Shania Twain was “standing up for herself” when she wrote ‘Man! I Really feel Like a Girl.’
The 57-year-old singer launched her now-signature tune to crucial acclaim in 1999 and mirrored that it was a response to her beginning to really feel “okay” about being a lady.
She mentioned: “When the ‘Man! I Really feel Like A Girl’ assertion got here out, then it was so apparent the music was liberated, impartial, human beings. Celebrating your individual spirit, and I felt all of it via the songwriting. I’m simply considering, this looks like celebration music. It simply made me really feel like I’m standing up for myself. I’m not apologetic about all of the issues which are criticized that I’ve skilled in my very own life. That’s too tight, that’s too quick, for me to simply begin even recognizing that I’m okay with being a woman.”
The ‘You are Nonetheless the One’ hitmaker went on to clarify that whereas she didn’t write the music for any specific cause, it has gone on to belong to “everybody” and “modified” issues for her as a rustic musing singer.
She advised WhiskeyRiff: ““I hadn’t written ‘Man! I Really feel Like A Girl’ for any specific individual, apart from the way in which I used to be feeling. It’s like everybody’s music.
And so they all take possession of it another way, even no matter what the music stands for and represents, and has come to symbolize. ‘Man! I Really feel Like A Girl’ is a signature music for my total profession. This music was absorbed by a world viewers, which modified issues for me as an artist, after all.
I’m part of popular culture now. It wasn’t a brave factor to write down this form of assertion, however as soon as I mentioned it, then I’m like, that is very satisfying factor to say, ‘Man, I really feel like a lady, and I like that.’”
