Shania Twain Looks Back at Her 'Massive' 2003 Super Bowl Halftime Performance and Why She Felt 'Quite Numb' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Shania Twain at the 2003 Super Bowl halftime show.Photo:Al Bello/Getty

Al Bello/Getty

Shania Twainis taking a stroll down memory lane.

In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, the singer, 59, recalls performing during theSuper BowlXXXVII halftime show in 2003.

“That was a really exciting moment,” Twain recalls. “I think I was quite numb. I can remember feeling a little like I was in a tunnel or something. It was such an overwhelming and chaotic environment around me.”

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Shania Twain in September 2024.Tibrina Hobson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty

Tibrina Hobson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty

Twain opened the show with her iconic song “Man! I Feel like a Woman!” before she performed her then-new song “Up!”

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No Doubt then appeared onstage together to sing their hit “Just a Girl.” During the performance, lead singerGwen Stefaniad-libbed lines, including, “I’m just a girl at the Super Bowl.”

Shania Twain during the 2003 Super Bowl halftime show.KMazur/WireImage

KMazur/WireImage

Still, the “Waking Up Dreaming” musician says she will “get a lot of pleasure” when she thinks about the show, adding, “I was part of a much bigger thing than a Shania performance. It was massive.”

This year, Twain stars in anew commercialforCoffee mate, in which she plays a singing version of a tongue to promote the brand’s cold foam creamers. Kendrick Lamar will headline the2025 Super Bowlhalftime show, withSZAas a special guest.

Super Bowl LIX — where theKansas City Chiefswill face off against thePhiladelphia Eaglesat the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans — will take place on Sunday, Feb. 9.

source: people.com