Shania Twain

This was the second album to feature Shania Twain's collaboration with famed producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange, who infamously worked with AC/DC, Def Leppard and the Cars. Come On Over starts with the chart topper "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!" and hardly strays from the nearly twangless radio rock formula. This disc showcases the undeniable Twain/Lange chemistry of successful hit making, and it also helped further the mid-to-late-'90s trend of producing genre-crossing, airwave-dominating country pop.

The first thing you notice about Shania Twain's Come On Over, once you get past her
pretty pictures on the cover, is how the titles have way too many exclamation points:
"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" "Whatever You Do! Don't!" So does the music. Almost every
high-gloss song opens with a bubblegum-glam cheerleader shout ("C'mon, girls!" "Cool!"
"Kick it!" "Owww!"), then blasts into radio-ready rapture with offhand vocal inter... More >

Aside from its quota of musical sound effects, Twain's latest incarnation obviously has nothing to do with country. Setting out into the vast unexplored territory separating Garth from Madonna, she and husband-producer-cowriter Mutt Lange glance over at Gwen Stefani and take a few tips from Lange's old charges the Cars before arriving at a new pop formula that's all flirtatious ebullience and lively hooks. And miraculously, this discovery proves more exhilarating than a barrel of orgasms--the happy kind, none of your soul-shaking groaners. Not while this incarnation has juice, anyway. (Grade - A-)