Man! I Feel Like a Woman!

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The title and thus the lyric of the song were based on Shania Twain's experience while working at Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville, Ontario to provide for her brothers and sisters after their parents died in a car crash. Twain recalls seeing drag performers working at the resort and credits them as the source of her inspiration. Later in 1993, after being signed to Mercury Nashville and releasing her first album Shania Twain, Twain met Robert John "Mutt" Lange, whom she would collaborate extensively with and marry at the end of the year. In 1994, while composing songs for what would become her second studio album The Woman in Me, Lange played to Twain a riff he had been working on and Twain sang lyrics for what would become "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!". Speaking of the writing of the song, she stated "There was no time to waste on ideas that wouldn't make the album, but something like [the song] was just there. I was inspired right off the bat with that one, for example, by a riff Mutt had going, and the lyrics and phrasing just came out of the blue."{{cite book|last1=Twain|first1=Shania|title=From This Moment On|date=March 27, 2012|publisher=Simon & Schuster|page=253|isbn=9781451620757|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z9ccmsij8UUC&q=man+i+feel}}

After reaching domestic success in the United States, and selling over 15 million copies with The Woman in Me, Twain was determined to become an international star and decided to do whatever was necessary to achieve her goal.{{cite book|last1=Eggar|first1=Robin|title=Shania Twain: The Biography|date=June 15, 2010|publisher=Simon & Schuster|page=278|isbn=9781451604542|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sh-levpCt-IC&q=come+on+over&pg=PA280}} In order to achieve a worldwide success, Twain recorded her third studio album, Come On Over, with the intention of being "international". After completing the album and delivering it to Mercury Records, Lange spent four months remixing 70 percent of the album for its international edition, diluting and removing the twang elements. While writing for the album, Twain and Lange revisited "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" and insisted on having the track on the album. The track was then the final song recorded for Come On Over. The song is the opening track of the U.S. edition of Come On Over, however, the international edition starts with "You're Still the One", since the song has country elements. Initially, "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" was only released to country radio as the album's seventh single in the United States in March 1999.{{cite web|url=https://www.wideopencountry.com/man-i-feel-like-a-woman/|title='Man! I Feel Like a Woman': The Story Behind Shania Twain's Empowering Song|last=Sparkman|first=Darby|publisher=Wide Open Country|date=August 2021|access-date=November 30, 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://www.countrythangdaily.com/shania-twain-man-i-feel-like-a-woman/|title=Shania Twain's 'Man! I Feel Like a Woman' Is The Greatest Girl Power Anthem|publisher=Country Thang Daily|date=June 4, 2021|access-date=November 30, 2021}} After the song's success there, it was eventually released to mainstream radio in the U.S. In the United Kingdom, the song was issued as a CD single and cassette single on September 20, 1999.{{cite magazine|title=New Releases – For Week Starting 20 September, 1999: Singles|magazine=Music Week|page=27|date=September 18, 1999}}

"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" was written by Shania Twain and Robert John "Mutt" Lange, who also produced the track. According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by Universal Music Publishing Group, the song starts in the key of B{{flat}} major and modulates to F major in the chorus, with a moderate tempo of 126 beats per minute. Twain's vocals span from the low-note of F₃ to the high note of D{{flat}}₅.{{cite web|title=Shania Twain "Man! I Feel Like a Woman" Sheet Music|url=http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtdFPE.asp?ppn=MN0112159&|website=MusicNotes.com|date = December 17, 2012|access-date=December 16, 2014}} "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" is a country pop song, with a guitar riff that conjures Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky", as noted by both Chuck Taylor of Billboard and J.D. Considine of Entertainment Weekly.{{cite magazine|last1=Taylor|first1=Chuck|title=Singles|magazine=Billboard|date=September 4, 1999|volume=111|issue=36|page=27|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nwgEAAAAMBAJ&q=shania+twain+man+i+feel+like+a+woman+review&pg=PA27|access-date=December 16, 2014|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|issn=0006-2510}} It begins with Twain exclaiming, "Let's go girls".{{cite news|last1=McClellan|first1=Laura|title=Top 10 Shania Twain Songs|url=http://tasteofcountry.com/shania-twain-songs/|access-date=December 18, 2014|work=Taste of Country}} Lyrically, the song is a female empowerment track, with Twain insisting that "the best thing about being a woman is the prerogative to have a little fun" as well as promising to wear "men's shirts" with "short skirts".{{cite news|last1=The Boot Staff|title=Top 10 Girl Power Songs: Empowering Lyrics That Celebrate Women Read More: Top 10 Girl Power Songs|url=http://theboot.com/girl-power-songs/|access-date=December 18, 2014|work=The Boot.com}} In an interview for Billboard, Twain further explained the song's lyrical meaning, elaborating:

That song started with the title, then it kind of wrote itself. The whole expression is a celebration of being a woman these days, I think we're kind of spoiled in a lot of ways, with the advantages we have. Feminists may not feel that way, but I do. It's pretty darn fun to be a woman.{{cite magazine|last1=Flippo|first1=Chet|title=Twain's View of 'Come on Over's' 16 Songs|magazine=Billboard|date=October 18, 1997|volume=100|page=94|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nAkEAAAAMBAJ&q=shania+twain+man+i+feel+like+a+woman+billboard&pg=PA94|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|issn=0006-2510}}

In an interview with American LGBT-interest magazine The Advocate, Twain also discussed the song:

A lot of the stuff I do has such a feminine, female perspective, but a powerful one. It's not only girl power, it's gay power. I think that song really stands for both.{{cite journal|title=Big Gay Following - New Feature|journal=The Advocate|date=November 23, 2004|volume=927|page=98|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OWUEAAAAMBAJ&q=shania+twain+man+i+feel+like+a+woman&pg=PA98|access-date=December 22, 2014|publisher=Here Publishing|issn=0001-8996}}

The song received generally favourable reviews from music critics. Writing for Billboard, Chuck Taylor commented that "there's no reason that 'Man!', with its coquettish turn of phrase, shouldn't have the same kind of appeal as her earlier 'That Don't Impress Me Much'," also noting that the song has "plenty of tasty ingredients that radio traditionally searches out – great tempo, attitude, a hook that sells like ice cream in summer, and the instantly recognizable vocals of a woman who is a found acquaintance of so many millions out there now." Taylor ultimately called it "country crossover at its best." Daily Record stated that Twain "enjoys a change of direction with this brassy line-dancing hit.""Chart Slot". Daily Record. October 15, 1999. Retrieved December 3, 2020. Chuck Eddy of Rolling Stone noted that "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" and other high-gloss songs "open with a bubblegum-glam cheerleader shout, then blasts into radio-ready rapture with offhand vocal interjections – doot-doot-doot scatting, do-si-do rapping, sexy squeaks, sarcastic Alanis Morissette asides."{{cite magazine|last1=Eddy |first1=Chuck |title=Shania Twain : Come on Over : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/shaniatwain/albums/album/124004/review/6067853/come_on_over |access-date=December 18, 2014 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=December 9, 1997 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220072207/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/shaniatwain/albums/album/124004/review/6067853/come_on_over |archivedate=February 20, 2008 }} In 2024, Rolling Stone ranked the song at #30 on its 200 Greatest Country Songs of All Time ranking.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-country-songs-1234986540/shania-twain-man-i-feel-like-a-woman-1235012000/|title =The 200 Greatest Country Songs of All Time|magazine = Rolling Stone|date =May 24, 2014}}

The staff from the Sputnikmusic website praised the track, calling it "a high point of the album with it being a classic example of upbeat feel-good power-pop, which is notable both for the production, something that is notably strong throughout the album, but also for the instrumental quality present. It's possible almost to feel the enjoyment that was present in making this song when listening to it, and there's even a guitar solo, which again pulls the listener in."{{cite news|title=Shania Twain – Come on Over (album review) | Sputnikmusic|url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/1475/Shania-Twain-Come-On-Over/|access-date=December 18, 2014|work=Sputnikmusic|date=January 16, 2005}} While reviewing both Twain's "Come on Over" and "Greatest Hits" albums, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic picked the song as one of the compilation's highlights,{{cite web|last1=Erlewine|first1=Stephen Thomas|title=Come on Over – Shania Twain | Allmusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/come-on-over-mw0000029634|website=Allmusic|access-date=December 26, 2014}}{{cite web|last1=Erlewine|first1=Stephen Thomas|title=Greatest Hits – Shania Twain | Allmusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/greatest-hits-mw0000673521|website=Allmusic|access-date=December 18, 2014}} while Nick Reynolds of BBC Music named it "the sound of a thousand Saturday nights in clubs all over the Western World."{{cite news|last1=Reynolds|first1=Nick|title=BBC – Music – Review of Shania Twain|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/qmrg|access-date=December 18, 2014|work=BBC Music|date=2002}} Brian James wrote for PopMatters that the song "has a title-word-to-exclamation-point ratio that would make the headline writer at 'The National Enquirer' blush."{{cite news|last1=James|first1=Brian|title=Shania Twain: Greatest Hits | PopMatters|url=http://www.popmatters.com/review/twainshania-greatest/|access-date=December 18, 2014|work=PopMatters|date=February 1, 2005}}

"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" earned Shania Twain her second Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in its 42nd edition, which also saw her winning another award for Best Country Song for the song "Come On Over".{{cite news|last=Nager|first=Larry|title='Smooth' grabs Grammy for local native|url=http://enquirer.com/editions/2000/02/24/loc_smooth_grabs_grammy.html|access-date=December 18, 2014|work=Enquirer|date=February 24, 2000}} The song also won both BMI Songwriter Awards and SOCAN'S for "One of the Most Performed Songs of the Year". Kay Savage of CMT picked the track as one of her "10 Prime Hits", asking: "Is there any better song to start a Friday night than 'Man! I Feel Like a Woman!'?." Savage also wrote that the "Grammy-winning song brings out [her] best Southern qualities for a really-go-wild, doing-it-in-style, country good time. Shania even took the pain out of girls' usual conferences of 'what should I wear tonight' by providing a simple answer: men's shirts and short skirts. Genius."{{cite news|last1=Savage|first1=Kay|title=Shania Twain: 10 Prime Hits|url=http://www.cmt.com/news/1675531/shania-twain-10-prime-hits/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219070751/http://www.cmt.com/news/1675531/shania-twain-10-prime-hits/|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 19, 2014|access-date=December 18, 2014|work=CMT|date=December 7, 2011}} Laura McClellan of Taste of Country picked the song as her "All-Time Best Song", writing that "the track's iconic intro lick and catchy singalong vibe won this song a Grammy and a No. 4 slot on the country charts. The most staunch pop purists can still sing along to this one years later, even if they mumble the chorus a bit in the middle."

While listing the "Top 10 Girl Power Songs", The Boot website placed it at number ten, praising Shania for "embrac[ing] her inner feminist in this Grammy-winning single," calling it "music to any man's ears." In the same vein, Fatima Bhojani of Mother Jones magazine picked the line, "We don't need romance, we only wanna dance/We're gonna let our hair hang down," as the best lyric of the song.{{cite news|last1=Bhojani|first1=Fatima|title=10 Awesome Girl-Power Songs—Just Because|url=https://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/01/10-awesome-girl-power-songs-feminism|access-date=December 19, 2014|work=Mother Jones|date=February 17, 2014}} Writing for NPR Music, Ann Powers commented that the song "connects crossover country to the rock world in no uncertain terms, expanding the genre's heritage in ways that directly reflect the eclectic tastes of its younger audience."{{cite news|last1=Powers|first1=Ann|title=Shania Twain: A Survivor Who Remade The Good Old Girl|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/05/08/136060728/shania-twain-a-survivor-who-remade-the-good-old-girl|access-date=December 19, 2014|work=NPR Music|date=May 6, 2011}} The A.V. Club editors, while analysing the "17 well-intended yet misguided feminist anthems", concluded that:

{{blockquote|The boilerplate "Let's let our hair down and go crazy!" rah-rah message of Shania Twain's 1997 hit "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!" is so bland and uninspired it's practically nonexistent; it's basically a jingle for lady razors extended over three and a half minutes. The fact that Twain's version of female rebellion involves coloring her hair, talking loudly, and going out dancing with her friends raises the question of what sort of imaginary, Victorian-era standards she thinks she's rebelling against.{{cite news|last1=A.V. Club Staff|title=A soundproofed room of one's own: 17 well-intended yet misguided feminist anthems|url=http://www.avclub.com/article/a-soundproofed-room-of-ones-own-17-well-intended-y-39169|access-date=December 19, 2014|work=The A.V. Club|date=March 15, 2010}}}}

"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" debuted on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart on March 6, 1999, at number 53, becoming the highest debut of the week.{{cite magazine|last1=Jessen|first1=Wade|title=Country Corner|magazine=Billboard|date=March 20, 1999|volume=111|issue=12|page=36|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nw4EAAAAMBAJ&q=shania+twain+man+i+feel+like+a+woman&pg=PA77|access-date=December 22, 2014|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|issn=0006-2510}} The single spent 20 weeks on the chart and climbed to a peak position of number four on June 12, 1999, where it remained for two weeks.{{cite magazine|title=Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks|magazine=Billboard|date=June 19, 1999|volume=111|issue=12|page=41|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9AwEAAAAMBAJ&q=man+i+feel+like+a+woman&pg=PA64|access-date=December 22, 2014|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|issn=0006-2510}} The single became Twain's 11th (and seventh consecutive) Top 10 on the country chart. On the US Billboard Hot 100, it debuted at number 93 on the week of April 17, 1999.{{cite magazine|title=The Billboard Hot 100|magazine=Billboard|date=April 17, 1999|volume=111|issue=16|page=90|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pg0EAAAAMBAJ&q=man+i+feel+like+a+woman&pg=PA22|access-date=December 26, 2014|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|issn=0006-2510}} It spent 28 weeks on the chart and peaked at number 23 for one week on November 13, 1999.{{cite magazine|title=The Billboard Hot 100|magazine=Billboard|date=November 13, 1999|volume=111|issue=46|page=106|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fAgEAAAAMBAJ&q=man+i+feel+like+a+woman&pg=PA88|access-date=December 26, 2014|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|issn=0006-2510}} Come on Over's fifth US adult contemporary release, "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" debuted at number 29 the week of October 2, 1999, the highest debut of the week. The single spent 26 weeks on the chart and climbed to a peak position of number 16 on December 18, 1999, where it remained for one week.{{cite magazine|title=The Billboard Hot 100|magazine=Billboard|date=October 2, 1999|volume=111|issue=46|page=106|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fAgEAAAAMBAJ&q=man+i+feel+like+a+woman&pg=PA88|access-date=December 26, 2014|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|issn=0006-2510}} While on the Adult Top 40, it debuted at number 30{{cite magazine|title=Adult Top 40|magazine=Billboard|date=October 2, 1999|volume=111|issue=40|page=106|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cggEAAAAMBAJ&q=billboard+man+i+feel+like+a+woman+adult&pg=PA108|access-date=December 26, 2014|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|issn=0006-2510}} and peaked at number 12.{{cite magazine|title=Adult Top 40|magazine=Billboard|date=October 30, 1999|volume=111|issue=44|page=60|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eAgEAAAAMBAJ&q=man+i+feel+like+a+woman&pg=PA51|access-date=December 26, 2014|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|issn=0006-2510}} On the Top 40 Tracks chart, the song debuted at number 32{{cite magazine|title=Adult Top 40|magazine=Billboard|date=September 25, 1999|volume=111|issue=39|page=96|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cAgEAAAAMBAJ&q=man+i+feel+like+a+woman&pg=PA88|access-date=December 27, 2014|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|issn=0006-2510}} and peaked at number 20. The song has sold 853,000 digital copies in the US as of September 2015.{{cite web |last=Bjorke |first=Matt |url=http://roughstock.com/news/2015/09/37550-top-30-digital-country-singles-september-8-2015 |title=Top 30 Digital Country Singles: September 8, 2015 |publisher=RoughStock |date=September 8, 2015 |access-date=September 9, 2015 |archive-date=June 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605080922/http://roughstock.com/news/2015/09/37550-top-30-digital-country-singles-september-8-2015 |url-status=dead }}

"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" became Twain's second consecutive number one in New Zealand, after "That Don't Impress Me Much". And like her previous number one this also debuted at the top spot, and was certified platinum, making it her biggest single in that country. In Australia, the song debuted at number five and peaked at number four a week later, becoming her fifth consecutive top-five single. In France, the song became her first and only top-10 single, spending 31 weeks on the chart while spending 13 weeks inside the top 10 and three weeks at its peak position at number three. In the UK, "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" became Twain's second-highest-selling single, being certified double platinum. The song debuted at its peak position at number three, on October 2, 1999, where it remained for two weeks. It remained in the top ten for another two weeks. It remained on the entire chart for 18 weeks. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" became Twain's fourth top-ten hit (and third consecutive) in the UK.{{cite web|title=Shania Twain | Artist | Official Charts|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/shania%20twain/|website=The Official Charts Company|access-date=December 27, 2014}}

The music video for "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" was shot in New York City and directed by Paul Boyd. It debuted on March 3, 1999, on CMT. The video is a role-reversed version of Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" and "Simply Irresistible" music videos.{{cite book|last1=Kosut|first1=Mary|title=Encyclopedia of Gender in Media|date=May 18, 2012|publisher=SAGE|page=247|isbn=9781412990790|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FEB1q_HyvN4C&q=shania+twain+man+i+feel+like+a+woman+music+video&pg=PA247|access-date=December 27, 2014}} In the music video, Twain stands in front of a group of men, all dressed alike, one playing electric guitar, one playing bass, one playing drums, one playing a two-neck guitar, and one playing keyboard, complete with buffed and blank-eye, meant to imitate the women from Palmer's videos. Twain starts the video dressed in a long coat and a veiled top hat, white dress shirt, black tie, but throughout the video she strips off items of clothing until she is left wearing a black corset, mini skirt, thigh-high boots, a black choker, and black gloves. Twain even has black eyeshadow on.

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The video won the MuchMoreMusic Video of the Year award at the MuchMusic Video Awards in 2000.{{cite web|title=About Shania Twain - The Official Website - Awards |url=http://www.shaniatwain.com/about-awards.asp |website=ShaniaTwain.com |access-date=December 27, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090719130445/http://www.shaniatwain.com/about-awards.asp |archivedate=July 19, 2009 }} The video uses the 'Alternate Mix', which tones down the guitar and synth parts and blends them into the background. The 'Alternate Mix' of the video is available on Twain's compilations Come On Over: Video Collection (1999) and The Platinum Collection (2001), though an alternate version of the video using the 'International Version' was used as a backdrop for Twain's performance of the song on her Top of the Pops special in 1999.{{cite web|title=Shania Twain, Top Of The Pops Special 1999| date=October 15, 2012 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQg9LuI5vo4|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/sQg9LuI5vo4|archive-date=December 19, 2021|url-status=live|via=YouTube|access-date=December 27, 2014}}{{cbignore}} On YouTube, "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" is Twain's most-viewed video with 394 million views as of December 2023. On November 1, 2022, a remastered HD version of the music video, using the 'Original Album Version', was released to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the parent album Come On Over.

Shania Twain performed the song on her "Come On Over Tour" (1998), "Up! Tour" (2003), "Shania: Still the One" residency show (2012–2014), "Rock This Country Tour" (2015), "Shania Now Tour" (2018), "Let's Go" residency show (2019–2022) and Queen of Me Tour (2023). Earlier on in her career, the song tended to be sung first but it now tends to be at the end as an encore, such is its popularity. It was also the opening song of her "Shania Twain Live", "Winter Break" and "Up! Live in Chicago" live video albums, as well as on her headline on the Super Bowl XXXVII halftime show.{{cite news|last1=Dukes|first1=Billy|title=Remember When Shania Twain Rocked the Super Bowl Halftime Show? [Watch]|url=http://tasteofcountry.com/shania-twain-super-bowl-halftime-video/|access-date=December 27, 2014|work=Taste of Country}} The song was also performed by American Idol winner Carrie Underwood during the fourth season.{{cite web|title=Carrie Underwood Man, I Feel Like A Woman American Idol 2005|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A-ARk_R-S0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310144620/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A-ARk_R-S0|archive-date=March 10, 2016|url-status=dead|via=YouTube|access-date=December 27, 2014}}

During Harry Styles' Coachella performance on April 15, he sang the song along with Twain along with You're Still The One.

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• Australian CD single{{cite AV media notes|title=Man! I Feel Like a Woman!|others=Shania Twain|year=1999|type=Australian CD single liner notes|publisher=Mercury Records|id=562 085-2}}

1. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" (international album version) – 3:57
2. "I'm Holdin' On to Love (To Save My Life)" (pop mix) – 3:48
3. "Love Gets Me Every Time" (Mach 3 remix) – 3:42
4. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" (alternate mix) – 3:59
5. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" (video)

• European CD single{{cite AV media notes|title=Man! I Feel Like a Woman!|others=Shania Twain|year=1999|type=European CD single liner notes|publisher=Mercury Records|id=172 126-2}}

1. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" – 3:54
2. "Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)" (extended dance mix) – 4:44

• European maxi-CD single{{cite AV media notes|title=Man! I Feel Like a Woman!|others=Shania Twain|year=1999|type=European maxi-CD single liner notes|publisher=Mercury Records|id=172 125-2}}

1. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" – 3:54
2. "Black Eyes, Blue Tears" (Live/Direct TV mix) – 4:22
3. "That Don't Impress Me Much" (India mix) – 4:42
4. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" (alternate version) – 3:53

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• UK CD1{{cite AV media notes|title=Man! I Feel Like a Woman!|others=Shania Twain|year=1999|type=UK CD1 liner notes|publisher=Mercury Records|id=562 325-2}}

1. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" (country LP version) – 3:53
2. "Love Gets Me Every Time" (Live/Direct TV mix) – 3:51
3. "Any Man of Mine" – 4:07
4. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" (video)

• UK CD2{{cite AV media notes|title=Man! I Feel Like a Woman!|others=Shania Twain|year=1999|type=UK CD2 liner notes|publisher=Mercury Records|id=562 324-2}}

1. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" (country LP version) – 3:53
2. "Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)" (extended dance mix) – 4:44
3. "Any Man of Mine" – 4:07
4. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" (video) – 3:53

• UK cassette single{{cite AV media notes|title=Man! I Feel Like a Woman!|others=Shania Twain|year=1999|type=UK cassette single sleeve|publisher=Mercury Records|id=172 126-4}}

1. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" (country LP version) – 3:53
2. "Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)" (extended dance mix) – 4:44

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Credits are taken from the Come On Over album booklet.{{cite AV media notes|title=Come On Over|title-link=Come On Over|others=Shania Twain|year=1997|type=Canadian CD album booklet|publisher=Mercury Records|id=314-536 003-2}}

Studio

• Recorded and mastered at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee)

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• Shania Twain – writing, vocals, background vocals
• Robert John "Mutt" Lange – writing, background vocals, production
• Biff Watson – guitars
• Dann Huff – guitars, guitar solo, guitar textures, six-string bass, talk box
• Brent Mason – electric guitar
• Larry Byrom – slide guitar
• Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar
• Joe Chemay – electric and fretless bass
• Stuart Duncan – fiddle
• Bow Bros – gang fiddles
• John Hobbs – Wurlitzer
• Paul Leim – drums
• Mike Shipley – mixing
• Olle Romo – programming, Pro Tools, sequencing, editing
• Glenn Meadows – mastering

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The song was featured in a 2005 episode of America's Funniest Home Videos in a montage showing clips of women. The song was part of the soundtrack of Brazilian successful telenovela Laços de Família.{{cite web|title=Various Artists - O Melhor de Lacos de Familia | Allmusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/o-melhor-de-lacos-de-familia-mw0000771066|website=Allmusic|access-date=December 27, 2014}} American recording artist Britney Spears and actresses Zoe Saldana and Taryn Manning sang along to the track during Spears' first movie Crossroads (2002).{{cite web|title=Britney Spears - Crossroads -Man I feel Like A Woman- Scene|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DteW6v6sR4c|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110050954/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DteW6v6sR4c&gl=US&hl=en|archive-date=November 10, 2013|url-status=dead|via=YouTube|access-date=December 27, 2014}} In that same year, it was performed by Molly Shannon in the form of a Christmas spoof in The Santa Clause 2. It was used to comic effect in a 2004 Chevrolet Colorado TV commercial, in which a group of men are traveling in one of the vehicles, and one of them begins singing along very enthusiastically with Twain's recording (from the female narrative), much to the discomfort of his friends.{{cite web|title=Shania Twain, Chevy Colorado Commercial| date=October 15, 2012 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBJl3l87Gpk|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/pBJl3l87Gpk|archive-date=December 19, 2021|url-status=live|via=YouTube|access-date=December 27, 2014}}{{cbignore}} It also appeared to comedic effect in an episode of Limmy's Show, in which Limmy aka Brian Limond plays a woman dressed in leopard print halter top and leather skirt, attempting to corral the viewer into declaring "let's go, girls!" following the song's opening riff. On the third attempt, the camera appears to accelerate towards this character, striking her and propelling her across the Glasgow skyline. The woman finally falls to the ground after colliding with a tall building, revealing in the process that she is wearing a strap-on dildo beneath her skirt. The scene ends with the woman lying in great pain and embarrassment.{{cite web|title=Limmy's Show, Shania Twain sketch|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tqh6sTLouo|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317011831/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tqh6sTLouo|archive-date=March 17, 2016|url-status=dead|via=YouTube|access-date=September 3, 2015}}

Japanese-British singer Rina Sawayama also references "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" in her 2022 song "This Hell", which begins with the line, "Let's go, girls".{{cite web|last=Lorusso|first=Marissa|title=Let's go, girls. Rina Sawayama unleashes 'This Hell' : #NowPlaying|date=May 19, 2022|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/now-playing/2022/05/19/1100030045/rina-sawayama-this-hell|work=NPR|access-date=May 23, 2022}}{{cite web|last=Garcia|first=Thania|title=Rina Sawayama Reveals Album 'Hold The Girl,' With Single 'This Hell'|date=May 18, 2022|url=https://variety.com/2022/music/news/rina-sawayama-hold-the-girl-this-hell-1235271035/|work=Variety|access-date=May 23, 2022}}

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