Shania Twain has teamed up with fellow country music icon Tanya Tucker on her latest single ‘Little Miss Twain’.
The title track from the ‘Man! I Feel Like A Woman!’ hitmaker’s seventh LP, out July 24 via Republic Nashville, is the second to be issued from the album and looks back at Twain’s early life in Canada.
“It explains my childhood and my experience as a young artist, but also how important Tanya’s music is in my life,” says the artist. “I was reflecting on the naivete of becoming the next Tanya Tucker — no one in the music industry was going to see me and think that, but my mother was sure that somehow along the way it was going to happen.
“I often wonder what she would have thought if she could’ve seen what’s happened in my life.”
Twain’s mother died in a car accident in 1987, six years before she released her debut, self-titled album in 1993.
On the track, she sings: ‘According to my mother, I’m the next Tanya Tucker / She drives me to sing in the bar / Smoking like a chimney, coaching it in me / “Honey, you’re gonna go far” / I’m gonna be a star.’
Listen to ‘Little Miss Twain’ below.
On the project – her first since 2023’s ‘Oueen Of Me‘ – which draws upon her teenage years, upbringing and the music she was raised on, Twain explains: “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, but still with that Western twang.
“Where I’m from you don’t go anywhere on a horse – you go on a snowmobile. I was dreaming about the Western lifestyle and I was living in a very different world than where I ended up.”
Twain is currently in the midst of 12 Wembley Stadium shows with Harry Styles, with a special, one-off show at Thomond Park Stadium in Limerick City, Ireland scheduled for July 7.
