just not like that. I like good clean fun myself. Mind you, behind closed doors, my husband finds me pretty sexy. It would be really awful if he didn't, very sad for me and 'Mutt'."
R: Would you be less successful without "Mutt"?
S: "I wouldn't say I would have made it to this level. 'Mutt' has the fairy-dust and the magic. What we have is magical so it would be ridiculous to assume otherwise. It doesn't necessarily have to be 'Mutt', but it would need somebody that understands how to work with the type of artist I am."
R: Frankly she'd rather be at their main residence, a chateau in La Tour-Du-Peilz outside Geneva beneath some alps, with Lange, their horses and a dishwasher that doubles as a cooker.
S: "'Mutt' is completely bilingual, although he never knew a word of French before he moved. He's doing so well. He is the perfect guy."
The rest of the article may be found at this address: http://www.shania.org/articles/074.html
Note: R-reporter S-Shania
R: What do you call him? Robert?
S: (Guardedly) "Nope."
R: Robert John?
S: (Tersely) "Nope."
R: Robert John "Mutt"?
S: (Crossly) "Actually, I refer to him as "Mutt", but his name is Love to me."
R: And what about his mother? What does she call him?
S: "John, if anything. His mother called him John."
R: Do you accept your marriage looks pretty strange from the outside?
S: "It probably does, but if I could be like him I would. Him and I are so much the same. I respect, appreciate and envy him. He doesn't want to be famous and just because he's married a famous person, all of a sudden it's an issue. He's always been this way and that's a very admirable quality."
R: Do you get lonely, with him never being there?
S: "Oh yes, when I'm away from him, I don't like it. I hate it. I hate being away from him."
R: Do you ever go back from, say, awards ceremonies and say, Where wee you? I needed you?
S: "No. I don't take those seriously. A family members always comes with me. It's not like I'm sitting there holding my husband's hand going Am I gonna win, am I gonna win? That's so dramatic and I'm not like that. It's certainly nothing I would need my husband there for, my goodness."
R: Why isn't he in the wedding photographs?
S: "He's in there! He's in lots of them. I gave the press one without him, so that he wouldn't have to be anywhere."
R: Isn't that odd?
S: "Nooo. Being a celebrity couple is so tacky, common, corny and embarrassing to him and I totally understand it. What the hell does it have to do with my music? Nothing."
R: What's he like?
S: (Takes a deep breath so deep it almost sucks up the Claridge's string quartet) "You'd love him. Everybody who knows him loves him. He loves good conversation; he's a very intelligent person; he reads a lot; he's a real history buff; he loves fashion and likes to keep up with the latest of everything; he's very into the aesthetic of things, which is real fun for a girl when we're shopping. At the same time he's a major sports buff and he loves European football, and absolute fanatic. He's a wonderful guy. He's very gentle. People get a good vibe from him and they love him, he's very sweet and kind. There is no-one that he could not get along with. He's an avid gardener too."
R: So why keep saying you have a low sex drive then?
S: "Pah! Never said that. I may have said that I'm not a very sexual person, not the type who needs to flirt. My videos are sexy and I have quite a lot of fun with that, but I'm not a very sexual person, I'm just not like that. I like good clean fun myself. Mind you, behind closed doors, my husband finds me pretty sexy. It would be really awful if he didn't, very sad for me and 'Mutt'."
R: Would you be less successful without "Mutt"?
S: "I wouldn't say I would have made it to this level. 'Mutt' has the fairy-dust and the magic. What we have is magical so it would be ridiculous to assume otherwise. It doesn't necessarily have to be 'Mutt', but it would need somebody that understands how to work with the type of artist I am."
R: Frankly she'd rather be at their main residence, a chateau in La Tour-Du-Peilz outside Geneva beneath some alps, with Lange, their horses and a dishwasher that doubles as a cooker.
S: "'Mutt' is completely bilingual, although he never knew a word of French before he moved. He's doing so well. He is the perfect guy."
The rest of the article may be found at this address: http://www.shania.org/articles/074.html