the dixie chicks, shania twain. >> ♪ >> i remember when shania twain came out.e to find out i just wanted to be her best friend. >> ♪ >> in all fields in our society now, women, i wouldn't say dominating. i think that they're just rising to their true place. >> ♪ >> as things more on, it became a great decade to be a girl. >> ♪ >> after years of singing backup for such stars as michael jackson and rod stewart, he exploded onto the music scene in 1993 with their album tuesday night music club. >> ♪ >> radio has been so long and coming playing female artists. so it's definitely a different sort of environment and attitude, you know? >> female artists like sheryl crow or liz fehr, even though they had success, they were still routinely marginalized within every aspect of the industry. there was not a lot of space in pop culture for young women's thoughts, feelings, voices respected or taken seriously. >> ♪ >> there was such a strange dichotomy to gwen stephani. super girly, and also kind of tough. and then in front of this band of all guys. >> i'm just a girl in th

later on, good dose of shania twain. that was all my dad's taste.y mum definitely had a kenny g record. um... she laughs saxophone? they'll kill me for saying all of this quite like this, but it's the truth! both of your parents were born in italy, weren't they ? yes. was it an italian household culturally growing up? it's a good question. i would say both parents assimilated very concretely and quite deliberately with scottishness and scottish culture, but they also came over very young. my mum was three years old. an italian—speaking three—year—old with an italian mother and scottish father. um...came over to scotland and, er...was sort of banned from speaking italian quite quickly. it was considered to be detrimental to her education and all sorts of things. we know better now. so my mum lost most of her italian, um...and it was a very scottish upbringing from that moment forward. and my dad, he came over when he was kind of ten or ii. came over without his parents. had a rough time, you know, adjusting to such a different culture. it was a good,

later on, good dose of shania twain. that was all my dad's taste. like this, but it's the truth! both of your parents were born in italy, weren't they ?