"I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful"
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The subtext is especially sharp in a music industry that rewards "originality" as a brand while punishing actual deviation from the script. For female stars, "being different" often gets coded as difficult, calculated, unfeminine, or not country enough, not pop enough - a moving target designed to keep you negotiating for approval. Twain sidesteps that negotiation. She frames originality not as purity but as leverage: the very friction that makes gatekeepers bristle is what makes an audience pay attention.
Context matters. Twain's crossover era turned country-pop into a global product, and it did so by breaking decorum: big hooks, big visuals, big confidence. That kind of boundary-hopping invites criticism precisely because it exposes genre as a set of social rules, not sacred law. Her repetition - "just... just... just..". - sounds almost defensive, like someone rehearsing a permission slip. Then she lands the punchline: success is already happening. The sentence is a self-portrait of pop modernity: identity as differentiation, backlash as proof of concept.
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Twain, Shania. (2026, January 16). I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-find-that-the-very-things-that-i-get-criticized-95088/
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Twain, Shania. "I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-find-that-the-very-things-that-i-get-criticized-95088/.
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"I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-find-that-the-very-things-that-i-get-criticized-95088/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.








