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Date Posted: 08:25:16 10/14/01 Sun
Since the opening line of the new Aerosmith single, "Sunshine," goes, "I sold my soul for a one-night stand/ I followed Alice into Wonderland," for the song's video the band decided to create a hallucinatory world inspired by Lewis Carroll's most popular work.
To helm the clip, Aerosmith recruited director Samuel Bayer, who has worked on major vids by Nirvana, the Rolling Stones, Marilyn Manson and Garbage.
The video, which was shot August 22 and 23 and debuts this week, begins with a young blond girl — presumably Alice — walking lost through the woods. She encounters a white rabbit, a bedraggled lion and a garishly dressed queen of hearts before bumping into Tyler, who is wearing a top hat, black nail polish and red lipstick, and shaking his head violently from side to side like a ghastly demon from Clive Barker's "Hellraiser."
As the chorus kicks in, the scene shifts to Aerosmith performing onstage. Then it's back to Spookytown, and we enter a dilapidated shack where Tyler is rubbing his face and massaging a candelabra, and guitarist Joe Perry is rocking out in a rickety chair.
At one point in the video, Alice pulls open the queen's dress, causing a flock of doves to soar into the horizon, Madonna-style.
As with many of his videos, Bayer floods the shots with saturated colors and high-contrast images, resulting in a look that's more sinister than you might expect from a song called "Sunshine."
—Jon Wiederhorn
thanx to mtv.com
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