{"id":973713,"date":"2019-11-24T21:26:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T04:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=916993"},"modified":"2019-11-24T21:26:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T04:26:34","slug":"watch-shania-twain-cover-drake-play-celebratory-hits-medley-at-amas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/watch-shania-twain-cover-drake-play-celebratory-hits-medley-at-amas\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Shania Twain Cover Drake, Play Celebratory Hits Medley at AMAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/shania-twain.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/shania-twain\/\" id=\"auto-tag_shania-twain\" data-tag=\"shania-twain\">Shania Twain<\/a> blended covers of contemporary hits with her own classic tracks during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/american-music-awards\/\" id=\"auto-tag_american-music-awards\" data-tag=\"american-music-awards\">American Music Awards<\/a> on Sunday, marking her first appearance on the show since 2003.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The country-pop superstar opened her show-closing segment with a stripped-down acoustic track that weaved together snippets of Post Malone\u2019s \u201cRockstar,\u201d Twenty One Pilots\u2019 \u201cStressed Out,\u201d Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cShake It Off,\u201d Drake\u2019s \u201cGod\u2019s Plan\u201d and her own \u201cYou\u2019re Still the One.\u201d Then the performance exploded into big-budget theatrics (including a group of shirtless cowboy dancers and a glowing staircase) as she moved into her singles \u201cAny Man of Mine,\u201d \u201cThat Don\u2019t Impress Me Much\u201d and \u201cMan! I Feel Like a Woman!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, December 6th, Twain will return to the Las Vegas strip to launch her new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/shania-twain-las-vegas-residency-lets-go-848924\/\">\u201cLet\u2019s Go!\u201d residency<\/a> at Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort &amp; Casino. Twain previously set up shop in Las Vegas with her \u201cStill the One\u201d residency, which ran from 2012 to 2014 at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Twain released her long-awaited album <em>Now<\/em> following a 15-year gap between full-length projects, during which time she was dealing with medical issues that affected her voice. Singles from <em>Now<\/em> included the buoyant \u201cLife\u2019s About to Get Good\u201d and hopeful \u201cSwingin\u2019 With My Eyes Closed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me it was all about balance. I didn\u2019t want the whole album to be misery,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/shania-twain-on-new-album-this-is-my-chance-to-do-something-very-pure-198048\/\">told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> in 2017. \u201cI didn\u2019t want the whole album to be boppy. I wanted the album to be diverse and to give a good expanse of all of the things I\u2019ve been experiencing over my life, really.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/shania-twain-drake-amas-916993\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shania Twain blended covers of contemporary hits with her own classic tracks during the American Music Awards on Sunday, marking her first appearance on the show since 2003.&nbsp; The country-pop superstar opened her show-closing segment with a stripped-down acoustic track that weaved together snippets of Post Malone\u2019s \u201cRockstar,\u201d Twenty One Pilots\u2019 \u201cStressed Out,\u201d Taylor Swift\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 01:07:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}