While promoting her new album, Queen of Me, Twain opened up to TV personality Nancy O’Dell for a special episode of TalkShopLive. During the Nov. 14 interview, Twain explored the inspiration behind her sixth studio album, inner strength, empowerment, and confidence, drawn from real-life situations–including the anxiety related to her previous throat surgery and its effect on her voice. “Many of the songs are written with self-empowerment in mind,” Twain said, noting, “‘Queen of Me’ is one of those songs.” The 57-year-old country musician also revealed that her new album, which is said to be out Feb. 3, 2023, is one of many firsts–it’s the first time she’s recorded an album since having open-throat surgery in 2018, the first time she felt like she radiated confidence, and the first time she’s collaborated with so many artists. But don’t get it twisted; even after inviting other creatives into her songwriting process, she says the album still tells her story, one that’s filled with healing from her vocal surgery and recovering from her battle with Lyme Disease. “For me, this album means so, so much about my decision-making and the courage to get the operation, knowing that I may never even be able to sing again after the surgery,” Twain said, “So that was a big decision.” Twain explained that over the last few years, she’s put in work to help her shed the “anxiety of never sounding the same.” “I’m never going to look exactly the same,” Twain joked, “I’m never going to sing exactly the same, and that’s okay–this is me, and I’m happy with it.” Twain continued: “Every day that I was recording, I was testing the new voice. Getting on the mic in the studio, it’s so vulnerable. You can’t drown it out with production or a band or mixing or anything like that until much, much later on.” “What’s even more precious to me is that I don’t know if the procedure that I had will last forever,” the singer said, adding, “With age, it could just not hold up, and that could be it.” And in that case, she said she would have another difficult decision. “Will I do the operation again or not? Do I just now write music for other people’s albums at that point? I will gladly do that, and, again, it will be another decision that I will have to make as the queen of me. Some decisions are tougher than others.” More News:
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