Belinda Carlisle - Big Scary Animal (HQ)

What this video is

Released September 13, 1993, 'Big Scary Animal' was the lead single from Belinda Carlisle's fifth studio album Real — a deliberate artistic pivot away from the polished Rick Nowels-produced synth-pop of her late-1980s commercial peak. Co-written and co-produced with ex-Go-Go's member Charlotte Caffey and Ralph Schuckett, the album embraced acoustic textures, rawer production, and a more personal lyrical voice. The…

Why it matters

Represents a critically important transitional moment in Carlisle's catalogue — the pivot from glossy 1980s MTV pop to the grungier, more organic sonic palette of the early 1990s. The song's acoustic jangling and 'jungle motif' percussion, noted contemporaneously by Music Week, situates it at the…

The director

Jim Gable is a US-based music video and television director/producer. In 1990 he co-founded Graying & Balding, Inc. with Ann Kim, a production and post-production company specialising in music films and long-form entertainment. His credits include the Billy…