14 DAY TRIAL // Shania Twain is getting ready to break her long silence with a new album, busily working on the songs. However, fans shouldn’t get too excited just yet because, as she tells Rolling Stone, she’s still “on the fence” about a producer.
While promoting her new Las Vegas residency, which starts on October 15, Shania also gushes about the excitement and the pressure of working on a new studio album.
She admits she’s nervous because she’s been away for so long, but highlights that her focus right now is on making a “perfect” album.
For the time being though, she’s looking for producers.
“I'm pretty much there with my songs, and I'm really just sitting on the fence in regards to a producer. So I'm listening to a lot of records, doing my homework there, and trying to determine who is the right match,” Shania tells the music magazine.
She’s also been listening to a lot of Lana Del Rey and she’s quite taken with her sound, but her playing also includes Alison Krauss and Robert Plant.
“So that goes to show you how lost I am as far as production direction, because I'm listening to such a broad spectrum. Both of those productions really appeal to me, and the direction that they took – just trying to get ideas for myself,” she explains.
“I do want it to be perfect, and I want it to be something that I really enjoy and a product of my inspiration – not a product of necessarily anything I've done before or anyone I've been before in regards to making records, because it's been a long time,” Shania continues, explaining how she wants the album to reflect her evolution as an artist and a human being.
“At the same time I don't want to abandon the root of what I am. So it's just really determining where am I really at and just looking through that. It's not as obvious as it seems it should be,” she concludes.
Fans thinking she might be previewing new material during one of her upcoming Vegas shows are in for heartbreak: the singer says it’s “too soon” to even consider that.