You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
Shania Twain is a singer and songwriter from Ontario, Canada.
She's the only female artist to have had three consecutive Diamond albums,
albums that have sold over 10 million copies.
Actually, her 1997 album, Come On Over,
is the best-selling album by a female solo artist of all time.
One of the most iconic songs from that iconic album is You're Still the One.
It was co-written and produced by Mutt Lang, who had previously produced some other classic albums,
like Back in Black by ACDC and Pyromania by Def Leppard.
He'd also produced Shania Twain's previous album, The Woman in Me, from 1995.
For this episode, Shania told me the story of writing You're Still the One.
She told me what the song meant to her when she was making it over 25 years ago,
and what it means to her now.
My name is Shania Twain.
You're Still the One was written when I was married to Mutt Lang.
We had met and married within six months.
He was quite a few years older than me, and we were from very, very different worlds.
Mutt had a very British and South African accent, which was quite strong.