Missing videos from December 1995
I’m intrigued by vocal group CMB Swing. Were they named after the Cash Money Brothers from “New Jack City”? The song in this round was “Your Love Is All I Need”. Another track from Jacqui Keelan Davey, this time “Watching Me Drown”. After a solid run of music videos online, there’s no sign of Maree...
Jan Hellriegel “Pure Pleasure”
In this Mark Tierney-directed video, Jan plays a catsuit-clad femme fatale, the star of a fake show called “Supervixens!”, which appears to have no relation to the legendary Russ Meyer film. Jan and her supervixen posse – Buffy and St Marie (oh, I did what they did there) – receive a call to action: a...
Jan Hellriegel “Geraldine”
Jan’s back with the first single off her second album. The title character undergoes a metamorphosis, and this guides the central theme of the video. Filmed on and around the back steps of St Kevin’s Arcade in Auckland, the video starts with a waiflike Jan singing the song surrounded by instruments, her band absent. In...
Jan Hellriegel “It’s My Sin”
“It’s My Sin” is a cruisy ode to life. The video is shot in high-contrast black and white, usually on a close-up of Jan’s head. Sometimes her hair and makeup is neat, other times it’s a little messed up. It’s a simple video, but has really strong visuals. Jan vamps up well, and the high-contrast...
Jan Hellriegel “The Way I Feel”
In 2009, the Film Archive had a public vote for the top 100 New Zealand music videos. The top video was the dramatic “Maxine” by Sharon O’Neill, while number two was the glorious “Way I Feel” by Jan Hellriegel. Hell yeah. It was the first song of her debut solo album “It’s My Sin” and...
Jan Hellriegel “No Idea”
The first single released off Jan Hellriegel’s debut album “It’s My Sin” was the lush “The Way I Feel”, and yet the later release “No Idea” was the first to get video funding. I guess someone had second thoughts about which song would be best to launch Ms Helleiegel into pop hyperspace. “No Idea” is...
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