Shania Twain and Brandi Carlile on Teaming Up for an All-Female-Headliner Festival, and Why Women Supporting Women Is Always ‘Right on Time’

variety.com:

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Shania Twain‘s “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” wasn’t literally written to be sung along with by a nearly all-female audience, but the ’90s smash might have received its ultimate culmination when Twain brought it out as the climax of her set at Brandi Carlile‘s Girls Just Wanna Weekend festival.

Twain is one of the biggest stars to have topped the all-female bill at the annual gathering in Cancun, and a series of mid-set duets between the guest country-pop superstar and a host who is becoming iconic in her own right ensured further elation for the thousands of festival attendees catching a Mexican breeze… and catching a break from typical music-fest toxic masculinity.

Backstage on the night after Twain’s Girls Just Wanna set, shortly before Carlile took to the stage on Saturday for her own principal performance, the two stars talked with Variety about their long-planned, finally-realized stage collaboration, and how Twain realized that Carlile’s dream of a fairly utopian festival environment was no empty promise.

They also talked in detail about their mutual fandom, from Carlile covering Twain songs in a bar band to how Twain thinks Carlile hasn’t yet reached her full potential as a “rock goddess.” Shania, Brandi was after you for a while to play Girls Just Wanna Weekend.