"Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?" | ||||
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Single by Shania Twain | ||||
from the album The Woman in Me | ||||
A-side | "Any Man of Mine" | |||
Released | January 2, 1995 | |||
Recorded | 1994 | |||
Genre | Country pop | |||
Length | 3:59 | |||
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Producer(s) | Robert John "Mutt" Lange | |||
Shania Twain singles chronology | ||||
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"Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?" on YouTube |
"Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?" is a song by Canadian country music singer Shania Twain. The song was written by Twain and her then husband Robert John "Mutt" Lange, who also produced the single; it was the first single released under what would be a decade-long collaboration between the two. Mercury Nashville released the song on January 2, 1995 to country radio as the lead single from her second studio album The Woman in Me (1995).
Following the commercial failure of her self-titled debut album (1993), Twain had nearly been dropped from her label. After seeing the video for "What Made You Say That" on CMT Europe, Mutt Lange, who had been wanting to move in a country direction after producing massively success rock albums for artists like AC/DC and Def Leppard, came into contact with her and the two began talking hours on the phone, with Twain singing him original songs and Lange offering to produce her album. They later met six months later in June 1993 at the CMA Music Festival and by December of that year, the two had gotten married.
"Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?" is a song lyrically about a woman confronting her partner cheating on her, asking who he has been with. The song itself received highly positive reviews and has retrospectively been reviewed as one of Twain's best singles. The song was Twain's first successful single, which was the opposite of her last song "You Lay a Whole Lot of Love on Me", which completely failed to chart. After noticing high amounts of the album selling, radio stations began playing the song into heavy rotation. The song rose as high as number eleven on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart (then known as "Hot Country Singles & Tracks) and became a number one country hit in Canada; the song became Twain's first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 when it was released as a double a-side single with her later single "Any Man of Mine" in June 1995, reaching number 31. By August 1995, the single was certified Gold for 500,000 copies, making it Twain's first single to be certified by the RIAA. The song later won the SOCAN Song of the Year award at the Canadian Country Music Awards in 1995.[1]