Released September 30, 2003
5. When God Fearin' Women Get The Blues
Video footage available on DVD only
Directed by Deaton – Flanigen
Delaney and Emma McBride can be found jumping on the bed in this video and Inga, the lead singer of the band Naked Beggars, is the girl with the guitar. http://www.nakedbeggars.net
Concrete
Angel
Directed by Deaton – Flanigen
The video was shot on November 13 and 14 in Nashville. The little girl is played by Noel, and the Mother by Jeri Sager. Martina’s performing was filmed the first day at an old cemetery. The second day’s filming was at an Adult Ed school and a house, A high school classroom was turned into the first grade classroom seen in the video. Noel, Delaney, and Emma drew pictures that were put on the wall of the bedroom. Martina’s Parents and Daughter’s were at the seconds days filming to which Martina attended even though she was not scheduled to be at because she was worried about the welfare of Noel. For the abuse scene, the cameras were focused on the shadows on the wall to give the affect of the girl being hit by her mother, when really Jeri was only flailing her arms around.
"The headstone was made of Styrofoam. So we had to focus on making it look as realistic as possible.
Every time they yelled cut, she (Jeri Sager ) would have to fight back tears." Daun Knight, an assistant to the video’s Art Director.
"I was so proud to be a part of this video. I don't ever do them, but this one really appealed to me, both because of the acting possibilities and because Martina is known for doing these edgy videos and songs that address tough social issues that a lot of artists won't even touch. (She also happens to be my favorite country artist.) So I was especially pleased to book this gig.
I play an abusive mother who, during the video (although you never see it) ends up killing her little girl. It was an amazing experience and very hard. There was a lot of concern for Noel, the little girl, because in the video I actually have to shake her, with the appearance of extensive abuse.
They took a lot a time talking to her, making sure she knew it was all pretend and that she was safe and in charge. The director talked to her, her mother talked to her, and then I talked to her. She was great with the whole thing, and an experienced little actress.
What nobody anticipated was how it would affect me. The director kept asking for a little more over the top from me so we could get the feeling of violence, which obviously couldn't come from physical shaking. When we finally did the take he wanted, it was so powerful for me that as soon as he yelled, "That's it!", and I saw that Noel was okay, I burst into tears.
Martina was great. She came back and gave us both a hug and said she knew it was hard but that so much good could come from what we were doing. It really is a powerful video, disturbing and sad, because not only does it deal with the actual abuse issue, but with the denial and avoidance that occurs when people don't want to get involved. I hope you get to see it." Jeri Sager
The video for “Where Would You Be” is Martina’s performance of the song at the 2002 CMT Flameworthy Awards.
Directed by Deaton – Flanigen
“Blessed” features the McBride Family, with John, Delaney and Emma all apart of it along with Martina. The Video was filmed Saturday, November 17, 2001, at Citation Support, in Nashville. To create the scenes, the crew built a wooded setting, complete with a pond, inside the soundstage.
When God Fearin' Women Get The Blues
Directed by Steven Goldmann
“When God Fearn’
Women Get the Blues” was filmed in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Shelby Hill’s
crime spree is brought to an end with AR-15's
The Characters:
Shelby Hill - The God Fearin' Woman Who Gets The Blues
Sheriff Hill - Shelby's Husband.
Martha Huffinpuffin - The Pedestrian Who Loses Her Purse
Annabelle Meade - Woman Who Works In The Store
Charlie Horse - The Car Salesman
Directed by Deaton - Flanigen
Produced by Andy Singer
The girl in the "Independence Day" video is played by Heidi Butler.
"I am admittedly not a big fan of videos, for the reasons you mention, but I thought the Independence Day video was really well done. The house was an old abandoned house which they got permission to burn down. They only had one chance at it, obviously, and got that footage of Martina singing in front of the house while cinders were falling on her back! I don't know what I would have done differently, if I'd had the chance, I thought the video was very powerful." Gretchen Peters
"We'd never worked with Martina and we heard the song 'Independence Day' and we called Mary Hamilton at RCA and said 'We have to do this video.' And we don't normally do that." George Flanigen
"Martina McBride, Robert Deaton, and George Flanigen brought the video in. There was a little bit of anxiousness in the committee meeting and just knowing that the subject matter was gonna be a little difficult I remember watching it and thinking this was probably one of the best videos I’ve seen so far." Fran Galloway, CMT Programming Dept. 1994, in the Independence Day episode of CMT’s Controversy.
