Dave Matthews Band-crash into me official music video - Dave Matthews Band-crash into me official music video

What this video is

Released in late 1996, 'Crash Into Me' arrived during the apex of the Dave Matthews Band's commercial breakthrough, drawn from the album Crash which ultimately sold over seven million copies. The video embodies the mid-90s tension between grunge's receding rawness and the emerging neo-bohemian, world-music-inflected aesthetic of the jam band scene. Dean Karr's naturalistic surrealism — swamp settings, interpretive…

Why it matters

A canonical artifact of mid-90s alternative rock visual culture, this video established Dean Karr as a leading director across the rock spectrum and defined the visual grammar of DMB's mid-period identity. Its naturalistic surrealism — organic settings, interpretive movement, world-music costuming…

The director

Dean Karr (born February 22, 1965, Seattle, WA) is an American photographer, music video director, and commercial filmmaker. He earned a BFA from Washington State University and studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. He is known for a…