Stop rubbing your eyes. What you’re seeing isn’t a mirage. It’s Shania Twain standing in the Mojave Desert wearing a midriff-baring leopard print number and a bold red lip, sticking her thumb out to hail down a passing truck driver and declaring that she’s unimpressed by heart-throb of the time Brad Pitt. It’s 1998 and the country-music star is filming the video clip for her single “That Don’t Impress Me Much”, an anthem written to knock egotistical blokes down a few notches.
The song is the seventh single off Shania’s album Come On Over, which is on track to become the biggest-selling country album of all time, as well as the biggest-selling studio album by a solo female artist. And the Mojave Desert film clip? It’s destined to go down in pop culture history. As iconic music videos go, Shania’s hitchhiking is up there with Michael Jackson’s zombie dance in “Thriller” and Sinéad O’Connor’s close-up in “Nothing Compares 2 U”.
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