Shania Twain says country music is more sexist now than ever

Shania Twain is undoubtedly 1 of the astir fashionable singers successful state music, but things haven't ever been casual for her successful the industry.

In fact, she believes that being a pistillate successful the genre successful 2023 is harder than it was erstwhile she got her commencement decades ago.

"The euphony manufacture going backmost 20 years ago, 30 years ago, was chiefly much dominated by men," she told CNBC successful an interview. "You know, antheral executives, astir of the workplace musicians were men, astir of the managers were men, it was conscionable much male-dominated successful each sense. So being taken earnestly arsenic a pistillate was a challenge."

She recalled facing galore "challenges" that antheral stars didn't person to face, specified arsenic disapproval for being "too sexy" successful her performances and euphony videos, but she was "relentless."

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Shania Twain is speaking retired against sexism successful state music. (Michael Buckner)

"As I went along, I could spot the progress," she explained. "First of all, the genre and my fans, my euphony was appealing to a precise wide audience, very open-minded fans. They were embracing my mode of making my euphony and my mode of visualizing my euphony done photography and videos."

But adjacent aft each obstacle she faced, she said that she believes that "the manufacture has regressed, I consciousness it’s much hard for women to find space, to find room. It’s bittersweet to spot it, but it’s precise true."

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Twain said that it's not "an adjacent playing ground, obscurity adjacent it," and that she doesn't cognize wherefore things person gotten worse for women successful country music.

Shania Twain has been a large subordinate successful state euphony for 3 decades. (Getty Images)

"I can’t truly enactment my digit connected wherefore they’re making it truthful hard for women, or, you know, wherefore they’re not giving them that space," she said. "They’re surely bully enough, it’s conscionable not an adjacent playing crushed close now."

Still, she hasn't backed down from telling her communicative with her music.

The "You're Still the One" vocalist said, "It’s ever been precise important for maine to self-express, and since I’m a woman, a batch of my perspectives bash travel straight from a pistillate perspective."

Shania Twain has ne'er been acrophobic to beryllium sexy. (Rich Polk/E! Entertainment/NBC)

"I americium a reasonably outspoken person, truthful a batch of my lyrics are rather connection orientated ... they’re rather bold and conversational. So it’s truly conscionable ever been important for maine to beryllium capable to explicit myself and my constituent of presumption and to inspire. So the information that it does animate a batch of women and conscionable radical successful wide makes maine happy."

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Twain has been singing since she was a child. She worked towards stardom until her parent and stepfather were killed successful a car accident, and past she took successful her younger siblings. After they grew up, she continued her pursuit, and successful the aboriginal '90s she got a grounds woody and dropped her commencement sanction of Eileen Edwards successful favour of her now-famous moniker, Shania Twain.

Shania Twain's commencement sanction is Eileen Edwards. She started utilizing her now-famous moniker erstwhile she got a grounds woody successful the aboriginal '90s. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images for ACM)

Shania Twain won a Grammy Award for Best Country Album successful 1996. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)

Her debut medium was a spot of a flop. However, erstwhile she was fixed the state to constitute her ain songs, she released her sophomore album, "The Woman successful Me," and it made her a breakout prima with memorable hits similar "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?" and "Any Man of Mine."

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Since then, she's cemented her spot successful state euphony past with galore hits and 2 Las Vegas residencies. 

She's presently prepping her "Queen of Me" tour, which shares the sanction of her latest album.