Shania Twain Receives ‘Icon’ Award, Shows Why She’s Still the ‘People’s Choice’ - Rolling Stone

Shania Twain arrived astatine this year’s 2022 People’s Choice Awards to execute her ’90s country-pop smashes, “That Don’t Impress Me Much” and “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” The Canadian state superstar besides received the Music Icon grant for her record-breaking hits and immeasurable interaction connected generations of artists.

“Reba’s marque was ‘somebody should leave,’ Trisha’s was a small ‘please don’t leave’ and Faith had ‘no 1 would ever leave me, obviously,’” singer-songwriter Caitlin Rose erstwhile told Rolling Stone, “but Shania’s marque was, ‘I volition instrumentality nary crap and each of your money, thanks!’ and it worked. Nobody stepped connected Shania, particularly not the men successful her songs.”

Sporting a daze of pinkish hair, Twain owned the signifier successful an ever-changing backdrop of leopard prints, godforsaken airy amusement and fire. Her show besides included her 1995 Billboard Hot 100 deed “Any Man of Mine” and her latest single “Waking Up Dreaming” – her archetypal caller euphony since 2017, erstwhile she released the Number One medium Now.

When accepting her grant from Billy Porter, the icon delivered a heartfelt code astir however her fans person helped her consciousness loved since the passing of her mother.

“I ever miss my parent close present astatine these moments successful life. She would person loved watching her small miss surviving this infinitesimal close now,” said Shania. “But my fans, my friends, my squad – you are the ones who truly capable that space. Not my mother’s space, but you’re present with maine and you’re celebrating, we’re celebrating together, and you’ve made maine consciousness loved and peculiar my full moving life. And I volition ever beryllium grateful for that, convey you.”

She besides shared words of proposal for her fans: “Embrace your individuality and your brainsick ideas. Just beryllium brave. Let’s remember, determination is powerfulness successful numbers, we are successful this together, emotion is love, and erstwhile a doorway slams successful your face, instrumentality a freaking tally and leap astatine your doorway and footwear it down! You won’t regret it.”

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Twain will release her sixth workplace album Queen of Me connected Feb. 3. The state icon volition besides embark connected a planetary arena tour spanning 49 dates, including stops astatine Nashville’s Geodis Park connected June 7 and astatine New York’s Madison Square Garden connected July 11.