Rock This Country!

Single infobox
Name = Rock This Country!


Artist = Shania Twain
from Album = Come on Over
Released = December 1999
Format =
Recorded = 1997
Genre = Country
Length = 3:59
Label = Mercury Nashville
Writer = Robert John "Mutt" Lange,
Shania Twain
Producer = Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Last single = "Come on Over"
(1999)
This single = "Rock This Country!"
(2000)
Next single = "I'm Holdin' On to Love (to Save My Life)"
(2000)"Rock This Country!" is a song by Canadian singer Shania Twain, it was the tenth single released to country radio from her 1997 album "Come on Over". Written by Mutt Lange and Twain, "Rock This Country!" was released to North American country radio stations in late 1999. With no promotional performances or CD single, the song was the lowest charting single at country radio from the album.

Background

On "Rock This Country!" Twain said the song is "a very live, fast-driving song. We wrote that one on the beach in Florida. I had had the title a long time". ["Flippo, Chet (1997-10-18), "Twain branches out on sophomore set". "Billboard". 109 (42):11] "Rock This Country!" became the closing song each night on both the Come on Over Tour and the Up! Tour. It is the only song to stay the same on both the original and International versions of "Come on Over". Al Gore used "Rock This Country!" as the theme song to his 2000 Presidential Campaign. [http://www.stwain.com/info/facts.html Shania Twain facts] Hillary Clinton selected "Rock This Country!" as a candidate theme song for her 2008 Presidential campaign. [ [http://www.hillaryclinton.com/action/spotlight/?sc=8 HillaryClinton.com - Welcome ] ]

Critical reception

"Billboard" applauded the song saying it "pushes all the buttons that should make it a natural for today's young country audience" and calling it "a rollicking, fiddle-laced number that should become a weekend anthem". [Taylor, Chuck (January 15 2000), "Reviews & Previews: Singles". "Billboard". 112 (3):22 ]

Music video

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Chart performance

"Rock This Country!" debuted on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart the week of January 15 2000 at number 58. The single spent 17 weeks on the chart and climbed to a peak position of number 30 on February 26 2000, where it remained for three weeks. "Rock This Country!" became the first single from "Come on Over" to miss both the top ten and top twenty, it became her lowest peaking single since "God Bless the Child" which peaked at number 48.

Official versions

*Album Version (4:23)
*Radio Edit (3:59)

Charts

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