When I was beginning to draft this article, I searched for articles I had written of Shania Twain’s music and low and behold I didn’t find any! I feel mindless that I overlooked her in the compilation of artists / songs for the Music Library Project. I have made amends and downloaded 7 songs that I always liked from her and added them retrospectively. The first in the alphabetical listing is today’s featured song [If You’re Not In It For Love] I’m Outta Here! I know some Country music puritans might have an axe to grind with Shania allegedly selling out to commercial Pop, but I hope to appease them by announcing my favourite songs from Shania are country steeped – Home Ain’t Where His Heart Is (Anymore) and today’s track.
I have watched a couple of documentaries on Shania Twain. I always admired the Canadian’s fortitude and passion despite great personal setbacks at a vulnerable age.
She said she had a difficult childhood. Her parents earned little money, and food was often scarce in their household. She did not confide her situation to school authorities, fearing they might break up the family. Her mother and stepfather’s marriage was stormy at times, and from a young age she witnessed violence between them. On November 1, 1987, her mother and stepfather died in a car accident approximately 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Wawa, Ontario. She moved back to Timmins to take care of her younger siblings and took them all to Huntsville, Ontario, where she supported them by earning money performing at the nearby Deerhurst Resort.
[Verse 1]
Mind if I sit down?
Can I buy you a round?
Haven’t seen your face before
Are you new in town?
It’s the same old line
Oh every time
Are you here alone?
Can I take you home?
[Verse 2]
Now every woman sees
With every “pretty please”
There’s a pair of lying eyes
And a set of keys
He says, “come be a star” (Ooh)
In the back seat of my car
Oh, but baby, slow down
You’re going way too far
[Pre-Chorus]
Let me make it clear
To you, my dear, yeah
[Chorus]
If you’re not
In it for love
If you’re not
Willing to give it all you got
If you’re not in it for life
If you’re not in it for love
Let me make it clear
To you, my dear
You’re not in it for love
I’m outta here!
(If You’re Not in It for Love) I’m Outta Here! was released in November 1995 as the fourth single from her second studio album, The Woman in Me (1995). Written by Mutt Lange and Twain, the song became her second number-one hit at country radio and the first single to be promoted with three different mixes worldwide to cater to international genre demand. The song topped the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart (where it remained for two weeks) and was her breakthrough hit in Australia, peaking at number five on the ARIA Singles Chart. I’m Outta Here! has been performed on all of her tours.
Shania Twain has sold over 100 million records, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time and the best-selling female artist in country music history.
References:
1. (If You’re Not in It for Love) I’m Outta Here! – Wikipedia
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She is something. Love her!
Yeh Shania’s cool, man. Finding out she was the best-selling female artist in country music history took me back.
She has had some rough times in her life…we know about that Matt…
There are rough times and then there are her rough times which seem on another level of ‘roughness’. Yikes
She is one resilient lady…
Her and her husband Mutt Lange changed Nashville… and the old timers hated it.
I can see how the reaction would have been polemic. I liked her earlier stuff a lot. It reminded me of Terri Clark’s music.
I loved what they did to the stick in the muds.