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Shania on "How To Fail with Elizabeth Day" podcast - UK

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Shania Twain says she’s bringing her wellies for Glastonbury 2024

Queen of country-pop will play the Pyramid Stage in June

By Roisin O'Connor | The Independent | May 22, 2024

Shania Twain says she’s packed her wellies for Glastonbury Festival this summer, as she prepares to take to the Pyramid Stage for the coveted Legends Slot.

The Canadian country-pop legend, 58, will perform some of her biggest hits when she makes her debut at Worthy Farm in June, alongside headliners Coldplay, Dua Lipa and SZA.

“I am getting into the spirit of the whole experience. I will be bringing rubber boots – wellies, as you call them here,” she told host Elizabeth Day on her How to Fail podcast.

“I want to go to other stages and I’ve heard that you should be prepared for the mud. I will probably wear a cowboy hat if it’s raining if going around the stages, so I can keep myself from looking like a wet rat.”

She added: “I haven’t worked out what I’m wearing yet but I will figure it out.”

In the same interview, the “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” star spoke about how she tries not to berate herself if she mixes up her lyrics: “I don’t beat myself up too much when it comes to that failure. It’s challenging to remember that many lyrics.

“But when people are singing along with me and they get the words wrong, it throws me right off. Even when they stop singing, sometimes I lose where I am.”

She also offered an emotional response when asked about her “biggest failure”, which she felt was wishing that her late mother could be at every one of her shows.

“They say not to wish for things you can’t change. But you have triggers like an award show,” she said.

“My mum was there for all of the beginning and none of the success. It’s regrettable in the deepest way that she never got to witness anything.”

Twain, who rose to global fame in the late Nineties and Noughties with albums such as Come On Over and Up!, was announced as one of the artists on this year’s Glastonbury lineup in March.

“The legends slot at GLASTONBURY 2024... Another jewel in my crown!!” she wrote on Instagram after the news broke. “I feel so honoured and so excited about this one! Thinking about what to wear already... and tell me, what should we sing together?!

“Let’s make history this summer with this ultimate dream performance!”

Twain’s Glastonbury booking comes after the release last year of her sixth studio album, Queen of Me. Among the previous artists to have played the Legends Slot on Sunday at Glastonbury are Diana Ross, Barry Gibb, Kylie Minogue and Lionel Richie.

She is also headlining British Summer Time festival in London on Sunday 7 July, along with fellow stars such as Stevie Nicks, Robbie Williams, SZA, rock band Kings of Leon, K-Pop band Stray Kids, and Australian pop icon Minogue, who will perform on dates across June and July.

This year’s Glastonbury Festival takes place between 26 to 30 June.

Other artists on the lineup include soul-pop artist Michael Kiwanuka, pop-punk singer Avril Lavigne, bands Keane, LCD Soundsystem, Two Door Cinema Club, Fat White Family and Bombay Bicycle Club, rapper Little Simz, and singers Camila Cabello, Janelle Monae, Jessie Ware and Olivia Dean.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/glastonbury/shania-twain-glastonbury-2024-legends-slot-b2549347.html

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RE: Shana on "How To Fail with Elizabeth Day" podcast - UK

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Repeat podcast episode from May 2024. Links above.

Shania Twain Honestly Reflects on the ‘Hardest’ Parts of Her Childhood Before Worldwide Fame

By Miranda Siwak | Us Weekly | January 28, 2026

Shania Twain is peeling back the complexities from her childhood.

“[Singing in] bars when I was a child were definitely the hardest,” Twain, 60, said on the Monday, January 25, episode of the “How to Fail” podcast. “They were smoke-filled rooms at the time. By the time, I was allowed in the bar as a child, … a child could enter a bar, a liquor premises, only after the physical bar stopped serving [alcohol].”

Most bars stopped serving drinks at midnight, which was when Twain would be allowed to take the stage.

“I would go to do the ‘after hours’ set, and everyone’s already intoxicated,” she said. “It was a terrible environment for a child, but I was very professional about it. I took it very seriously.”

Keep scrolling for more of Twain’s biggest confessions about her childhood and life in the limelight:

Singing in Bars

“[It was] very difficult, just dark, smelly, smoky places with a lot of … and people fight,” Twain said, adding that she has no regrets about her experience. “I wouldn’t want to ever live it again. Once is enough — all the way through [and] all the way around, and I don’t regret any of it.”

Twain’s earliest gigs took place at those local bars.

“If there was an opportunity for me to go singing at the local bar, my mother would find every opportunity possible, so I could get out and get exposure and get experience as a professional performer,” she recalled. “Those were my classrooms, the bar stages. If I didn’t earn anything from it, [that] was going to be a domestic problem.”

Twain revealed that she needed to earn at least $50 to help cover both gas costs to-and-from the venue and groceries for the week.

“The cupboards were often empty, the gas tank was often empty,” she said. “We were living hand to mouth, week to week — or sometimes day to day. The heat would get turned off in the middle of winter, so any $5 went a long way.”

‘A Very Jam-Packed, Intense Young Life’

While speaking on the “How to Fail” podcast, Twain acknowledged how she began her career after enduring several family hardships. (Twain’s mother and stepfather were killed in a 1987 car accident, leaving the singer to become the guardian of her younger siblings.)

“I felt old already by the time I was 20, by the time my parents died,” Twain said. “I already felt like a grown woman … but I was more experienced than I probably should have been with a lot of things.”

Understanding Her Past

“There’s no other kid in class that’s up till 2 in the morning in the local bar, maybe singing to somebody’s parents or whatever,” she said. “You don’t really absorb. I don’t think I didn’t until I started getting further away from it.”

The Double Standards in Her Career

Twain moved to Nashville in the early 1990s upon signing her first record deal.

“It was a process, so the insecurities — not about being female — but about expressing being female was the issue,” she said, referring to the hyper-sexualization of her songs. “I could do it with the lyrics, and I was playing already with the visual silhouettes and everything. I was doing what I thought was comfortable.”

Once Twain released “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” she realized how much of a “statement” she was actually making.

“This is not just me being a woman, saying, ‘I can think for myself.’ This was beyond that,” she said. “[There were] only men in my industry when I was a kid. There was the odd female singer, but when there was a female singer in bars, I wasn’t normally going to the bar to sing because they already had a female singer.”

With her 1997 hit, Twain wanted to push back at any man who previously made her feel “uncomfortable.”

“I [was like], ‘I’m gonna put a short skirt on.’ I was kind of pushing myself through fears,” she said. “I wasn’t looking at them anymore. I was actually pushing myself through them and it felt great.”

https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/shania-twain-honestly-reflects-on-the-hardest-parts-of-her-childhood/