Shania Twain Performs ‘Dirty Rosie’ On ‘The Tonight Show,’ Shares The Stories That Shaped ‘Little Miss Twain’ Album

Shania Twain stopped by The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon ahead of the release of her next album, Little Miss Twain. Giving fans a preview of the project arriving July 24, she performs “Dirty Rosie” and shares how the collection as a whole ties back to her upbringing.

The country music icon has only delivered the advance release of three songs from the record: the title track featuring Tanya Tucker, “Faded Blue Jeans” featuring Josh Homme and “Dirty Rosie.” Written solely by Twain, the ladder of the tracks centers around a deep personal connection to her truck. The vehicle she holds so close to her heart acts like a symbol of the freedom, memories and the life experiences that shaped her growing up.

She goes on to say that someone could “drive me nuts” or “drive all night to see her,” but the one thing that’s forever off limits is driving her beloved truck, Dirty Rosie because she works hard all night long, spends her nickels and dimes to keep it running.

Twain brought “Dirty Rosie” to life on the Tonight Show with a show-stopping stage presence, elevated by her stunning green ensemble featuring a sheer, rhinestone-covered top paired with leather shorts and of course a pair of heeled boots. Backed by her epic band, she fully embraced the song’s edgier sound, delivering a high-energy performance filled with confidence, attitude and plenty of heart.

She sings, “You can drive me crazy, drive me half nuts/ You can drive all night to see me, take a chance on your luck/ You can drive a Hummer in the summer/ You can even drive the ladies in my Mercedes/ But you can’t drive my truck/ Not my truck.”

Sitting down with Fallon to discuss the song, Twain explained that much like the rest of the album, “Dirty Rosie” was inspired by an element of her upbringing in Canada. She explains she learned to drive at 10 years old out of necessity to help her family with work.

“We were woodsmen and all of our work, my parents’ work was out in the woods and they always needed extra drivers. So it’s like, ‘get in there.’ And my dad was a hunter as well. So he’s like, ‘Okay, you drive and I’ll watch. I’ll look out for the moose.’ So he scouts for the moose and I drive. So I learned how to drive at 10. It was very useful. I felt very empowered and very grown up.”

The track finds her reflecting back on the old days of driving around in that old red truck that was faded from all the use it as a work vehicle.

“I actually value that now. We never could afford new vehicles when I was a kid. And now if I had a choice of having a faded old red work truck, her name would be Dirty Rosie,” Twain added.

The “Man! I Feel Like A Woman” singer also noted that on the album’s release date, she anticipates it to feel like “Christmas Morning,” because she has anxiously been awaiting the day she could finally share this collection of songs with the world.

This collection takes listeners back to when she got her stage name, “Little Miss Twain” while performing in small, smoky bars at eight years old.

“People just started calling me ‘Little Miss Twain’ and I would be introduced on stage, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, Little Miss Twain.”’ And that always, it struck me more now looking back and reflecting on the child from the beginning. And it impacts me more. And I ended up writing this song and it’s primarily about my mother’s roles in my career. Manager ,drove me everywhere. Agent, she got me up on every stage she could possibly find, hoping that I would get discovered, which wasn’t going to happen until much later in my career and she would already have passed,” Twain explained.

The title track featured vocals from Tanya Tucker, which marks a very full-circle moment in Shania Twain’s life.

“I lost my mother early on in my life…according to my mother, ‘I’m the next Tanya Tucker,’ is what I sing. And my mother’s dream was that I would be a childhood star like Tanya Tucker…she put the dream out there and I brought Tanya Tucker in the studio, and she sang with me on this record. It was so full circle.”

The project arrives July 24via Republic Nashville and includes 15 tracks.

Shania Twain just wrapped up an epic 12-night run with Harry Styles at Wembley Stadium in London and is set to perform in New York, NY tonight, July 23.