Shania Twain's new memoir, From This Moment On, is not a light read. Discussing the book with Scott Simon in an interview for Weekend Edition Saturday, the hugely successful star sounds more like a Loretta Lynn-style mountain-girl survivor than the woman who showed Nashville what a midriff looks like.
The interview (which you can hear at the top of this post starting Saturday midday) is a killer listen. Twain reveals the abuse she and her mother both suffered at the hands of her stepfather and the dire poverty they endured after leaving him. She goes into detail about her humiliating divorce from her producer and primary musical collaborator, Robert "Mutt" Lange, who left her for one of her best friends in 2008. What Twain doesn't talk about much, though, is music — and the huge part she's played in inventing the current style of international pop superstardom.
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Probably Twain's most famous video, this clever twist on Robert Palmer's famed clip for "Addicted To Love" not only shows Twain at her glammed-up, self-aware best; it also connects crossover country to the rock world in no uncertain terms, expanding the genre's heritage in ways that directly reflect the eclectic tastes of its younger audience.
My favorite video of hers was Don't Be Stupid.
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
