Warrant - Blind Faith

What this video is

Released in 1991 as the fourth single from Warrant's Columbia Records album Cherry Pie, 'Blind Faith' represents the genre-peak and simultaneously genre-twilight moment of Los Angeles glam metal. Warrant occupied a commercial sweet spot between carnivalesque party rock ('Cherry Pie') and earnest melodic balladry ('Heaven,' 'I Saw Red'). The video's monochrome-to-color reveal mirrors a broader industry aesthetic…

Why it matters

A canonical late-era glam metal power ballad video demonstrating the genre's sophisticated command of the monochrome-to-color emotional arc device. Represents the convergence of MTV's ballad-video grammar with major-label commercial production, offering a primary document of the Sunset Strip rock…

The director

Nigel Dick (b. 21 March 1953, Catterick, North Yorkshire) is a British-American music video director and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He studied architecture at the University of Bath before entering the record industry at Stiff Records. In the mid-1980s…