Year: 2008
Director: Jamie Milligan & Avi Diamond
Location: Toronto, Canada
Filming: June, 2008
Album: This Time

Summary: Melanie wanted to make a video about a girl lusting a guy on the metro to illustrate the lyrics of the song Understand. The video shows Melanie listening to the song with her mp3 player and flirting with a guy (Adam Crossley). Then she starts to imagine how it would be to talk to this guy and getting together for an ice cream. The video also features backstage scenes of Melanie's This Time Canadian Tour and her appearence at the red carpet of the Much Music Video Awards 2008.

Curiosities:
-Melanie said the crew didn't ask for permission to film in some places so she joked that they could be arrested anytime!
-Famous celebrity columnist Perez Hilton features in the video talking to Melanie in one of the backstage scenes.
-Adam Crossley is a Canadian singer, songwriter and producer who was one of the support artists to open Melanie's concerts at the This Time Canadian Tour in May 2008.
-Read an exclusive interview made by Portal Melanie C with the directors of the video, click HERE.

Year: 2007
Director: Adrian Moat
Location: England
Filming: October, 2007
Album: This Time

Summary: The director of Melanie's latest three videos, Tim Royes, sadly died in a car accident in New York City on August 2007. Originally scheduled to be recorded in August, the filming of This Time video was cancelled due to the tragic happening. In such circumstances, it was important to Melanie to film the video with someone that knew Tim. The director Adrian Moat, Royes' former colleague was choosen to create this tribute to their friend. This Time shows Melanie following a ray of light, making allusion to life and death.

Curiosities:
-The version of the song used on the video isn't the album version: it's the single version.

Year: 2007
Director: Tim Royes
Location: England
Filming: May 3rd, 2007
Album: This Time

Summary: Christina Chong plays Carolyna, an unhappy young girl with lots of problems, who starts to see Melanie C’s image in mirrors. Melanie also appears singing at the same party where Carolyna is dancing while her boyfriend flirts with another woman. At the end, when Carolyna is already on despair, trashing her own room, Melanie appears and holds out the hands to her, as a gesture of aid. When doing that gesture, Melanie shows the tattoos on both her wrists: Love and Happiness, in Tibetan writing.

Year: 2007
Director: Tim Royes
Location: England
Filming: February 16th, 2007
Album: This Time

Summary: Video with some different scenes from the original version and I Want Candy movie scenes added.

Year: 2007
Director: Tim Royes
Location: England
Filming: February 16th, 2007
Album: This Time

Summary: In a pink neon lights scenary, Melanie dances and strikes poses, wearing a black catsuit. For the first time in her solo career, she has a choreographed dance routine with lots of dancers: men wearing helmets and women with colorful dresses. The sexiest video ever released by Melanie until now also has scenes of her laying on a red puff and close ups on her mouth with pink lipstick while singing the song.

Curiosities:
-The video was so successful on You Tube that in just one day it was viewed more than 82,000 times, charting in front of Beyoncé & Shakira's duet video, Beautiful Liar, uploaded on the site just one day before I Want Candy! Later, it charted at number 1 on the list of most viewed on March 4th, 2007, with more than 159,000 views in two days online!
-Melanie commented: "I don’t think I’m an overtly sexual performer. For this song I just wanted to step out of myself for that moment. It was fun to do it for a change, but I’m not changing my direction."
-During the filming, the catsuit had a couple of rips and needed to be fixed, according to Melanie!

Year: 2007
Director: Tim Royes
Location: Ealing Studios, England
Filming: February 17th, 2007
Album: This Time

Summary: Melanie is in a place that reminds the backstage of a studio, with lots of elements of scenaries (lights, doors, cages, chains, a poster) and Melanie interacts with those objects while walking and singing. She seems to play with the lights during the video, feeling its power and deciding which ones to follow. Then she leaves the studio straight to the street. Pratically without close ups, the video has just one take and seems to be very simple, if it wasn't another video full of hidden messages from Melanie C!

Curiosities:
-Even though the video has only one take, six takes were necessary to get to the definitive version.
-It was shot the day after shooting the I Want Candy video.
-The lights and objects that appear in the scenes can be interpreted as metaphors for the song's lyrics or they can even represent phases of Melanie's career.

Year: 2006
Director: Robert Broellochs
Location: Mannheim, Germany
Filming: December 2005
Album: Beautiful Intentions

Summary: Melanie starts to sing Better Alone sitting by a lake. She plays a woman who rips a photo of her and her boyfriend and throws the pieces into the lake. The pieces appear sinking alongside with a car where her boyfriend lies unawake and locked inside. That makes the viewers believe that Melanie was committing a passionate crime. As the video goes on, the man wakes up very scared inside the car and tries to save himself, while Melanie is in surface playing with the car keys and a dog. Finally she decides to press the alarm button so the car doors open up, setting the man free at the bottom of the lake.

Curiosities:
-The video leaves behind the original theme Artist X Record Label of the song to adopt the popular Girlfriend X Boyfriend one. That makes it more accessible and interesting for the public eye in general.
-First Melanie C’s solo video in a short-movie style.

Year: 2005
Director: Nicolaj Georgiew
Location: Hanover, Germany, bridge at Raschplatz Street
Filming: August 26th, 2005
Album: Beautiful Intentions

Summary: The video shows scenes of Melanie walking by the streets singing while many people are enjoying life with their friends and practicing sports.

Curiosities:
-It's the video for the song Melanie recorded especially to be the theme song of the German soap opera Julia Wege Zum Glück.
-The video gets the attention for having many situations that are also shown in Melanie’s previous videos: a man practicing Tai Chi reminds of Never Be The Same Again; men skating remind of Goin’ Down and Yeh Yeh Yeh; basketball players remind of On The Horizon; the sunset reminds of Here It Comes Again. In some scenes the shades of the image look like the ones used in Here It Comes Again. And also Melanie walking by the streets watching people could refer to Northern Star.
-It was Melanie's first video with an entire German crew.

Year: 2005
Director: Mary McCartney Donald
Location: Led Zeppelin’s old house in Sussex
Filming: May 2005
Album: Beautiful Intentions

Summary: Mel begins the video wearing a long dress and a jacket, in a dark environment lightened only by candles. In some shots she demonstrates fear and insecurity while walking by a room. Suddenly she takes off her jacket showing off a low-cut dress. Then she starts opening up the windows and a red curtain, letting the sun illuminates the entire room.

Curiosities:
-It was the first video directed by Paul and Linda MacCartney’s daughter, the photographer Mary.
-After leaving Virgin Records and putting together her own independent label Red Girl Records, the song Better Alone presented Melanie’s outburst about her feelings of freedom as an independent artist. So, some fans interpret the jacket she takes off during the video as being Virgin Records and the red curtains as Red Girl Records. That way, the video would be the illustration of this whole new process of freedom and finding new perspectives.

Year: 2005
Director: Ray Kay
Location: Studio in England
Filming: February 3rd and 4th, 2005
Album: Beautiful Intentions

Summary: Mel plays the superstar. She is sad at the backstage of her video, having her make up done and receiving orders from the director who adds people dancing and also the band as the video goes on. At the end, Mel goes away and leaves the band playing and the people dancing.

Curiosities:
-Melanie’s band members participate on the video: Vinnie, Paul, Kim, Arden and Greg.
-The video just like the song is a critic to new artists that show up every minute and are just playtoys of the music industry.
-The director used the fullscreen to represent the “backstage of a superstar video” scenes and also the widescreen to represent the “superstar’s video” scenes.
-The final scene when Mel leaves before the video ends but the band keeps playing shows the lack of importance that is given to the artists. Nowadays, the only things that matter are a perfect image and harmony between the elements on the screen...

Year: 2003
Director: -
Location: Studio in England
Filming: September 2003
Album: Reason

Summary: Scenes of Melanie singing inserted with filming from her everyday life, like from photo shoots and backstage of performances.

Curiosities:
-According to Melanie, other versions of the video were made with different filming until they got the best editing.

Year: 2003
Director: -
Location: Studio in England
Filming: September 2003
Album: Reason

Summary: In black and white, Melanie interprets the song while several filming from her 2003 tour are shown. Melt is like a 2003 retrospective.

Curiosities:
-After Melanie had an accident at the TV show The Games and had surgery done in her knee, she decided to include this track as an A-side of the single Yeh Yeh Yeh. Therefore if she couldn’t sing standing up it would be easier to perform a slower song in order to promote the single without having to move so much during the performances.
-The accident happened only a few days from the release of the single Yeh Yeh Yeh. The single got postponed and with the decision to include Melt, the video had to be filmed in short time.

Year: 2003
Director: Ray Kay
Location: Oslo, Norway
Filming: June 27th, 2003
Album: Reason

Summary: In an underground environment, a modern tribe sleeps during the day and only wakes up at sunset to listen to music throughout the night. Everyone has the same tattoo, a letter “C”. When the sun comes up, they go back to sleep.

Curiosities:
-That video was inspired by Melanie’s first solo video, Goin’ Down. Just like in Goin’ Down some people of the tribe are skaters and ride bikes.
-Although Melanie has 10 tattoos, the one of the “C” on her forearm is fake. It was done especially for the video.
-Melanie’s band members participate on the video: Fergus, Paul, Jenni, Sarah and Greg.
-The video was filmed at the director’s hometown.
-Ray Kay said about Mel: "Mel was fantastic and certainly the best performer I've ever worked with".
-Yeh Yeh Yeh was the most expensive video ever filmed in Norway until 2003.

Year: 2003
Director: Howard Greenhalgh
Location: Costa del Sol, Malaga, Spain
Filming: April 2003
Album: Reason

Summary: Melanie drives around to find her duplicated images that are in frozen scenes. When she finds them, Melanie gets inside them to give movement to the scene. The duplicated images are playing basketball, jumping in the water, at a car wash… At the end of the video, Melanie and her duplicated image leave together in the car.

Curiosities:
-People say that the message of the video is that our soul mate is doing the things we’d like to do. All we have to do is find them and get united!
-They also say that it was a special message to her boyfriend Thomas Starr.

Year: 2003
Director: Charles Infante
Location: Los Angeles/Vasquez Rock desert
Filming: December 2002
Album: Reason

Summary: The video begins with Melanie singing in downtown Los Angeles and ends at Vasquez Rock desert in California, where she and the extras are admiring the sunset. The main goal is to give a feeling of integration because all the extras run through Los Angeles just to watch the sunset in the desert together.

Curiosities:
-Melanie said in an interview that her crew found a dead body in the Californian desert during the filming of Here It Comes Again. Melanie had to wait inside the crew’s van until the place would get cleaned out.
-In some scenes singing in the desert Melanie is wearing a black shirt underneath the red jacket; in others she isn’t!

Year: 2000
Director: Cameron Casey
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Filming: October 2000
Album: Northern Star

Summary: Melanie is wearing a black leather jacket and a t-shirt with the number 69 written. She’s walking by a courtyard and a bridge on a cold day. She’s depressed and the rain falls down on her while walking by the streets and interpreting the song.

Curiosities:
-As it was a single for charity, the director did his job for free, and so did Mel’s hairdresser Jennie Roberts, the photographer Dean Freeman, the stylist Kenny Ho, Richard Fenton and Mary Jane Frost.
-Melanie donated the royalties from the single for the charity Kandu Arts, to its homeless project No Place Home.

Year: 2000
Director: Cameron Casey
Location: Ibiza
Filming: May 2000
Album: Northern Star

Summary: The video shows Melanie at the island’s mountains, dancing in a disco, bathing in a lake, meditating by the sunset and with long wavy blond hair with dark roots. At the end of the video Melanie and a group of people watch the sunrise at the rocks.

Curiosities:
-The version of the song used on the video isn't the album version: it's the Hex Hector remix.
-Melanie said that the sun was really strong during the filming and that she almost fell off the mountains!
-The making of the video was exhibited on GMTV in England and also as a special program on the Brazilian network Eurochannel, in 2000.

Year: 2000
Director: Francis Lawrence
Location: Malibu
Filming: January 2000
Album: Northern Star

Summary: In the video Melanie appears running on a treadmill, doing phototherapy and relaxing in the water. During the rap performed by the unforgettable Lisa “Left-Eye” Lopes both of them dance to a choreography based on Yoga and Tai Chi.

Curiosities:
-The entire idea for the video was Melanie’s. She wanted to make a calm video showing her taking care of her health.

Year: 1999
Director: Steven Green
Location: -
Filming: -
Album: Northern Star

Summary: Melanie appears wearing a black leather coat and high heel boots walking by a lot of environments: an airport, a town, a beach and a gas station. The video is quite dark but with a few shades in blue. There are several close ups on Melanie during the video.

Curiosities:
-The boots Melanie wore in the video were made of leather and were given in a competition in 2000 on the C3 website.

Year: 1999
Director: Giuseppi Capotondi
Location: A wareshouse in Los Angeles
Filming: July 1999
Album: Northern Star

Summary: Melanie is wearing a skirt singing inside a warehouse full of people walking and jumping around her, and also a band playing and skaters. With aggressive gestures, black make up and very short hair, Melanie looks like the leader of the crowd. Cops that pass by find out about the mess going on and call for back up to surround the place, including a helicopter. This does not affect Melanie and only when the song finishes she throws the mic on the floor and leaves passing through the crowd.

Curiosities:
-One of the extras in the video also participated in Jennifer Lopez’s Waiting For Tonight video, released around that same time.
-It took 3 days to be filmed but Melanie only had to be there for 2 days.