Up! (album)

This was the last album of Twain's career (excluding her 2004 Greatest Hits collection) to be produced by her then-husband Robert John "Mutt" Lange before their divorce and her last studio release until 2017's Now.

at eleven-times platinum,[1] giving her the distinction of being the only female artist to have three consecutive diamond albums released in the United States.

The album was promoted with multiple interviews and live performances including the 2003 Super Bowl halftime show and the successful Up!

became a top-ten success across Europe while also hitting number seven on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

became Twain's biggest success in the continent while "Forever and for Always" was the album's best-performing single on the US Billboard Hot 100.

According to the album booklet, Twain and Lange wrote and recorded in Berlin, Rome, Vienna, Paris, Avignon, Provence, Milan, Dublin, the Bahamas (at the famous Compass Point Studios), The Grenadine Islands, and Mumbai.

[2] For the blue international disc, the pair enlisted British-Asian music producers Simon and Diamond Duggal for production collaboration.

[4][better source needed] The red and green versions were released on vinyl in the United States and Europe on October 14, 2016.

On November 6, she launched the US leg of the promotional tour by opening the 2002 Country Music Awards.

[6] Upon its release, the album received positive reviews from most music critics, based on an aggregate score of 72/100 from Metacritic.

[7] AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine rated it 4.5/5 stars, praising Twain for: "writing well crafted songs as universal anthems, so listeners can hear themselves within these tales.

[9] Matthew Bjorke from About.com rated it four-stars out of five and said that: "This 19 track opus is sure to please most fans of both pop and modern country.

"[8] The Blender review was also positive, saying that: "Twain's songs are never deep, but they have hooks tattooed on their skin and harmonies that glow like bar lights.

"[11] Also with a positive review, Billboard said that: "[It's] quintessential Shania, light as vapor, sweet as sugar, rendered with personality and undeniable charisma.

"[12] Andrew Lynch from Entertainment.ie rated it three-stars out of five and said that: "The songs, themselves, meanwhile, are as bland and one-dimensional as they were on the smash hit Come on Over, sassily upbeat stuff with a dash of girl power thrown in for good measure.

He also complemented "the sheer exuberance and joy of craftsmanship in this double-Up!-manship don't feel like mercenary insincerity.

"[20] The PopMatters review was average, giving it six stars out of ten and saying that the album "got everything from dance numbers to ballads, and it's vintage Shania".

is a sense of Twain trying – desperately trying at all levels – to touch everyone, to express universal truths by artificial means: beats, tempos, instruments, etc.

"[15] Robert Christgau on his Consumer Guide Review praised the tracks "I'm Gonna Getcha Good! "

"[19] Alanna Nash from Amazon was largely positive and concluded that: "There's something oddly hypnotic about much of this project, and it may be simply hearing what Shania can do when she abandons the pretense of being a country singer and concentrates on music.