Bursting Through
- Pop
From the Album Drive (1997)
The second single from singer-songwriter Bic Runga's multi-platinum debut album Drive is a spare but insistent plea for emotional warmth. The video finds Runga elegantly coiffeured and styled in a white gown with a black guitar. The video is drenched in pale blues and bleached whites, and water surrounds her in a myriad of forms — dripping, pooled, condensed. But there’s the promise of sunlight and succour as well. Co-director Melanie Bridge (working here with photographer Mark Lever) would later help found multinational commercials company The Sweet Shop.

Robyn Gallagher writes about this video, 5000 Ways to Love You website
Oral history of the album from which this song as taken, The Spinoff, October 2017
Official website for Bic Runga
AudioCulture profile of Bic Runga
Website for director Melanie Bridge's company The Sweet Shop
Co-director Melanie Bridge talks about making adverts, Campaign Brief, June 2014











