Angela Winbush - No More Tears

What this video is

Released as the second single from Angela Winbush's 1989 album 'The Real Thing' on Mercury/PolyGram Records, 'No More Tears' arrived at a moment when Black women singer-songwriter-producers occupied a rare but powerful position in mainstream R&B. Winbush, one of the few female artists to fully self-produce a major-label R&B album at the time, wrote, arranged, and produced all material on 'The Real Thing'. The…

Why it matters

A textbook late-80s quiet storm R&B ballad music video, 'No More Tears' represents the visual grammar of Mercury Records' Black urban contemporary output at its commercial and aesthetic apex. Winbush's status as a rare self-producing Black woman artist gives the video added documentary value as an…