Tracy Bonham - Behind Every Good Woman

What this video is

Released in April 2000, 'Behind Every Good Woman' arrived at a moment of acute commercial misalignment. Tracy Bonham's second album Down Here had been delayed for two years by the Island/PolyGram/Def Jam corporate restructuring, so a record that might have resonated in 1997–98 landed in a landscape dominated by nu metal and bubblegum pop. The song, which Bonham described as being about female empowerment and…

Why it matters

Represents the late terminal phase of female-fronted alternative rock's major-label moment (1994–2000). The video is a near-perfect artifact of the genre's commercial sunset: high-energy performance aesthetic, empowerment-anthem framing, and rapid editing borrowed from peak-MTV production…

The director

Liz Friedlander (born December 9, 1970, New York City) is an American director and producer. She studied at the Drama Conservatory at Carnegie Mellon University, then photography at UC Santa Cruz, and graduated as valedictorian from the UCLA School of…