Selena Gomez & The Scene - Falling Down (SD Version)

What this video is

Released August 2009 as the debut single from Selena Gomez & The Scene's first album Kiss & Tell (Hollywood Records), 'Falling Down' marks Gomez's pivot from Disney Channel soundtrack artist to band-fronted pop-rock act, explicitly modeled on Paramore and Forever the Sickest Kids. The song's lyrical content — a satirical critique of Hollywood superficiality — was self-reflexively deployed by a performer embedded…

Why it matters

Represents the late-2000s Disney-to-Hollywood Records pipeline that defined a generation of teen pop-rock crossover acts. The electro-rock production — featuring aggressive synth-driven guitar lines compared by critics to Avril Lavigne and Pink — situates the video within the broader post-Paramore…

The director

Christopher M. Dooley is an award-winning director, cinematographer, and editor. He co-founded the design and animation studio National Television and helped launch the US division of UK production company Not To Scale. He later became Executive Creative…