Crash Test Dummies - Get You In the Morning (Remix - Official Video) ft. Ellen Reid

JUL 01 1999 · 12:00

Crash Test Dummies - Get You In the Morning (Remix - Official Video) ft. Ellen Reid (1999) Era: Late-90s Alternative/Trip-Hop Crossover (1999) - Canadian alt-rock act pivoting toward electronic and urban-influenced aesthetics on their fourth album cycle; official remix video re-released 2018 Moderately high archival value as a documented artifact of Crash Test Dummies' most sonically experimental period. The channel-surfing conceit and Ellen Reid's prominent role make it a culturally distinctive entry in the band's video catalog, and its 2018 digital re-release indicates ongoing curatorial interest from the band or label. Useful as a case study in low-budget concept video production within the 1999 Canadian alternative scene. Context: Released as the second and final single from Give Yourself a Hand (March 23, 1999), this video represents Crash Test Dummies at a transitional creative juncture. Brad Roberts had relocated to Harlem and was absorbing soul and hip-hop influences, resulting in an album with a markedly more electronic and trip-hop-inflected sound than their earlier folk-alternative work. Ellen Reid, normally a backing vocalist and keyboardist, was elevated to lead vocalist on three album tracks including this one, making the video's focus on her a deliberate assertion of her expanded role. The channel-surfing visual metaphor was a culturally legible late-90s trope, television as fragmented attention, identity, and desire, deployed here with low-budget comedic irreverence typical of the band's sensibility. Director notes: The video employs a channel-surfing conceptual structure in which Ellen Reid is depicted switching between TV stations, each featuring other band members performing various absurdist vignettes. The rapid editing pace (avg. shot 1.67s, 123 scene changes) is structurally motivated by this channel-hopping conceit. The Remix Official Video was re-released digitally in 2018 per Apple Music metadata, though the underlying footage originates from the 1999 single campaign for the second single off Give Yourself a Hand.