Shania Twain 2000-01-07

Shania Twain

GENRE

Country Country Pop Pop Contemporary Country Rock Country Rock Dance-pop Pop Rock Soft Rock

TYPE

Person

BORN

28 Aug 1965

LOCATION

Canada

PRIMARY GENRE

Country

16

TOTAL APPEARANCES

Artist information provided by MusicBrainz

Timeline

FIRST APPEARANCE

27/02/1998

You're Still The One

Satellite

LAST APPEARANCE

The Final Countdown

That Don't Impress Me Much

Mimed


Performance Statistics

Repeat performances are not counted, unless stated otherwise.

Mimed

6 / 16

Live

3 / 16

Satellite

1 / 16

Repeats

6 / 16

Linked YouTube

3 / 16

Screengrabs

11 / 16

Archived - Video

16 / 16

TOTP Appearances

Performance Type Guide
Episode Performance Chart #
The Final Countdown That Don't Impress Me Much
Mimed
OLD
05/09/2003 Thank You Baby!
Mimed
11
13/06/2003 Forever And For Always
Mimed
6
21/03/2003 Ka-ching!
Mimed
8
15/11/2002 I'm Gonna Getcha Good!
Mimed
4
25/02/2000 Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)
Live
5
07/01/2000 Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)
Live
ALBUM
Christmas Day 1999 That Don't Impress Me Much
Mimed
OLD
01/10/1999 Man! I Feel Like A Woman
Live
3
10/09/1999 Man! I Feel Like A Woman
Live
NEW
09/07/1999 That Don't Impress Me Much
Mimed
8
18/06/1999 That Don't Impress Me Much
Mimed
4
28/05/1999 That Don't Impress Me Much
Mimed
3
21/05/1999 That Don't Impress Me Much
Mimed
3
12/06/1998 When
Live
18
27/02/1998 You're Still The One
Satellite
10

That Don't Impress Me Much

Shania Twain

Mimed
18/06/1999

Trivia

PERFORMANCE09/07/1999That Don't Impress Me MuchShania Twain introduces her repeated studio performance via satellite whilst she is on tour in the UK.

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Archived Interview

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Interview date: Circa 2002

My first memories of singing were from the age of three years old. It was nothing public, just singing to myself. I guess you could say I discovered my voice at that age. By the time I was eight years old I was singing in clubs.

No. The opposite, I didn't want to get up on stage at all.

I'm very much that way. I have to get into the right frame of mind. It's OK in concerts, I'm very comfortable there. But with TV it's different because it's so rigid. Webchats are different because they're casual. But TV is more restrictive for me and I get a little awkward.

Thank you, first of all I draw from everything From people I meet, from travelling. I love going to museums. I love listening to all kinds of music, you know, very different styles to my own, classical, rock. Movies too. Thoughts just come to when you get inspired. When you see a painting or think about a person that you've met, it's your emotions that get stirred and then you just get creative.

I do have a couple of books and a little cassette recorder I carry around and everything goes in there.

I miss the people - they're very warm but not so overly friendly that you feel uncomfortable. I love the wilderness, the lakes. I guess the outdoors is what I miss the most.

Switzerland. It's beautiful, it's a good option outside of Canada because we have four seasons there and we have snow which I love.

I had a great time. They sang 'You're The One' and I commented on what I thought. It was really interesting and it's something I would have liked to have done when I was younger; the concept of being at a school with other students who are like-minded, creative, similar goals. I didn't want to leave.

It was because every singer has such an individual style that I heard the song in four different ways. It was wonderful.

Lots of music. I think you will hear a natural progression but you will still recognise me from where I left off. Hopefully it'll be a great listen.<br>Just to confirm, it's called 'Up' and it's out next month. We've got your single here 'I'm Gonna Get You Good' tell us about that.<br>It's a got a bit of a rocky kick to it. It's a confident woman speaking and getting her guy. It's got some interesting musical changes to it. My favourite part of it is the chorus where it breaks down instrumentally. I enjoy doing live and on television.

Being famous isn't all that great or anything to aspire too, personally. I always pursued music and was lucky enough to become successful. If I could do what I do without being famous, that would be me choice. Ideally, I would have become a back-up singer and have other stars sing my songs. That would be my dream scenario. It's changed my life in a big way because I don't get a lot of privacy and I'm naturally a fairly withdrawn person, so it's challenging for me to get out there and be a star.

Yes. It's our third album together.

There may be a chance of that. We're very good friends. I'm totally in love with his voice. You never know.

I think it's been fairly consistent over many years. The ratio of artistic talent is very high in Canada.

Probably Etta James. Stevie Wonder is always the voice the wanted to harmonise with. And other than that there are million voices, including Bryan Adams.

I think I could do that.

I'll certainly be coming to the UK. I'll start production for the tour this Spring but I don't know when the tour will start.

This is so misunderstood because what I'm really saying in the song is 'who do you think you are?' Brad Pitt totally impresses me. I'm sure if I ever met him I would get totally red-faced. I think he's beautiful. Some guys think they look as good as Brad Pitt but in fact they don't, so that is the point of the line.

It has been a bit of a signature print for me but it's certainly been around in fashion for a long time. I guess it made an impression in the video for 'It Don't Impress Me Much' so it's stuck.

Everywhere. We do a lot of travelling, so I write in the car, on the plane. At dinner, just sitting around, ideas just come.

I've never written a song in the studio but I have re-written in the studio. You get into the studio and realise it's not what you thought it was and then you tweak it.

Not particularly, no. I tend to find corners off by myself and that's where I'm most creative. Somewhere really isolated.

Try to be as original as possible because when I'm writing songs I try and stop listening to everything else. I don't want to know what other people are doing or what's on the radio because it influences me too much, it influences everyone. So I isolate myself and then I end up with something original. That's the way you will stand out. It's all in the way you put it together. There are only so many chords so there will be times when something sounds similar but it's all in the way you put it together. Our job is try and get it across in our own unique way.

Probably 'God Bless The Child'. I'm not particularly religious but after my parents died I wrote a melody that put itself around the lyric 'Hallelujah' and that melody ended up on the 'Woman On Me' album at the very end. It turned into a song for charity. That's the most intimate and personal thing I have ever done.

It's changed my priorities in life which ultimately affects everything. The time was right to have him, so it hasn't turned my life upside down. It's all come very naturally and I'm managing it very well so I can't say life has changed all that drastically.

I would take advantage of shaving all my hair off, letting all my other hair grow and farting and burping whenever I felt like it.

Yeah, but that's not a very feminine thing to do. You would really stand out if you did that as a girl.

Underneath those men's clothes there was a woman. I don't think it came across as being manly, just more a strong woman.