Shania Twain has revealed she’s hard at work on a number of new projects, including a movie biopic and musical.
The country-pop icon recently made a sensational return with Waking Up Dreaming and she’s teased there’s plenty more to come.
Asked by The Sun’s Bizarre column about a biopic and a musical featuring iconic cuts from her catalogue, she said: “Yes. Both of those things are possibly in the future.
“All sorts of things are in the pipeline. I’m writing songs all the time and the Netflix documentary [‘Not Just A Girl’] has been a huge talking point in my life and career.
“There’s all sorts of things coming up but things I probably can’t talk about right now. But I’ve got a very busy few years ahead of me.”
Waking Up Dreaming is the first track to be lifted from Shania’s forthcoming sixth studio album, with the Man! I Feel Like A Woman star revealing: “I’m really excited about cheering people up.
“This album is very chirpy and I’m very frank with my lyrics on it, so it’s not a fluffy, lyrical album. It’s a happy album.
“I had a very productive songwriting pandemic period and as much as we were isolated, it was almost like I wanted to cheer myself up, and that just came out in the music. It’s so danceable.”
The That Don’t Impress Me Much star teased new material in her Netflix documentary, which saw her in the studio in London finishing work on tracks for the project.
“I am here in London finishing my album – and getting with some great UK talent and creatives,” she teases, before offering a look into studio sessions with producer Mark Ralph.
In addition to her soundtrack release Not Just A Girl, Shania has worked with the songwriter and producer on further tracks for the project, two of which she previewed in the film.
‘I’m not a girl / I’m not a boy / I’m not a baby / I’m not a toy / I’m a queen’, she sings on one number, on which she declares herself the ‘queen of me’.
“It’s uplifting. It’s still a lot of female point of view,” she adds of the new material. “I’m more swinging back into the space of, I don’t even want to say ‘female empowerment’, but self-empowerment.
“I mean, I’m a woman but I’m just feeling very good in my own skin and less apologetic than ever. I’m good, you know. Unless something else knocks me down along the way, but like I always do I think I’ll just get back up again.”
A release date for Shania’s sixth studio album has yet to be confirmed. ‘Not Just A Girl’ is streaming on Netflix now.
