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Shania Twain On Why She’d Never Take The Brad Pitt Reference Out Of “That Don’t Impress Me Much”
If Brad Pitt is actually offended by the song, he really needs to work on his sense of humor…
Shania Twain released her hit song “That Don’t Impress Me Much” in 1997, and of course, she dropped the name of one of Hollywood’s biggest stars in Brad Pitt in one of the verses:
“Okay, so you’re Brad Pitt,
That don’t impress me much,
So you got the looks, but have you got the touch”
Of course, the point of the song is that she doesn’t care about a guys outward appearance or success, and that she cares more about the kind of person he is and what’s on the inside.
But, that didn’t stop everyone from wondering why Brad Pitt was the one real life celebrity guy she singled out by name in the lyrics.
Back in 2017, she explained to Billboard that it was a misunderstanding and the shade had nothing to do with what she saw in the nude photos of Brad and Gwyneth Paltrow back in the day:
“You wanna know the truth about this story? I have never told this before, I’m gonna say it now, but everybody already knows about it ‘cuz it was out. But I remember, I had a girlfriend visiting me, and it was near Christmas and we were baking cookies.
And I was writing this album, and there was scandal of him and Gwyneth where there were naked photos of them, okay? And this was like all the rage, right?”
She said what she meant by that line is that she didn’t understand why people were making such a big deal about the photos to begin with, because we see naked people every single day:
“I just thought ‘I don’t know what all the fuss is about.’ And this is where I took it from. I’m like, well that don’t impress me much, I mean what is all the fuss. We see people naked everyday, you know? And that’s really what I thought.”
She reiterated that it had nothing to do with Brad’s manhood, and that those lyrics could’ve been replaced with any other hot guy you know of instead… but I have to think she knew people would be skeptical about why she included his name specifically for this song:
“I wasn’t picking on Brad Pitt, but that was just the association in that moment and things that we make fusses about and whatever. Of course, it could’ve been any gorgeous guy.”
Whatever you say, Shania…
In a recent interview with Harper’s Bazaar, she further explained the Brad Pitt reference, saying she wouldn’t take it out if she could rewrite the song, but joked that she doesn’t know if he’s “avoiding” her because she offended him, or if he’s just never heard it before… which he all know, as she points out, is not possible:
“If I were writing ‘That Don’t Impress Me Much’ today, what would I rewrite? Well, you know, I’ve never met Brad Pitt, and I just don’t know whether he’s avoiding me because he’s offended that I put him in the lyric of the song, or whether he’s just never heard the song before. That’s not possible. Yeah, so no,
I wouldn’t take Brad Pitt out of the song, but maybe I would add some people, like… I would add Harry Styles.”
I have to imagine people probably reference it to him too, or at least they have over the years, and it’s just meant to be funny and lighthearted, and it’s actually pretty hard to believe they’ve never met after all these years… on second thought, maybe he isn’t a huge Shania fan because of this song, and if that’s the case he’s really missing out.
Shania explained that the song she’s most proud of, though, is “Man! I Feel Like A Woman!”, because it was written at a time she was really “coming into her own” and starting to become the woman she wanted to be:
“It may not be my favorite, favorite song as a writer. But [I chose it] because of the overall impression that it made in music… and that it made on me as a woman coming into her own.”
She also talked about Lionel Richie and how much he has impressed her over the years not only with his musical talent, but the kind of person he is, so maybe Brad could take some nots from him…
Here’s the full interview:
Give this one a spin for Mr. Pitt:
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