Synopsis

PJ Harvey appears as a troubled entertainer performing in a theatrical, old-fashioned dining room while trying to draw a bald man toward her. The video shifts between this stylized setting, Harvey in a modern red dress with tear-streaked makeup, and stark images of her alone on a bare mattress. Near the end, home-movie footage reveals Billy, Harvey, and their young son enjoying happier times outdoors, contrasting the artificial performance with memories of an absent family life.

Factoids & Trivia

• "C'mon Billy" was released on July 3, 1995, as the second single from *To Bring You My Love*. The song reached No. 29 on the UK Singles Chart.

• The video was made during Harvey's dramatic shift away from the abrasive trio sound of her first two albums. Its theatrical imagery and heightened character work match the darker, more stylized world of *To Bring You My Love*.

• The closing home-movie footage is the video's emotional counterpoint: it presents Billy and Harvey as part of a family unit before returning to the song's sense of abandonment.

• VH1 executives reportedly admired the video but declined to air it, considering its imagery too frightening and off-putting for the channel. This helped reinforce its reputation as one of Harvey's more unsettling 1990s videos.

• The video's imagery has been described as surreal, particularly because it places a desperate domestic narrative inside a deliberately artificial stage setting.