Any Man Of Mine

Album

Woman in Me, The

Label

PolyGram

Genre

Country pop

Duration

7:00

Composer(s)

Robert John "Mutt" Lange;Shania Twain

Entered Chart

May 27, 1995

Peak Date

Aug 19, 1995

Released

Unknown

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

Mercury 856448

In this song, Shania Twain explains what she's looking for in a man. He has to have an endless well of compassion and accept her flaws. If she burns dinner, tell her that's how he likes it; if her dress is too tight, tell her it's perfect. And also, he has to be always on time even though she can be late, and she's allowed to change her mind as often as she'd like. Twain wrote it with her husband/producer, Mutt Lange, who tweaked it to make it sassier and more assertive. "It was all about how great and wonderful this guy was, but Mutt came up with a new guitar riff that changed the whole tone," she told Maclean's. "We rewrote it and the lyrics became spunkier and, really, more like me." "Any Man Of Mine" was a big step forward in Twain's career. She spent much of her 20s caring for her four siblings after her mother and stepfather died in a 1987 car accident. Her first (eponymous) album was released in 1993 when she was 28. Even though she had been writing songs for years, all of the tracks were written by the country music scribes that supplied songs for other artists in and around Nashville. None of the songs really connected, but the video for her first single, "What Made You Say That," got the attention of Lange, who helped find her musical direction and made sure she took part in the songwriting. The first single from her second album, The Woman In Me, was "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?," the first song with her distinctive attitude. It cracked the Hot 100 at #87 and did well on Country radio. "Any Man Of Mine" was the next single, and it rose to #31 and also topped the Country chart. Twain's management to that point included a pronunciation guide for her first name (Shuh-NYE-uh) but that soon became unnecessary as she became a household name with a long list of hits. The original title was "This Man Of Mine" when the song was more about the guy than about what Shania wanted in a man. John Derek, known for his role in the movie The Ten Commandments and for his marriage to the sex symbol Bo Derek, directed the video. He deserves credit for developing Twain's visual presentation. Derek, who also directed the video for "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?," presented Twain as confident, rugged beauty who didn't need to depend on a man. "Any Man Of Mine" has endured as a concert staple for Twain. Even amassing many more hits to choose from, she left it in her setlists.

This is what a woman wants

Any man of mine better be proud of me
Even when I'm ugly, he still better love me
And I can be late for a date that's fine
But he better be on time

Any man of mine'll say it fits just right
When last year's dress is just a little too tight
And anything I do or say better be okay
When I have a bad hair day

And if I change my mind
A million times
I want to hear him say
Yeah (yeah), yeah (yeah), yeah, I like it that way

Any man of mine better walk the line
Better show me a teasin' squeezin' pleasin' kinda time
I need a man who knows, how the story goes
He's gotta be a heartbeatin' fine treatin'
Breathtakin' earthquakin' kind
Any man of mine

Well any man of mine better disagree
When I say another woman's lookin' better than me
And when I cook him dinner and I burn it black
He better say, mm, I like it like that, yeah

And if I change my mind
A million times
I want to hear him say
Yeah (yeah), yeah (yeah), yeah I like it that way

Any man of mine better walk the line
Better show me a teasin' squeezin' pleasin' kinda time
I need a man who knows, how the story goes
He's gotta be a heartbeatin' fine treatin'
Breathtakin' earthquakin' kind
Any man of mine, woo

Let me hear you say yeah (yeah), yeah (yeah)
Yeah, I like it that way

(Any man, any man, any man) any man of mine better walk the line
Better show me a teasin' squeezin' pleasin' kinda time
I need a man who knows, how the story goes
He's gotta be a heartbeatin' fine treatin'
Breathtakin' earthquakin' kind
Any man of mine

Ooh, ah
Woo
Ooh, ah

You gotta shimmy shake
Make the earth quake
Kick, turn, stomp, stomp, then you jump
Heel to toe, do si do
'Til your boots want to break
'Til your feet and your back ache
Keep it movin' 'til you just can't take anymore
Come on everybody on the floor
One two, a-three four
Hup, two, hup, woo
Mmhmm
If you want to be a man of mine, that's right, woo
This is what a woman wants