Shania Twain Gets Candid About Being Called 'America's Best Paid Lap Dancer in Nashville'
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Shania Twain has been singing since she was just a toddler.
It wasn’t until the release of her 1997 album, Come On Over, that she became an international star.
Leading up to that, she released her 1995 album, Woman in Me, which earned jaw-dropping feedback—though, not in the best way.
Now, she reminisces on those early days and addresses the ugly side of being a rising female country music artist in the 90s.
One scroll through Shania Twain’s Instagram feed and you might think she has it all together without a care in the world. Heck, you might even think it all came easy to her. But, thanks to a recent interview, fans are getting a firsthand look into what it was really like to become the internationally renowned singer that she is today.
“I was criticized as an artist,” Twain revealed in an episode of Home Now Radio on Apple Music Hits. “I’m surprised I ever had any hits actually when I read them now. So for example, part of the quote from one of my reviews was, ‘She’s America’s best paid lap dancer in Nashville. She’s hot, but can she sing? Is Shania just a flash in the pan? The most famous midriff in Nashville.’ So yeah, I ended up having hits anyway. Very satisfying. ‘Whose bed have your boots been under,’ release 1995. And what I just quoted were all quotes based on that first single from the Woman In Me album. I wrote the song. And I was a little bit hurt, I guess, at the harsh critics, not focusing on the music.”
Thankfully, Shania didn’t let those critics deter her from her goal. At the time of her 1995 album, she was just 29 years old. While that may not seem as young as the current TikTok singers-turned-radio stars, it’s important to understand that it’s still a rather impressionable age and, had it not been for Shania’s will to ignore the critics and focus on the fans lifting her up and praising her vocals, we may never have been graced with hits like “You’re Still The One” and “Man! I Feel Like a Woman.”
“The fans just wiped all of that hurt away and made the song one of my biggest hits,” she said. “Thank you, fans.”
Imagine a world where those classics don’t exist. It’s difficult, no? Thankfully, we don’t have to. Instead, we get to look forward to Shania beginning her “Let’s Go!” Vegas Residency, which will take place at the Zappos Theater from December 2-12, 2021 and February 11-26, 2022.
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