Songoftheday 10/6/23 - Don't wantcha for the weekend don't wantcha for a night, I'm only interested if I can have you for life...

 

 

"I'm Gonna Getcha Good!" - Shania Twain

from the album Up! (2002)

Billboard Hot 100 peak; #34 (four weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 5

 

Today's song is from Canadian country crossover queen Shania Twain, whose third album on Mercury Records, Come On Over, set sales records and spun off a dozen charting singles, six of which made the top-40 on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart, with "Love Gets Me Every Time", "Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)", "From This Moment On", "That Don't Impress Me Much", "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!", and "You're Still The One", with the latter going all the way to #2.  However, in all that time it was five years since the release of the record, and Shania and then-husband/producer/writer Robert "Mutt" Lange had a lot of material built up for her next album, titled Up! (of course with an exclamation point). The album was put out as a triple-disc set, with the U.S. and Canada getting two of the versions with a country and a pop version, while certain international markets got the double with the pop as well as an Indian music-infused remix of the songs.

The lead single from the record was "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!". The lyrics are silly and pun-filled, as a lot of the Twain-Lange songs are, riddled with quotable come-on lines like "You're a fine piece of real estate, and I'm gonna get me some land". The production is the usual crossover wall of sound Mutt is famous for, but at a mid-tempo pace, albeit with backing vocals that sound like they got Def Leppard in the studio, with the myriad of "getchas" almost acting like a percussion instrument. There's the slightest hint of what's left of her country music start in the bridge, though. The music video brings on the futuristic glamour on what I guess we thought it would be in 2002...

 

"I'm Gonna Get You Good" returned Shania to the top-40 on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 in November of 2002, but it was way more muted than the response from her last set (most likely because everyone was buying the album). On the radio, the song peaked at #7 on Billboard's Country Songs airplay chart, and #10 on the Adult Contemporary (or easy listening) station panel, but it didn't even show on the Mainstream Top-40 list (though it did get to #34 on the older-skewing Adult Top-40 format). Internationally, the single did much better, topping the charts in Canada and Romania, and reaching the top ten in Poland (#3 radio), the United Kingdom (#4), Norway (#4), New Zealand (#4), Denmark (#6), Ireland (#7), Spain (#8), Sweden (#8), Portugal (#8), and Switzerland (#10). It also hit the top-40 in Austria (#12), Hungary (#12), the Czech Republic (#12), Italy (#14), Australia (#14), Germany (#15), France (#15), The Netherlands (#15), and Belgium (#21 Wallonia/#25 Flanders). The Up! album, released in November as the single was cresting, spent five huge weeks at #1 (selling two and a half million just then), and topping the Country Albums list for six, going on to sell over five million copies (eleven times platinum, since its a double-disc). At the Grammy Awards in 2004, Up! was nominated for Best Country Album, losing to the multi-artist compilation Livin', Lovin', Losin': Songs of the Louvin Brothers (of course everyone on there voting for themselves).

Both Shania and the Up! album will be back to the series.

"Red Version": (6/10)  "Green Version": (7/10) "Blue Version": (5/10)

(Click below to see the rest of the post)

Here's the video for the version from the country-style "Green" album...

Check out the "Blue" version, with the backing track produced in India with a totally different flair...

For Shania's "Up! Close and Personal" live DVD, she performed the song in front of a studio audience with Alison Krauss and Union Station, which gives a more organic flow to it...

Next up, in concert on tour behind the album...

 

 

This one's from her first Vegas residency in 2014, very epic...

and lastly, they even made an edit of the version that took out all the ridiculous sci-fi and left the robotic band performance...

Tomorrow I'll have my top tunes from THIS week, and on Monday SOTD will be back with an R&B singer issuing a warning.