"I am absolutely underrated": Shania Twain embraces her career renewal

It was Shania Twain's last tour in February 1999, despite the record-breaking success of come here.

This album – powered by hits From now on and It does not impress me much – is still the best-selling album of all time by a female artist in Australia, a 18 times platinum behemoth, sold at 1.26 million copies, beaten by Meat Loaf's ### Bat out of hell and Farnesy Whispering Jack.

"I would say it's about time that I'm back, it's too late," Twain, 53, laughed on the Los Angeles phone, his Canadian modesty intact.

After a 15-year hiatus between albums – a period in which Lyme disease ravaged her vocal cords to the point of not knowing if she would sing again, and the dissolution of her marriage with producer Mutt Lange as a result from an affair with his close friend – Twain's bringing back under the spotlight.

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"It was not quite negative and negative, some just wanted to stay home and be a mom," she says about the break.

"I was busy, I was not doing music, for me, I needed a reason to make an album, I had a lot of life to do."

Of course, with each return, a hiccup is to be expected.

In April, she went into what is most circumstances in 2018: a surprise reaction from social media, after suggesting that she would have voted for Donald Trump (she later apologized, claiming that she did not share any moral conviction with the President of the United States.)

Twain, in a media style that has lost none of its varnish, avoids any serious discussion of the false start.

"I was not surprised," she says about the controversy. "I mean, it's a sensitive topic, it's a sensitive time and it calls for responsive responses."

She's more bubbly when she discusses the enduring legacy of her late-90s summit, her work embraced by the Internet generation.

"It's a huge compliment – I've always been true to myself and anxious to be a good example.This may have had a lasting effect? ​​I do not know," says -she.

It is also ironic to pick up a line from another faithful of the '90s, given the critical indifference at the base of his work as a country-pop cross-country, decades ahead of Taylor Swift.

"I am absolutely underrated, of course!" she said with a hint of joke.

"I was not traditional in my style of music or in my image, I was different and made some people feel uncomfortable, I had to have broad shoulders and not let myself be bothered. Instead of changing as I please, I continued.

"It was the best years of my life and I felt very appreciated by fans, but funny enough, I feel even more appreciated now, all these years later."

Take Man! I feel like a woman! for example, a capacity-building anthem whose cultural relevance has only grown in the era of #MeToo and #TimesUp.

"It's liberating, that's what this song has meant for me at the moment and it still means," Twain said.

"I had reached a point in my life where I was just beginning to enjoy being a woman.When growing up, I did not see the point of worrying about my femininity, because it brought me looks that made me uncomfortable.It is a pleasure to be taken there, I kissed her and I did an exclamation.

"I think this song still speaks for many women: we are what we are and we will not be intimidated to lose our self-expression."

The intergenerational appeal has also opened an unexpected career path, says Twain. A cameo on the millennial comedy Broad City led to his first major film role, playing the love interest of John Travolta in the romantic drama Painting Trading, scheduled for release next year.

"I think back to Man! I feel like a woman! "To keep my life interesting, I need those challenges, to get out of my comfort zone and to do experiments." I do not like being Shania in the spotlight sometimes. "

Shania Twain Now's world tour arrives at Auckland's Spark Arena on December 18th and at Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin on December 22nd.