Sturcla seems obsessed with me SYBIL!! LOL ! Same old argument... poor shania..... bad bad nashvillle...... but never mind she still has a store full of COO cd's. I heard Mutt said she could keep them as part of the divorce settlement!!

Well Nashville did what they usually do by garnishing major awards at the current star of the moment, in 2009 it was a very young Taylor Swift. A few years back Gretchen Wilson was that star.

There is ONE major exception to the Nashville "rule", in the mid 1990's Shania was not just a LOCAL (USA) star but a worldwide super star who brought country music to the planet Earth! Country music NEEDED her badly because record sales were declining for several years before her arrival.

Unlike Gretchen Wilson and Taylor Swift after her, Nashville decided NOT to give all their major awards to Shania at the CMA's way back then; heck, she walked away with nada!

Sybil will tell us that she wasn't deserving of any awards so Nashville was correct in their decision 14 or so years ago to ignore her. Like the nose on your face, everyone has an opinion (even Sybil), but that don't mean that the opinion is right on the money!

Shania's mega award outside the CMA and Sybil's "house" is an album (COO) in the top ten of Best Selling Albums of All Time; she has millions of fans around the World, and hundred's of millions of $ in her bank account!

She may not ever produce another album, but that doesn't mean she will be forgotten by music lovers 50 years from now or ever.

As I said maybe in her own lunchtime!!

I certainly think in 30 years from now, when Shania is in her 70's or 80's, then she will be a legend!!!

DONT make me laugh Twain..... a legend..... maybe in her own lunchtime!

hyacinth02... you're correct about artists who haven't produced new music for 15+ years but are still popular today; case in point is James Taylor who sold out live shows, no matter that most of his hits were way back in the 1970's. Many of his songs are Classics (i.e. Carolina, Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight)! 20+ years from now many of Shania's tunes will be Classics also... She is a LEGEND in the music business like Michael Jackson, AC-DC, Aerosmith... their music doesn't die it gets better with age!

Will Taylor Swift, Gretchen Wilson et al "hot" stars of the moment become legends??

Very good!!! But her Hits CD came out 5 years ago (but who's counting right)

i'll believe it when i see the official release date can't go by all these rumors or what shania has said. in the past we've heard from her that she wouldn't take that long between albums coo and up but now it's been what 7 years not counting her greatest hits cd which came out i believe three years ago.

It will be interesting to hear what it sounds like assuming Mutt not producing and also what the sales figures will be as alot of her fans have moved on!

Yes, there u go!!! I don't know that I've seen someone whose waited 7 or 8 years to release a new album, except for Amanda Marshall (who's not country) but has released her last album, "Everybody's Got A Story" in 2001!! She expects to release a new album and tour in 2010!!

And really, Shania's had a well deserved 5 years off since her last tour and I bet ya she will start a tour next year in support of this new album we're supposedly getting!!!

If not done VERY VERY VERY LAZY!!

You really think she is done??? Most artists release more than 4 albums and have a career that spans more than 16 years!!! Really, she could be around for another 10 or 20 years and they could be just as successful as past years!!! I think she will be back in 2010!! just my thought!! there's no way she could take 9 years between new discs!! yikes that would be awful

More inane gibberish from sturcla! Get used to the idea she is done!

Disagree with you (Sybil) that Shania needs exposure at the CMA's, the WORLD knows who she is... not just the USA country crowd! Shania now has the MONEY and FAME to get a top notch producer... Mutt ain't the only "apple" on the producer "tree"! Also the computer aided argument about her voice is absolute noncents, critics back in the mid-90's saying that she wasn't touring cause she was a studio enhanced singer... gobs of egg on their faces when her live tours sold out across the planet Earth!
Her live tours were 2nd to NO music artist in any genre. She was the country/rock/pop version of Michael Jackson on the stage!

I play her old stuff (CD and DVD's), but I'm not holding my breath waiting for her to cut new music. To answer sybil's ? about where are all her fans - believe many have decided to move on with their life (music), since Shania hasn't communicated with them very much over her long vacation!

She told us from the get-go that she doesn't crave the limelight, and wants to enjoy her life with family and friends. She certainly has the money to do whatever she wants to do.

Would be nice if she told us SOON whether she will produce new music or that she's retiring from the business! In the Chicago (UP! live concert)DVD she "apologized" for the 3 and half year "time-out" from touring, but now we have another 5+ year time-out!?

never thought I would say this as being a hugh Shania fan, but I am so fed up waiting for her to do or say something, I dont even care any more, its been so long I bet her voice is not as good, who knows, if she still has it then bring it on

She has always been very lazy even when the good times prevailed. Maybe the $$$$ make her that way!

at this point i agree sybil she's had more than enough time to get her life in order.i think fans need to embrace the possibilty that she is done in music.we've all heard her say in the past that she was coming back or was in the studio recording or that it wouldn't be as long between albums like the last two.but it's going on eight years now personally i don't think her heart is in it anymore because if it was it wouldn't take this long.

The problem with Shania is noone knows anymore what she is thinking! She possibly just wants to disappear for ever!

I can bet you, Shania won't be releasing an album in November....... The first single needs time to chart on radio and then a video and then promotions, singles are at radio for about 4 or 5 months prior to the CD release..... we can dream can't we???