Shania Twain: I was touch and go with Covid

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< p class=" ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00">Shania Twain's recent Netflix documentary Not Just A Girl captures footage of the country megastar in London working on her sixth album.

She pulls up in a black cab, her hair tied in a knot, and lays down on a sofa to record a song called What You Gonna Do With That Air?

It's a bright pop anthem that has Twain knocking through the sky as she hits the chorus...but it turns out the inspiration was much darker.

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"It's about the anxiety of running out of air", explains the singer.

"I had a really bad fight with Covid, with Covid pneumonia, and it was very tricky. I felt like, oh my God, I just have to breathe."

The condition was particularly frightening because Twain had experienced this constriction in his throat before.

At the height of her fame in 2003, she was bitten by a tick and contracted Lyme disease, causing nerve damage to her vocal cords which left her kept her from singing for almost a decade.

She only recovered after open throat surgery, reappearing in 2012 with a new rasp for playing the first of two successful Las Vegas residencies.