Twain reaches Rolling Stone milestone
Shania Twain is on a major roll.
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�After receiving a whopping eight Canadian Country Music Award nominations and one Country Music Association nod this week, the fetching music superstar has confirmed she'll appear on an upcoming cover of Rolling Stone.
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�"As far as I know it is happening," Twain said yesterday prior to her sold-out show at the Molson Amphitheatre.
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�"I haven't seen it yet, but that's the scoop. We've done everything, so it's supposed to be coming out fairly shortly."
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�Twain said the Rolling Stone photo shoot involved her "standing in a wheat field. It's a very simple photograph. It's sensual but crisp and beautiful. It's color, it's nice, the wind is blowing."
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�Twain is now the best-selling female country artist in history -- her latest album, Come On Over, has sold 6.2 million copies worldwide, including 760,000 copies in Canada.
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�The singer said she considers the Rolling Stone cover another milestone in her exploding career.
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�"Yeah, I think so, because I always find that it's our challenge as artists to be accepted by wider and wider audiences, and it's not an easy thing to achieve," Twain said. "As artists, you might appeal to different types of audiences and, for the most part, I have country audiences that enjoy my music, which is fantastic, 'cause I'm a country fan and that's wonderful.
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�"But at the same time, I have a pop audience, and I have had it ever since the second album, The Woman In Me, and it's nice to finally see the industry is admitting to the fact that there are pop fans out there."
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�Twain arrived in Toronto on Thursday night after having some time off in Florida, where she now has a coastal home, in addition to the upper New York estate she and husband-producer Mutt Lange are currently selling. She plays a second sold-out show at the Amphitheatre tonight before moving on to Montreal for a Monday night performance.
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�While USA Today suggested this week that Twain may have been slighted because of her sole CMA nomination for best album, she looks at it differently. Particularly in light of the leading eight CCMA nods she got.
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�"It works both ways," she said. "Sometimes I have a lot (of nominations) and sometimes I have a little or none. I kind of feel the same way on both sides. It's a bonus when you get them because it's just always nice to win anything, right?
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�"But you can't take them too seriously, because it's not an honest gauge as to where you're at. It's an industry thing. It's something that I like participating in, but I don't take so seriously that I allow it to either get me overly excited or overly disappointed."
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�Which isn't to say she wouldn't be blown away if she took home eight trophies at the Canadian Country Music Awards on Sept. 14 in Calgary.
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�"That would be very cool," Twain said. "That would just be another whole added thing."
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�She'll be travelling with her tour until next summer, although there will be some breaks so she can go off to Europe and Australia for promotion and smaller-scale shows.
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�Currently, she's trying to figure out a location to shoot a video for her next single, From This Moment On.
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�"I was doing it here, then I was doing it in Montreal. I don't know where I'm doing it," Twain said.
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�But the only thing really troubling Twain is that her busy schedule for the next three weeks is keeping her from one of her favorite pastimes -- riding her horse, Dancer.
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�"For the last two months, I've had him on the road with me and I ride him in the mornings about four days a week," said Twain.
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�"But this little stretch, I'm not going to be able to take him with me. And I'm mad at myself because I promised myself, after five years of practically killing myself, that during the tour I was going to leave enough space for myself to ride.
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�"That's all I wanted and it only takes an hour and a half a day to do it, two hours at the most, and I don't have time for it."
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