Shania Twain Un-Retires For First New Album In 15 Years

Shania Twain delighted fans with news Wednesday that she will be releasing her first album in 15 years this coming fall, and appears eager to reclaim the crown of country pop’s crossover queen!

Recent guest stints on “The Voice” and a Las Vegas residency helped convince the “Any Man of Mine” crooner that she was ready to un-retire, she announced in a statement released through Billboard. She’s releasing a new single, "Life's About to Get Good," in June, with the full as-yet-unnamed album to follow in September.

“I was at home looking out at the ocean and I said to myself, ‘Here I am stuck in this past of negativity, but it’s so beautiful out,” Shania said of the first single. “I’m not in the mood to write a ‘feeling-sorry-for-myself’ song… You can’t have the good without the bad. And that’s what the song ended up being about.”

And after a little over decade atop the music world through, Shania hit a rough patch. In 2009, her marriage to producer Robert John “Mutt” Lange broke up after he began an affair with her best friend, Marie-Anne Thiébeaud.

In 2010, she developed dysphonia, a physical disorder affecting the voice that required a long program of physical therapy. She admitted that she found herself unsure whether she would be able to perform again. I didn’t help that ex-husband and co-songwriter Lange —a studio wiz whose credits stretch from AC/DC to Bryan Adams and Lady Gaga —had been integral to her success.

But the singer whose catchy hits foreshadowed the rise of Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus says she’s back, and promises songs that reflect her recent ups and downs. Tops among those in the minds of many fans: the 51-year-old’s remarriage in 2011 to Frédéric Thébaud — Marie-Anne’s jilted ex-husband. Talk about a country song waiting to happen!