“Everything About You” is the debut single by American hard rock band Ugly Kid Joe, first released on their 1991 EP As Ugly as They Wanna Be.
The song’s music video, directed by Thomas Mignone, was filmed on a beach in Isla Vista, California, and became nearly as infamous as the track itself. In a move that perfectly matched the band’s irreverent humor, Mignone reportedly spent the entire video budget on inflatable love dolls, purchased the morning of the shoot from an adult shop on Hollywood Boulevard. A large tank of helium, “borrowed” from a nearby dentist’s office, was used to inflate the dolls so that vocalist Whitfield Crane could fly them like kites along the beach.
Production was temporarily shut down when Federal Aviation Administration officials arrived, responding to complaints from pilots flying in and out of nearby Santa Barbara Airport about nude dolls drifting into their flight paths. Adding to the chaos, a sheepdog wandered through several scenes, repeatedly forcing filming to stop after it refused to stop urinating on drummer Mark Davis’s kit. The result was a video as wild and unconventional as the band itself, perfectly capturing Ugly Kid Joe’s early reputation.
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