LadyGang - FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Shania Twain

Episode Date: January 27, 2023

She’s making us REALLY feel like a lady! The legendary Shania Twain is here to talk about her incredible career, major moments of ups and downs, her new voice, and her upcoming film, “I Still Believe.” Plus, Brad Pitt may have finally impressed her! Original Air Date: March 10th, 2020See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hey, Lady Gang, welcome to Flashback Friday, where we bring some of our favorite Lady Gang episodes from the vault to you in the feed. We have over 600 episodes of this podcast, and whether you're an OG and you've heard this episode before, or you're a new listener and we're just bringing this up and you had no idea we had this person on our podcast, well, you're welcome. Small caveat here, we are an imperfect group of trio of ladies, and we've been podcasting for almost six and a half years. If something we said in this podcast doesn't align with Lady Gang 2020, please give us grace. For instance, there was a period on Lady Gang where I was not into Taylor Swift. It was a reputation era. I wasn't feeling what she was begging, but now I'm like

a Swifty again. And so I just don't want you to hold me to that because we're all growing and learning and our opinions change pretty much every day. Without further ado, welcome to Flashback Friday. Well, what is this? Welcome to the Lady Gang. That's amazing. Say that again. The Lady gang things are about to change around here each week we catch up with hollywood's hottest girl posse kelty knight becca tobin and jack vanik hello hello hello and welcome to the lady gang i am becca tobin here with jack vanik and kelty knight hello i just ate some kroger brand doritos and my life has never been better it reminds me of the time that you said that zach had dorito fingers did he when it was on the podcast and when he came on well you were too drunk but

um you were saying like zach doesn't like lingerie zach likes and we're like listing off the things like sweatpants and like dirty old socks you've been wearing for four days and like dorito fingers like in a sexual way yeah he does disgusting who doesn't you know i've never tried it maybe i will tonight what like what do you do with the dorito fingers just rub them all over his body not in a sexual way it's just like you're eating doritos on the couch watching housewives and he comes over and he's like oh are those dorito fingers i hate a dorito finger it's pretty gross i don't like a lingering smell of a dorito i know i'm about to get my nails done And I'm going to get them short again because now I'm freaked out about the coronavirus

living underneath my nails. Yeah. I definitely have some, you know? Yes. I understand. Okay. Well, in that case, it's time for... Good week.

Yes, it is. Bad week. Oh, no. I'm going to kick this off. Okay. All right. Because I got a really funny DM this week. Okay.

And, you know, Kelty produces a lot of our shows. All of them, to be exact. And it's like, we appreciate her. It's like she does a really good job, but occasionally we get a lemon, you know, when she's just fresh out of ideas. So I got a message from one of our fans, ShellenBC6. Becca, I'm Shelly, a longtime fan of the show. Just wanted to thank you for saving this week's quickie. I got nervous thinking we'd have to go down three sets of great loves.

It's interesting, but we just don't know who Bundy from first grade is, you know? So it's hard for us to relate. Then it's as if you read our minds and spared us. Bring husbands on more often. That was a painful episode that we started off in. It was one of our best quickies we ever had at the end of it. So sometimes by me disappointing, it makes you guys step up. And I'm going to disappoint you more often.

Great. Perfect. Here's my bad week. So occasionally I'll be on Instagram and I'll discover someone and I'll go to their page And it'll be like, oh, so-and-so follows you. And that's exciting because it's like, oh, great. I'm going to follow them back. Yeah.

Well, this really cute handbag company posted a picture or someone tagged them in something. And I'm like, oh, I want to follow this handbag company. It's like so cute. So then I go over. They're not following me. I mean, why should they? I'm a nobody. But then I'm like, who are they following?

They're following Jack and they're following Kelty. But they're not fucking following me. What is it? Gucci. I'm trying to find that. No, it's definitely not Gucci. It's because they know you won't post for free like we will. That's true.

If they send us a bag, I'll post anything once. I mean, I have talked about it a million times that I will post all the time for free shit. Like, I want nothing more. I only post free shit when I like it. Well, me too. But if you would like this, then, you know. Sounds like a bag of luck. It's called, I don't know why I'm giving them a shout out.

Yeah, let's hear it. Because they don't follow you. Rude. It's MQO. Oh. New York. Oh. I don't have a bag from them.

I don't even know what that is. They have a really cute bag. I'm obviously just an influencer. They still aren't following me. Send me a bag, bitches. Okay. That's not a good way to get a bag, Jack. I'm going next.

Okay. Oh, wait. They're following me now. Oh, there you go. Oh, my God. This is exciting. Shout out. It's M-Q-O-E-M-M-K-U-O-N-Y.

I'm going to look them up. That's amazing. Okay. I have a good week. I got a DM from Jessica Alba. Wow. What did Jessica Alba say? she say jessica alba was it like from her team you know what that's rude and probably yes of course

it was like hey girl which was my first thing that maybe it wasn't her yeah but i'm taking it as her it came from her official account i got to i got the delight surprise and delight of opening my instagram account looking at my messages and seeing jessica alba so i clicked on it hey girl saw you're speaking at create and cultivate um i'm gonna be there too would love to send you some of my Honest products. What's the best address? Yeah, that's a copy-paste. Yeah, but that's nice. But still so nice. Honestly, even if I was on

her team, like Jessica Alba's team, and I saw the list of people speaking at Create & Cultivate, I would be like, skip when I saw me. You know what I mean? So the fact that they didn't skip me, I thought was really nice. I haven't received anything yet, Jess, but I'm waiting. I think she's lovely.

Good week. Bad week. Oh, the reviews of my life. Oh no. Here we go. Got a message. Oh, no. It was a tweet to Entertainment Tonight. Tonight I had the opportunity to listen to the program Entertainment Tonight and was appalled by the comments made by talent on your program, Kelty Knight, when interviewing Harrison Ford. In the current climate, if those same comments made about him looking like a biscuit or something to that effect was made by a man host to a female guest, it would not be tolerated.

We should be holding women to those same standards. okay i have mixed feelings about this you didn't like it when i called him a snack no i loved it oh i loved it so much yeah so this kind of bums me out because we should be you're not a threat to him and granted i know it i know it can go both ways but like this is where it's like when is it when is it too far yeah i think you should still be able to tell harrison ford that he looks like a snack it was funny he was cute and he was so cute his publicist came after me afterwards and was like i just think everyone knows in their mind it's the intention behind yeah people i don't know anyway either way also i would like to be called a snack by any man a snack is a nice

like a cute way of saying you're hot it's a cute yes like honestly saying like you're a sexy yeah that's gross here's the thing i have been called like wow you look sexy or you look caught in so many different ways and i took it as such a compliment and i 100 am so clear on the one time that someone said it to me and it was because you want to break into my house yes and like you we know a difference yeah he's a 77 year old man he's barely awake during the press junket like i'm just trying to keep him breathing you know what i mean made him feel really good he loved it he's 77 he looks amazing he looks so he's so hot in this movie i'm telling you the movie with the dog he like takes his shirt off and i'm like i am sexually attracted to harrison ford

Anyway, I love Harrison Ford. Okay, so my good week is, I guess one of our Lady Gangers was looking up, Googling my net worth. And somebody else took it upon themselves. I love when we Google our net worth. To put my net worth in, do you guys want to guess what it is? $300 million. It's got to be like $10 million. $103 million.

Very specific. It's $103 million, according to Wikipedia, Forbes, IMDb, and various other online resources. Does it say how they got to that number? No. she earned the money being a professional entrepreneur 103 million dollars could not be the biggest lie ever do you have a million dollars no that's amazing so they're off barely you're like i have between 10 and 1 million dollars it would be one thing if it was 100 million dollars but 103 is very very distinct i would just pretend that that's true

i know and just start buying things like i have if you had 103 million dollars you would be wearing a janky Backstreet Boys old shirt that only has four Backstreet Boys on them and then knock off Yeezys. I know I bought this. She probably would be in the same outfit, but it would be really Yeezys. It'd be really Yeezys. These are actually Adidas. It would be really Yeezys. And then I'd be able to afford the Backstreet Boys shirt with five people on it. Cause this one was cheap because Kevin isn't on it, but whatever it should be. Yeah. Whatever. Okay. So my bad week is I was doing some shopping today, not today, yesterday. And I was going into a store that I love shopping in but it's one of those stores that the employees bug you when you shop the worst thing in the world

so i prepared myself i put in my airpods because i'm like if i have airpods in they're not gonna bug me it needs to be a full phone to the ear it does because i get into the store the lady greets me and i'm like and i wave to her smile but it's obviously i'm listening to something and she proceeds to stop me eight different times i don't like her to tell me about the different colors the different sizes and every time i'm like i'm fine like i know what i've shopped here before like i know what store are you in the store shopping at i can't i can't because i actually love them and well tell them you don't you're not saying who it was it's feedback it was gina no it's good it's positive feedback it is but it's a lot of these stores that are a little

bit more expensive that they want people to like yeah commission commission and like bug the shit out of you but if anybody owns a boutique out there just don't do it people like to just shop on their own yeah and i'll ask you if i need my size bitch yeah i think the nice thing to do is just be like i'm right i my name is becca if you mean anything yes tell me yeah like and i've done it but now i'm gonna go on instagram behind the counter so feel free to to steal whatever you want yeah thank you perfect honestly that's what i'm looking for ideal um we have an ideal guest today from the great northern land of canada it's the one and only if you're not in it for love clap clap clap if you're not willing to give it all you got if you're not in it for love

if you're not in it for life i'm out of here we are she's in here she had twins here guys now back to the lady gang come on over because life's about to get good our guest today is a global icon she's so famous that not only is she in the one name club think beyonce oprah share but if you sing a simple seven note hook with no lyrics let's go girl let's go you know exactly who we're talking about a trailblazer in the fashion industry a lover of crop sweater and bell-bottom pants that are jack vanek never takes off and if you're not in it for epic ballads head to toe leopard unapologetic women power at its finest then we are out of here from this moment on you will be graced with the best-selling female

country music artist in history and if that doesn't impress you much then let me remind you she's the only female artist in history to have three consecutive albums certified diamond multi hyphenate what made you say that oh it's her career on tv movies commercials and as the country queen of sin city with her las vegas residency but right now she's focused on acting and she's gonna get you good starring with kj appa in the heart-wrenching new movie i still believe please welcome to the lady gang shania twain are you alive after that intro do you have whiplash from all your accomplishments i don't think i can fit in this room anymore my ego's so big right now that's what she's the best at no but it was there was so much more i couldn't even put it on the

page that is so awesome thank you you make me feel so good so listen we saw the movie you're lovely um but for everyone who is going to go see it in theaters march 13th and is only seeing the trailer can you give us the brief synopsis this is the ultimate um crying movie no it's a movie of no this is like ultimate unconditional love um and music of course ties it all together which is a you know i can relate to yeah i mean listen if you want to get into a mood or you want to express how you're feeling it's easier to do it with music right yeah you want to tell someone you love them you want to get romantic you put on romantic music you want to you know vent and uh get angry then you put on something heavy metal heavy metal so i think

music is always our um the ideal reflection of our mood and our spirit and our emotions and of course in this movie the fact that jeremy is a music artist he says everything you know that their communication i think that when he's on stage and he's singing to her that is to me the ultimate it says everything encapsulates everything encapsulates everything you've done everything i know this isn't your exactly first acting role and i'm sure you've gotten thrown stuff every day like hey we want shania to be in this why was this the one that you wanted to do and was a lot of it because of the music i was just too busy before oh i guess i mean i think i've always found the idea of acting um something that i would have liked to have done much earlier on and i was um

sent scripts and stuff like that but i was just so busy wearing so many hats like literally hats i've just been really busy i'm very hands-on so uh no time to you know dive into that and then by surprise after coming uh back to being able to sing again after the Lyme disease like uh dysfunctioned my voice then I'm like you know and and now my son is older I've got more time and I'm still wearing all these hats but I'm being able I'm able to balance things better and I'm not also busy and distracted by recovering my voice and all the dedication that that took. It took a lot of time and commitment. So I'm fear. Yeah. Horrible, horrible thing to go through, but you're good, right? Okay. Well, I'm different. Yeah. I'm actually great. Great's a better word.

I feel really great. I feel, uh, wonderful that I made it through to the other side of a very difficult journey and recovery and it was way worse than i thought it would be like the actual journey once i started it um but yeah no now i'm like i actually love my new voice i'm not it is different it's not what it was i wouldn't be able to sing uh what i used to sing the way i used to sing it i have to navigate differently but i mean come on singing there's a lot of technical elements to singing and whatever kind of singer you are, you've got to have some knowledge and savvy about how to, uh, how to use your voice. And I just had to learn a different way of doing that. And plus my surgery was very, um, I basically have, uh, two Gore-Tex, uh, crutches

on either side of my larynx. Wow. Yeah. Permanently. Wow. Apparently they'll be in there they'll be in there long after after i'm after i've turned to dust that in the jewelry they're permanent um you're working with teen heartthrob who does not have red hair in this movie kj appa and you're his mama um have you noticed the fans going nutso because oh yeah people love oh my gosh he's like do they come for you on instagram no but he's so lovable yeah he's lovable he's such a sweet person i mean he's super talented we know that we don't want to take that for granted because you know he's even very musically talented not just as an actor um and he's sweet and genuine and authentic so what's not to love about him and of course he's

attractive so he's a little babe that helps he's a little baby yeah he's got a great smile and i'm like oh my god you're so cute i feel old anyway i could be your mom yeah um now you have a son of your own so what kind of mama are you because in the movie you're sort of i'm worried for you but i'm going to be supportive and so like are you are you a hard mom i'm different than terry camp yeah i would have i i mean how do i know any of us know how we would be in a situation like that Because it's, um, I mean, it's not every day that you come across this type of challenge. And as a parent, um, you want to support your child. I would want to, of course I would be there to support him, but maybe I would want to.

He's not getting grandma's ring is what you're saying. I, I just don't think I would be able to cope with my worry as well as Terry did as well as the character did. And I need, you know, so I, I stepped into this very, a more, not passive, but it just more of the quiet supporter. There's no way I would be quiet like that. I'd be like, anyway, I won't go into it, but we can imagine I would be just more outwardly stressed about it. And I, I mean, I would be more panicky about it for my son and trying to protect him and

save him and spare him from what was going to happen. And this inevitable heartbreak. Speaking of heartbreak, we have a segment on our show called Hollywood Heartbreak. And then Ish Moment. So Ish Moment is the moment where you were like, I am Shania frickin' Twain and I'm banging on a drum in a crop top and y'all come after me. And then Hollywood Heartbreak is the time that it was the worst. Like your biggest heartbreak. the song you didn't get the time you lost something the you know the worst time in hollywood

what do you want to do first loaded question let's start with the ish moment yeah the ish when you felt like the shit like really when like shit ish in a good way like see that was a very dyslexic moment well i mean welcome to our life kind of are it's like you feel like this shit and when you felt like shit yeah like you you said it one way and i totally read it the other way i go right that was a very abstract perception there on my part sorry ours too so it's like when you maybe the first time like yeah that you finally felt i felt really like i'm it yeah right now yes like a pinch me moment pinch me moment okay um i know i don't want to like, it seems weird that I should have to think so hard about this, but I guess

the Superbowl, maybe 2003, I think. And why I was, I think that was just a moment when I'm like, Whoa, this is way bigger than I thought. Yeah. Um, this is like really, cause everybody around me was, you know, saying, okay, should I like, this is, they were stressing me out about it i was fine i was just ready to go up there and do what i always do and get on stage but they're like no no i don't think you understand i don't think they they thought i was taking it seriously enough because i wasn't stressing right right and so they were just saying like no no like this is epic you've got to be epic everything no pressure the pressure was so pressure on and it's a very like quick it's very very intense yeah uh quick turnover timing

getting out there on the field and dah, dah, dah, dah. And, uh, and then, um, that's the day that I met, um, Gwen Stefani. We're backstage and she says, uh, or side stage and we're in the middle of a football field. And she says, Oh, you know, I, I want to, I want to get married someday and have kids. And, um, you know, I don't know how you do it all. And I, my son was only two and a half at this point and i was already into like this hot outfit i was going to be wearing this epic uh you know sexy mama powerful i'm in charge yes uh wardrobe and get out there and act like i knew what i was doing and everything like that under all the stress and she made me feel she sort of just highlighted that how big it really was in that moment and how powerful it was for me

as a woman that was was doing it all i'm like wow shit i really am doing it all it just took the super bowl to make you realize yeah like five seconds before you go on stage like i'm imagining i'm managing this stress that everybody's like yeah hitting me with i would have been fine otherwise if you guys wanted to know so i'm managing all that stress and that And I'm, you know, dealing with the fashion and the whole, um, which I took very seriously. It was, it was a very important, um, look for me and, you know, very involved with that being a mom, you know, my son was with me that day and come on to work, babe, we're going to the Superbowl.

Yeah. Do you have a moment? I mean, obviously your throat struggles, but do you have a moment where you were supposed to get into the bar and you were Shania Twain, they turned you away or like a, the moment that your career really lost something in your career that you really wanted or an opportunity that someone else got, you know, yeah, something that's really shitty. Um, there, that there's, you know, there's been a few little shitty things, but, um, um i think that just i was asked to speak at a university on songwriting cool and i

i turned it down because i felt so insecure oh my gosh yeah i'm thinking a university i mean i'm not i'm not formally educated i don't have college i don't have university um i've never even been to a performing arts school so how am i supposed i felt intimidated by by the whole um thought of it and was overwhelmed and so i i shied away from it out of insecurity a feeling of insecurity and i regret that because i realize now that no of course i could have done that this is something i do know about yeah i'm very educated in songwriting And this is what I'm, my profession is. And I, it was a weird, uh, I was sad to have turned it down and I now just say, okay, I'm

not shying away from stuff anymore out of any insecurity. So, um, it's been, it was a good, um, corner to turn and it was a low moment because I'm thinking I was like, dummy. Yeah. That's the, that was the dummy. Right. Not doing it. Well, a lot of the girls that listen to the podcast, I think that we all kind of talk

about as we get into our lives and our careers, we wish that we'd have the confidence that we do now when we were younger and the opportunities were there. So it's like, what got you to the place in your life just as a woman where you had the confidence to accept those accolades and take your place and take up space and like acknowledge that you're a badass? for me personally i mean i i'm sure it's very different for everybody but i think that i i just started with time um stepping out of battles that i couldn't win i mean you know aging is a battle can't win yeah um well i think you might be winning yeah i actually think if there was a

super bowl you're probably winning that game yes but it is reality it's just yeah well and to keep focusing on that when it's just like you can't change anything well you can change something but like right so that battle and the focus and energy it takes is taking up too much space yeah in my life in my emotion my emotional state my my mental state i want i've got songs to write I'm not going to sit around. I'd rather dream about, uh, songs or dream about, uh, other things I want to do in my life. And I want to, I want to just daydream about, I want to fantasize and, um, enjoy what I do have and like, just forget about the stuff I can't change and, or that I can't have. So I think it's a waste of time and energy worrying about, um, uh, slow, you know,

trying to slow my aging process down. It's just, I'm just going to be healthy and I'm so much more accepting now, um, of the way I look, you know, with and without clothes, you know, for example. Um, so a turning point or a way that I would say a state of mind that helps me, uh, in that regard is just saying, okay, identify what it is that I can change and what it is I cannot change. and um reduce the uh the overload yeah and i'm sure being like you're a huge sex icon when always but and having everybody give their unsolicited opinions to probably what you're wearing or your physical appearance or whatever that's probably even harder to it's hard enough for us ladies normal ladies that don't have a peanut gallery that don't that aren't being seen

by millions of people every day to be okay with our bodies and our body image and stuff like that. It's about letting go. I think that once you dive in, that's it. Yeah. Yeah. Don't paint over it anymore. Just, you know, it's like, okay, I decided to wear that. It didn't work out or somebody else didn't like it. But there's a reason why I wore that in that moment or there's a reason why, you know, and so you commit and you love that, what you love that, what you did in that moment for yourself. And if it didn't, doesn't work out, uh, you know, to, from somebody else's perspective um i don't know you you learn from it i guess if you even agree or care and then i'm not saying be indifferent i think it's really good to be i i i do aim to please i i write songs

that i want to affect people with in a positive way i want to i want to use music to connect so of course i want i want to know what people are thinking and how they're feeling it's not that i don't care what they think uh but i can't um apologize or i won't apologize for whatever it was i was thinking in that moment i'm just you know and i you have the right to say well you know what i'm okay you know i felt that way then and i feel differently now right you're listening to the lady gang fashion has been so hand in hand with what you've done throughout all of these years we were looking we're just googling you we have googled you for hours today well we're deciding what we're going to wear to your residency yes we're all going to

be a different shania i'm leopard shania because i love the crop top bell bottom situation i already own a top hat for halloween costume for abraham lincoln so i'm gonna use that it's a common halloween costume i'm gonna be too early i'm gonna be i'm gonna be um i'm gonna be top not shania i mean top hat shania i'm denim on denim i thought you were gonna say topless shania yeah i mean i wouldn't dare i mean a few drinks are all gonna be topless yeah so it's fine yes are you having the time of your life in vegas i am i really love it there i love the um the performance community there yeah it's cool so if you're visiting there as a um a tourist or just a party person or you're there to celebrate it's one city yeah which is of course really fun and and amazing

there's not i would say like there was a time when three days in vegas was enough it is not enough anymore anymore there's too much to do two days is too much no no no no it's not it's not listen there's games to go to there's art galleries there's incredible restaurants there's top golf shows shows shows everywhere and like amazing ones and everything at a super high standard and i didn't even mention shopping yeah oh yeah the shopping is epic dangerous so three days forget it you'd leave um you wouldn't be able to do everything but as a performer well we're coming it's a dream and we are so excited oh my god now i do want to ask you about this past award season because there's a major one for you and brad pitt did it impress you much when brad pitt won his

oscar absolutely i was very happy for him and finally shania's impressed i feel i kind of feel like he's been haunted by this um song yeah yeah it's this you know he's so he should be so lucky he should be so lucky to impress the queen also somebody's gonna knock him down you know exactly and it can only be you i'm just even in the time i mean i i don't really first of all i don't it's amazing that the whole thing is still oh yeah i'm still like it's still red pit you're hot but You're not Shania Haught. You're not Shania Haught. I mean, I guess we've both, we're just both still around.

And so the subject is there and it's a lot of fun and it's fun to talk about it. Have you ever connected? I've never met him. You've never met him? We need to get him. We'll bring him to the Shania show with us. We'll just call him out. Yeah, we'll call our friend Braddy Boy.

Does Brad sing? I don't think so. I wouldn't be surprised if he did. Yeah. He probably is good at everything. Yeah. I can't believe they didn't like put you together for some charade for like MTV back in the day. Like you and Brad.

I know. Yeah. Charade would be fun. what is your wouldn't do a charade with brad pitt what does your son think about having like this icon of like feminine sexuality like his friends must kind of freak out a little bit over you because you're hot but like for him does he does he like get embarrassed yeah is he single celebrate it he's single uh-huh oh boy oh good does he need to know right are you offering yourself i'm already married but i have like you know we have like a million fans i probably want

to set up but i'm just well he's he is very um supportive of what i do and for example um he comes to me one day probably about three years ago maybe something like that and says mom don't you have grammys and i said yeah i do and he goes well where are they i've never seen your grammys you're a liar i'm not and so i said well they're downstairs in the in the you know i've got a room and i just store memorabilia stored well he says i want to see them so i take him down there and we see the grammys and he's like what you got you got to put some out yeah you gotta put some up on the shelf yeah so we've got one up uh on the shelf in the library oh my god but it took him And it's not that I don't appreciate the awards or the awards or anything like that, but it's

just that, um, I don't know, I guess it just took his, um, sense of, um, appreciation and his, he was proud and, um, and I think he really wants me to also maybe enjoy more of, of my accomplishments. And, and that was cute. I really think it was sweet. Yeah. Not for him. It's just still be down there.

That's so crazy to me. well you know she has an emmy and it goes it's in my bag travels with it it's literally in my purse but she would if she could i would i'd put it on a chain around my neck it's the most proud we're the opposite yes she's the nice canadian and i'm the asshole canadian yeah there's got to be one of these that's how it works um i thought it was really cool that halsey kind of put the video how cool is that but um because i can't keep you any longer i do want to skip over that question yay we're so happy for halsey that she got to rip you off in a good way but i want to ask you this for all of our ladies they're all different ages but what is something that you

wish someone had shooken you in your 30s and told you about life take us to church whether it's like something about motherhood or just life in general or career or people think yeah anything okay so the 30s just getting back getting to that i'll try to be really quick about it but i only actually made it when i was 30 so i was older no no i was 30 when i had my first hit oh my gosh so um that is interesting so my 30s were so intense yeah well then maybe what about your just like well yeah in my 20s yeah i wanted to quit singing i wanted to quit music yeah um i'm probably like too serious for this conversation because it's like no no this is what our yeah we want yeah but it's like it might so my parents died when i was um 21 and i um

i wanted to quit music and i really i'm like okay there's more important things to do in life all my other friends are in college university i'm the the one that doesn't have a real job um my i was really sort of doing a lot of it for my mom because it was her dream for me to make it someday and there was so much sacrifice through my childhood for me to sing and and my own sacrifice i'm like well i just gotta do it you know i almost felt obligated to do it even though i was passionate about music and it would always have been um something that i did but for myself for sure not as a career and so when my parents died i'm like i'm gonna just i gotta get a real life and i don't have any support now i'm like not support

by i mean we were always we didn't have anything anyway but now i've got no foundation i've got no parents i've got to be responsible for my younger kids uh i gotta get real now yeah yeah i gotta quit playing around and I haven't made it yet. You know, I'm already in my twenties, right? I'm thinking, and I got up. So I was going to quit music. And a friend of mine said, uh, she literally just said, no, I won't let you quit. Just come with me one time to go see something that I think, uh, you'll be able to make a, uh, a good check at, and you'll still be able to sing. And it was just a little stage show but it got me into high heels like I was very boyish before this so I would be on stage in bare feet and you know really sort of more folky rocky country girl and so this show

was a really important transition for me and if it wasn't for that I guess shake up of no no no you are destined to do music and you i i won't let you quit and um i never looked back really really like it happened quite fast yes i'm different oh my gosh that is so amazing she's a dear dear friend yes that's great i love that well listen shania thank you for spending time with us today we're coming to vegas i'm so excited and everyone that wants to see i still believe If it's in theaters, March 13th, we've seen it. Bring your tissues. It's fabulous.

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