The opening lyrics to Shania Twain‘s “You’re Still the One” take on surrealistic new levels of meaning in the video for her dance-floor ready redo of the song with Zedd: “Looks like we made it/Look how far we’ve come, my baby,” she sings … riding a star-adorned unicorn. The video, which is essentially an ad for Candy Crush since the game sponsored the collab, bursts with glimmery psychedelia, literally Shania in the Sky With Diamonds. Filmmaker Jonas Åkerlund directed the clip.
There’s a pink vulture, flying Swedish fish, singing cacti, a blot-out-the-sun-like-E.T.-silhouette moment, a “glamwash” — and that all takes place two-and-a-half full minutes before Twain even sees Zedd. By then, her unicorn’s legs are motorcycle wheels, and all that’s left is a electro-house line dance. Republicans Know It Harry Styles Announces 2027 Together, Together Tour Dates Are Coming: ‘I Hope to See You There’ Twain originally recorded “You’re Still the One” for her 1997 album Come On Over.
Cowritten with producer and Twain’s then-husband, Robert John “Mutt” Lange, the song was intended as a middle finger to naysayers who thought their marriage wouldn’t last. We love each other in every way. We have a great creative relationship and a great personal relationship.
We feel as strong as ever, and ‘Still the One’ is sort of my own personal victory song about the marriage.” After the couple divorced in 2010, Twain called “You’re Still the One” “the people’s song” and said, “it no longer applies to Mutt and I.”
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