Shania Twain Plays Through Explosion Blackout

“See, all bad things happen for a good reason …”, she said. That’s truly a shame, because Twain was on fire during this show, her vocals and energy unwavering.

The show-biz retraining she received there was readily apparent at Staples Center, as when she moved breezily past an enormous lighting rig that failed to move during her entrance to the stage.

Earlier in the week they heard Kelly Clarkson’s impromptu announcement that she was pregnant with her second child, and now there was an underground explosion that created technical difficulties for Shania Twain’s concert. She looked ready to rock – not ready for the rocking chair.

Twain is now touring on her 2015 Rock This Country Tour, which is scheduled to run through October. 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. However, the microphone malfunctioned this time, forcing her stop one more time. Her 1997 record “Come on Over” became the best-selling country album of all time and made Twain an MTV sensation. And those influences could certainly be heard in numerous tunes, which marry pop-rock and mainstream country in often-blissful fashion. She was a crossover pioneer in the ’90s, doing as much as anyone not named Garth Brooks to entice people who don’t usually listen to country and push the genre toward its current stadium-level heights.

She then resumed the song and the show, proving that yes, she’s “Still The One” and still got it!

Twain and her band restarted “That Don’t Impress Me Much” with a little help from some fans. “I Feel Like A Woman!” singer’s set.