00:00Shania Twain swings into 60 with wild throwback photo.
00:05I've tried to stay true to myself.
00:07The beloved country pop singer looked back on her lengthy career.
00:11Shania Twain is stepping into her 60th birthday with a smile.
00:15The beloved country pop singer, known for runaway hits like that,
00:19Don't Impress Me Much, and Man, I Feel Like a Woman,
00:23took to Instagram on Thursday to reflect on her milestone birthday
00:27while looking back on her illustrious career.
00:30Happy Birthday to me.
00:32How can I be 60?
00:33So glad to have kept some photos from this time in the 80s.
00:36When I had no idea what was ahead of me in Shania,
00:39F'ing Twain didn't exist yet.
00:41It's the singer, whose real name is Eileen Regina Edwards,
00:44wrote in the caption,
00:45The first photo featured a young Twain wearing a shimmering electric blue suit
00:49covered in a glittering material as she prepared backstage for a performance.
00:53In the second photo, taken in the present day,
00:56Twain wears nothing but black underwear and a white Oxford shirt
00:59as she glares at the camera.
01:01I can't begin to explain how grateful I am for the life that I have,
01:04for my family, friends, fans, and the inspiration I get from all of you.
01:10I've tried to stay true to myself along the way,
01:12and that's my intention moving forward into the next chapter, she noted.
01:16Does Twain label herself as country or pop music?
01:20Twain makes it clear that she's not eager to be categorized as a specific genre of music.
01:26Instead, she wants the freedom to defy expectations
01:29and dip her toes in whatever boxes she wants.
01:32If I feel like I'm being put in a box, I start to panic, Twain told people back in February.
01:39I run in any direction I can because I don't want to be contained.
01:42I have to be able to find my own way.
01:45Sometimes I'm not even sure where I'm going myself.
01:48How can somebody else tell me that, right?
01:50So I need the freedom to explore and to land wherever that exploration takes me, she added.
01:55Twain stated that she's always championing other artists
01:57who do unexpected things in the music industry.
02:00We get bored too, if we're not allowed to stay open
02:03and channel things outside of what would be considered our normal
02:06or what's expected of us, she noted.
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