Meredith Brooks - I Need

What this video is

Released August 1997 as a follow-up single from Meredith Brooks's commercially successful album 'Blurring the Edges' (Capitol Records, May 1997), which reached #22 on the Billboard 200 and was certified Platinum in the United States. The video arrived during a cultural moment dominated by the rise of female singer-songwriters amplified by the Lilith Fair touring festival (which Brooks participated in that same…

Why it matters

The video is a primary document of the mid-1990s female-fronted alt-rock commercial surge, co-existing with Lilith Fair's cultural ascendancy and the post-Alanis Morissette major-label push to sign and promote women in rock. It represents the Capitol Records house aesthetic for artist-driven…

The director

British director Mark Neale relocated to the United States in 1998 following an acclaimed career directing music videos for major artists including U2, Live, The Verve Pipe, Paul Weller, and Counting Crows. He later transitioned to documentary filmmaking,…