Shania Twain Was Country’s Crossover Queen. What Is She Now?

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🗓️ 13 October 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In the 15 years since she last released an album, the music industry has undergone big changes, but Ms. Twain’s new LP still debuted at No. 1.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times
0:07.0	pop cast, your hapless rocket scientist of music news and criticism.
0:11.0	I'm your host John Caramonica.
0:13.0	I don't need to know just where you're going.
0:18.0	You don't need to tell me where you're done.
0:26.4	All we have is here now, we're nothing in between. There goes the sun
0:40.0	the sun walking a sidewalk that comes under
0:49.0	who's gonna be your girl
0:55.0	when all other boys are gone.
1:00.0	And who's gonna stop the world? When living is no more fun.
1:08.0	When will you wake up
1:11.0	from all of the dreams they should make up
1:16.0	And who's gonna be your girl tonight? That's Shania Twain asking perhaps the 30th or 40th question of her long illustrious recording career.
1:36.0	That's who's gonna be your girl from her latest album,
1:40.2	which is called Now,
1:41.7	now is the first album that Shania released in 15 years and it just
1:46.3	topped the Billboard album chart, no small thing. Shania Twain is one of the most famous
1:52.1	pop musicians on the planet and I think that has been lost in the 2000s a little bit
1:56.5	even though many people have cribbed from her blueprint and taken it and made careers for themselves.
2:01.6	Hi Taylor so to restore Shena
2:04.6	into the conversation and to talk more about this album and also her
2:08.0	legacy, we got a call in from Nashville, which is where we got to get a
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