Saint Etienne - You're In A Bad Way (Video)

What this video is

Released in February 1993 on Heavenly/Warner, 'You're in a Bad Way' was Saint Etienne's biggest UK hit, reaching #12 on the Singles Chart. The song was conceived as a deliberately old-fashioned throwback to 1960s pop — described by Bob Stanley as a joke imitation of Herman's Hermits written in ten minutes — yet became the defining commercial peak of the band's early period. Its accompanying music video amplified…

Why it matters

A pivotal document of early-1990s British indie-dance at the intersection of house-influenced production and 1960s pop revivalism. The single and its video demonstrate how the Heavenly Records / Creation-adjacent scene used theatrical retro aesthetics to construct a distinctly Anglophile pop…