Music Video
The music video for "Vow" was directed by Samuel Bayer and filmed over 12 hours in Los Angeles at the start of June 1995. The video premiered in the United States on June 12, 1995.
A performance piece, the video features strobe lighting and falling glitter cut into shots of Garbage performing against a golden backdrop surrounded by television sets relaying real time footage of the band playing. Throughout the clip there is also shots of a semi-naked man with running black eyeliner crawling on the floor.
Bayer asked the group to perform "Vow" live while he filmed the takes for the video shoot. Garbage had never performed live as group prior to this, and had initially had not considered ever performing live onstage. "We set up amps and played guitars. Butch was pounding away and Shirley had a live mic. After the first run-through, we all looked at each other and said, 'This feels really good.'" Erikson later recalled. The group enjoyed the experience so much that they quickly changed their minds, and scheduled tourdates later that year.
The "Vow" music video was first commercially released on VHS and Video-CD on 1996's Garbage Video. A remastered version was later included on Garbage's 2007 greatest hits DVD Absolute Garbage.
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