Shania Twain “needed something extra” on one of her Queen Of Me tracks, so she added a cameo from Billy Ray Cyrus.
Twain kicked off the weekend with the release of Queen Of Me: Royal Edition (Extended). The most recent country-pop anthems to join the global icon’s latest full-length project include the Malibu Babie remix of “Giddy Up!,” a new version of “Inhale/Exhale Air” featuring BRELAND, an acoustic rendition of the title track, “On Three,” “Done & Dusted” and more. Twain reflected on a “phenomenal year” so far — as she continues her international “Queen Of Me Tour” in her home country — as she shared a moment that Frederic Thiebaud captured while she was recording in the studio (a signature “ow!,” embedded into a song).
“I felt like the track needed something extra, as usual,” Twain wrote in her caption on Instagram, adding a laughing face emoji. “This came to me in the moment and it just worked! The extended version includes this track ‘On Three’ with a cameo from [Billy Ray Cyrus] (we go way way back!) and Done & Dusted, a personal favourite of mine that I’m happy to be able to share with you all.”
Twain and Cyrus previously teased the release last week, when Twain announced that Queen Of Me: Royal Edition (Extended) would feature the “Achy Breaky Heart” star. She said on Instagram at that time that she’d “already written On Three and was in the studio recording it, I could just hear a sexy man with a southern accent counting the song in and the first person that came to mind was Billy 😂 I called him up and literally had him record it down the phone.”
“I wrote this album from a place of feeling good within myself - I wanted music that got me up dancing and lifted my spirits!” Twain gushed in an Instagram caption when she first debuted Queen Of Me earlier this year. “I think the fact that I recorded this album with so many good hearted and talented people only amplified that! I hope the album brings you joy and empowers you to feel good in your own skin!”
Find the full Queen Of Me: Royal Edition (Extended) on iHeartRadio here.