Shania Twain - Woman in Me (12 tracks) +Album Reviews +Used CD available for Swap

Shania's best

B. D. Jones | Lakewood, CO United States | 04/06/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Not only was this the first Shania CD I bought, it was the first CD I bought as well. "Any Man Of Mine" is the monster breakout hit from a monster breakout album. This rightly put her at the top of female country singers, where she would quickly decide to go the pop crossover route, and a few albums later, she's retreated to her castle in Switzerland and is pretty much gone from the music scene. But for a few years there, Shania ruled the world starting with this album. Too bad she forgot to dance with the one that brung her there."

Better then the first

Michael Patrick Boyd | Waukesha, WI | 04/08/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Woman in Me forty-eight minutes and eight seconds and was released on February 7, 1995. The Woman in Me reached #1 on the Canadian Country charts, #6 on the Canadian Albums Chart, #1 on the U.S. Country Charts, and #5 on the U.S. Billboard 200 Albums Chart and has since gone 12x Platinum. The album won several major music awards as well as several others:

Canadian Country Music Association Awards (CCMA's): Album of the Year (1995)
Academy of Country Music Awards (ACMA's): Album of the Year (1996)
Billboard Music Awards: Country Album of the Year (1996)
Grammy Awards: Best Country Album (1996)

Though Come on Over was her break out album, this album made her a serious music personality. The Woman in Me sounds more country then pop where as later albums it is the reverse. Eight of the twelve songs charted in the United States. This is a great album to listen to. The Woman in Me by Shania Twain gets an AAAAA+++++.

Side 1

Home Ain't Where His Heart Is (Anymore)
#10 Canada RPM Country Singles
#28 U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks
Any Man of Mine
#1 Canada RPM Country Singles
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks
#31 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?
#1 Canada RPM Country Singles
#11 U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks
#103 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#3 U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles
(If You're Not in it For Love) I'm Outta Here!
#1 Canada RPM Country Singles
#22 Canada RPM Country Adult Contemporary
#14 U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks
#104 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
The Woman In Me (Needs the Man in You)
#1 Canada RPM Country Singles
#49 Canada RPM Country Adult Contemporary
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks
#74 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Is There Life After Love?

Side 2

If It Don't Take Two
You Win My Love
#1 Canada RPM Country Singles
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks
#108 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Raining On Our Love
Leaving is the Only Way Out
No One Needs to Know
#1 Canada RPM Country Singles
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks
God Bless This Child
#7 Canada RPM Country Singles
#1 Canadian Singles Chart
#48 U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks
#75 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles"

Still good after all these years

Black Ice | Portland, OR | 02/21/2010

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I remember when The Woman In Me was release. I read that it was going to be a failure because of it's big production sound and that Shania's vocals weren't dramatic enough like Reba McEntire or Trisha Yearwood at the time.

The first song that I heard on the radio was "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?" and I'll admit that I didn't like Shania's voice and video when I first heard and saw her. I thought she was beautiful but didn't know what to make of her. Her voice in the song sounded too low and sultry, but she grew on me.

I 'got' her when "Any Man of Mine" was released. That's when I bought the CD. I thoroughly enjoyed it at the time. The songs were fun, catchy, lively and told good stories.

As time went on I didn't listen to the album as much. However I decided to listen to it the other day and I asked myself where did the spunky Shania Twain go? With her subsequent follow up albums she became more self conscious, cold and at times silly with her song themes. What I loved about TWIM was that it captured a woman on the verge of greatness who gave a gutsy yet tender delivery. There was a fearless in her lyrics, vocals, music and videos that in her later works would become more diluted to suit universal tastes.

This is the album that established her as a country icon even if she herself didn't realize the big impact that she was about the make in music.

What stopped me from giving this album 5 stars was that Mutt messed with Shania's voice too much. I loved her voice on her self titled debut and was disappointed with her lack of vocal range on his productions. Had he let her upper vocal register to shine she wouldn't have had to endure criticism and speculation that she couldn't really sing before she toured in 1998. I think that Mutt had her sing in a lower and sultry range to harmonize with his folksy and breathy vocals. I also think that if Shania used her self titled album voice then the songs wouldn't have been able to be sold as country-pop fare. Shania would at that point sound like a rock and/or Southern rock artist and this would have placed her in outlaw territory. Mutt knew that to make her sell he had to make her voice sound accessible.

On the upside I'm glad that Mutt and Shania began writing together because as a team they wrote funny, sad, cheerful, tongue in cheek and gutsy songs that appealed to all audiences. Great work!"

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