"I had done a show for [Channel] Seven called Restaurant Rules [in 2004]," Matt began.
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Shania Twain has explained how collaborating with Billy Ray Cyrus came about.
The Canadian icon spoke to ET Canada’s Carlos Bustamante at her Toronto show over the weekend about teaming up with Cyrus on the track “On Three” that features on her album Queen Of Me: Royal Edition [Extended Version].
Twain shared of the collab, “I was counting it in just in the demo, you know, ‘one, two, three.’ Just counting the song in. I didn’t plan on keeping it a as part of the actual record. But, as we recorded it and finished it as a record, I’m like ‘Oh I really like keeping that.’ But [thought] it just seems like it should be a man since it’s about the two of us.”
The musician went on, “[I thought] I’d love to hear, you know, a Southern man, you know a man with a Southern accent do it. That’s just what I heard. And I thought, ‘well, why not Billy Ray Cyrus? You know, let me give him a call.’ And it was just like that. And I just recorded him literally on the iPhone.”
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Bustamante joked about just casually calling Cyrus while he was probably just having breakfast and was like “let me put my spoon down.”
Twain insisted, “It was that kind of thing. It was. He was such a good sport. He goes, ‘Sure. Sure.’ So we did it a few times over. Try this. Try that. And that was it. He was just a really great sport.”
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Elsewhere in the chat, Twain spoke about having A-list pals including Tom Hanks attend her gigs.
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"I had done a show for [Channel] Seven called Restaurant Rules [in 2004]," Matt began.
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Billy Ray is back for the sixth installment of Strike Talk, a podcast that began with the start of the Writers Guild standoff. Falling on the 50th day of the strike, this episode is groundbreaking, in a Stanley Kubrick 2001: A Space Odyssey‘s HAL meets James Cameron’s The Terminator kind of way. As he will explain in the podcast, Ray was able to make it so that he could have a back and forth verbal conversation with the AI that is a major bone of contention for the WGA in its dispute with AMPTP signatories. While the voice of AI seems amiable enough, it makes clear that as its technology and learning abilities become more sophisticated, fears that it could be used to lessen the number of writers coming up in the creative ecosystem by the use of cost-effective technology is validated in technicolor. Below-the-liners, writers and actors and even studio heads are expendable. Ray, who wrote the classic ‘I am the captain now’ line in Captain Phillips, unveils a new and potentially scarier skipper here, one that might give studio chiefs pause to consider what they’re unleashing to save a few bucks. Click below to listen.
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large We’ve all made the “Cop Rock” jokes. The Steven Bochco musical drama, which premiered in fall 1990, was a big swing: marrying original music with procedural storytelling. It was a colossal flop that we still talk about three decades later, and a reminder that musicals are hard. Music has been a part of the TV landscape going back to the 1950s and shows like “Your Hit Parade.” But few series have successfully integrated regular music performances into their storytelling: “The Monkees” and “The Partridge Family” worked in the 1960s and ’70s. “Fame” did it in the early ’80s. And then “Cop Rock” scared people off the concept.