Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Do You Love Me？

What this video is

'Do You Love Me?' was released as a single on March 28, 1994, and opens Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' eighth studio album 'Let Love In' (Mute Records, April 18, 1994). The album is widely regarded as a commercial and critical breakthrough for the group, reaching the edges of the UK Top 10. The song, co-written by Nick Cave and Martyn P. Casey, explores obsessive romantic love through a gothic, threatening lens — the…

Why it matters

A canonical artifact of 1990s gothic rock and post-punk, 'Do You Love Me?' represents the commercial apex of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' Mute Records era. The Hillcoat-directed video is a primary document of their shared visual language — dark romanticism, theatrical staging, and expressionistic…

The director

John Hillcoat (born 14 August 1961, Queensland, Australia) is an Australian film director, screenwriter, and music video director. He studied film at Melbourne's Swinburne University of Technology, where he became embedded in the city's post-punk scene. His…