IT IS possible, if life were long or dull enough, to install Shania Twain's songs as your mobile phone ringtone - even to travel to her Canadian home-town and visit the "museum" established in her honour.
Or you could just listen to these 19 upbeat plastic songs, a burden doubled by the "international versions" on disc two.
The songs, as heard on disc one, wander into each other, one bit of bubblegum pop after another. "The daily grind can freak your mind/But life isn't all that bad," Shania sings on C'est La Vie.
Oh, the daily grind of being a multi-millionaire sometime country singer must be hard to bear.
According to her record company, this is "one of the most exciting and ambitious record projects of the new millennium".
Dear me, we must be in for a wearisome thousand years.
Disc two, by the way, offers world muzak versions, in which tablas and sitars are plonked on to the songs. Cheerfully idiotic stuff all round, really.
Updated: 11:30 Thursday, January 09, 2003
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