Shania Twain

Shania Twain is reflecting on the “surreal” experience of filming a documentary about her own career, as the project finally premiers on Tuesday (July 26).

The documentary goes hand-in-hand with an 18-track album, Not Just A Girl (The Highlights). Watch the full trailer here: She continued: “...while trying to film as much as we could during the moments when the world opened up a little more and people were able to travel. It reflects on Twain’s legendary career, including “enormous risks” and her path to becoming a “global pop phenomenon” while breaking down stereotypes of “what it took to be a country star,” among other notable moments.

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“For the first week after finding out about the affair, I was ready to die,” Twain wrote in her 2011 memoir, From This Moment On. “To go to bed forever and never wake up. Twain contracted Lyme disease after being bitten by a tick in 2003, and the illness caused damage to her vocal cords that prevented her from touring and recording new music. Shania Twain and her ex-husband, Robert John “Mutt” Lange, were once one of the music industry’s biggest power couples — and their split later became one of its biggest scandals.

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"It took a long time to be ready to write and record again." "In that search to determine what was causing this lack of control with my voice and this change in my voice, I was facing a divorce. And I just don't see any point in going on with a music career." So all I can do is determine how I'm going to carry on from there." I was having these very, very, very millisecond blackouts, but regularly, every minute or every 30 seconds." I just know that his name is Mutt Lange," she said.

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"I didn't realize how powerful and how attached people would become to the meaning of that song in their lives." "It was a powerful song that people bonded to and reminisced to," she said. "I never wanted to be a mother that was absent and distracted by career," Shania said in the doc.

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It puts a satisfying spin on the vigor and flash of something like “Man! I Feel Like a Woman,” a song that is still rightly upheld for its feminist shorthand swagger, but deserves to live in the real world, too. As Not Just a Girl accelerates to its finish, Twain’s son Eja is born, her third hit album Up! is released, she contracts Lyme Disease, suffers from dizziness and issues with her singing voice, and gets divorced in 2010, after Lange cheated on her with Twain’s best friend. What Movies Will It Remind You Of? The recent Sheryl Crow documentary has a similar rags-to-riches framing to Not Just a Girl, as well as an empowering message of dogged self-determination. Shania Twain: Not Just a Girl (Netflix) covers the “Any Man of Mine” and “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” singer and songwriter’s career from its earliest beginnings, singing in Ontario bars while still a grade schooler, to her records defining a dynamic hybrid of country music and pop flash and selling millions and millions of copies. But tragedy struck in 1987 when her parents were killed in a car accident, and Twain took a singing job at a Canadian resort in order to support her younger siblings. The Woman in Me, released in February 1995, was Twain’s first album with producer Mutt Lange, whose extensive background in rock music informed her sound.

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Shania talked about her grief and divorce from her first husband in an interview with People. "When I lost Mutt…it was similarly intense to losing my parents," she said. Destinations have included NYC shopping sprees and a beautiful lakefront cottage in Canada. The couple met in 1993 when Mutt reached out to Shania after hearing songs from her debut album. He is a music composer and producer from Zambia who has worked on various notable soundtracks and hit singles, according to IMDb. She worried she would never recover or "crawl out of this hole." After Shania's vocal cords began to falter, she believed her career was over and devoted her time to raising Eja in Switzerland, according to AARP.

However, her parents divorced when she was just two years old, and her mother moved to Timmins, Ontario, alongside her daughters. Shania Twain ...

I had a nervous breakdown and wound up in the hospital for a time. To have referred to him as my step-father would have been the worst slap across the face to him." "My father [Jerry] went out of his way to raise three daughters that weren't even his. "I had to be home all the time. On top of that, Shania's mom was a very jealous, possessive person. "I was married to Shania's mother for seven years, and I was there with Eilleen and her sister Carrie-Ann until they were 5 or 6.

The Canadian country-pop star has released Not Just a Girl on Netflix, looking at her nearly 40-year career.

My point of view in relationships, the way I felt that women should be treated, respected, and I still feel the same way, so I'm just going to carry on that message." "I was always very bold and straightforward about what I thought and my point of view on things as a woman particularly. "To me, Shania Twain is a superstar that I had the privilege of singing with onstage when I was 14 years old. "When I lost Mutt I guess I was thinking that the grief of that was similarly intense to losing my parents. And I think when you can find a musician who can tap into that and write a song that speaks to that, and also do it in a way that is colourful and camp and playful and even humorous, like even laughing at oneself, I think that is also a very important experience of gay culture as well. "I think that Shania takes these universal ideas of love and of confidence and of discovering who you are as a young woman, and of the push and pull of bad days and good days and life, and all these things that are universal topics for songwriting, and she makes them sound like they've never been written about before.

The 'That Don't Impress Me Much' singer split from first husband Robert 'Mutt' Lange in 2008 after he had an affair with her best friend, Marie-Anne Thiébaud, ...

I Feel Like A Woman!'. However, director Joss Crowley mainly traces Twain's career arc through new interviews with the singer herself. The fact they seem to ...

Twain likens the sense of grief she felt when they divorced in 2010 to losing her parents, but it’s left to an archive clip to spell out that he had an affair with her best friend. Not Just A Girl then skips forward to Twain signing a record deal and heading to Nashville to make a flop debut album that she had little creative control over. Twain doesn’t gloss over her tough start in life, but she’s much too private a person to parcel up trauma porn for the camera.

In her new documentary, "Not Just a Girl," Shania Twain details her battle with Lyme disease and how she thought it would end her career as a singer.

“In that search to determine what was causing this lack of control with my voice and this change in my voice, I was facing a divorce. She told Extra in 2019, “I had to have an operation that was very intense and it’s an open-throat operation, very different from a vocal cord operation. “My voice was never the same again,” she recalled.

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Twain describes the resulting “grief intensity”, as similar to losing her parents. I thought I had lost it forever and I would never sing again.” “It was a devastating time, as if my world had been pulled out from under me,” she laments. “It didn’t sound the same – and I had a lack of control of airflow. Not against the law as long as the bar was no longer serving, it also meant mother and daughter could sneak out after “Dad” had gone to sleep. Bitten by a tick while horseback riding in Norfolk, Virginia in 2003, Twain began feeling regularly dizzy and losing her balance.

Documentary film Shania Twain: Not Just A Girl is available to watch on the Netflix streaming service on July 26. It's been the crime of a century that.

It not only has all of her greatest hits but the new track, Not Just A Girl. (And in case you’re wondering, the album also gets 5 Stars). Shania Twain has one of the greatest musical careers in history. For the hardcore Shania Twain fans, the highlights of the documentary may come from hearing the demo recording of From This Moment On, seeing personal photos and clips from her life away from the public eye, or hearing snippets of new tracks from the upcoming album. And Shania Twain: Not Just A Girl does a fine job of doing so. The documentary details many factors of her life, such as the death of her parents, the uphill struggle she had to get noticed in the music industry, and the much published and devastating divorce from producer and co-writer Robert John “Mutt” Lange. Whilst there have been lows, there have been many more highs for Shania Twain. From global hits, three consecutive diamond albums, worldwide tours, and success like no one before her, there’s plenty to celebrate. An excellent watch that proves Shania Twain is an inspiration to us all.

In her new documentary "Shania Twain: Not Just A Girl," the country singer said the tick-borne illness nearly led to the end of her music career.

In 2011, Richie wanted to collaborate with Twain while she was recovering. She told British talk show "Loose Women" in 2020 that it took seven years for a doctor to diagnose her. "It was like a death. At the same time, Twain was also dealing with a divorce from her ex-husband, Robert John Lange, after he had an affair with another woman and left the country singer. So I was staying far from the edge. She said she was bit by a disease-infected tick while horseback riding.

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The attention Twain has paid to her music videos has served her own career but also pushed the boundaries for others in pop. Another place where she was always able to express creatively, however, was in her music videos – even now, it is hard to think of Twain without conjuring up the brilliant imagery for her biggest songs. When Twain got her first recording deal in 1992, this was the case for her, too. In 2017, she released a new album, Now, which, though solid (it charted globally, at number one in many cases), didn’t reach the heights of her dizzying peak. There was a time when Shania Twain was one of the biggest names on the planet. But in 2003, after she contracted Lyme disease while horse riding, the her ascendancy came to an end.

The country music superstar says a tick bite in 2003 led to Lyme disease.

According to the Mayo Clinic, Lyme disease should be treated immediately and may require intravenous antibiotics if the case is severe. In most cases, the tick must be attached to the skin for at least 36 hours before the bacterium can be transmitted. In the end, a neurologist finally connected that it was the nerve to each vocal cord." People also may experience lingering symptoms that last months or even years, such as muscle and joint pain, cognitive defects and sleep disturbances, according to the CDC. Twain was in the height of her career when she was diagnosed with Lyme disease. Nobody connected the Lyme disease to it.

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And it wasn't just the potential end of her career that Twain was facing in that moment, but also the end of her marriage to Lange. She and the rock producer had a professional relationship before marrying in 1993. But even though her personal life was back on track, the singer confessed she was still unsure about returning to the studio without Lange by her side. “When I lost Mutt, I guess I thought…I was thinking that the grief of that was… They also had one son together named Aja. But she said, “In that search to determine what was causing this lack of control with my voice and this change in my voice, I was facing a divorce. I was losing my balance, I was afraid I was gonna fall off the stage… The country star explained, “My voice was never the same again.

Shania Twain's Not Just A Girl, a brand new, career-spanning documentary produced by Mercury Studios and directed by Joss Crowley, is now available on Netflix.

“Not Just A Girl is the story of a woman who wanted to make her own way, completely independent of anyone else; the story of an artist who took enormous risks,” Netflix said in a press release about the documentary. For an hour and a half we get an overview of Shania’s career up to this point. Yesterday, the new Shania Twain documentary, Not Just A Girl, dropped on Netflix. So naturally, I ran home as fast as I could after work to watch!

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"During that time,...I just enjoyed singing with attitude, singing about being a strong woman," Twain said. I thought I lost my voice forever, I thought that was it, I would never, ever sing again." So all I can do is determine how I'm going to carry on from there." "My symptoms were quite scary because before I was diagnosed, I was on stage, very dizzy, I was losing my balance, I was afraid I was going to fall off the stage," she said. "Growing up in a violent household was horrible but I locked myself away with music to block out everything else so that all I could see, hear, think and imagine was music," Twain explains. So I'm thinking, s**t, I'm never going to get over this...

Country star Shania Twain was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2003. She details a scary early symptom in her new documentary.

"I wasn't going to let my life be over if I wasn't going to be able to sing again, but I would have been very sad and I would have mourned that forever. "In that search to determine what was causing this lack of control with my voice and this change in my voice, I was facing a divorce," she says. "I was just simply out horseback riding in the forest and got bit by a tick, a Lyme tick," Twain said on Loose Women in 2020. She continued, "I thought that it was just fatigue or burnout. As my son got more independence, I had more time to start focusing on my voice and I put all my energy into that." While Twain has talked about having Lyme disease before, in the documentary she opens up further about her symptoms and how she dealt with believing her music career was over for good.

Shania Twain opened up about her Lyme disease diagnosis and the “scary” symptoms she had in the new Netflix documentary 'Not Just a Girl'.

Arielle Weg is the associate editor at Prevention and loves to share her favorite wellness and nutrition obsessions. If left untreated, symptoms can spread to joints, the heart, and the nervous system, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “I remember thinking and people saying, ‘Where’s Shania Twain? Where did she go?’” The You’re Still the One singer said in an interview with Sunday with Willie Geist, per People. “It was devastating. Twain previously opened up about her Lyme disease diagnosis, which led her to undergo open-throat surgery and take a break from the spotlight. But I would have been very sad and I have mourned that forever.” In a new Netflix documentary, Not Just a Girl, the queen of country pop opens up about her battle with Lyme disease, and how she thought it would end her singing career.