Shania Twain Announces 7th Album Little Miss Twain
Shania Twain, the five-time Grammy-winning country-pop superstar raised in Timmins, Ontario, announced her seventh studio album, Little Miss Twain, on Tuesday, set for release July 24 via Republic Nashville.
The project, described as her most honest and introspective work to date, draws on the Canadian singer's teenage years, childhood experiences and early musical influences including country, pop, rock, soul and bluegrass. Twain began performing as an eight-year-old in local bars, blending those formative sounds with a Western twang shaped by her northern roots. "A lot of Little Miss Twain is reflective of my teens, my roots as well as the energy of the rock and R&B I loved so much," she said in a statement. "Where I'm from, though, you don't go anywhere on a horse. You go on a snowmobile. I was dreaming about a Western lifestyle while living in a very different world."
The album's lead single, "Dirty Rosie," arrived alongside the announcement. The blues-infused country-rock track features Twain delivering a raspy warning to a lover: "You can drive my Hummer in the summer / You can drive the ladies in my Mercedes but you can't drive my truck." Twain co-wrote the song, which...