Shania Twain will embark on her farewell tour in 2015, the same year as her 50th birthday.
Shania Twain has a lot of announcements lately for her loyal fans. She is making new music and also preparing to retire from performing live. However, the two will not be related.
The Canadian country singer says that she won’t be playing any of her new music live; she knows that her fans will be coming to hear her hits.
“I want everyone to hear the hits,” Twain tells Radio.com.
“When I go to a show, I want to hear songs that I know. So I won’t be introducing any of the new songs from the new music in this concert.”
Twain says that is probably for the best, since her new music is diverging from her famed country music style.
“It is a more soulful approach to my songwriting then I’ve probably ever allowed myself to have before,” she reveals.
“It’s fun music, too. I like to stay positive. I’ll make sure that I do some things on there that make you feel good and happy as well. I’m having a lot of fun.”
But, Twain adds, some of her big hits, such as “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” and “Any Man of Mine,” already blurred genre lines earlier in her career, so doing so is nothing new for her.
“It’s not like my music was ever traditional anyway. I don’t think anybody expects that from me. Nothing that I’m doing is traditional,” she says.
“Certainly, as I reflect back on listening to this stuff, it reminds me a lot of the influences that I had growing up. There’s influences from my childhood in the music that I’m writing now.”