{"id":546457,"date":"2023-02-01T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/shania-twains-eternal-pop-empire\/"},"modified":"2023-02-01T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T14:21:00","slug":"shania-twains-eternal-pop-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/shania-twains-eternal-pop-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"#Shania Twain\u2019s eternal pop empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35b22c7de0b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35b22c7de0b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/shania-twains-eternal-pop-empire\/#%E2%80%9CShania_Twains_eternal_pop_empire%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Shania Twain\u2019s eternal pop empire&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CShania_Twains_eternal_pop_empire%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Shania Twain\u2019s eternal pop empire&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n                            On her genre-jumping new album, Shania Twain still luxuriates in her crossover <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eal\n                        <\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">What do Harry Styles, <\/span>Diplo and Haim all have in common? They\u2019ve all duetted with, covered or shouted out Shania Twain. More than two decades after sweeping the charts, the country superstar is still spreading her influence all over pop culture. It\u2019s hard to imagine Taylor Swift graduating from Nashville darling to international pop icon without Shania doing it 20 years earlier.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Shania earned the nickname \u201cQueen of Country Pop\u201d after her 1997 album <i>Come On Over<\/i> became the best-selling record in history by a solo female artist. Along with her producer and then-husband Mutt Lange, Shania created a suite of songs that were playful, infectious and unpretentiously fun\u2014even the ballads. You didn\u2019t have to have a shelf full of George Jones or Waylon Jennings to stop everything when \u201cThat Don\u2019t Impress Me Much\u201d came on MuchMusic, or to croon along to \u201cYou\u2019re Still The One\u201d on the radio at the dentist\u2019s office.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">These days, Shania is once again ubiquitous on every platform. Scroll through TikTok and you\u2019re bound to hear clips of \u201cLet\u2019s go, girls!\u201d or \u201cOkay, so you\u2019re Brad Pitt.\u201d Shania even recently released a trailer house EDM remix of \u201cMan! I Feel Like a Woman\u201d by the producer Real Hypha, which originated on the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> app. TikTok is the platform where old songs can find new life in cascading remixes, duets and memes. Decades-old tracks from artists like Kate Bush and Fleetwood Mac have become hits again on the backs of popular videos. It\u2019s happening on Spotify, too. In 2021, listeners between 19 and 24 streamed \u201990s country as much as listeners over 40. And Gen Z created 89 million playlists featuring songs by Faith Hill, the Chicks and, at the top of the list, Shania Twain.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">For decades, the Nashville machine was controlled by powerful cultural gatekeepers who favoured a specific look and sound: usually white, male and cowboy-hatted. Shania defied those expectations from the beginning. Her bare midriff in the video for the 1993 single \u201cWhat Made You Say That\u201d caused many country purists to write her off as an artist more focused on image and sex appeal than artistry. \u201cI was a disruption to the image of country music,\u201d Shania said in the recent Netflix documentary <i>Not Just A Girl<\/i>. She went on to release her 2002 album <i>Up!<\/i> in three different styles: pop, country and an \u201cinternational\u201d version that blended twang with tabla, fiddle with sitar.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>READ: How artist Stan Douglas recreates scenes of political unrest<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">Her defiance planted the seeds for other artists to cross over. More recently, Lil Nas X\u2019s \u201cOld Town Road\u201d blended honkytonk with hip-hop and R&amp;B. The success of a country hit from a young, Black, queer artist sparked debates among conservative listeners <span class=\"s2\">about whether or not it belonged on the country charts\u2014even though the genre was heavily influenced by the <\/span>African-American community before executives began marketin<span class=\"s2\">g it to white audiences in the 1940s.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">This month, Shania releases her latest album,<i> Queen of Me, <\/i>and just in time\u2014Gen Z can\u2019t get enough of her. At last year\u2019s Coachella, she surprised the audience onstage during Harry Styles\u2019s headlining set, joining him for a performance of \u201cMan! I Feel Like A Woman!\u201d Sparkling in matching sequins, the intergenerational artists found new resonance in the song\u2019s undertones of androgyny and gender play. That hit\u2019s subversively sassy self-assurance has been claimed and reclaimed decades later. <i>Billboard<\/i> recently named it the greatest karaoke song of all time, and it\u2019s a bona fide queer anthem. Like her own biggest influence, Dolly Parton, Shania has become an LGBTQ+ icon in a genre that is often painted as rigid and conservative.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">On her new album, Shania is conversational and colourful, rarely taking herself seriously. The first single, \u201cWaking Up Dreaming,\u201d is about following your ambitions as far as they\u2019ll take you\u2014a nod to Shania\u2019s own hard-fought journey to world domination. It\u2019s the kind of track meant for throwing your arms up on the dance floor, easily slotting into a playlist between Icona Pop\u2019s \u201cI Love It\u201d and Carly Rae Jepsen\u2019s \u201cRun Away With Me.\u201d In the video, Shania takes nods from \u201980s glam rock, donning enough wigs and costumes to fill a drag queen\u2019s closet. Now, as then, she wears leopard print like a second skin.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">Shania\u2019s casual refusal to play by Nashville\u2019s rules continues to rankle some genre devotees. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.savingcountrymusic.com\/shania-twain-goes-80s-glam-instead-of-going-90s-country\/\">A recent article on the blog <i>Saving<\/i><i> Country Music<\/i><\/a><i> <\/i><\/span>asked why she doesn\u2019t go back to her \u201990s country roots. But Shania Twain has never made music strictly for Nashville\u2014her target audience is everyone. Going back to the sound of 25 years ago would be to abandon what makes her so relevant now. She never took the traditional country path. She went her own way, and the genre followed.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>This article appears in print in the February 2023 issue of<\/em> Maclean\u2019s <em>magazine. 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