| Life's About to Get Good | |
| Cover: | Shania Twain - Life's About to Get Good.jpg |
| Border: | yes |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Shania Twain |
| Album: | Now |
| Genre: | Country pop |
| Length: | 3:40 |
| Label: | Mercury Nashville |
| Prev Title: | Endless Love |
| Prev Year: | 2012 |
| Next Title: | Swingin' with My Eyes Closed |
| Next Year: | 2017 |
"Life's About to Get Good" is a song written and recorded by Canadian singer and songwriter Shania Twain. Produced by Twain, Matthew Koma and Ron Aniello, it was released on June 15, 2017 as the lead single from her fifth studio album Now.[1] As of October 2017, "Life's About to Get Good" has sold 36,485 copies in the United States.[2] It was Twain's first single in five years. Twain performed the song on her Now Tour and Let's Go! residency.
Twain formally announced the track as her new single prior to the 2017 Stagecoach Festival. The track was written by Twain and produced by Matthew Koma and Ron Aniello. Rolling Stones Jon Freeman describes the song as, "a bouncy, optimistic number about moving from troubled times into better days."[3]
The song is written in the key of B major with a tempo of 100 beats per minute in common time. The song follows a chord progression of B–C–E–B, and Twain's vocals span from F3 to B4.[4]
Twain premiered the single on April 29, 2017, at the Stagecoach Festival. She performed the song on Todays Summer Concert series on June 16, 2017. It was included in her set on September 10, 2017 during her exclusive UK performance at Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park. During her appearance on the 2017 season finale of America's Got Talent, Twain performed the song along with "You're Still the One" with 4th runner up Mandy Harvey.
The song premiered on June 15, 2017, on BBC Radio 2 and was released to streaming and music purchasing platforms.[5]
A music video was shot in the Dominican Republic in June 2017. It was directed by Mathew Cullen and released on July 26, 2017. It shows Twain ending up in a tropical resort after reminiscing about her past. The video contains references to iconic fashion statements set by Twain in some of her previous videos, such as the "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" and "That Don't Impress Me Much" outfits.
Rolling Stone writer Jon Freeman writes, "the tune has a touch of Jeff Lynne's hyper-melodic work with Electric Light Orchestra in its DNA, from the stacked harmonies to the bright combination of chords". Andrew Unterberger of Billboard calls the track, "a rollicking anthem of folk-pop perseverance with a gently throbbing pulse", and "It's marvelous, it's irresistible – it's Come On Over-worthy, which 20 years later is still pretty much the highest compliment you can give to a song of its ilk".[6]
| Region | Date | Format(s) | Label | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Various | Digital download | Mercury Nashville | [8] | ||
| Italy | Contemporary hit radio | Universal | [9] | ||
| United Kingdom | Hot adult contemporary | Virgin EMI | |||
| United States | Country radio | Mercury Nashville | [10] |