If it’s 15 years since you made an album and you have already sold 75 million albums exacting the same formula would be the smart thing to do.
But in 2017 Shania Twain is going to do things her own way.
Looking for the inner voice.
To me this album sounds personal.
In fact her most personal album of her career.
Twain decided to write all of the songs on this new cd.
Off the top you should know this is a very diverse set of songs.
I applaud Twain’s courage.
This album has no reference to the Mutt Lange blockbuster hooks of her career.
For this fact only you don’t know how this album will be received worldwide
This is a pop personal recording.
Not Bruce Springsteen or Chris Stapleton personal.
Twain personal in a pop world.
She could have had 20 or more different c0-writers like every other top artist in the industry.
Personally I don’t like that trend.
It waters down the music to a bland formula.
In fact, over the radio in the last few years I have heard some of the worst songs.
For some reason some of them are hits.
With Now the Timmins’ Ontario hometown sweetheart and international star goes inside herself.
Swingin’ With My Eyes Closed opens with an Any Man of Mine riff but leads to a sing a long anthem that will have audiences fist bumping and swinging.
Home has a distinct folk but courageous feel and Light of My Life has an almost Nancy Sinatra via 2017 sound.
Personally this alternative feel you would never think would come out of Twain’s songwriting.
It’s a beauty.
Four songs into this album and you realize Twain is getting emotional.
Again Poor Me goes far inside “it’s not white it’s not black, can’t believe he would leave me to love her”
Holy crap you gotta love this folks.
Soldier the piano ballad is a killer vocal performance with no fluff, and that goes ditto for the simplicity of the track Because of You.
We Got Something They Don’t and the first single Life’s About To Get Good sound like solid radio fare but are not the best of what this album offers.
In the end there is a lot to love about the independence of Twain on this album.
Her fans will be behind this album and the tour.
Make no mistake.
Come On Over part 2 this is not.
But that’s ok, this album connects big time on an emotional level.
This album is available Sept 29 2017
JOHN EMMS is a Timmins born songwriter/musician who fronts up Canadian Blues Rockers THE SHAFTMEN
John is also a Post Media music contributor and veteran music writer.
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