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title: Optimism Helps Shania Twain Write Songs which Make her Smile and Laugh
description: "Shania Twain found optimism and held herself responsible for her frame of mind. She started writing lyrics that made her smile and laugh with melodies and rhythms that made her want to dance. \"And it worked.\""
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# [Optimism Helps Shania Twain Write Songs which Make her Smile and Laugh](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/blog/shaniatwain)

 Written by [Victor Perton](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/blog/author/victor-perton) | Apr 12, 2023 8:05:18 PM

"Finding that optimism and really holding myself responsible for my frame of mind. So, I started writing lyrics that made me smile and laugh and melodies and rhythms that made me want to dance. And it worked."

Speaking about writing her album "[Queen of Me"](https://music.apple.com/us/album/queen-of-me/1651285285), Shania Twain said, “I ended up, really, writing this album to save my own frame of mind, and to write things that were taking charge of my mood, That meant lifting my spirits, putting some up ‘in my giddy.’ Just finding that optimism and really holding myself responsible for my frame of mind. So, I started writing lyrics that made me smile and laugh, and melodies and rhythms that made me want to dance. And it worked. It was this fabulous therapy that ended up becoming my happy album.”  

Waking up, Dreaming is a track on the album.

So let's start waking up dreamin'  
And dress up crazy like superstars  
There ain't no shaking this feelin'

 

Tonight we're making our way to Mars

Way up higher than we've ever been  
No, we won't stop at the ceilin'  
So let's keep waking up dreamin'

 

 

[Read More: A Very Optimistic Woman’s Point of View: Shania Twain](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/blog/its-a-very-optimistic-womans-point-of-view-shania-twain?hsLang=en)

 

 

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