Explosion stymies Shania Twain concert but she recovered quickly

It was a case of no power, no problem when Shania Twain played the Staples Center in L.A. overnight. Twain’s last last tour was in 2004. “All bad things happen for a good reason”. Those shows were in a controlled environment, she says.

Twain, who wore a Rolling Stones shirt during her set, had a fine time despite the blackout.

“Now we’re really going to do this song, for the rocket scientist”, she told the crowd before starting back up. She spent two years (2012-14) in Las Vegas with a successful residency dubbed “Shania: Still the One” at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, but she has said that after Rock This Country ends in her home country of Canada on October 27, she will no longer tour (though there are rumors of extending this jaunt into 2016).

Unshaken, she waited and chatted with fans in the audience before re-starting the song when a secondary power source kicked in “within five minutes”, according to the venue’s organizers. However, the microphone malfunctioned this time, forcing her stop one more time.

In the mid-1990s, Shania Twain was arguably the most popular country music artist in the world. As she sang, she held up a selfie stick to take video of her victory lap, which had fans running down from their seats to try to get a closer look or a photograph.

For much of Thursday’s gig – which combined pumped-up versions of old favorites such as “Come on Over” and “Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?” with sparkly costumes and dramatic pyrotechnics – Twain failed to muster an intensity to equal the flashy arena-concert spectacle. That she’d name a tour after a almost 20-year-old song underscores just how long she’s been away from the recording business.

Twain devoted a large part of her career to performing. “I’ve got a whole bunch of album that I still want to make”. “I Feel Like a Woman!”