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From 'Man! I Feel Like a Woman' to 'That Don't Impress Me Much,' Shania Twain revisits the music videos that helped define her career. From groundbreaking visuals and unforgettable fashion moments to the stories behind her biggest hits, Shania breaks down the creative decisions, memories, and inspiration behind some of her most iconic videos.
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00:00This video I consider my royal look.
00:02I feel like it's the way I would want to look
00:06if I were a queen.
00:07Hi, I'm Shania Twain, and I'm gonna be breaking down
00:10some of my most iconic video looks.
00:18Let's go, girls.
00:19Man, I feel like a woman.
00:221997, directed by Paul Boyd.
00:24As a teenager, I watched so many pop videos, MTV.
00:31Dominating, at the time, was Madonna.
00:34You know, she was very famous for the corset looks
00:38and gloves and glamor and all of that sort of thing.
00:42It was something that influenced me.
00:45It was chic, it was stylish.
00:47The fact that the song, Man, I Feel Like a Woman,
00:50it had so many messages in it as a song.
00:54Man, exclamation mark.
00:56I Feel Like a Woman, such a statement,
00:58which was a personal statement of mine,
01:01really starting to feel comfortable in my own skin
01:04as a female with a female figure.
01:05So I wanted to create a silhouette that was very form-fitted
01:09in with the corset look and the mini skirt,
01:13the tight mini skirt, but also the strength of the man suit.
01:18The styling ended up being a mesh,
01:21a meld of the female, the feminine masculine look
01:25that you see in the video.
01:27It was literal in some cases.
01:30The lyric is men's shirt, short skirts.
01:32You know, so that dictated a lot of it.
01:35So the styling was dictated a lot by the song itself,
01:39what the song was saying,
01:40and Madonna being quite an influence.
01:44And, you know, reversing the roles with the musicians as well
01:47was part of the whole, let's mix all of this up.
01:52The male, the female, the masculine, the feminine.
01:54So that meant the band was going to be the sexy,
01:58let's see what's under those shirts.
02:01Addicted to Love, the video was...
02:03Mutt actually saw the video.
02:05He said, Man, I feel like a woman is exactly that, reversed.
02:10The top hat says, it's a statement, here I am.
02:14The top hat is Liza Minnelli, she's a force.
02:17She comes on the stage and she's with her top hat.
02:21That really topped off the whole look, you know, the top hat.
02:24And then the veil, to me that was just very glamorous.
02:26It's very Breakfast at Tiffany's.
02:28It's very, again, kicks, takes me back to the 80s.
02:32It was part of the performance.
02:34It's the one eye.
02:35It was a really great frame.
02:37So the top hat framed it all in.
02:39And it wasn't about the hair, but it was about the sleek Audrey Hepburn meets Liza Minnelli.
02:46Any Man of Mine, 1995.
02:49Directed by John Derrick and Charlie Randazzo.
02:52This video really makes me chuckle.
02:54I love to ride horses.
02:56And I was in heaven just being around horses that whole day.
03:00Riding out, playing cowgirl.
03:04This video is all my own wardrobe.
03:06The t-shirt, I snipped it up the front and tied it again to just give a little looser, fun
03:15look with the belly button.
03:16And Bo Derrick lent me her chaps.
03:19That added a nice touch.
03:22And the brown spaghetti strap dress was bought at a department store.
03:28And I went braless in that.
03:30I was just going through this whole braless stage.
03:32Because I was so tired of being strapped in and strapped down.
03:36I was very sporty as a kid.
03:37And I was always one of these double bra girls so that I wouldn't bounce around.
03:41My hair cut at all times is always something that I need to have fun with and be able to
03:46be playful with.
03:47I like it to move.
03:48At this time in my career, I was still my own hair cutter.
03:52So I cut my own hair.
03:54Fun thing about this video that I indulged in was the horses.
03:59And given a towel in the bathtub by a horse through the window was so magical.
04:05His name was Slick.
04:06And he was a gelding paint.
04:08And the trainer did train this horse to hand you items.
04:14And this horse genuinely did hand me the towel.
04:19He completely understood the cue.
04:21And on cue.
04:22I would say a very fairytale experience for me.
04:25I was living the liberation that I had never lived before.
04:31And coming into my own.
04:33This was a good video that was a turning point for me in that sense of really coming into my
04:38own.
04:38Looks like we made it.
04:41You're still the one.
04:431997.
04:44Directed by David Hogan.
04:46There's a fun fact in this video.
04:48The male model in this video is the same male model.
04:52That don't impress me much.
04:54I'm like, I recognize you.
04:56You're still the one video I thought was really beautifully lit.
05:03The idea of the video was meant to be quite moody.
05:08Very romantic.
05:09Moonlit.
05:10Black and white.
05:11But not black and white.
05:12I also remember this is the first time that I had hair extensions.
05:16They were glued onto my scalp.
05:18They went in very quickly.
05:19And then at the end of the video everybody says goodnight and bye and everybody's on the way.
05:23And then I'm stuck with all this glue in my hair.
05:25It was a nightmare.
05:26So it took me days to get these extensions out of my hair.
05:30I had no experience with hair extensions yet.
05:33All of those waves, they were crimped in, but it was layers also of glued in extensions.
05:39I was influenced by Boys of Summer, Don Henley.
05:44And so I shared that with David and I thought he really nailed it.
05:48You know, the songs are completely different.
05:50But this was that kind of moody, beach, nighttime, romance, film-like, cinematic video.
05:59Which, I mean, it's very natural and lends itself to being very sensual.
06:06A man and woman alone in love and what that would look like.
06:09But not sexual nudity or anything like that.
06:13And, you know, I was sort of, no, no, let's define the difference between sexual and sensual.
06:19Sensual can be, you can have all of your clothes on and it can be very sensual.
06:24I'm not sure that you can actually have sex with your clothes on, but you can be sensual.
06:29With your clothes on, maybe that's a good way of putting it.
06:33From This Moment On, 1997, directed by Paul Boyd.
06:38The From This Moment On video, in my mind visually, was always going to be
06:46classic and with symphonic instruments in the room.
06:51I wanted people to feel like they were in the space experiencing the video.
06:57Even though they're watching a video.
07:00I'm in love with crush velvet that stretches.
07:05I've done so many looks with this type of fabric.
07:10I wanted this to have a little bit of an East Indian, Eastern feel to it.
07:14More of an emotionally spiritual sense to the look of the video.
07:19Hence, you know, the white, the golds.
07:21I didn't realize when the song was written and when the video was made that this was going to become
07:26such a big wedding song.
07:27Sometimes I wonder if the look of the video with the veil and the white and the gown and the
07:35train
07:35of the gown influenced people or whether it was the song itself.
07:41So I don't know which was first, but now when I reflect on the video, it does look very wedding
07:45-like.
07:49That Don't Impress Me Much 1998 directed by Paul Boyd.
07:54That Don't Impress Me Much video was the first time I'd experimented with a different hair color.
07:59And with this cropped bang, it was really fun to now take on a character.
08:04You know, it wasn't the first time I was role playing in a video, but I felt like I was
08:08a different
08:08character in this video.
08:10We had men coming along trying to make an impression on me and, of course, I'm not impressed at all.
08:15The song is really one of a confident woman who is very capable of walking across the dry desert
08:22in her leopard print head-to-toe wardrobe and her leopard print suitcase all by herself.
08:31It's all really great in the great spirit and sense of humor of the lyric of the song.
08:36My love of the leopard print started when I was introduced to it while shooting the video
08:41Love Gets Me Every Time.
08:43In the styling on the rack, there was a leopard print coat and I fell in love with it.
08:50They actually gave it to me.
08:51I loved it so much.
08:52It was so awesome.
08:53I wanted to explore more wardrobe and leopard print and I went crazy with head-to-toe,
09:00hood and all, boots, luggage, and, of course, it was stretch fabric, stretch leopard print.
09:07It was a little warm.
09:08I'm not going to lie, but I was in midriff, you know, a nice open cleavage.
09:13So, you know, that was my cooling system.
09:15But, and I think after that I dominated the leopard print in fashion.
09:22That's what I would say.
09:25Let's go.
09:27I'm going to get you good.
09:292002, directed by Paul Boyce.
09:31I'm going to get you good is my leather and lace moments.
09:35I really wanted the leather and lace.
09:38I was inspired by Stevie Nicks, I think.
09:42I had just had my son.
09:44I was still nursing and I was keen to get into something form-fitting and say,
09:52wow, okay, I'm back and I can wear something that shows my curves.
09:58I paid attention to staying fit through my pregnancy.
10:00I was told that nursing really gets your tummy back in the fastest.
10:05It's the fastest way to get your tummy back in is to nurse.
10:08So I'm like, okay, baby, nurse as long as you want.
10:11And the hair was fantasy.
10:12I wanted the longest hair possible.
10:14And I'd already had experience with the glued in extensions from the You're Still the One video.
10:19So I'm like, okay, I'm okay with having the glue in now.
10:22I know how to get it out.
10:23So let's go for the longest hair possible.
10:24I asked the stylist, you know, I want to do mini braids.
10:27I want multi textures in the hair.
10:29I want it disheveled, but I also want it fantasy and feminine, deconstructed but still flowing.
10:36It still has to flow and be beautiful.
10:38It was a whole real look that I was very proud of because it was different and daring.
10:45The makeup was a little more goth.
10:48The whole look was, and I thought that was fitting for the animation in the storyboard.
10:57Forever and for Always, 2003, directed by Paul Boyd.
11:02Forever and for Always, this video was shot in New Zealand.
11:05And I did not have access to wardrobe where we were.
11:11We were somewhere very remote.
11:12I did have a hair and makeup artist that I brought in from Canada.
11:18Stacy Martin did so many of my more, well, a lot of my, no matter what the look was,
11:23whether it was natural or high fashion, she did a lot of those looks.
11:25She was, and is so talented.
11:28But I didn't have a stylist.
11:30You know, we were a long way from any real shopping.
11:33So I just used the hotel throw blankets and sewed some shape to them.
11:43And that was the outfit.
11:45So I just created some arm shapes to this shawl.
11:49And then there was like a light cotton throw blanket that I used as a wrap.
11:54That was it.
11:55I do think it's so important for all of us to know what our go-to comfortable,
12:00natural makeup face is.
12:03And I think that's different for everybody.
12:04I love to have a liner, like a very, something that defines the shape in my lip.
12:08But I'm really happy to have a very nude color on the lip.
12:11Blush color bronzer is a must.
12:14I don't need to do the foundation.
12:17I think that that's not natural.
12:19I think, don't go with any foundation if you really want to have a nice natural look.
12:22But I like to use a little concealer if I have a little dot there or a little red blemish
12:28or whatever.
12:29And I just do the very minor touches.
12:32And then I just bronze or blush over.
12:35Always a brow liner and light mascara.
12:39That's all you need, really.
12:41Whose bed have your boots been under?
12:44Whose bed have your boots been under?
12:461995.
12:47Directed by John Derrick.
12:49This is my very first video shot by John Derrick.
12:54And Bo Derrick was also the photographer.
12:58She was co-directing.
13:00It was a real family affair.
13:03So I felt very comfortable so early on in my video making career.
13:06The wardrobe I picked out myself.
13:08So I did all my own styling.
13:11The denim on denim.
13:12I pulled the denim vest and the jeans out of my own closet.
13:15And the red dress, the red velvet dress.
13:18I think it was just, it was just bought at a department store.
13:22And I went brawless, which was quite daring.
13:26Brawless and barefoot.
13:27So the hair on the video was done by Bo Derrick's mother, actually.
13:32Her name was Norma.
13:33She was a hairstylist in Hollywood for many, many years.
13:37And especially with Ann-Margaret.
13:38So she did the hair and the makeup.
13:41I didn't really know much about what to do with my hair.
13:45So we didn't get too daring with the hairstyles or changing it up too much.
13:50The video really is fun.
13:52The concept of the men in the cafe ignoring me the whole time.
13:58Which really put me in a place of going overboard to flirt with them to try to get their attention.
14:03They were all local people.
14:05They were definitely quite shy.
14:09They weren't actors.
14:10They weren't accustomed to taking acting direction.
14:14So I thought they did a really, really good job of ignoring me.
14:20Ka-ching 2003, directed by Auntie Jay Yokunin.
14:25Ka-ching was what I would consider a very eclectic video.
14:29It was shot in Mexico City.
14:31There were so many incredible things that happened during this video.
14:33I'm gonna have to, I'll have to speak fast so I get it all in.
14:35There was an earthquake, a really big one, in Mexico City when we were shooting this video.
14:39And we were in an old building in the city.
14:43And the building was just, like, just swaying in slow motion.
14:48The chandeliers were swinging back and forth.
14:51And the staircase was waving.
14:54And we had to go down the staircase in order to get out of the building.
14:57But Ka-ching was also shot on my birthday.
15:00And for my birthday, the director brought in a beautiful black stallion Andalusian horse.
15:10That I got to ride on the break between shots.
15:14And it was so touching and moving.
15:17And I, so I had the best birthday ever.
15:20This video I consider my royal look.
15:22I feel like it's the way I would want to look if I were a queen.
15:26The rocker outfit, I was inspired by Cher.
15:31And I don't normally go with a really, like, sleek, sleek, sleek, straight, straight, straight hair.
15:38But Cher inspired me.
15:39And so that was the look for that.
15:41And then, you know, just the band with the coins and the silhouette.
15:46I felt like I was reflecting back to the 60s.
15:50When Cher was in that, the flare bottoms and the form fit.
15:56So it was Cher-esque, that look.
15:58Do you know I adore you?
16:00Wakin' Up Dreamin' 2022, directed by Isaac Renz.
16:04I love this video.
16:06This is my play.
16:07My ultimate play with color and texture.
16:10I was playing rock star from the late 70s.
16:15You know, this was my Prince Elton John and David Bowie born as a woman all at one time.
16:23I'm their child, you know, in this video.
16:25You know, it's all about the dream.
16:27And it's all about fantasy and going a little crazy with your ideas and the eyelashes.
16:33It was a great escapism for me, too, because it took me away from looking classically like myself,
16:41which I really, really enjoyed.
16:43And I just love the diversity of being able to do that as well.
16:49Well, I do have new music coming out.
16:51And the first song is Dirty Rosie, but the album is called Little Miss Twain.
16:57And the title track is Little Miss Twain.
16:59It is what I was introduced as, or how I was introduced, going on stage as a child.
17:08It was, you know, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the stage, Little Miss Twain.
17:12And this is when I was so little that I was still smaller than my guitar.
17:17But that guitar stayed with me right up until my teens.
17:21I'm going to get the chance to perform the first single, Dirty Rosie, during my shows with Harry Styles
17:29in London at Wembley Stadium, which is beyond exciting.
17:35And it's really, really a great honor to have been invited.
17:38You know, I'm his guest.
17:39I'm his special guest, which is super sweet on his part.
17:42So I'm going to have a lot of fun with that.
17:44Thank you, Allure.
17:45I cannot wait to do this again soon.
17:47Bye.
17:47Bye.
17:49Bye.
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