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BLISS was the first video shot from the album To Venus And Back, directed and produced by Loren Haynes, who also shot the photos for the To Venus And Back. The video uses footage that was filmed during the final two shows of the Plugged '98 tour in Michigan.
Bliss debuted on MTV's 120 Minutes on Sunday, August 15, 1999 in the U.S. Bliss was nominated for "Best music video short for under thirty thousand dollars" by the Music Video Producers Association (MVPA).
"It was done at one of the last shows. I was going to do a DVD. I don't know where I stand on that emotion now because we put everything into the venus record. I mean everything. Nobody slept; we were on a high. You have to imagine, we were at Martian Engineering, making the venus record. Venus [the planet, that is] was in the sky in that part of the world, in spring and summer. And there are no lights where we are. It's really in the middle of the fields and there was some elixir... and it wasn't just the wine, because we never partook until we were done. Bliss hadn't been written [when we shot the footage] so it was put together by the guy who shot it, and he also shot all the photographs [for the cover of venus]. I had no idea these photographs were going to be for this album cover; these photographs were just taken. He had shot the photographs for the cover of Spin years ago, my first cover, and I got on with him very well. I had him come along and do some shots while we were on the road, to try and capture this moment because I knew we were taping everything. Sometimes you're creating something not knowing when you're going to use it."
--Tori, VH1.com - The Wire Interview, Late 1999
The Bliss video has not been released in collectible form.
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