When you have an extremely self-deprecating sense of humour, it can be easy to get a little carried away. Last week, I made the sorry mistake of comparing my propensity for wearing mom jeans to the first frumpy, denim-clad alt-country singer I could think of: Sheryl Crow. Luckily, my friend Lydia was sharp enough to alert me to the fact that Crow is actually a 90s alt-babe on par with Liz Phair, and maybe even Lisa Loeb. After some painstaking research (aka watching the "If It Makes You Happy" music video), I fully accept my opinion on Sheryl Crow was thoroughly misguided and I am eager to reedeem myself.
First of all, the video take place in the American Museum of Natural History which is my favourite place in the entire world that I've actually been to. Sheryl is wilding out in her natural habitat of a red painted brick room with an awkward Christmas shrub in the corner. She is wearing an amazing leopard print swing coat, with a blue zig-zag Missoni-style shirt, yellow pleather miniskirt and chunky heeled boots. This is a GOOD OUTFIT. Where have you been all my life, Sheryl? Shame on me for assuming you were nothing but the "sun-kissed," slightly more attractive female musical counterpart to Kid Rock!
Of course, you can't base a music video on a single outfit (even in the 90s) so check out this hot little number of a acid-yellow checkerboard top and tiger-print pants. This girl loves animal print, I think that makes us fashion soulmates.
Did you catch that overly make-upped snarl? Now it has been documented on THE BLOG, never to be undone.
13 comments:
gonna go watch the video right now, you've opened my eyes!
she's also a really great songwriter and due for a sea change in hip public opinion.
Oh man, I really disliked her music in the 90s.. and I'm still not a fan of it. That leopard coat is nice, but I don't know if it's enough for me to think that she is... cool. Cool is a very subjective word though. That museum IS amazing... and so damn big. I didn't have enough time to see it all while I was there :( you need an entire day dedicated to it, for sure.
yep off to watch this!
Want bear.
This video was so cool back in the day, I remember taking notes on her outfit when it played on mtv ( when mtv played music videos). You should check out some old house of style videos, they're SO GOOD.
dunno about sheryl ... cool look + vid but just can't
get into the music (run baby run aside) I think Liz phair
is in a different league though!! even when she returned
uber-pop with WHY CAN'T I single - I love reading how old
fans were horrified at this change!!
I like that someone surprised you
like this - who's next??!!
I used to be really into Sheryl Crow as a kid. Like I bought all of her videos and just thought she was the coolest thing ever. After reading this I've decided to stop writing this off as an embarrassing phase, and will embrace her coolness!
yeah everything about mid-late 90s sheryl crow, especially this song/video.
i meant, she's everything.
I still think she's the female counterpart to Kid Rock! but I think Kid Rock is kind of cool (in that so bad it's good/nostalgia for when you were an angry raging 8 year old late 90s way)
I have got to admit, I now LOVE her.
Love Grace.
Well, for those of us old enough to remember, this is very provocative.
I went from being coldly indifferent to her first album, to a manic partisan of her 2nd, from which this hails. I thought of her as a bracing tonic for life's travails, a rock chick who was (for lack of a dumber phrase) 'keeping it real.'
There certainly is a praiseworthy side to Crow, and I'm happy that you found it, even as it has never occurred to me to reflect back on her as a style icon.
You might like the video for "My Favorite Mistake" too-- tho I'm calling that up from dim memory.
I suppose Crow has, as you humorously suggest, swung back into a kind of adult-contemp Mom-jeans hell, but if it comes to that, she's paid her dues . . .
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