Songfacts®:

• Shania Twain wrote this song with her rock producer husband, Robert "Mutt" Lange. Her lyrics were inspired by their marriage, which many felt wouldn't last. The soothsayers were right, as Twain and Lange divorced 10 years later in 2008 after 14 years of marriage.
• This song was remixed for its single release to sound less country and appeal more to pop audiences in the hopes of giving Twain a mainstream crossover hit. The plan worked: It became Twain's first Top 10 hit in both the UK and US, and reached #1 in Australia. It was her most successful single on the Billboard Hot 100, spending a record nine (non-consecutive) weeks at #2.
• The song won the 1998 Grammy Awards for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Song.
• In her 2012 autobiography From This Moment On, Twain revealed she and Lange worked on the song separately and later joined up to collate their ideas. When she sang the chorus again and again while working out the lyrics, Lange came up with the counter line as backing vocals, leaving Twain "feeling very excited."
• The album Come On Over spent a record 50 weeks at #1 on Billboard Country Albums chart, selling 22 million in the USA and in total worldwide over 39 million. It became the best-selling album by a female solo artist in the US, and the biggest-selling country album in both the UK and US.
• Though unrelated to Twain's song, the soft rock band Orleans also had a let's-stay-together hit called "Still The One," which reached #5 in the US in 1976.
• Though Twain and Lange divorced after 17 years of marriage because of an affair between Lange and her best friend, the Canadian star still thinks of this ode to a long-lasting union as one of her favorite songs she has written. Twain stated in her memoir that she continues to cherish the song in memory of her mother and stepfather, who shared a very true love. It remains a staple of her setlists.
• Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd sing this in a 2022 Super Bowl commercial for Lay's potato chips where they think back on "that road trip in '97."
• Directed by David Hogan, the music video for "You're Still the One" stars male model John Devoe as Shania Twain's love interest. Devoe later made a cameo in her "That Don't Impress Me Much" video as one of the men she brushes off in the desert. Looking back at both clips, there's a fun full-circle moment: the guy who didn't impress her in the desert was the same one who stayed devoted in the earlier ballad.
  
  The shoot was also memorable for Twain's very first experience with hair extensions. Technicians glued the extensions directly onto her scalp, and their subsequent removal was an ordeal that took several days.