Hello,


i had announced a Shania Twain Video Thread several weeks ago, (click).

So now its time to start


This thread based on this Shania Twain Videography


At the moment i will not post the live performance, only official musicvideo! At the end its possible if we have all videos together.

The first 17 videos are from DVD source, the other are promo only, anyway without logos.

And thats now the point, where i need help

I don't have acceptable (NTSC VOB's) version of

- When
- Forever And For Always (Performance Version) only Shania!
- Thank You Baby
- When You Kiss Me (Performance Version) only Shania!

If anyone have the videos in HQ, please post at the precise moment, this thread will be chronologic.



But now let me start with a funny picture, i had made with 2895 caps of the available videos.

Its a mosaic with 46330 tiles = 226 x 205 pictures.

The Thumnail is real size the quarter resolution from the picture i had uploaded on rapidshare!




2665 x 2691 Pixel (7.17 MegaPixels) 4,62 MB (4.849.892 Bytes)


http://rapidshare.com/files/49012258/shatwa-videocapturemosaic.rar

10660 x 10764 Pixel (114.74 MegaPixels) 40,1 MB (42.142.767 Bytes)

Hello,


Shania Twain - What Made You Say That










Video: MPEG2 Video 720x480 (4:3) 29.97fps 6000Kbps
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz stereo 192Kbps

03min:02sec, 136MB (143548416 bytes)


http://rapidshare.com/files/50043732/shatwa01-wmyst.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/50045477/shatwa01-wmyst.part2.rar

2 Shania video threads? AT ONE TIME?!?!?!

These links are not working for me right now.

Shania says she is writing songs for a 2008 release.

I thought ABBA would be the last music to influence me. It was Elvis Presley, The Beatles and ABBA summing up everything. From nowhere, Shania Twain appeared on the Nashville scene. She was country with a difference. Her music was inspired. Its roots were in pop and rock.

Shania's real name is Eilleen Regina Edwards. She was born in Timmins, Ontario, Canada, on August 28, 1965. Timmins is 500 miles north of Toronto. Shania's parents divorced when she was two. She never knew her father. She shares her Nordic heritage and estrangement from her father with Frida from ABBA. Shania's mother remarried. She married an Ojibway Indian named Jerry Twain, and he helped raise Shania. The family often struggled for necessities. Shania talks about her hunger growing up and taking mustard sandwiches to school for lunch. She hunted rabbits with her stepfather for food. She cut trees in the wilderness with Indians. Shania wrote songs from the age of 8. She played guitar. Her mother encouraged her. She would wake Shania from her sleep and take her to bars around Timmins after alcohol stopped being served so she could perform. Shania learned to feel comfortable in front of an audience. Mary Bailey, a Canadian singer, took her under her wing. She became her manager. For a while, Shania played an Ontario resort called Deerhurst. She honed her performing skills. It was at Deerhurst that a friend dubbed her "Shania," meaning "on my way." A tragedy occurred in 1987 when Shania was 21. Her mother and stepfather were hit head on by a logging truck and killed. Shania's siblings became her responsibility. It was hard work and sacrifice.

Finally, Mary Bailey and Nashville music attorney, Dick Frank, engineered a deal with Mercury Records. Mercury president, Luke Lewis, signed Shania. Her first CD was run-of-the-mill. It was produced by long-time Music Row producer, Norro Wilson. Norro was old school, and it showed. The Nashville method is for a producer and his artist to collect songs from the top publishers in town and to record them in one of a handful of studios using the same musicians who play for everybody. It is a stale system and the reason country music all sounds alike. There was nothing about Shania's first album to recommend it. It sold 50,000, not enough. Mercury was going to drop her from the label.

Enter Robert John "Mutt" Lange. Mutt Lange was a rock producer from South Africa with a track record. He had connections. He had money. By chance, he saw one of Shania's videos on television in Europe. He saw and heard something no one else did. It was Shania's body, her movements, her grace. He heard the sweet sexuality in her voice. He made several attempts to reach her by phone and finally connected. Regular conversations began. Mutt told Shania he wanted to produce her and wanted her to sing her own songs. That did it. A romance developed, and the couple married in December, 1993.

Work began on The Woman In Me. Mutt spent a million dollars, and they recorded in Nashville. There had never been a country album like it. It was country infused with a pop and rock spirit. Shania and Mutt co-wrote. The songs became classics in 1996. Any Man Of Mine became Shania's signature. (If You're Not In It For Love) I'm Outta Here! and You Win My Love rocked! Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under? was played reluctantly by country radio. It was risque stuff for Nashville. So was Shania's belly button. She bared her midriff for videos. She was sexy and not afraid to show it. She was Elvis reborn as a woman.

Shania held off on touring. She declined to open for established Nashville acts, which was the accepted way. Mutt Lange knew what he had. He wanted to build a catalog of songs that would fill a two-hour concert. Shania had superstar potential. Jon Landau was brought in to manage. It had to be right.

Mutt Lange is 16 years older than Shania. He remembered the golden era of rock and the great songs of Elvis and The Beatles. He and Shania penned 16 gems for Come On Over in grand tradition. Come On Over was released in November, 1997. It went on to become the biggest selling album of all time by a female artist, selling 39 million copies. It dominated the airwaves through 1998 and 1999. Come On Over was #1 on the country album charts for over a year. This was unheard of. You're Still The One was Song of the Year. Single after single went number one: Love Gets Me Everytime, Don't Be Stupid, Honey I'm Home, That Don't Impress Me Much, Man! I Feel Like A Woman! Girls around the country sang Shania songs nightly in karaoke bars. 1998 was to Shania what 1956 was to Elvis and 1964 was to The Beatles.

When Shania did tour, she was ready. Her concert consisted of wall-to-wall hits. Her band reflected cultural diversity, fine musicians who deferred to her stardom. Shania played Nashville. She did the Nashville Arena in September, 1998. I was there with my son, Michael. It was an orgy of music and energy. Shania was in her physical prime. She was carried aloft through the crowd as if she were Cleopatra. Fans reached, hoping to touch. It was Clinton's presidency at its hedonistic zenith.

Nashville was jealous of Shania's success. Ultimately, common sense prevailed, and the Country Music Association gave her its Entertainer of the Year Award for 1999. It is their most prestigious award. She had done it: books, magazines, endorsements. It was all there. The girl who killed rabbits to eat was wealthy beyond her wildest dreams. But her anonymity and privacy were gone. She and Mutt sold their property in upstate New York and moved to Switzerland to get away. The economy sagged in April, 2000, and Shania disappeared from the scene. New songs had to be written.

Motherhood was next, and Shania and Mutt took time out from their fairytale careers to become parents. Their son Eja was born, August 12, 2001. Mutt had been married before but had no kids. He said he would never marry again. Shania gave him reason to.

The Chicago concert in July, 2003, kicked off a second world tour. It was released on DVD. Up Close & Personal, taped in Nashville with Alison Krauss & Union Station, simulated Elvis Presley's 1968 Comeback Special. Shania was making an effort with the powers in country music even while they rejected Up! as a country record. Radio did not want to play it. There were no #1s from Up! Forever And For Always is so easy to listen to, and it only went to #4. The video accompanying Forever And For Always showed Shania on a beach. Motherhood had taken away nothing. She was still a beautiful woman. Up! did one thing which Come On Over did not do. It reached #1 on the pop album charts.

Up! was a progression. Shania and Mutt evolved musically the way The Beatles did. They did not stagnate or stay in one vein the way country artists tend to. There are great songs on Up! even if Nashville considered it too artsy: I'm Gonna Getcha Good, Nah!, Ka-Ching and I'm Jealous. C'est La Vie proved conclusively that Shania Twain and Mutt Lange descended from ABBA. Notes in the chorus of C'est La Vie are identical to notes in the chorus of ABBA's Dancing Queen. Up! has a disco feel with its ABBAesque classical riffs. Politics changed drastically from Clinton to George W. Bush as 9/11 set America on a conservative course. Up! brought the party into the 21st century. It sold 10 million. It was unrealistic to compete with Come On Over in sales. Nonetheless, Shania became the only female artist with three consecutive albums to sell 10 million. On the strength of three records, she stands with Elvis, The Beatles and ABBA as the Big Four, having sold 70 million CDs.

Shania's Greatest Hits kept things rocking. New songs were used as bait to re-sell the old stuff. Party For Two, the duet with Billy Currington, and Don't are supported by two of her best videos. Party For Two has Shania strutting down a street talking to Billy on a cell phone. They meet, and she swings from a chandelier. The song is upbeat, and Shania is frisky. My son said she acted 19. Don't is sombre. Shania rides a white horse through fields of green yucca plants. Her outfit accents her bosom. She is every man's dream. The third song on the Greatest Hits is I Ain't No Quitter. It is rockabilly, straight out of the Elvis era with girl lyrics.

Shania's catalog is thematic. She is the consummate women's libber. Her lyrics are female. They deal with the concerns of young women everywhere: men, looks, money, clothes, work, bosses, abuse, fun, hair, weight, food and cars. Shania is Everywoman. In one respect, she differs. She broke loose from the men of her age group and married a father figure, a man who could elevate her career to the level she deserved. She must love him. Their marriage is in its second decade, and they have a son.

Shania is a professional. She gives her fans their money's worth. She does not self-destruct. What the future holds for her, I do not know. I only know she is the artist of her decade and that after her, there is nothing.

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BEHOLD!!!!!

A NEW GOD HAS EMERGED !!!!!!

hms3 I bow down to you in thanks but still worship the
greatest most powerful God MM_LBB!!!!!

This is incredible!! I can feel the rush of excitement
building for this firey post!!!!

I can't wait to download the awesome mosaic!!!!

The quailty of your videos are amazing!!!!!!!

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Links worked fine today. Thanks for the Shania video hms3.

Hello,

next one.


Shania Twain - Dance With The One That Brought You










Video: MPEG2 Video 720x480 (4:3) 29.97fps 6000Kbps
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz stereo 192Kbps

02min:29sec, 111MB (117307392 bytes)


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http://rapidshare.com/files/50319323/shatwa02-dwtotby.part2.rar

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Some vintage Shania there. I'm actually a very big fan of her music as well as her beauty.

Great stuff.