Fiona Apple's music video for "Criminal" incited some strong reactions due to its explicit stripping of clothes and resulting insinuations. The director, Mark Romanek, is known for directing successful videos for many of the top musicians of the 90s into the 00s.
One of the debut artists (like Fiona) that got to work with Romanek was the genre-bending group G. Love & Special Sauce. G. Love, guitarist and vocalist Garrett Dutton, played local bars in Boston before he was joined by bassist Jim Prescott and drummer Jeffrey Clemens (with the two collectively known as Special Sauce). Together, they played a loose, accented blues over which G. Love would rap. They took most of their musical cues from old blues artists and folk singers and mixed it with the sounds of alternative hip hop. They formed in 1993 and released their debut album G. Love and Special Sauce a year later where it nearly clinched gold status on the strength of their single "Cold Beverage" and its MTV-hitting music video directed by the aforementioned Mark Romanek.
Here is the discography surrounding G. Love & Special Sauce's debut album:
Back in the Day (1993 demo)
Blues Music (1994 single)
G. Love and Special Sauce
Cold Beverage (1994 single)
Baby's Got Sauce (1994 single)
"Cold Beverage" by G. Love & Special Sauce
"Fresh Lila" by G. Love & Special Sauce
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