Goo Goo Dolls - Broadway

What this video is

Released in March 2000 as the fifth and final single from Dizzy Up the Girl, 'Broadway' arrived at the tail end of one of alternative rock's most commercially successful album campaigns of the era. The song is an autobiographical portrait of the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood of Buffalo, New York — a working-class, predominantly Polish-American community — and Rzeznik's difficult upbringing there. The music video's…

Why it matters

A capstone single of the late-90s post-grunge pop-rock movement, 'Broadway' demonstrates how bands from the Dizzy Up the Girl cycle balanced confessional singer-songwriter authenticity with radio-ready production. The video's satirical factory concept anticipated a wave of early-2000s…

The director

Nancy Bardawil is a music video and film director known for her work with major acts in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Her music video credits include multiple Goo Goo Dolls videos (Iris, Slide, Broadway), Celebrity Skin for Hole, Cowboy Take Me Away for…