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INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT By her own volition,
Shania Twain has avoided the spotlight in recent years to concentrate
on the family life with her husband and 5-year-old son. However, she
re-emerged earlier this month for an appearance at the Academy of
Country Music Awards in Las Vegas and media interviews to promote
Shania Starlight, the second fragrance she has created for Stetson.
Twain's name also surfaced recently in the national media after "Rock
This Country!" -- her single released in 1999 -- was listed on Hillary
Clinton's Web site as a potential campaign song in the upcoming
presidential election. Twain is also working on a new album, although
a specific release date has not been scheduled.
CMT Insider spoke to Twain last week at Arena, a New York City
nightclub.
What did you learn from creating the first fragrance?
Twain: I learned a lot about scents ... about zoning in on what
I really love, what I like, because I haven't really thought about it
so deeply before. I never had to decide what my favorite scents were.
I basically just went into the shops, sprayed things on ... liked it
or didn't like it. So I did learn a lot from the first fragrance, and
I would say I even learned more with the second one because I had to
dig deeper.
I already had chosen so many of my favorite things that I wanted in a
fragrance, I didn't know what was left to choose for a second
fragrance. So I had to think more about what I wanted to say with the
second fragrance. And I think the first fragrance being so playful and
fresh ... it left some space for me to get a little bit sexier and do
a nighttime fragrance. And I would say it's more of a fragrance for
any occasion really because I really think you can wear this any time
of the day.
Glamour, I think, we find more at night. Things just shine better in
the dark. (laughs) And the bottle reflects that. It's bold, but it
does reflect the light. It's very sparkly. Not sparkly in the sense of
sparkles, but it reflects the light.
How would you compare Starlight to your first fragrance, Shania by
Stetson?
Twain: I just feel more experienced in life. Well, I am!
(laughs) I'm more experienced now. And I've been digging deeper lately
for my songwriting, and I feel that the sensuality of a woman is so
important. We abandon that a lot for ourselves and for our men, too.
We get caught up in our children. We get caught up in our careers. We
get caught up in thinking too hard. We get caught up in our vanity
even. And I think that's not a sexy thing to be -- distracted all the
time. So I think that we can sort of get into ourselves and realize
that, wow, we're pretty sexy beings and it's fun to be glamorous.
So I wanted to go into a direction of more glamour. And I think it's
very romantic to think of an occasion to be glamorous. I'm not someone
who is glamorous all the time. I am a very playful, down-to-earth
person, but I like to get glamorous. And I think Starlight expresses
that side of me.
At the ACM Awards, you said you're currently in the songwriting
process for your new album and that you've been doing a lot of soul
searching. Is the music coming from a more spiritual perspective this
time around?
Twain: I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level. That's a
permanent occupation of mine, I think, for the rest of my life. ...
But I think I'm digging deeper and being more reflective ... even more
as a woman. ... I almost got a little bit tired of talking about the
woman's perspective for a little while, myself. And I thought that the
next record was going to be just deeper as a human being. But the more
I dig deeper as a human being, the stronger I feel about a woman's
perspective. (laughs) That is really crazy! So I just go full circle
and back to that.
I'm not a feminist. I can kind of just say that now. I was a bit
confused about that for a while, but I think more than ever now ... I
love the role that men play in our lives. And it just makes me feel
even that more important as a woman.
Hillary Clinton has asked her supporters to choose her campaign song,
and "Rock This Country!" is one of the nine choices she's posted on
her official Web site. Are you comfortable with your songs being used
in the political forum?
Twain: You know, I am, because I'm not the politician, and I
just completely remove myself from that. I don't have anything against
or for any particular person or point of view on politics. I have my
own opinions, but my songs don't share them. So my songs are just my
personality, and if somebody likes them enough to include them, I'm
flattered by that. I don't feel it's any reflection on myself or my
choices or anything like that at all. So I'm perfectly fine with it.
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