i got a pleasent surprise when i got my tv guide today it has an interview with Shania.
i don't have a scanner but i did type it for you.
it also contains a beautiful picture of shania lying in a hammock. one of her with mutt and one of shania on the up tour.
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With a new greatest hits cd and a performance at the CMA Awards, the nashville outsider turned swiss miss lets us into her very private life by mary murphy

THE SECRET WORLD OF SHANIA TWAIN

switzerland is the home of great chocolate secret bank accounts and not surprisingly celebrities who enjoy privacy. To meet shania twain you have to find the resort town of montreux nestled in a valley next to genevas giant lake. The country is a place isolated from the world at large by geography abd by the swiss tradition of discretion. No wonder david bowie tina turner and of course shania twain all have homes here.

Alone in the alps woth only her husband and producer robert john mutt lange 55 and their son eja 3 she's certainly come a long way from her grim canadian childhood. Now after finishing a 10-month world tour in July to promote her last cd UP! The 39 year old twain doesn't want another tour or granny or a tv series like reba mcintire or even another cappuccino. She just wants to take a break. I feel like I have given everything I can, she tells tv guide.

Tired is what you get when you work hard. Twain is the most successful female crossover artist of her time. She's been performing since she was 8 won countless awards and sold more than 65 million records worldwide. Her fifth album shania twain greatest hits ( with 3 new cuts written by twain and lange) is due out nov.9. That same day shania will be a special guest when brooks and dunn host the CMAs despite her contentious relationship with the CMA. She has really been left out of the loop says country singer toby keith. "I don't feel like they really have accepted her-or me."

While that maybe so on stage twain is a huge star a country-pop singing dynamo. But during this interview she is quiet reflective friendly and full of surprises. One of them may be that her familys move to switzerland is just a first step in their exit from the world stage. Last September she and lange closed a reported 14 million deal on a huge farm on new zealand's south island where the couple may spend part of each year-half a planet away from nashville.

Do you know that people think you live here because you're hiding something?
[laughs] Well I have a lot of secrets. One of them is that I am an alien.

What else is surprising about you?
I hate showering. I always bathe. My favorite junk food is Goodies [candy]. And my favorite thing is to put eja in a stroller walk to our pizza joint pig out on pizza and walk back to work it off.

Seriously why do you live here?
I like living like a normal person. I can't live in canada or london. You have to avoid doing normal things and that drives me nuts.

So it's you the baby and mutt. Who do you turn to if you have a fight?
I never talk to anybody about our fights. I am not going to get outside opinions. It just confuses me. Just like when we do our music. Having someone else control our music would be creative hell.

So you do have fight?
Sure there are days I would like to throw him in lake geneva. But thats a pretty big lake. I figure if I did I would never find him again and by the next day I would be sorry and it would be too late.

You have 3 new songs on the album. "Don't" is about a troubled relationship. People may think it's about yours.
It's not like some deep dark secret is going to come out in our music.

What does mutt call you-shania or eillen the name you grew up with?
Woody. Because when I first met him I had early 90's hair and when I tied it back in a ponytail I looked like woody woodpecker.

How do you parent eja?
I'm more the disciplinarian. Mutt doesn't see anything wrong with having chocolate if you are in the mood for chocolate. But when the kid is 3 and it is a half hour until dinner the kid can't have chocolate.

do you want to have any more children?
I don't think so. I don't want any more work. And babies are work.

Did you know they're making a tv- movie about you in canada?
I'm not involved. They are not going to get it right because they don't know me. I am not trying to hide anything but there are things I can't discuss a lot of what was in my childhood. That whole period was quite dark and not everything is known.

You often talk about your stepfather jerry twain but you never mention your birth father clarence edwards who split from your mom sharon when you were 2.
I have 2 memories of him. One when I was only 2 and he came for a visit and he was angry at me for something. And then when I was 4 he came to visit my mother I was sleeping but I could hear his boots and I was petrified. I saw him again when I was 17. He didn't seem like somebody I would have a lot to say to. It was not emotional at all for me.

Your mother had drive for you. But was she a depressed person?
I don't think she was [clinically] depressed. She was depressed by circumstances. There would be no money for groceries for 2 weeks so my mother would stay in bed for 2 weeks.

Do you get depressed like your mom?
No. Because I am a fighter. I will find a way to carry on.

You have been performing since you were 8. At 11 your mom was pulling you out of bed to sing in bars.
I hated it because I knew I was probably not going to go to school the next day. And when I did I would have to lie and say I was sick. It was just dysfunctional. I never ever wanted to be the center of attention. It is just during my last 2 tours that I have found the confidence to enjoy it.

It's amazing. You are the best selling female country artist of all time and you hate the limelight.
I really am tortured in that I just want to be a creative person. If I could put my music on a canvas and not be in the room and let the canvas be the star that would be my greatest pleasure.

Why release a greatest hits album now?
First of all I believe in them. A lot of my [cd] collection is greatest hits. Second I don't get a chance to look back very often because I am so busy living in the freaking future.

Do you think you will back out of performing and just write?
Very possibly. In my sixties I don't think I am going to be planning a world tour. I just think I would like to write more and watch other people perform.

I've been told you can get very angry on tour.
I'm not an explosive person. I can get p----ed off. I need space every now and then.

You have had a very contentious relationship with nashville. How do you feel about appearing on the CMA awards this year?
I think I am finally getting more respect. I feel like when I walk in there they can look me in the eye and treat me like an adult. I feel I have proven myself.

And how tough has that been?
You've got a record company investing in you a promotional team make up artists. My husband was part of all the projects. I have been the lead dog for so long. I'm tired of being the lead dog.

Interesting interview, it seems that they cut out alot of what shania said and just put in stuff that would make it exciting, interesting, and funny.

thank u for posting it and typing it what tv guide is this...whos on front cover?

on the cover is desperate housewives stars teri hatcher marcia cross felicity huffman and eva longoria

Thanks, I will have to check out that then.

I found out alot of interesting stuff but what I liked most was this question & comment:

You often talk about your stepfather jerry twain but you never mention your birth father clarence edwards who split from your mom sharon when you were 2.
"I have 2 memories of him. One when I was only 2 and he came for a visit and he was angry at me for something. And then when I was 4 he came to visit my mother I was sleeping but I could hear his boots and I was petrified. I saw him again when I was 17. He didn’t seem like somebody I would have a lot to say to. It was not emotional at all for me."




I never really knew many details. about shania and her father...and this really reminds me of my father and I. I was 3 and it really all happened the same way, WOW crazy, I finally have something in common with Shania. I really know how she felt.

Thanks for typing this up!

<<<You have had a very contentious relationship with nashville. How do you feel about appearing on the CMA awards this year?

I think I am finally getting more respect. >>>

Um, Shania, they haven't nominated you for anything for the past two years. If this is more respect, I'd sure hate to see less...

LOL, that is what I was gonna say, maybe she was just maintaining her classiness. I think that more and more artists respect her but still not Nashville Execs

This proves what has been talked about for months now. Shania is done being a world wide superstar The reason her songs, albums don't get promo overseas is because she is downsizing.

Great article too.

LMAO!!! So she has been reading the boards, HAHA! I love her sense of humor!!





Yep, they have a normal relationship, that is the way it is with all MEN!lol




So does this mean she will be performing until maybe 50??? I would be happy with no tour as long as Shania doesn't stop putting out her great music!



What does she mean by this?

I think this interview is kinda odd. It really doesn't sound like things she would say. Anyway, it's nice to see Shania back again.

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Men are like shoes....made to confuse
There are so many of them...I don't know which ones to choose!

Good interview. It was especially interesting how she asked Shania about her relationship with Nashville and how she feels about appearing on the CMAs. I don't remember any other interviewer asking her that question before.

I'm very interested to see the CMAs to find out what it means to be a "special guest". I still don't really like the way that sounds... Somehow I have this feeling that it is just a trick to get us watching, but then Shania will only have one small appearance (plus her performance). I hope that I am surpised and that they do actually show her some respect, but I'm not holding my breath.

maybe she was referring to the fact that mutt was involved in all the projects for the up tour so all the decisions weren't up to her

...and here I thought it was Celine who was the alien...if the CMAs give Shania a tidbit of time they are the losers, not Shania...her fans will rebel and give their ceremonies and other "artists" in the future even less time and money than now...you can only suffer with fools for so long...I think Shania feels the same way...

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I agree, Ainahs!

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You're confusing things here.
Shania may don't want a Superstar media treatment anymore, but she won't concentrate on the NA market only. She won't leave almost half of her fans behind.
She has overseas promo, just not before but after the GH release, and it's perhaps more because the album was rushed up two weeks, and they could not build it otherwise.

I am sure, when she will releasing new music, she want it to be successful.

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Great interview. Thanks Shabas.

About touring Alanis Morissette said, she won't do a year long tour any more, because it need a year long recovery.

I think Shania will do the same.
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Interesting, that the Entertainemt Weekly interview, where she said she won't to disappear for another two years, was made in the same period probably, when all these new interviews.
They make a quite full picture .

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