Shania Twain: ‘This is a historically challenging time for women’
msn.comvery scary. ” But, through it all, she has remained insistent on a woman’s “prerogative to have a little fun”. Now 58, she tells me it’s the “fun, fearless” side of her that she’s channelling in her buoyant new single, “Waking Up Dreaming”, from a sixth album expected to drop in 2023.
With a nod to a younger generation of boys and girls donning boas and sequins to TikTok along to her 1997 hit “Man! I Feel like a Woman!”, the new song encourages fans to “dress up crazy like superstars… no we won’t stop at the ceiling/ Tonight we’re making our way to Mars”.
In the video she’s larking it up – “wild and crazy, totally outlandish” in pink hair and huge curly false eyelashes made of feathers. “I’ve always had control over the way I look in videos,” she says, “and in this one, I had a whole lot of fun thinking back to how I was inspired by David Bowie, Prince and Blondie.
I can’t wait to see people wearing these looks to shows… they’ll have to make those lashes themselves because we did!”Twain moved from Mercury (the country label to which she’d signed right at the beginning of her career) to the pop label Republic to record her new material.
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