Melissa Etheridge - I Want To Come Over

What this video is

Released in January 1996 as the second single from Melissa Etheridge's fifth studio album Your Little Secret (1995), 'I Want to Come Over' arrived during the peak of Etheridge's mainstream commercial moment, following the breakthrough success of Yes I Am (1993). The song reached #22 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Canadian RPM 100 chart. The video's dark, intimate visual language — a lone woman, a…

Why it matters

A canonical mid-90s adult alternative rock music video, demonstrating the genre's preference for narrative realism over performance spectacle. The dual-strand structure — performer in atmospheric location + dramatic character narrative — became a template for emotionally driven rock videos of the…

The director

Pam Thomas (also credited as Pamela Thomas) is a Canadian producer and director with extensive MTV ties. She co-produced The Kids in the Hall for 102 episodes (1988–1995) and served as producer on MTV's 10th Anniversary Special (1991) and MTV: The Reagan…