Shania Twain looking back on childhood with new music
Shania Twain has been reflecting on her upbringing in the lyrics for her upcoming new album.
Shania Twain wants to give people a look at her upbringing with her new album.
The Still the One hitmaker - who will release new single Dirty Rosie later this week - has been working hard on her currently-untitled seventh studio LP and explained she wants to give fans a glimpse at how she became the person she is today and what life was like for her "growing up".
She told People magazine: "It's a reflection of my childhood, the environment I grew up in. There's a lot of descriptive language.
Noting her 2023 album Queen of Me was a "peak moment of self-empowerment", she added: "I'm turning 60 and I feel good and I've got to celebrate that. I'm grateful to have made it this far.
"So I was celebrating that with all of the Queen of Me music. But who makes you who you become basically. I had never shared that with the fans before.
"[My fans] only know Shania from my first records... My first hit wasn't until I was 30. So there's a whole lot of Shania they don't know about and that's what the new music's about."
And Shania thinks now was a good time to look back at her past because she is feeling "at peace" with all her previous life experiences.
She said: "I feel really settled and at peace with a lot of the challenges and things that I've gone through, but who hasn't — at my age — gone through stuff, right? But at some point in your life, it's healthy to come to peace and terms with the things that you revisit maybe a little more often than is good for you.
"It was really fun to revisit the past with a really great and positive outlook... I took ownership of being able to say to myself and to share it out loud in the music that it's made me who I am. I wouldn't trade it for anything because I'm actually quite happy with where I am and who I am and I wouldn't trade that."
Back in spring 2025, Shania updated her fans to reveal she had been to a "great writing session".
She posted to Instagram: “Papped by my own husband on the way to what turned out to be a great writing session! I’ve been lucky enough to find a little time to hide away and put down the ideas that have been spinning around in my head since the last album.
“Funny to hear your own thoughts, feelings and daydreams being realised into actual songs.”
Shania also noted that, at the age of 60, she has never felt more inspired and "in tune with myself".
The You're Still the One hitmaker continued: “I know that this world isn’t systemically built to nurture a woman of my age releasing music, but I feel more in tune with myself than ever — strong, inspired and full of creative energy.
“Thank you to my fans who stay with me through the process — you are my inspiration.”
