Shania Twain - Party For Two ft. Billy Currington

What this video is

Released September 7, 2004, as the lead single from Shania Twain's Greatest Hits compilation, 'Party for Two' was strategically engineered for dual-format dominance: a country version with Billy Currington for CMT/GAC and a pop version with Mark McGrath for VH1/international outlets. Filmed on location in London's upscale Mayfair and South Kensington neighborhoods — featuring the Royal Albert Hall — the video…

Why it matters

A landmark artifact of mid-2000s country-pop crossover strategy, the video demonstrates the industry's bifurcated release model — producing simultaneous country and pop cuts of a single song to maximize format penetration. The London location shoot elevated production values beyond the typical…

The director

Marcus Raboy (born November 30, 1965) is an American film and music video director who grew up in New York City and attended New York University. Since the early 1990s he has directed videos for Mary J. Blige, Dixie Chicks, Rihanna, Luther Vandross, Shakira,…