Sheryl Crow - Everyday Is A Winding Road

What this video is

Released in late 1996 as the second single from Sheryl Crow's self-titled sophomore album, 'Everyday Is a Winding Road' arrived during a peak moment for women-led alternative rock in mainstream American culture. The song debuted in the John Travolta film Phenomenon (July 1996) before appearing on the album in September 1996, a crossover strategy that embedded it deeply in mid-90s popular culture. The video's New…

Why it matters

A canonical example of mid-90s alternative pop production philosophy applied to music video: stripped of artifice, shot with a photojournalist's eye, and rooted in everyday American street life. The video's fast-cut sepia montage and toy-airplane continuity device became a touchstone for the…

The director

Los Angeles-based photographer and director who began her career in 1984 after teaching herself photography while working at Fred Segal in Hollywood. Known for evocative celebrity portraits published in Vanity Fair, GQ, Rolling Stone, and Esquire. Began…