Unwritten Law - Holiday

What this video is

Released in September 1998 alongside Unwritten Law's self-titled Interscope debut, 'Holiday' arrived at the apex of Southern California pop-punk's commercial breakthrough. The band, formed in Poway, CA in 1990, had signed to Interscope after being dropped by Epic mid-recording, representing a pivotal moment in the genre's shift from underground skate circuits to major-label MTV platforms. The video's 1998 release…

Why it matters

A representative artifact of the late-1990s SoCal pop-punk wave, 'Holiday' documents the aesthetic grammar of the genre's MTV crossover period: fast editing, warm overexposed visuals, and performance-forward presentation stripped of narrative conceit. Produced within the same directorial ecosystem…

The director

Ken Daurio (b. July 15, 1971, California) began directing music videos after high school, helming over 100 videos before pivoting to Hollywood screenwriting; later co-wrote Despicable Me (2010), Horton Hears a Who! (2008), and The Secret Life of Pets (2016)…