Culture Club - Miss Me Blind

What this video is

Released in February 1984 as the third North American single from 'Colour by Numbers', 'Miss Me Blind' arrived at the peak of Culture Club's global commercial dominance. The video's Japanese aesthetic was strategically significant: Japan was one of the band's largest international markets, and the deliberate cultural homage functioned as both fan outreach and exotic spectacle for Western MTV audiences. The video…

Why it matters

A landmark artifact of New Wave's commercial apex, 'Miss Me Blind' documents how British acts leveraged MTV's visual economy to dominate American pop charts. The video's fusion of New Romantic theatricality with Japonisme set design was unusual in the US market and helped distinguish Culture…

The director

Zelda Barron (née Solomons, 31 March 1929 – 14 August 2006) was a British director, screenwriter, and producer. She began her career as a script supervisor at Woodfall Film Productions before gaining recognition as a script doctor on major productions. She…