Hooverphonic - The World Is Mine

What this video is

Released in 2002 as the lead single from 'Hooverphonic Presents Jackie Cane', a concept album built around the fictional character of a pop star consumed by fame, 'The World Is Mine' represents a pivotal creative turn for the Belgian band — away from the trip-hop textures of their earlier work and toward a theatrically inflected, Broadway-influenced European electropop. The video's warm palette, rapid cutting, and…

Why it matters

A key artefact in the trajectory of Belgian post-trip-hop, demonstrating the genre's 2001–2003 migration toward cinematic concept-pop. The track and video reflect the broader European electropop moment — atmospheric production meeting theatrical visual grammar — and document Hooverphonic's…

The director

Raf Wathion (b. 1966, Belgium) studied animation at the SHIVKV in Genk, Belgium. He began his career creating original idents for Belgian television as both animator and director, then moved into commercials in 1988, rapidly becoming a valued figure in the…