Fountains of Wayne - Mexican Wine (ORIGINAL)

What this video is

Released January 20, 2004, as the second single from Fountains of Wayne's breakthrough album Welcome Interstate Managers (S-Curve Records, June 2003), 'Mexican Wine' followed the band's career-defining hit 'Stacy's Mom' into the MTV promotional pipeline. The song, written and produced by Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger (with Mike Denneen), was praised for its '60s-influenced guitar pop craft and wry,…

Why it matters

A textbook example of early-2000s power pop music video production: melodic guitar-rock aesthetics filtered through a high-energy, comedy-driven narrative video format. The video encapsulates the brief window when indie-leaning power pop acts received substantial major-label video budgets and MTV…

The director

Born 1970, Los Angeles, CA. Studied film at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. Began directing music videos for indie rock bands while in college; signed with Satellite Films (a division of Propaganda) at age 21, becoming their youngest-ever signed director,…