Good Charlotte - Little Things

What this video is

Released in mid-2000 as Good Charlotte's debut single from their self-titled Epic Records album, 'Little Things' arrived at the precise moment pop-punk was transitioning from underground Warped Tour currency into major-label commodity. The video's high-school setting—filmed at Lorne Park Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario—directly mirrored the song's thematic concern with outcast identity and social…

Why it matters

As Good Charlotte's debut single, 'Little Things' is a primary document of the early 2000s pop-punk major-label crossover wave. Its video established the high-school-rebellion visual vocabulary—institutional settings hijacked by the band, student solidarity, comedic authority-figure…

The director

Nigel Dick (born 21 March 1953, Catterick, North Yorkshire, England) is a British-American music video director and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He co-founded Propaganda Films with David Fincher, Dominic Senna, and Greg Gold in the mid-1980s. He has…