A classic music album.

Every song is well worth listening to. If you like Shania, even a little bit, buy this music. You will not be disappointed.

Great buy

The music on the blue disk is quite different from what a lot of people in the states are use to. When i first heard it i was a little put off. In time i learn to love and appreciate this disk for bringing into my life what to me is a unique sound that i would not have heard otherwise.

If your a Shania fan you'd definitly want this added to your collection.

Shania has gone so far UP she has shot through the biosphere

how small-minded are people who keep insulting this CD, or claiming hesitantly, tolerantly, that it is....gasp...."different" for the country diva....lemme tell ya something, this pop/world remixes album is GENIUS, and if anything, is the opus which will serve to be american music's resurrection!! WAKE UP!! as of late (since about 1997..), the american music scene has suffered a bellyflop of contrived, uninspired, and shallow, talentless muck (i am not going to name names, you KNOW who they are)....shania, however, being NOT completely pop (as her main identity is country), has ventured out into the territory i have long since submerged myself into, and that is WORLD music, NAMELY ~*indian*~... and if you wish to investigate further this genre, i suggest you delve into the world of hindi film songs from a bygone era (aka 1940-1970), also known as the golden age of hindi film music...anehoo, it is here that india comes alive in more shades of color than one..for reasons too numerous to list and too complicated to explain, i will just leave it at that, and recommend my favorite singer, asha bhosle. but back to shania, i would say she follows suit in the tradition of bollywood by incorporating an otherwise INGENIUS sitar into her namesake hit, "UP!", and if anything, the sitar (so unduly insulted by another from a previous review) catapults the song to dizzying heights far beyond that which its title suggests... when i first heard the song, i felt instantly at home, as i have long since disappeared into the realms of the middle east and southeast asia..it is incredibly happy, and makes you want to dance in wild abandon under the burning sun of a tropical island (at least that's what it does for me ;) the 2 most stunning gems from the world mix, if i may point them out, are: "when you kiss me" and "i wanna get to know you (that good)"...both their melodies are really "that good", and so infectious, the songs would still be praiseworthy rendered in any other form...shania's voice really DOES break out in raw emotion, and her lyrics really zing you when coupled with the melody....she creates extremely tender moments on "when you kiss me" (and that's only lyrically speaking, nevermind the divine backdrop of instruments and rhythm), as well as, "i'm jealous", another more classically indian-sounding diamond in the rough.. "it only hurts when i'm breathing" is another lyrical gem, and really captures the essence of pain taken gracefully, "it only hurts when i'm breathing/my heart only breaks when it's beating/my dreams only die when i'm dreaming/so i hold my breath/to forget"...i personally found it to be more captivating in the pop version, as the slower ballad sans the heavy tabla rhythms (as in the world remix) did its message more justice...although i must say the sitar on that track sings and weeps just beautifully... now, if we hop back on a jet plane and loop around to the caribbean, we are left with shania's "c'est la vie" which, (though having a french title) swims in jamaican/reggae/calypso waters...i could listen to this one for hours...and ironically enough, it's catch phrase (c'est la vie/that's life and that's how it's gonna be) sounds EXACTLY like the chorus to "dancing queen", but that's another story..and for the record, i prefer shania's version anyway.. moving back onto indian soil (but with a somehow caribbean upbeat feel) lies the aforementioned, "i wanna get to know you(that good)" with an infectious joy inherent in its crescendoes, replete with stunningly majestic flute..which could very well be a true bollywood love song from any blockbuster film of the millennium (i can see it now, akshaye khanna and aishwarya jumping around..) come to think of it, so too could "c'est la vie".. now, if i can move back one step to "when you kiss me"- it's slow pop ballad version was equally as enchanting as the divinely inspired middle eastern one (which by the way had a beautiful violin section, or was that fiddle? i couldn't tell)...as for "juanita", the spicy middle eastern track with a spanish flair and sassy lyrics about a wild spirit that resides in every woman, it is one of the most dramatic and truly intoxicating songs, as the rhythm stays very true to the arabic style (almost seemingly indian, and blended so seamlessly, it's hard to tell)- absolutely one of my favorites.. other great songs are "forever and for always", which i found to be more in its element on the sentimental pop version (it seemed out-of-sync and out of tune in its remixed form), "thankyou baby (for making someday come so soon)" with a powerful arabic rhythm that just drives the song forward (spiced with a piquant touch of the harmonium, though an instrument non-native to india)....and last but not least, is the once-again, caribbean-indian melange (almost guayanese or trinidadian, like chutney or soca) found in "i ain't goin' down"- shania seems to like this! and also to have found a comfortable groove navigating the uncharted waters of that vast ocean between the calypso of the tropics, and the raw, pulsating sitar of the orient...because of this, she is now one of my favorite singers, having embraced the world over, and i only hope to hear MORE from her in this style....Shania, you can only go up from here.. ;)

~Jenny Campbell,
August 17, 2003