The song is originally by Prince, but it wasn't until Sinead covered the song that the song itself became popular. The director was given £40,000 budget to film the music video, he filmed on location in Paris however most of these shots were not used for the finished video. The video itself is mostly close-up shots of Sinead, the audience are automatically drawn to her eyes.
The close-up shots also helped to grip the audience esspecially when she shows pure emotion/tears on the lines "All the flowers that you planted, Mother/in the back yard/All died when you went away," as she herself had a very complex relationship with her mother who had recently died at the time.
The song and album went to number 1 in the charts after the music video was released and effectively launched her career; and this is why this music video is a good example of a video adding value to the song.
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