Shania Twain In the News May 2004

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0405.30-VOTE FOR SHANIA!!!!!! [CMT]:

Remember to Vote for Shania for the CMT Top 40 Sexiest Videos!!!! Vote every day!!! The final results will be on June 19th. VOTE!!!

0405.27-Shania gets her butt slapped, and an apology:

At Shania's Omaha concert on the 25th, After singing "The Woman in Me" from a seat in the lower deck, Twain gently chastised several people for smacking her "in places they shouldn't" on her way back to the stage. A short time later, she asked for volunteers who knew the words to sing the romantic ballad "You're Still the One" with her on stage. The chosen volunteer was not well-versed on the lyrics. Through it all, the pop-country superstar remained gracious. She even invited one of the quick-handed perpetrators - who admitted his action and apologized - on stage. To read the review click here. Thanks to Tiger23, on the STNAOFC boards, we have an eyewitness account.....Now as far the butt-slapping fiasco goes a couple of things. First I can’t believe something like this happened in Omaha, Nebraska, of all places. Having lived in the upper Midwest my entire life, I can vouch for the fact we are traditionally very conservative, reserved and polite. This chump was an exception, so please don’t think we are all a bunch of rude, perverted rednecks. The crowd was just as appalled as Shania. Second, my hats off to Shania as she took a negative situation and handled it in a very firm, yet gracious way. Here’s a brief rundown of what happened from memory After TDIMM, Shania pauses and has kind of a strange look on her face. She says something to the effect of, “Thank you, you guys are very friendly, in fact some of you are a little too friendly. I’ve never had this happen before, but on my way back to the stage two people touched me in places they shouldn’t have. And I DID NOT dig it.” Right on cue Andy or Cory says “Hey, if you want to touch her ask.” Everyone busts out laughing and Shania giggling turns around and salutes whoever said it and quips "Good One!" (Kudos to Cory or Andy, that was classic.) (Shania spins around with a determined look on her face and points to a security guard next to one of the monitor consoles) “And you saw one of them didn’t you, (he nods) please go out and fetch that person. I want to have a little chat with him.” So she starts introducing YSTO and prepping the crowd to find someone to sing it. Security marches a tall young guy probably in his 20s up to stage and crowd is kind of murmuring and some people are booing. She brings the guy up on stage and he is absolutely beet red. Shania asks him his name and then slaps him pretty good upside the shoulder and says “What the heck were you thinking?” He says “That was an accident.” Shania responds with something like un-huh or yeah right and then says “For an accident you got me pretty good, we talking full contact here. Well can I get an apology?” He says emphatically “I am sooo sorry.” She says something like well you should be and while you’re up here you’re going to sing for us. She then asks him if he knows the words to any of her songs and if he has a favorite song and he says You’ve Got A Way. So Shania sings a little of it and then swings the mic his way and he sheepishly stands there. She asks “Do you know the words or are you shy.” He responds “I’m a little shy.” Shania spins around to the audience and parrots “Oh I am a little shy…thwack (makes a swatting jesture.) OK..well, your shyness is still stinging my back side.” Once again the crowd roars and he turns another shade of red. Then she shot the breeze with him briefly about how he was wearing a nice dress shirt similar to one that she had just bought for Mutt that had wildlife stuff on the buttons. Then she says “Well you were a pretty good sport to come up here and you did apologize so I suppose we can let you go.”

0405.27-Greatest Hits CD Confirmed [Press Release]:

Get Ready!!! Looks like Shania fans will get a "new" Shania CD for Christmas this year. UMG/N has announced that upcoming releases for 2004 include...Major new releases for the remainder of the year include Greatest Hits.....Shania Twain.

0405.25-Shania Twain Centre goes to Nashville:

The Shania Twain Centre will have a booth at this year's CMA Festival in Nashville this June. Tracy, who runs the Centre will be there, and will be bring with her some of Shania's outfits to put on display. They will be promoting the Centre and this years second annual fan convention in August. Go to the Shania Twain Centre website for further details. For further information on the CMA Festival, check out their website.

0405.25-Shania, video editor [Net Music]:

From the beginning of her career Shania Twain has had creative control of her videos, a power that helped save her career early on, and helped take it through the roof later on. Shania says she still remains close to, or at the helm of her video productions. "I think the best thing about making videos is the whole creative process. I like being part of the direction of the whole video, I edit my own videos, so I enjoy all of that part the most to be honest with you. I don’t necessarily enjoy being in the video so much. It’s a tough thing to do, if you’re just a live performer it’s really tough to do the same thing over and over and over and over again. So that’s probably my least favorite part, just the whole repetitive part of it."

0405.23-Shania's next album????? [Randall Waller]:

Randall Waller has mentioned that the next project Shania will be working on is a "Greatest Hits" CD. ".....I know they (Shania & Mutt) are going to do a greatest hits record soon, - as far as I know there are no plans to tour after that is done - but as we all know, these things can change very quickly. " Keep in mind there has been no official announcement of this album at this time.

0405.22-Mutt: By Randall Waller [Randall Waller]:

On Randall's board, he was asked a question about Mutt. This was his reply: yes it's true Mutt does only ever work with the best - I slipped in the back door one day and have hung around like a bad smell ever since despite effort's to fumigate - as it were...... truly though - he's an extraordinary person. Has definitely influenced my life in all positive ways.
The thing he said the spoke most strongly to me was about compromise.
He said why would you not make the very best record that you could - I said something along the lines of " well, not all budgets are open-ended" - but he said that he realised that and that within those constraints one should push hard to make THE best record possible within the given parameters - he went on to say there are no prizes for the producers that bring in the most records on time - or under budget - prizes are for the BEST - only the best. I guess he's saying that in the end no one will remember the producer who is the most efficient, of prompt, or economical - what will be remembered are timeless, hit songs - and he's been a part of more of these than maybe all the rest of the record producers in the world put together if you look at sheer numbers. Having said all that - he's a complete gentleman, very well-rounded, very well read, funny and fun. It has been a true privilege.

0405.22-2003 Delilah Shania interview [Delilah]:

Interview - click here Delilah caught up with the very busy Shania Twain a while ago and interviewed her about her latest album, "Up!" Shania is part of an elite list of performers who are also mothers; Delilah asked Shania how motherhood has affected her professional life and how her songs have changed with her new perspective as a mother. Shania hits the road this fall with a tour in support of "Up!" and is currently in the production phase of the tour. She will also be featured in a health and beauty issue of a famous women's magazine - listen to the interview for more details!

0405.18-Tracy talks about Fan Con 2 [Globe and Mail]:

TIMMINS, ONT. -- 'I voted right away," says Tracy Hautanen, on her way to a quick smile. "It's my job." Her job is Shania Twain. Hautanen is the manager of what is surely the most American attraction in all of Canada: the Shania Twain Centre. The centre, $5.5-million worth of curving concrete, display cases and a video theatre, sits in the southeast corner of a gold-mining town that used to bill itself as "Canada's largest municipality" (covering more than 320,000 hectares of Northern Ontario) but now thinks of itself as the hometown of the biggest-selling female solo recording artist in the world.....No matter that Shania Twain was actually born Eileen Edwards in Windsor, Ont., nearly 39 years ago. She calls Timmins home, and this is where her country-singing career began. There is also a great deal of Canada, even though Twain has long since been a Nashville star and lives in a 46-room chateau in Switzerland. In a back room of the centre, Hautanen is preparing a brand-new exhibit to feature sports: Twain's Ottawa Senators gown worn for a concert in Ottawa, the nearly kinky Maple Leafs outfit she wore in Toronto, a football from the Grey Cup. "I'm a Canadian through and through," says a blown-up quote in one display. "And I'm very proud of that." So, too, is Tracy Hautanen, and the "vote" she was talking about was cast for Twain to be named one of the finalists for the CBC's "The Greatest Canadian" contest, which came to a close yesterday.

0405.18-Shania Auction for charity

Arguably the most popular female Country superstar in the world, the lovely and talented Shania Twain has donated an autographed Epiphone acoustic guitar to this year's "Country for the Cause" auction. This is as good as it gets as far as memorabilia go. The final bid was $910.

0405.18-Shania wins 2 BMI Awards:

Shania took home two BMI Pop Awards for "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!", and "Forever and For Always". "BMI's Citation of Achievement performance certificates are given annually in recognition of popularity in the field of popular music, as measured by feature broadcast performances on American radio and television."

0405.11-Shania owned the house [London Press]:

Nobody rules centre ice at the John Labatt Centre like Shania Twain. Using an "in-the-round" format to get up close and personal last night, the Canadian superstar jumped, strutted and ran all over the centre-ice stage. She was surrounded by a centre single-night record crowd of 10,269 Twain superfans. Many of the lucky ones were able to reach up to the stage and have the star bend or kneel for one of the countless autographs or high-fives she handed out. Twain is back at the centre for another sold-out show tonight. Among the many fans who held up signs, Twain seemed to get the biggest kick from a woman whose sign said yesterday was her due date. "I went to an AC/DC concert when I was about seven months pregnant," Twain smiled, wishing the mother-to-be well. "This is the baby's first Shania concert."

0405.08-Shania-"family comes first" [Country Weekly]: Be sure to pick up the latest issue of Country Weekly. Shania says her family will always come first. The pop-country queen reigns supreme, yet she's able to keep much of her life private. That's because she makes her home in Switzerland, with her husband-producer "Mutt" Lange and their son, Eja, who turns three in August. Far away from photographers and celebrity-seekers, Shania is free to step into the roles of wife and mother without distractions. "I'm always in a family mode," she says sweetly. "I love just being at home and spending time with my son." And Shania makes sure that it's quality time. "It's tiring, but I make little rules, you know," she explains. "I like to be home every night for bath and bed time, and we always spend our mornings together. We manage to spend more time together than most mums who work eight-to-five get to." Even on the road, Shania is determined to be a hands-on mom. Eja often travels with Shania and seems to adjust to road life, with mother's help. "We get to establish a routine," she says. "I don't bring him to the venue too often, because he's usually off doing other things, like swimming or ice skating. But I put him to bed every night. He's been dealing with this life from the time he was born, so this is really second nature to him. He's a good little boy, not a hyper kid at all." That's a case of the apple not falling far from the tree. "I was always the kind of kid who was happy playing by myself," admits Shania with a laugh. "He's very much like that."

0405.08-Back to back sold out shows [London Press]:

About 10,200 Twain tickets sold out for each of the London shows. In minutes. "For a single show, this would be our highest capacity (about 10,260)," says centre general manager Brian Ohl. "We'll be over $1 million Canadian (each night). They're single-night records for us."

0405.08-VOTE FOR SHANIA!!!! [CMT]:

CMT has yet another "40 Greatest Sexiest Video" list. Shania has three videos on the list. "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!", "You're Still The One", and "Forever and For Always" VOTE!!!! Let's make sure Shania is at the top of the list when the show airs June 19th!!!!

0405.08-Shania gets an A+ for interaction [The State]:

In review of Shania's performance at the Colonial Center, Shania was given an A+ for her interaction with the fans.

Twain: She probably touched 500 fans, and these people were allowed to leave their seats and rush the stage. You should’ve seen the contorted faces of happiness after fans touched Shania. She even sang a song while sitting in the crowd — extra credit! Twain earned an A++, but the annoying way she kept pronouncing Columbia, the last syllable over-enunciated, knocks it down to A+.

0405.08-Brent Barcus Update [xboard]:

Brent's last concert with Shania was at Charlotte, NC. Although no official statement has been released, the following was posted on Randall's site:

Not sure if you've heard but Brent has left the band - had his last show a few nights ago and so this has thrown a bit more responsibility my way, and Cory's way - we were so sorry to see him go but he felt he needed to move on.

0405.08-Randall Waller's site is now open [xboard]:

Check out the NEW message board on Randall Waller's website. You can even post questions, that he may answer, under the "Ask Randall" forum.

0405.04-Gordon Lightfoot likes Shania [Ottawa]:

Singer / Songwriter Gordon Lightfoot points to Shania Twain as a really good songwriter, a talent not usually considered her main show business attribute. "If she couldn't write those songs, man, there'd be nothing happening!"

0405.03-Brent Barcus has left the band [JD Blair]:

It was announced on JD Blair's web site that Brent Barcus has left Shania's band for a "higher calling" Here is the original message from JD's site:

Well, besta luck 2 BB. He split az of last nite. He hadda higher kawlN, so 'nuff said `bout dat.
Good luck with whatever you are working on Brent!!! You will be missed by Shania's fans!!!!

0405.02-Shania fans camp out for tickets [KCBD]:

Chilly temperatures didn't stop Shania Twain fans. Hundreds of people of all ages stood in line Saturday morning to buy tickets for her June 26th concert. 400 floor seats at the United Spirit Arena sold out within the first hour of ticket sales, and even though cold weather may have affected the length of ticket lines, it didn't discourage those true Shania fans.

0405.02-When You Kiss Me, CMT Poll [CMT]:

CMT USA is playing both versions of Shania's video "When You Kiss Me". You can vote on which version you like best. The first version has a photographer following Shania around various locations, while the second version is Shania walking along a beach at night. You can watch the videos on line, and remember to vote!!! Watch the videos!!!