Faith No More - Easy

What this video is

Released December 29, 1992, Faith No More's cover of the 1977 Commodores ballad 'Easy' was a calculated act of genre-trolling: a virtually faithful soft-soul cover deployed by an aggressive alt-metal band to subvert audience expectations and spite heavy metal fans who attended shows expecting 'War Pigs'. The music video, with its hotel-room scenes featuring drag queens alongside live performance footage, extended…

Why it matters

A landmark example of alt-metal ironic pop appropriation, 'Easy' demonstrated that genre boundaries in early-90s alternative rock were performatively transgressive as much as stylistically defined. The video's drag-inclusive visual language was culturally ahead of mainstream music video norms for…

The director

Barry McGuire (also credited as Barry Maguire) is a music video director known for his work in the early 1990s. Confirmed credits include Faith No More's 'Easy' (1993) and Tom Jones's 'Sexbomb'. Limited wider filmography is documented in public sources.