Counting Crows - American Girls ft. Sheryl Crow

What this video is

Released May–July 2002 alongside the Hard Candy album (Geffen Records), 'American Girls' arrived at a cultural inflection point when post-grunge acts were pivoting toward more radio-accessible, hook-driven production to compete with the rising tide of pop-punk and R&B dominance on MTV. The song reached #1 on the Billboard Triple-A chart and saw the band featured in a Coca-Cola commercial that year, reflecting…

Why it matters

A key document of early-2000s adult alternative rock's commercial and aesthetic vocabulary — the video bridges the introspective, lived-in emotional register of 1990s alt-rock with the higher-gloss, faster-cut production grammar demanded by early-2000s music television. The #1 Billboard Triple-A…

The director

Marc Preston Webb (born August 31, 1974, Bloomington, Indiana) is an American director who built his career directing over 100 music videos between 1999 and 2009, working with artists including Green Day, AFI, 3 Doors Down, My Chemical Romance, No Doubt, and…