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Over 100 million albums sold since the 1990s, Shania Twain has secured the title of Queen of Country-Pop. And even though the native Canadian made most of her record sales in the USA, the UK and her homeland, she showed herself in Germany with the 1997 mega-seller COME ON OVER and a single hit like “That Don’t Impress Me Much”. After Twain was ill between the albums UP! and NOW had to let fifteen years pass, the waiting time for their third release in this millennium was relatively short at six years.
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QUEEN OF ME stages the 57-year-old as a contemporary pop artist and power woman who applies a lot of auto-tune and, apart from a rare alibi guitar, only lets the country factor shine through in the vocal or narrative style. Among the many songs that form the musical equivalent of colorfully bubbling bath pearls, “Waking Up Dreaming”, which is dramaturgically related to “The Boys Of Summer”, but also the more witty and cleverly produced title track, stands out. The finesse and probably also the creative corrective of Twain’s former husband, sound director and composition partner Robert John “Mutt” Lange (Def Leppard, Bryan Adams) is still missing.
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