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Thursday, December 10, 1998 Wefltend 3 (Rpmrgftiro Come on over What Shania Twain with Leahy. Where: Blue Cross Arena at the Rochester War Memorial, 1 War Memorial Square. When: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets: $29.50 and $40.

On sale at Ticket Express, 100 East Ave. (222-5000), TicketMaster (232-1900) and the Arena box office, which is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Saturday; and noon to 6 p.m. on Sundays when there is an event. Call: 546-2030. alalia iwm records. And then at the same time, I'm in another record collection of people who just listen to country music and they wouldn't dare listen to anything else." Country Weekly 14.

Fight like Patrick Ewing under the backboards while trying to out-muscle Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion and Gloria Estefan on VHi Divas Live. 15. On the international market, where country music doesn't sell, court potential customers with a completely different CD cover for Come on Over, showing you in a sleeveless silver gown. The strategy: Make Europeans her music, which she will per? form Wednesday night at the Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial. The lyrics often hit on country-worn themes that show us a different Twain one designed to be more accessible to a vast mainstream audience.

Maybe she's compartmentalized the pain. Maybe it's something she doesn't want to share. Whichever way you look at her career, it's as though the 33-year-old performer was presented with a plan at birth: "Sha-nia Twain's 20 Steps to World Music Domination." Start singing Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Tammy Wynette songs at age 3, and harmonize along with the Carpenters, the Supremes FROM COVER Her father, an Ojibwa Indian named Jerry, was a forester and prospector. He was often without work, but he was too proud to take unemployment benefits. So Twain worked while she was going to high school, just like the folks who would someday buy her records.

She flipped burgers at McDonald's and was a member of her dad's re-forestation crew. Twain was 21, pursuing her singing career in Toronto, when her parents were killed in a head-on collision with a logging truck. She moved back home to raise her three younger siblings. Three years later, she was able to resume her musical career. think you re another Mariah Carey.

You'll be No. 1 Courtesy of Shore Fire Media Navel gazing Singer-songwriter Shania Twain's midriff-baring wardrobe has gotten almost as much attention as her music, a brand of sexually charged country-pop that features breezy lyrics. in Australia. Shania says: "I pick everything I and Stevie Wonder. 2.

At the age of 8, play guitar in local community centers, old-folks' homes and bars. 3. Get work as a lounge singer in a rhinestone Vegas- wear, everything But when success came, critics hit her from unexpected directions. Some suggested that her poverty was overstated. Some said that her producerhusband, 1 Robert John "Mutt" Lange, was a Sven-galL Even her hometown newspaper jumped on the bandwagoa In 1996, type act at a resort in the Canadian wilderness.

Sing Pat Benatar songs. Then dump the name Eilleen Twain and get a stage name. Sha- nia is Ojibwa for and no one will miss this prophecy "I'm on my way." 4. Release a self-titled album, your first, in 1993. No one it reported that Jerry was not her biological father, so she wasn't really Ojibwa Indian; as though the man who wasn't there her biological father was more important than the one who taught her about pride, and how triple shirts, always worried about those things.

Teenage girls, they need to learn to grow up confident about these new things that are growing on their chests." The Associated Press 10. Buy a 20-mile square farm in the Adirondacks, near Cat Mountain. 1L Join Tony Bennett, Aretha Franklin, Kenny Rogers, Smokey Robinson, Carly Simon and Jon Bon Jovi in a performance at President Clinton's 50th birthday party. (But don't accept an invitation to a private inspection of the Oval Office pantry.) 12. Sign on with the same management team as Bruce Springsteen and Natalie Merchant.

13. Release your third album, Come on Over, in 1997. It will pick up right where The Woman in Me left off, and it will sell 6 million copies in one year. Once again, the sprinkling of pedal steel guitar and fiddle will barely disguise this pop album as country. You're Still the One will not only be the top country single for weeks, but it will hold the No.

2 position on the pop charts for a while. Shania says: "It's great that I have so many types of listeners. It makes me very excited to know that I might be in someone's record collection who has no other country 5. Six months after that first meeting in 1993, marry Mutt. 6.

Release The Woman in Me in 1995. It will be your breakthrough album, with eight hit singles. And it will become the biggest-selling album by any female country artist, thanks to the most evocative come-hither voice since Hal in 2001. Lange's rock influence will be obvious in the production: Those fiddles sound like they could back Def Leppard. Shania says: "You've got to fit somewhere, and for the sake of fitting, I'm country." The Associated Press 7.

For the Any Man of Mine video, wear tight jeans and prance around like a filly looking for a place to roll in the hay. 8. Don't tour just yet. One album of songs your now-forgotten debut included only one original doesn't make a head-liner. 9.

Get on Shape magazine's salute to "The 15 Top Bodies in Hollywood." Besides you, the list will include Dean Cain, Susan Sarandon, Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, Fran Drescher and Lisa Kudrow. Shania says: "I spent my whole teenage life flattening my breasts, wearing I do, every move I make. I am directing myself artistically, period, no ifs, ands or buts about it." RoJing Stone 16. Bring your tour to Detroit not exactly a country-music mecca and sell out Pine Knob Amphitheatre in 29 minutes. That will put you in the same league as the Who, Metallica, Jimmy Buffett and home boy Bob Seger.

17. Turn up on The Late Show With David Letterman and the Tonight show with Jay Leno. 18. And, of course, Live With Regis Kathie Lee. 19.

Get on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, but don't follow the formula and dress like the rest of those frothy country chicks. Continue to rile the Nashville corporate cats by wearing black leather pants, showing off that navel and appearing to be on the verge of shedding a wispy top covering your breasts. 20. Sell that Adirondack retreat and move to Switzerland, where no one will know who you are. Shania says: "It's tough being recognized at the grocery store." The Associated Press will notice, but a video of What Made You Say That will entrance South African-born rock producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange.

to hunt and use a chainsaw. Adversity. Tragedy. Circumstances that require a young woman to mature fast Her most recent albums, The Woman in Me (which sold 9 million ,4 He has produced music for ACDC, the Cars, Def Leppard, Michael Bolton, Bryan Adams, the Backstreet Boys and Foreigner, but he will repeatedly call you, an unknown country singer maybe because of your exposed belly button. copies) and Come on Over (which sold 6 million), feature a complex, sexually charged country-pop sound.

And there is strength in the female characters she sings about. But Twain's own life experiences seem to be absent from.