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"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!"
Mercury Nashville
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Shania Twain singles chronology
"That Don't Impress Me Much"
(1998) 		"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!"
(1999) 		"You've Got a Way"
(1999)
Music video
"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" on
YouTube

"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Shania Twain from her third studio album, Come On Over (1997). Written by Twain and her longtime collaborator and then-husband Robert John "Mutt" Lange, who also produced the track, the song was released first to North American country radio stations in March 1999 as the eighth single from the album, and it was released worldwide later the same year. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" is a country pop song with lyrics about female empowerment and remains one of Twain's biggest hits worldwide.

The song received generally favorable reviews from

Best Female Country Vocal Performance
in 2000.

The accompanying music video for "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" was released on March 3, 1999, and it pays homage to

fourth season, and by Britney Spears in her first movie Crossroads
(2002).

Background and release

thumbs-up
, no questions asked. He could recognize a hit idea when he heard one. His groove flowed easily, and that song came together between the two of us, without any push and pull.

—Twain on the writing process of the song.[3]

The title and thus the lyrics of the song were based on

The Woman in Me, Lange played to Twain a riff he had been working on and Twain sang lyrics for what would become "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!". Speaking of the writing of the song, she stated "There was no time to waste on ideas that wouldn't make the album, but something like [the song] was just there. I was inspired right off the bat with that one, for example, by a riff Mutt had going, and the lyrics and phrasing just came out of the blue."[3]

After reaching domestic success in the United States, and selling over 15 million copies with The Woman in Me, Twain was determined to become an international star and decided to do whatever was necessary to achieve her goal.

mainstream radio in the U.S. In the United Kingdom, the song was issued as a CD single and cassette single on September 20, 1999.[7]

Composition and lyrics

"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" was written by Shania Twain and Robert John "Mutt" Lange, who also produced the track. According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by

guitar riff that conjures Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky", as noted by both Chuck Taylor of Billboard and J.D. Considine of Entertainment Weekly.[9] It begins with Twain exclaiming, "Let's go girls".[10] Lyrically, the song is a female empowerment track, with Twain insisting that "the best thing about being a woman is the prerogative to have a little fun" as well as promising to wear a "men's shirt" with a "short skirt."[11]
In an interview for Billboard, Twain further explained the song's lyrical meaning, elaborating:

That song started with the title, then it kind of wrote itself. The whole expression is a celebration of being a woman these days, I think we're kind of spoiled in a lot of ways, with the advantages we have. Feminists may not feel that way, but I do. It's pretty darn fun to be a woman.[12]

In an interview with American LGBT-interest magazine

The Advocate
, Twain also discussed the song:

A lot of the stuff I do has such a feminine, female perspective, but a powerful one. It's not only girl power, it's gay power. I think that song really stands for both.[13]

Critical reception

The song received generally favorable reviews from

scatting, do-si-do rapping, sexy squeaks, sarcastic Alanis Morissette asides."[15]

The staff from the Sputnikmusic website praised the track, calling it "a high point of the album with it being a classic example of upbeat feel-good

The National Enquirer' blush."[20]

Accolades

"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" earned Shania Twain her second

Taste of Country picked the song as her "All-Time Best Song", writing that "the track's iconic intro lick and catchy singalong vibe won this song a Grammy and a No. 4 slot on the country charts. The most staunch pop purists can still sing along to this one years later, even if they mumble the chorus a bit in the middle."[10]

While listing the "Top 10 Girl Power Songs", The Boot website placed it at number ten, praising Shania for "embrac[ing] her inner feminist in this Grammy-winning single," calling it "music to any man's ears."[11] In the same vein, Fatima Bhojani of Mother Jones magazine picked the line, "We don't need romance, we only wanna dance/We're gonna let our hair hang down," as the best lyric of the song.[24] Writing for NPR Music, Ann Powers commented that the song "connects crossover country to the rock world in no uncertain terms, expanding the genre's heritage in ways that directly reflect the eclectic tastes of its younger audience."[25] The A.V. Club editors, while analysing the "17 well-intended yet misguided feminist anthems", concluded that:

The boilerplate "Let's let our hair down and go crazy!" rah-rah message of Shania Twain's 1997 hit "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!" is so bland and uninspired it's practically nonexistent; it's basically a jingle for lady razors extended over three and a half minutes. The fact that Twain's version of female rebellion involves coloring her hair, talking loudly, and going out dancing with her friends raises the question of what sort of imaginary, Victorian-era standards she thinks she's rebelling against.[26]

Chart performance

North America

"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" debuted on the

adult contemporary release, "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" debuted at number 29 the week of October 2, 1999, the highest debut of the week. The single spent 26 weeks on the chart and climbed to a peak position of number 16 on December 18, 1999, where it remained for one week.[31] While on the Adult Top 40, it debuted at number 30[32] and peaked at number 12.[33] On the Top 40 Tracks, the song debuted at number 32[34] and peaked at number 20.[30] The song has sold 853,000 digital copies in the US as of September 2015.[35]

Australia and Europe

"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" became Twain's second consecutive number one in New Zealand, after "That Don't Impress Me Much". And like her previous number one this also debuted at the top spot, and was certified platinum, making it her biggest single in that country.[36] In Australia, the song debuted at number five and peaked at number four a week later, becoming her fifth consecutive top-five single.[37] In France, the song became her first and only top-10 single, spending 31 weeks on the charts, while spending 13 weeks inside the top 10 and three weeks at its peak position at number three.[38] In the UK, "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" became Twain's second highest selling single, being certified double platinum.[39] The song debuted at its peak position at number three, on October 2, 1999, where it remained for two weeks. It remained in the top ten for another two weeks. It remained on the entire chart for 18 weeks. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" became Twain's fourth top-ten hit (and third consecutive) in the UK.[40]

Music video

The

Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" and "Simply Irresistible" music videos.[9][41] In the music video, Twain stands in front of a group of men, all dressed alike, one playing electric guitar, one playing bass, one playing drums, one playing a two-neck guitar, and one playing keyboard, complete with buffed and blank-eye, meant to imitate the women from Palmer's videos. Twain starts the video dressed in a long coat and a veiled top hat, white dress shirt, black tie, but throughout the video she strips off items of clothing until she is left wearing a black corset, mini skirt, thigh-high boots, a black choker, and black gloves. Twain even has black eyeshadow on.[41]

American singer-songwriter Carrie Underwood covered the song on "American Idol".

The video won the

remastered HD
version of the music video, using the 'Original Album Version', was released to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the parent album Come On Over.

Live performances

Shania Twain performed the song on her "

fourth season.[44]
During
Coachella performance on April 15, he sang the song along with Twain along with You're Still The One
.

Track listings

Credits and personnel

Credits are taken from the Come On Over album booklet.[51]

Studio

  • Recorded and mastered at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee)

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[93] Platinum 70,000^
Belgium (BEA)[94] Gold 25,000*
New Zealand (RMNZ)[95] Platinum 10,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[39] 2× Platinum 1,200,000‡
United States (RIAA)[96] 3× Platinum 3,000,000‡

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Usage in pop culture

The song was featured in a 2005 episode of

halter top and leather skirt, attempting to corral the viewer into declaring "let's go, girls!" following the song's opening riff. On the third attempt, the camera appears to accelerate towards this character, striking her and propelling her across the Glasgow skyline. The woman finally falls to the ground after colliding with a tall building, revealing in the process that she is wearing a strap-on dildo beneath her skirt. The scene ends with the woman lying in great pain and embarrassment.[100]

Japanese-British singer Rina Sawayama also references "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" in her 2022 song "This Hell", which begins with the line "Let's go, girls".[101][102]

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