Watch Billianne's stripped-back cover of Shania Twain's That Don't Impress Me Much
The Milton, Ont. singer whittles the 1998 country hit down to its bare bones
The 2025 Juno Awards are March 30, and CBC Music is officially in celebration mode. In the lead up to the awards, we're presenting the Juno Sessions: a series in which emerging musicians cover songs by artists who have previously won the coveted songwriter of the year award.
In the second episode, Billianne delivers a playful and cheeky cover of Shania Twain's That Don't Impress Me Much. Accompanied simply by acoustic guitar, the Milton, Ont. singer gives a rendition of the 1998 song that is more subdued, but still has the same bite as Twain's original.
Billianne started her musical career with covers, notably of Tina Turner's The Best and Doris Day's Que Será, Será (Whatever Will Be, Will Be), showcasing her powerhouse vocals. The 21-year-old felt drawn to cover Twain for the Juno Sessions because she grew up listening to her during daycare. Her and the other young girls would "just be bouncing around the kitchen to Shania Twain songs," she told CBC Music.
The song's lyricism particularly resonated with Billianne: "I like how she [was] just unapologetically [saying] 'You do not impress me whatsoever.' And I think, back when she wrote that, we didn't have the Sabrina Carpenters of now talking about men in that way. It's just cool that she did that. She was not even afraid to name drop Brad Pitt in a song and be like, 'You don't impress me.'"
Twain won the Juno for songwriter of the year in 2000 for her songs Man! I Feel Like a Woman, That Don't Impress Me Much and You've Got a Way, from her 1999 album Come on Over. It's the second best-selling country album of all time and went on to influence the likes of Taylor Swift and Maren Morris. The 13-time Juno winner was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2011.
Watch Billianne's take on Shania Twain's That Don't Impress Me Much above, and stay tuned to cbcmusic.ca/junos for the rest of the 2025 Juno Session releases.
Michael Bublé will host the 2025 Juno Awards on Sunday, March 30, at 8 p.m ET. Tune in on CBC-TV, CBC Gem, CBC Radio One, CBC Music and CBC Listen, and stream globally on cbcmusic.ca/junos.
