No Doubt - Ex Girlfriend (Top Of The Pops, March 24th, 2000)

What this video is

Captured during No Doubt's promotional campaign for Return of Saturn, their fourth studio album released in 2000, this Top of the Pops appearance on March 24, 2000 placed the band within the UK's most prominent weekly pop chart programme at a moment when 'Ex-Girlfriend' was charting at number 6 in Britain. The performance documents No Doubt's sustained transatlantic commercial presence following the global…

Why it matters

As a pop-punk and new wave song from a band rooted in third-wave ska, 'Ex-Girlfriend' represents No Doubt's artistic evolution toward a darker, more lyrically sophisticated sound. The song peaked at number two on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart, equalling the band's best-ever alternative chart…

The director

Harold 'Hype' Williams is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter who grew up in Queens, NY, and attended Adelphi University. Defined as the seminal hip-hop music video director of the 1990s, his signature style employs fisheye lens work,…