Shania Twain Wins Gen Z Fans During Harry Styles’s 12-Date Wembley Run
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Updated · The New York Times · Aug 10
Shania Twain Wins Gen Z Fans During Harry Styles’s 12-Date Wembley Run
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Aug 10
Summary
At Wembley Stadium, Shania Twain drew loud singalongs from teenagers and 20-somethings while opening for Harry Styles during his record-breaking 12-date residency.
That crossover grew from a yearslong connection with Styles, who invited Twain to join him at Coachella and has credited her music with shaping his childhood.
Twain said their audiences overlap through “groups of girls,” a pattern visible in London crowds mixing Styles staples like feather boas with Twain’s signature leopard print.
The reception extends Twain’s reach at age 60, even as few other women who ruled late-1990s radio appear to be generating the same Gen Z enthusiasm.
Her staying power rests on an unusually large catalog footprint: 1997’s “Come On Over” remains the best-selling country album ever and the top-selling studio album by any female artist.