Synopsis

Dope perform "Everything Sucks" inside a grimy, post-apocalyptic sideshow populated by bizarre characters, fire, cages and exaggerated visual oddities. A woman wielding a shovel pursues a keyboard player dressed in white, while silver-painted women and other carnival-like figures add to the chaotic spectacle. The band plays amid the mayhem, matching the song's hostile, nihilistic mood with a deliberately excessive blend of industrial-metal imagery, shock-rock theatrics and late-1990s nu-metal attitude.

Factoids & Trivia

• "Everything Sucks" was released in 1999 on Dope's debut album, Felons and Revolutionaries.

• The video was the band's first non-live promotional video from the album. Unlike the group's performance-centered live clips, it uses an elaborate fantasy setting built around grotesque sideshow imagery.

• The video received exposure on MTV2 around 2000, helping introduce Dope's visual identity to the early nu-metal audience.

• The song did not chart, but the video later became recognizable as an especially excessive example of the genre's late-1990s aesthetic.

• Its combination of dystopian scenery, fire, carnival freak-show imagery, silver body paint and aggressive band performance has led to the clip being described as one of the most quintessentially nu-metal music videos.