Shania Twain, Kelsea Ballerini Talk About Resurfacing That Grammy Dress
Shania Twain talked to ET about how she felt when Kelsea Ballerini wore her 1999 Grammy dress at the recent ACM Honors, where Kelsea honored Shania. Twain told ET on…
Shania Twain talked to ET about how she felt when Kelsea Ballerini wore her 1999 Grammy dress at the recent ACM Honors, where Kelsea honored Shania.
Twain told ET on the red carpet, "I am so blown away... She looks stunning. She looks like an absolute angel. It's very flattering to see her in the dress and that she even wanted to wear it. I said, 'I hope it's not too dusty after being in the GRAMMY Museum.'"
Shania actually wore the dress the night that she won two Grammys for "You're Still the One." She recalled, "It was an incredible night for me at the GRAMMYs. That dress represented that experience, so I'm just happy to see it alive again. Now it has a new life, and it has new memories, and it's really great to be able to share that with other people, with another woman."
She added, "Obviously, it's a huge compliment to be admired enough that someone would want to step into my dress."
Ballerini said in the same interview, "It's Shania's night! When I was asked to be a part of it, to honor her, we were just thinking about every possible way that we could highlight every stage of her career. I think she's an icon because of her fashion and the way she's always pushing boundaries. I wanted to honor that part of her too."
Ballerini wasn't sure the dress would work out for her, because alterations are not allowed. She offered, "It's only allowed to leave the museum for 48 hours, so I tried it on yesterday. I had backup, just in case. We're not allowed to alter anything. I am just a little bit taller, and so far, that's the only thing we noticed."
Fortunately, the dress fit, and even the shoes worked. Kelsea admitted she was "so scared" to wear the gown, especially because of how much Twain means to her. Ballerini said, "You grow up finding people that you're like, 'If I ever get the opportunity to be an artist, I wanna be like that.' Shania, she's that for me."
She added, "To be able to honor her is one thing, but to be able to honor her and have her blessing, this kind of feels like she's continuing to be that. It's like, 'I like what you're doing enough to let you wear my dress that I won my GRAMMYs in.' It's just also very affirming and reassuring, so it's sweet."
Shania changed the face of country music in the late 1990s and her influence is still felt today as many country superstars like Kelsea Ballerini, Carly Pearce, Taylor Swift, and more cite her as a major influence.
To celebrate all things, Shania, we're counting down her 13 finest songs that we just can't get out of our heads.
13. "Endless Love" (Lionel Richie featuring Shania Twain) – 2012
UMGThis is a remake but done so nicely by Twain and Richie who recorded it at Shania’s home in the Bahamas. Lionel Richie told me in an interview later that she was the hardest person to pin down when he decided to record his country collaboration album, Tuskegee. He also said that he was so happy with the final result of the duet.
12. "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?" – 1995
IMGReally the song that started it all for Shania who splashed onto the scene like a hurricane in 1995. Still a solid song to this day. Shania never misses a chance to sing this now classic in her concerts.
11. "The Woman in Me (Needs the Man in You)” – 1995
UMGThis is another song Shania wrote with her then-husband and producer Robert “Mutt” Lange. It was her third number-one single on country radio. The music video for "The Woman in Me" was shot in Cairo and Saqqara, Egypt. It was filmed during the first week of July 1995 and released on August 9, 1995 on CMT. In the video, Twain is riding around on a horse through the desert by the pyramids and riding a boat down the Nile River.
10. "(If You're Not in It for Love) I'm Outta Here!" - 1995
UMGHer fourth number one song and the first single promoted with several different mixes. "I'm Outta Here!" was later included on Twain's 2004 Greatest Hits package, and has been performed on all of her tours.
9. "God Bless the Child" – 1996
UMGA touching song that showed Shania’s softer side. Her eighth single from her ‘Woman In Me’ album, the video features two choirs. One included the Fisk University Jubilee Singers, and the second was a local performing arts choirs singing along with Twain in a hangar at the Nashville airport.
8. "Love Gets Me Every Time" – 1997
UMGThe lead single from Twain's third studio album "Come On Over."Twain developed the song at first and brought it to Lange under the title, "'Gol Darn Gone and Done It", which derived from a country expression. The name made Lange burst into laughter when he first heard it, and the couple completed the song together.
7. "Any Man of Mine" – 1995
UMGThis song was nominated for both Best Country Song and Best Female Country Vocal Performance at the 1996 Grammy Awards. It won Single of the Year at the Canadian Country Music Awards.
6. "Honey, I'm Home" – 1998
UMGThis one is freaking catchy. I’ve been singing it since I started this list. Is it fair to say the lyrics are super simple? Well, they are, and maybe that’s what appeals to me. The song became Shania's seventh, and to date, her final number-one single on the Billboard Country singles chart.
5. "That Don't Impress Me Much" – 1998
UMGAny song that mentions that Brad Pitt doesn’t “impress me much” is a winner for me. Yeah, I love Pitt, but this song has it all, and what a beat. In 2017, during a listening party for her fifth studio album Now, Twain revealed the reason behind using Brad Pitt's name instead of other male celebrities. She said that after she heard about the scandal between Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow and the subsequent leaking of Pitt's naked photo in Playgirl magazine, she was left unimpressed by all the fuss as she felt that it was normal to see naked people.
4. "From This Moment On" – 1997
UMGWhat an emotional love song! This song was written during a soccer game in Italy. “My husband loves sports. I don't know the game that well, so my mind drifted, and I started writing." Initially, Shania thought that "From This Moment On" would be perfect for singer Celine Dion.
3. "No One Needs to Know" – 1996
UMGI have always loved the rhythm and the words of this song. She plays the song live in concert with just a twelve-string guitar. It is featured in the 1996 movie Twister.
2. "You're Still the One" – 1997
UMGSo very good. "You're Still the One" was nominated for four Grammy Awards in 1999, winning two. It won Best Country Song and Best Female Country Vocal Performance. Tim McGaw recently called it one of the best love songs ever written.
1."Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" – 1999
UMGAn epic anthem and the song that closes out every one of Shania’s shows. My son wasn’t even born till 2007, almost ten years after the song came out, and well, because of his mom, he knows every word.
