Depeche Mode - I Feel You

What this video is

Released in February 1993, 'I Feel You' arrived as Depeche Mode's dramatic return after a three-year hiatus following the global success of Violator (1990). The video visually codified the band's shift from clinical synth-pop into a rawer, blues-inflected industrial rock identity, with Gahan's physical transformation — tattoos, long hair, goatee — functioning as a semiotic rupture from their earlier image.…

Why it matters

A landmark visual statement in early-1990s electronic rock, 'I Feel You' demonstrated that synth-driven acts could command the visceral, body-present aesthetic language of rock without abandoning electronic production. Corbijn's direction cemented the template for alternative-crossover music video…

The director

Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard (born 20 May 1955, Strijen, Netherlands) is a Dutch photographer, film director, and music video director. He is the long-term creative director for Depeche Mode and U2, having directed music videos, album…