Shania Twain ADMIRES Fellow Female Artists: Cher, Madonna & More

There are immoderate euphony artists that surely impressment Shania Twain.

Fitting with the rubric of her new album Queen of Me—out Feb. 3—Shania gushed astir her chap euphony manufacture queens exclusively connected the Feb. 2 occurrence of E! News (airing contiguous astatine 11 p.m.). And though she whitethorn beryllium a state superstar, Shania is simply a full fangirl for 1 of popular music's biggest icons: the 1 and lone Cher.

"She is the astir divers creator ever," Shania shared. Having been a instrumentality of the "Believe" vocalist since she was a child, the 57-year-old noted that she has loved "watching her spell done each these evolutions successful her life," from "her manner sense" to "her signifier presence" and more.

"She's funny," Shania added. "She's large astatine everything she does."

Cher isn't the lone popular royalty Shania—who was precocious honored with The Music Icon Award astatine the 2022 People's Choice Awards successful December 2022—has admired implicit the years. "I emotion Madonna," she revealed. "I'm a large fan. I ever thought her imaginativeness of aesthetics were incredible."

Shania has surely helped pave the mode for women successful music, arsenic she recalled "defending myself to men successful the industry, ever lasting up for myself [and] lasting up for my originative ideas." One of those ideas was "going braless aboriginal connected successful my videos," thing she said was "considered precise arguable to my genre."

But being the icon she is, Shania stated that she simply continued "doing it anyway."

Hear much from Shania connected E! News tonight, Feb. 2, astatine 11 p.m. connected E!.

Shania's sixth afloat magnitude medium Queen of Me releases everyplace connected Feb. 3. Her upcoming Queen of Me tour kicks disconnected April and runs done November 2023.