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Smalltown Poets - There Is Only You

Music Video | 1999
ArtistSmalltown Poets
SongThere Is Only You
DirectorBrandon Dickerson, Ben Pearson
IntroNo
OutroNo
Production CompanySpiral Films
LabelArdent Records
Sound MixStereo
Technical Specificationscolour - format unknown

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Synopsis

The video places Smalltown Poets in a deliberately old-fashioned cake walk, where the sharply dressed band performs among eccentric contestants, elaborate cakes, and brightly colored supporting characters. What begins as a quaint community event grows increasingly unruly as the participants' competitive energy spills over into broad physical comedy. The visual style favors theatrical costumes and staged gags over a literal interpretation of the song's devotional lyrics. By the finale, the genteel gathering has collapsed into a chaotic food fight, with cake becoming the video's main comic weapon.

Factoids & Trivia

  • "There Is Only You" appears on Smalltown Poets' 1998 album *Listen Closely*, where it runs for approximately three minutes and 47 seconds.
  • The video has been remembered in Christian music retrospectives as one of the genre's more unusual clips, largely because of its eccentric cake-walk setting, dated formalwear, colorful characters, and deliberately broad humor.
  • Behind-the-scenes photographs from guitarist Kevin Breuner document the set and several of the staged scenes, including the sequence involving the band's on-screen manager.
  • Breuner also recalled that the band's real manager, Mark Hollingsworth, was hit in the face with a cake during filming and suffered a case of whiplash as a result.
  • The video's escalating cake-related chaos gives the clip a comic identity that is quite separate from the song's serious devotional subject matter.
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