Course Of Nature - Caught In the Sun

What this video is

Released in 2002 on Lava/Atlantic Records, 'Caught in the Sun' arrived at the commercial apex of post-grunge's mainstream dominance, when acts like 3 Doors Down, Nickelback, and Creed held firm control of active rock radio and TRL. Course of Nature, formed in Enterprise, Alabama in 2001, represented the regional south-to-Los Angeles trajectory common to the era's rock signings. The song's additional placement as…

Why it matters

A textbook artifact of early-2000s commercial post-grunge aesthetics: warm saturation, rapid MTV-format editing (avg shot 1.96s), and performance-forward visual language. Alongside contemporaries on Lava/Atlantic, the video exemplifies how major labels packaged alternative rock energy into…

The director

Lenny Bass is a music video director and Staten Island native who studied at FIT before completing his degree at the College of Staten Island. With over 20+ years in the industry, his credited works span genres including rock, hip-hop, and R&B, with notable…