Mandy Moore - I Wanna Be With You

What this video is

Released April 2000 as the lead single from the reissued album 'I Wanna Be with You' (Epic/550 Music) and simultaneously as a soundtrack single for the Columbia Pictures film Center Stage, this video exists at the nexus of two peak Y2K cultural forces: the teen pop explosion (Spears, Aguilera, Moore) and the Hollywood teen-film boom. Moore, then 16, was consciously repositioning from bubblegum ('Candy') to a more…

Why it matters

A textbook artifact of Y2K major-label teen pop visual grammar: soft romantic lighting, rapid MTV-optimized editing, dance-performance integration, and film-tie-in cross-promotion. Nigel Dick's direction reflects the commercial peak of the music video industrial complex before the post-Napster…

The director

Nigel Dick (born 21 March 1953, Catterick, North Yorkshire) is a British-American music video director and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He co-founded Propaganda Films in the mid-1980s. He has directed over 450 music videos and 35+ documentaries and…