Page 2 | OMG anyone else watching Shania Twain at Glasto?

Ihaveahamster · 2024-06-30T15:16:55+00:00

She’s absolutely awful! Her voice is harsh and rough, she’s out of tune and out of rhythm. Dreadful.

NonPlayerCharacter · 01/07/2024 12:43

fliptopbin · 01/07/2024 12:01

To be fair, if her earpiece wasn't working, she wouldn't be able to hear herself at all, so she would have no idea if she was in tune or not.

It was worse than not being in tune, her voice was really cracking and breaking.

I wonder whether, if you can't perform vocally for health reasons but can still be on stage, it might be worth miming, being honest about it and still giving the audience the benefit of your presence and visual spectacle.

Whatafustercluck · 01/07/2024 12:23

I'm not watching it. We used to go but haven't been able to get tickets in recent times. I thought Shania Twain was a dubious choice for a headline slot tbh. But there have been a fair few questionable choices in terms of headliners since Emily Eavis took the reins. Perhaps I'm just getting old. Coldplay are a good Glastonbury band, but they've played loads of times before. I think if they're going to charge the amounts they now do for tickets, the headliners need to be knock out.

fliptopbin · 01/07/2024 12:01

To be fair, if her earpiece wasn't working, she wouldn't be able to hear herself at all, so she would have no idea if she was in tune or not.

MaturingCheeseball · 01/07/2024 09:15

Appalonia · 30/06/2024 21:18

She's 58 and looks like a stunning 45 year old. Whatever work she's had done is very subtle. And her hair is incredible!

This post is what’s incredible! Subtle?!?!? Obviously she’s a pop star and as such has the pressure to look a certain way, but the level of work was too much. You should look better , not utterly different. She does not look 45 and why the hell should she?

Above all she did not look like she was having fun. It was another gig on the circuit. And coming on with drag artists? Why? The “legend” does not have to be camp and silly.

I have probably seen a thousand artists and this was massively below par.

nunsflipflop · 01/07/2024 08:28

Appalonia · 01/07/2024 08:20

Tom Jones was on? I had no idea! Is that on iPlayer?

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I don’t know in all honesty, I had set to save Shania, and he was on before her, one of the few that still has it

Appalonia · 01/07/2024 08:20

nunsflipflop · 30/06/2024 23:12

Just watching Tom Jones from his slot earlier, he still has it, he should have had the legend slot

Tom Jones was on? I had no idea! Is that on iPlayer?

OonaStubbs · 30/06/2024 23:33

IIRC all Shania's hits in the UK were remixes of her country songs in the US.

nunsflipflop · 30/06/2024 23:12

Just watching Tom Jones from his slot earlier, he still has it, he should have had the legend slot

Pleiades2020 · 30/06/2024 23:02

The sound is often not very good from Glasters when heard on the tv, but in person it's excellent. Or at least mind-blowingly loud :)

magnoliablooms · 30/06/2024 22:03

3kidsaremorethanenough · 30/06/2024 19:12

I always think the legend spotters should always be given a bit of leeway with how good they sound, it's more about the singalong(drowning out the now dodgy vocals of our old favourites) and the feel good vibes. I expect total top tier standard of vocals from the headliners (which is why macca & Elton should have been doing the legend spot also!) IMHO 😁 although this thread has made me laugh today

Exactly they are there as a celebration of their legendaryness. The fact the crowd carries them sometimes is all part of it. It's really not the spirit of the festival to be so negative.

magnoliablooms · 30/06/2024 22:00

FeelingHotHotHotFeelingHotHotHot · 30/06/2024 17:26

This. Shania will very likely have been paid several hundred thousand pounds for this .. Saying 'see if you can do better' to someone slating her is a ludicrous thing to say @magnoliablooms . 🙄

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She's paid to be Shania Twain. The bookers would have been aware of her limitations and that she isn't going to sound like she did 20 years ago.

3luckystars · 30/06/2024 21:56

She does look great but deffo had a few jars. Good for her.

Ohgoodlord · 30/06/2024 21:54

Appalonia · 30/06/2024 21:18

She's 58 and looks like a stunning 45 year old. Whatever work she's had done is very subtle. And her hair is incredible!

It's a wig.

Appalonia · 30/06/2024 21:31

Rick Astley was bloody brilliant at Glastonbury!

Greaterorlesser · 30/06/2024 21:19

FailBetter · 30/06/2024 16:27

Vote to have Rick Astley back doing Morrissey <3 <3 <3

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Yes yes YES

Appalonia · 30/06/2024 21:18

She's 58 and looks like a stunning 45 year old. Whatever work she's had done is very subtle. And her hair is incredible!

Clafoutie · 30/06/2024 20:56

MrsMonzo · 30/06/2024 17:07

She wasn't amazing, but as a big Shania Twain fan I went into full on mum-mode singing along wearing my cowboy hat. The kids actually left the room out of embarrassment for me.

I love that you did this, good for you 😎👍 What do kids know?! I am a Shania fan too, though must admit something seemed off today. But the crowd seemed to be enjoying it, and hopefully she did too.

HairyFarnbarn · 30/06/2024 20:51

Appalonia · 30/06/2024 17:37

Genuinely curious, so they not do sound checks at Glastonbury? A lot of pp seem to have had sound issues!

Because there simply isn’t time. If the acts start at midday then the headliner only could sound check in the morning if they want or need to.
everyone else builds their gear at the back of the stage and then rotates onto the stage during the break between bands. Then you get a quick line check to make sure it is all working and off you go.
same at nearly all festivals.

SprinkleOfSunak · 30/06/2024 20:49

I didn’t even notice her voice that much (only watched her sing two songs), as I couldn’t get over how amazing she looked!

NonPlayerCharacter · 30/06/2024 20:48

SureJanOK · 30/06/2024 20:07

I saw her in Glasgow a few years ago and she was great.

I feel like I'm watching the musical equivalent of Joe Biden.

She was such a recluse for such a long time as well. Even before the Lyme disease. When she was with the weirdo husband. Can't understand what is making her come and hawk herself around every festival this summer. Does she have money problems or is she having a last hurrah before retiring? Sort of a late mid-life crisis where she's trying to prove she still has it?

I was supposed to be seeing her at Stirling Summer Sessions but I cancelled when I realised it was "standing in a field" as opposed to something civilised! Can't say I'm sorry now tbh.

I'm sorry to say all these things.

It's possible that she loves what she does, even if she's not doing it very well right now.

NonPlayerCharacter · 30/06/2024 20:47

FeelingHotHotHotFeelingHotHotHot · 30/06/2024 20:38

JustSaltPlease · Today 18:49

She looks absolutely incredible

Shania has always been pretty IMO, and she looks OK still. But she doesn't look 'incredible.' She just looks reasonably good... As a few posters have said though, she does look somewhat different to the Shania of the 1990s. Basically, she looks like a nearly-60-year old woman who has had botox and fillers, and veneers on her teeth.

She is attractive, but she looks her age. As does EVERYONE - within 3-4 years.

Looks pretty incredible to me.

FeelingHotHotHotFeelingHotHotHot · 30/06/2024 20:38

JustSaltPlease · Today 18:49

She looks absolutely incredible

Shania has always been pretty IMO, and she looks OK still. But she doesn't look 'incredible.' She just looks reasonably good... As a few posters have said though, she does look somewhat different to the Shania of the 1990s. Basically, she looks like a nearly-60-year old woman who has had botox and fillers, and veneers on her teeth.

She is attractive, but she looks her age. As does EVERYONE - within 3-4 years.

OMG anyone else watching Shania Twain at Glasto?

RaininSummer · 30/06/2024 20:20

Watching Shania now and it's making me really sad. I felt like this last week seeing Blondie too.

3luckystars · 30/06/2024 20:13

WTF? She is unrecognisable and drunk!

Isittimeformynapyet · 30/06/2024 20:09

JustSaltPlease · 30/06/2024 18:49

She looks absolutely incredible

Incredible is the word, ie not credible. You do know it's not real don't you...