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Everclear - Everything To Everyone

Music Video | 1997
ArtistEverclear
SongEverything To Everyone
AlbumSo Much For The Afterglow
DirectorMark Kohr
DirectorArt Alexakis
IntroNo
OutroNo
Sound MixStereo
Technical Specificationscolour - format unknown
Release date

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Synopsis

Everclear perform in a cramped, intensely colored blue room with a black-and-white checkerboard floor. The band members appear in changing arrangements as the camera rotates around them, creating a disorienting, almost mechanical visual loop. Other performers and characters enter the frame between cuts, giving the video a surreal, crowded quality that matches the song's restless energy. Rather than presenting a conventional narrative, the clip focuses on repetition, visual distortion, and the uneasy spectacle of people constantly reshaping themselves for an audience.

Factoids & Trivia

  • The finished video was effectively a second attempt. An earlier version was filmed in a mansion associated with several Hollywood productions, including *The Big Lebowski*, and featured Rose McGowan. That version was rejected and has never been officially released.
  • After the first production used up most of the budget, Everclear filmed the replacement in a small blue room in about a day.
  • The rotating effect was created with a computerized camera mounted on a stand. The band performed through several versions of the same camera movement, which were then edited together so the people and arrangements changed from rotation to rotation.
  • The blonde woman seen in the video also appeared in Blink-182's "Dammit" video.
  • The young girl in the clip is not Art Alexakis' daughter, although she was chosen because she resembled her.
  • Released in 1997, "Everything to Everyone" was the first single from *So Much for the Afterglow*, the album that moved Everclear decisively into mainstream alternative-rock success.

Lyrics

you put yourself in stupid places
yes i think you know it's true
situations where it's easy to look down on you
i think you like to be the victim
i think you like to be in pain
i think you make yourself a victim
almost every single day

you do what you do
you say what you say
you try to be everything to everyone
you know all the right people
you play all the right games
...
© Everclear - Everything To Everyone. This is an excerpt, provided as citation under fair-use.
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