Tori Amos - Jackie's Strength

What this video is

Released in summer/fall 1998 as the second single from From the Choirgirl Hotel, 'Jackie's Strength' sits at the intersection of personal biography and American historical mythology. The song and video were inspired directly by Amos's own marriage to sound engineer Mark Hawley in February 1998, and invoke Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as a cultural archetype of feminine resilience. The black-and-white visual language…

Why it matters

A landmark in late-90s art-pop video production: the desaturated, film-based, narrative-driven visual approach distinguished Amos from the era's glossier MTV aesthetic. The video's use of intercutting civilian vignettes alongside the central bridal narrative prefigures the community-portrait style…

The director

James Brown is a music video director credited on multiple Tori Amos videos in the late 1990s, including both 'Spark' and 'Jackie's Strength' from the From the Choirgirl Hotel era (1998), as confirmed by IMDb, IMVDb, Songfacts, and a primary fan-archive…