Aerosmith - Girls Of Summer

What this video is

Released August 2002 as the sole single from the O, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits compilation, 'Girls of Summer' represents Aerosmith's bid to maintain commercial relevance at the peak of early-2000s mainstream rock. The video's South Beach setting and chapter-driven narrative locked into the aspirational, sun-soaked visual language dominating MTV in the TRL era. Shot with more than 200 models on location, it…

Why it matters

Represents the mature commercial phase of Aerosmith's MTV video legacy, transitioning from the narrative-driven 1990s Silverstone-era clips to a looser, ensemble-cast location spectacle format. The timestamped vignette structure — unusual for rock of this era — anticipates later reality-inflected…

The director

David Charles Meyers (born October 19, 1972, Berkeley, CA) studied Film Production and Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University. He worked at Paramount and Fox before transitioning to music video directing. He has directed over 200 videos and won 12 MTV…