VIDEOS

Caribbean Blue still Throughout her long career, Enya made a lot of stunning music videos. My favourite ones are Caribbean Blue (I fell in love with it when I was four and saw it on tv), Only Time (the imagery is just so beautiful) and Wild Child (there's a cat! I need no more). I also have a soft spot for It's in the Rain because of the special effects and I Want Tomorrow because Enya is totally punk and blows up a car. Oh yes, she does!

Enya on making videos

I am very involved as far as like how I am portrayed. How the song is portrayed is very important to me. There is a stage where you do storyboards and you read the storyboards and you go 'no, this isn't suited' or 'no, I am not happy to do that' ... but once I am happy with the storyboard, happy with the costumes and the people that are surrounding me, then I sit back and let the director worry and enjoy it. -Enya (CBS Sunday Morning, 2001)

Locations

Most of Enya's videos are filmed in a studio, because she doesn't really enjoy time-consuming filming on location. For example, the forest featured in the Amarantine video was digitally painted by Charles Darby. But there are exceptions, The Celts was filmed in Bodhaim Castle, England, How Can I Keep From Singing? in Poison Glen, Ireland and Only If... in Mentmore Towers, England. For more information, read the complete list of Enya video locations.

Inspiration

Both Caribbean Blue and Anywhere Is contain nods to works of the American painter and illustrator Maxfield Parrish. The Celts video was inspired by The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse and On My Way Home briefly refers to Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose by John Singer Sargent. All mentined artwork can be seen in the Inspiration behind Enya's artwork gallery.

Buy

Although Enya's music videos were released several times (Moonshadows, Enya Video Collection), they were rather hard to get until recently. In 2009, to a great joy of fans, they were finally included on The Very Best of Enya dvd together with three documentaries. The pre-Watermark videos are available on The Celts - Rich Traditions & Ancient Myths dvd.