Man! What a Woman!

“Man! I Feel Like A Woman!” Now that’s an interesting play on words if I have ever heard one. If you have not seen the music video for this song, it starts with Shania Twain dressed like a man in a business suit and top hat. By the end of the video, she is wearing a seductive looking one-piece outfit that is low cut on the chest and very high above the knees, with a pair of gloves that goes almost to her shoulders that match. The song, even without the video, makes you think – what exactly is Shania Twain singing about? If you look at the life that she had growing up, it leads you to believe that she is singing about the way she became a woman before she was ready (Twain 1997).
At an early age both her parents were killed in a car accident and Shania, known then as Eileen (she changed her name to Shania later in life), took over the responsibility of looking after her siblings. She played the role of both father figure and mother, succeeding in raising her siblings wit...