Ugly Kid Joe - Everything About You

What this video is

Released in 1991 from the EP *As Ugly as They Wanna Be*, 'Everything About You' arrived precisely at the tectonic shift between hair metal's reign and grunge's imminent takeover. The video's beach-performance format, absence of staging artifice, and reliance on irreverent humor — particularly the inflatable sex doll prop — positioned Ugly Kid Joe as an anti-glamour act distinct from the lipstick-and-pyrotechnics…

Why it matters

A foundational document of the hair metal / grunge crossover micro-genre — sometimes called 'comedy metal' or 'novelty grunge' — this video demonstrates how humor, self-deprecation, and lo-fi aesthetics could achieve mainstream MTV penetration in 1991–92. It is among the earliest examples of the…

The director

Brooklyn-born American film and music video director who studied electrical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute before pursuing filmmaking at UCLA. He built his career directing music videos for hard rock and heavy metal artists, won the…