No Rain
Bee Girl in Blind Melon's 'No Rain'
Directed by	Samuel Bayer
Starring	Blind Melon Heather DeLoach
Distributed by	Capitol
Release date	1994
Running time	4:07
Language	English

Blind Melon's No Rain music video begins with a young girl (Heather DeLoach) wearing a bee costume, tap dancing. When she finishes, she is met with laughter, to which she reacts by crying then running off the stage. Cover of the Blind Melon album Blind Melon. ... Samuel Bayer is a music video director. ... Members of Blind Melon on the cover of Rolling Stone Blind Melon was an American rock band from the 1990s. ... Heather DeLoach (born February 1, 1983 in California) is an American actress. ... Photo of the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, DC, December 2003. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated like the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ... Members of Blind Melon on the cover of Rolling Stone Blind Melon was an American rock band from the 1990s. ... Heather DeLoach (born February 1, 1983 in California) is an American actress. ... Tap dance was born in the United States during the 19th century, and today is popular all around the world. ... Self-portrait of Joseph Ducreux shown laughing. ...

The song begins to play and the video switches in between a narrative of the innocent Bee Girl (performing her routine in various urban settings for whoever will watch) and footage of Blind Melon performing in a field of emerald, green grass against a clear, blue sky. In non-technical terms, no matter what the context (whether scientific, philosophical, legal, etc) a narrative is a story, an interpretation of some aspect of the world that is historically and culturally grounded and shaped by human personality (per Walter Fisher). ...

At the point in the song in which Shannon Hoon repeats the line 'escape', the Bee Girl has discovered a green field behind a large, imposing gate. When she opens the gate, she's met with the happy sight of others "Bee People" like herself, dancing carefree and she joins in. Thus the Bee Girl is no longer a misfit. Like the song indicates, she 'has it made'. Shannon Hoon Richard Shannon Hoon (September 26, 1967 – October 21, 1995) was the lead singer of the band Blind Melon. ...

Trivia

• According to VH1's 100 Greatest Videos of All Time, Blind Melon's 'No Rain' is rated #22.
• Heather DeLoach is feature in "Weird Al" Yankovic's song Bedrock Anthem, in full bee suit.