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"Everytime that we get a chance to do a video its like one of my favorite, creative parts of being in a band. To me it's just as creative as writing a song"-Gwen



1990 (Pencil test) Made at Cal Arts
Directed/Made by Eric Stefani Eric always shared a love for animation as well as music, he used to make his own early animated videos and some of them had some of 'No Doubts' early songs as backing tracks. The first main one was 'Big City Train'. The video was given to family and friends only and the actual video also contained some of Eric's other animations but was never formally released.

The storyline of the video is of Gwen running away from some figures, the main backing drop being a train station. The cartoon is sketchy and black and white. Recently Gwen said of the video (when being asked if Eric has animated the band) that maybe they should put the video out for people to view.



Directed by Myke Zykoff

Trapped In A Box was made for $5,000 (which meant lots of borrowing of equipement and asking for favors)

"Trapped in a box was our first video from a song off our first album and it was exciting"-Adrian

"We thought 'oh we have our first single off our first album that we finally got to go in to the studio and make" and we picked trapped in a box because I think we thought that was the most catchiest song that we had written. We basically did everything ourselves, everybody pitched in, it was all home done"-Gwen

"The cool thing about the super low budget was that it was just us coming up with ideas and having fun" -Tom

Half of it was filmed at a university and the other house was filmed at the band house in Anaheim (including the scene on the roof).

"It was the house that we were in every single day so we decided to do the video there. I don't even know what the concept was, I just remember we were on top of the roof and we were filming and there were like police helicopters that came around and the whole neighbourhood were out watching it was pretty exciting you know, we're making a video in orange county"-Gwen

Gwen was heavily into overalls and was influenced by the Dexy's Midnight Runners video Come On Eileen.

The video didnt recieve much notice at the time.
"Well we didn't really see that video on TV very much. The only time that we saw that video was there was a channel called The Box and you could call up and pay $1.50 and watch it and we were all kinda broke we didnt really have money to do it so every once in a while we'd call up to request our own video but it wasnt something we could do very often"-Tony laughs

95
- Mark Kohr


No Doubt's first big video : "Just A Girl was really exciting because we had a real budget video and we felt like 'oh my god this is a real shot right here, we're gonna actually make a video"-Adrian

"The beginning of the video picks up at the beacon street band house kind of where Trapped In A Box left off, we kind of intentionally wanted their to be a connection between those two videos"-Tom

"So I think that the idea was that we were leaving that house and we're going to L.A and we're not going back to Anahiem"-Adrian

The start of the video shows the boys driving, carrying and setting up their own equipement which is something No Doubt had to do while recording their self titled album. The video was shot at Gwen and Eric's grandma's house where Dennis Stefani (Gwen and Eric's father) grew up and features No Doubt's friends as well as Gwen's pregnant sister Jill, brother Todd and Gwen's sister inlaw.

"I wanted to do this whole play on the girl's bathroom. The concept was the girl's bathrooms really really nice and everything's all beautiful in there and the boys bathroom is really grungy so the guys are just trying to get into my world"-Gwen

The bindi look was inspired by Tony Kanal's mom. She would go to Indian parties and she'd look gorgeous!-Gwen
Just A Girl video was the first time Gwen really wore a bindi, after that she wore one all the time.
"I remember my mom being like 'what you gonna wear that for!" and after that it was like you could go down the mall and find your bindi kit. I just couldn't believe it. I don't think that Tony's mom could believe it either"-Gwen

"We got to choose the director we wanted who was Mark Kohr who had done a bunch of cool videos at that point for Green Day"-Tom

"I think the reason why we really wanted to work with him was we felt like he was really able to capture the personality of the band"-Gwen





Spiderwebs
1996 Marcus Nispel


No Doubt's follow up video to Just A Girl, set in a Japanese wedding but due to their schedule the band had less input into the video.

"It was crazy when Spiderwebs came out because Just A Girl felt so massive but then Spiderwebs went even further"-Gwen

"We were really excited at the time when we were doing the filming for Spiderwebs because we were just coming off our very first hit with Just A Girl and we were just flying at that point"-Adrian

"Spiderwebs was one of the few times where we didn't really have a lot of input into what was going to happen in the video-Tony

"The concept wasnt very clear, nothing really made too much sense"-Gwen

"The idea was that for some reason we got hired to be the wedding band at this wedding. We weren't really the wedding band that they wanted I guess. That was the story idea. Then from there somehow it got into this thing where there were like telephones attacking us it was really bizzare, I don't remember where any of that came from. Not really from us so much"-Tom

"Looking back on that video it doesnt really make a lot of sense. The phones trying to attack people"-Tony

"So there were things about that video that were hard and I don't think it really represented us but it didnt seem to matter because they played it a billion times"-Gwen





Don't Speak

Sophie Muller


"People really liked Don't Speak because it was real"-Gwen

"We were starting to blow up at that time after Just A Girl and Spiderwebs and this is pretty much when our band was not being treated like a band anymore. Gwen was becoming quite a superstar."-Adrian

Awarded best group video at the 1998 MTV awards there are two versions of this video, the main video and the live video that features only live concert footage. The video was directed by Sophie Muller who, after seeing a No Doubt live show wanted to work with them (she directed the Live In The Tragic Kingdom home video).

In the video Gwen's dress is actually has a huge rip in it down the side. "I got that at a thrift store, like five years before we shot the video. It smelled so bad that I never wore it. It's beautiful fabric, that really old rayon that just hangs beautifully. But it's a real mess."-Gwen The dress didn't fit Gwen until she washed it and it shrunk.

The video was inspired by a photo shoot for Spin magazine where the band were photographed together, but only Gwen appeared on the front cover (the boys were airbrushed out).
"The band really wanted to be on the cover, we never thought we'd get a cover again, like that was gonna be it"-Gwen
The video details the media's attention on Gwen instead of the other band members.

"We were pretty young and it definetly p*ssed us off when that stuff started happening"-Adrian

"Suddenly I was the problem in the band"-Gwen.
"It was kind of like a therapy session that we did in public"-Tony
"When we were going through a strange thing in the band where all of sudden after years of friendship we found outside forces trying to kind of pull us apart a little bit"-Tom

However at the time No Doubt didn't realise how often the video's subject would therefore become the subject of many interviews.


"A lot of people took it seriously like it was really really bad. It wasn't that bad"-Adrian

"I think it kinda blew things out of propotion a bit and we're all best friends. It wasn't a war between us. I think doing the video was really good for the band to get it out in the open and move on"-Gwen

There is also a scene in the video where Tom Dumont is playing with Pat Smear (Nirvana, Foo Fighters).

"I can't imagine doing any other video than the video that we did you know. What would it be?-Gwen



Excuse Me Mr

Sophie Mullar


"At that point we were starting to have really huge success after Don't Speak"-Adrian

"We really wanted to do Excuse Me Mr because we wanted to do a more harder punkier kind of song"-Gwen

The video is based around the idea of wanting attention (fame) so badly, and then when you have it relising that you don't want it anymore.Individual members trying to grab attention from the cameras was a reflection of what was happening at the time in the band
"Again we brought in this inner issue out in the open and just dealt with it in a video"-Tony

"In the last scene with all the cameras flashing we kind of just playing on that a little bit"-Adrian

Excuse Me Mr was only released in Japan as a double a-side with Sunday Morning. The video's idea was a similar idea to the Don't Speak video but was potrayed in a more lighthearted way.

"The song is just your basic love song, and we wanted to give it a little more depth with the video," Stefani said. "Basically the whole thing is about me trying to get attention, and like hogging the camera."
No Doubt chose to work with Sophie Mullar after their experience of working with her on the Don't Speak video.

"We called up Sophie Mulller again because we had such an amazing time working with her on the last video"-Gwen

"She [Sophie Muller] was getting to know us pretty well at that point. I felt very trusting of her after the Don't Speak video"-Adrian

"The boys always kind of end up playing these different characters. Sophie really reads into the personalities. She knows everybody so well"-Gwen





Sunday Morning


"Sunday morning was definetly an answer to Don't Speak, it was definetly like a f**k everyone, this is also us"-Tony

"I love Sunday Morning. I love that video because it's just so down to earth you know, hang out in the back yard drinking wine, eating spaghetti, playing in a garage - that's normal to us"-Adrian

"Sunday Morning was really one of my favorite videos because we got to do it at my grandma and grandpa's house and when we go into the store my grandpa sells me the sauce"-Gwen

The video is based around a 'fairly accurate' reflection of every day life "We used to be at the band house recording songs and writing songs for all those years we would always go to Food For Less and buy these big things of spaghetti and we would make these big meals because they'd always be loads of people just hanging out"-Gwen
'We use to sit in the garage and we would just do music the whole day and the whole night and then watch beverly hills 90210 and make spaghetti, then go and listen to what we did.-Gwen

Adrian even confirms that the food fight was planned, though fun despite this. "I got the worse of it"-laughs Adrian

Oi To The World
Directed by Sophie Muller

Filmed in India. Sophie Muller came with out with No Doubt when they played some shows in India at the end of their Tragic Kingdom tour, and followed them around with her digital video camera. The song was originally written and performed by an Orange County band called the Vandals, even though the song was recorded a year before it the video was for the "A Very Special Christmas" CD. The CD was for charity the Special Olympics.
"If you check out the "Oi to the World" video (look above) you'll notice that we filmed it in India. Actually we videotaped it. To be really accurate, Sophie Muller came with us when we played some shows in India at the end of our big tour last year, and followed us around with her digital video camera. The song was originally written and performed by an Orange County band called the Vandals, and last year we recorded it for the "A Very Special Christmas" CD. This CD benefits the Special Olympics, and should be in stores now (It's the one with the gold cover.) Anyhow, making the video was fun and playing shows in India was very cool (especially since Tony is of Indian descent). ". -Tom december 4th 1998

The video is based around an anti-racist theme.
The necklace that Gwen wears in the video was actually given to her as a present by Joe from the Vandals as a 'thank you'.
The expression Oi! is of British origin in the 70sand is heavily used in punk.



Hey You
Directed by Sophie Muller
The video was only released in Holland and is the performance taken from the Live In The Tragic Kingdom video filmed at the Anaheim Pond.
One of the reasons I wanted to work with No Doubt in the first place, is that I saw them play live. It seems only fair that the rest of the world be allowed this same honour. Plus it was really good fun.-Sophie Muller.

New
Jake Scott


"So many people had done these live videos of the band playing, people had seen us for years playing live. That was one of the reasons why we wanted to do more concept driven videos because its just an excuse to do something different and more interesting"-Gwen

Tom's favorite video (which grows as time goes on) mainly based on the look.

To coincide with the film 'GO!' where the song was the soundtrack to the video. "Before we went in to record Return Of Saturn we definetly wanted to be on a soundtrack and we saw this movie 'Go!' that was being put together and just loved it, thought it was great and we had this song called 'New' it just seemed perfect-Adrian

The storyline was based around the band clubbing and the whole drugs and club culture. Each member had an idividual storyline and character to play.

"The four of us were all different characters coming together to this rave party. We all came to this rave together. Adrian broke in the back window"-Tom

"Jake [director] pretty much picked what each of us were going to be. Tom is like the army guy on leave, Adrian's the young punk on his scooter, I'm the sophsicated club owner, I was just checking out the scene and Gwen's just a raver she likes to rave"-Tony

Gwen's makeup was influence on Kabuki to fit into the style of the video. She emphasised on trying to create a very modern, experimental look.

"The scene where I have the motocycle helmet on and I'm trying to sneak into the club and I come crashing threw the window that was for real. I wanted to try it. It was pretty fun, but the glass wasnt real glass, it was candy glass or sugar glass. It's real thin, it doesn't cut you like real glass. It was really fun, I did it twice. I could of done it five times"-Adrian

Ex-Girlfriend
Hype Williams

It was Hype William's first video outside of doing hip hop videos

"We just thought it'd be really cool for us to be a rock band to have a hip hop guy film the video"-Tom

"It's consistant with how we always are in this band with the experimenting kind of thing, we're pretty bold in that way so we ended up going with Hype Williams"-Adrian

"The idea of the video was Hype's and he wanted Gwen to be like a hit woman and she gets comissioned to do a hit which ends up being her ex-boyfriend"-Tony

Hype Williams was influenced through Japanese anime. In particular a film called Kite. You can see the similarities in this youtube video.

The plot is, Gwen's tracking down this character, there's informents (Adrian plays an informent) and police officers (Tom) she needs to get by which builds up to the fight scene at the end. Shooting Ex-girlfriend started in Santa Clarit studios CA and Hope Park. Rehersals started 23rd January 2000 and filming began the following day.

The room that is suppose to represent Gwen's bedroom is covered in old personal photographs of Gwen and Tony during their relationship including prom photos from 1988.
One of the most vital props of the video shoot was Gwen's moustache which went missing.
"He [Hype] really wanted me to wear the moustache and I was like 'Come the moustache is so gross' but I really got into it, me and Tony had alot of fun beating eachother up".-Gwen

"It was a really challenging video to do with the harnesses and falling out the window but it was worth it. I think the video turned out pretty cool"-Gwen

The part in which Gwen and Tony smash through the window were actually performed by stunt doubles.

Gwen's pink microphone was auctioned off for charity.


Simple Kind Of life Sophie Muller

"Simple Kind Of Life was always going to make me feel good about myself because it was the first track that I ever wrote on my own. That song at the time really summed up my life. It was just everything that I had been going through"-Gwen "I think Simple Kind Of Life is one of the best videos that we ever made. I think its a really beautifully shot video"-Tony

The band decided to go back to where it felt comfortable-Sophie Muller, in a video that tackled a lot of things that Gwen was going through at the time, wanted to get married, band versus personal lifes.

"Running to the church, running away from the band. Kind of what she [Gwen] was dealing with at the time, her saturn period"-Tony

The first part of video is based around Tony and Gwen's past relationship. The wedding cake in the video and the birth control dial are both featured on the cover of Return Of Saturn.

"Her [Sophie Muller] concept was supposed to be all these dreams that I have kind of being taken away"-Gwen

"When they come in and there's like a thousand wedding cakes and it's like my dream to get married and they're like smashing them"-Gwen

"These are all meaningful scenes, but to me you know, I'm a guy, I don't know. To me it's just like smashing cakes with a baseball bat-really fun"-Tom

"Smashing the cakes were awesome!"-Adrian

"You got the performance stuff, but you've always get these abstract themes going through it always"-Tony

The last part of the video (graveyard scene) was actually filmed first.
"We finally got to have helicopters in our video, I think that's always a milestone. That was kind of cool"-Tony

Gwen's last scene where she is taking off her makeup is to show the videos concept is not reality
'The reality is, it's not a simple kind of life"-Gwen

BATHWATER Sophie Muller


A tongue in cheek, very fun video.
"I think the bathwater video is a great video, Sophie Muller once again did a great job. It's a fun song, the video's fun. We all get to dance a little bit and do something silly"-Adrian

"We were going to have this whole thing with these dancing girls. We wanted to do cabaret so that's how we kind of evolved it into being this kind of dance routine... I don't dance, it's really hard for me to learn the choreography"-Gwen.

"Bathwater was a weird video but it was cool because it was Gwen dancing and a bunch of dancing girls"-Tom

During the line, 'Why do the good girls always want the bad boys?' Adrian is dressed up as a woman. He liked that outfit so much that he actually left it on and went out to meet some friends.
"I dress up as a woman, there's a scene where there's a blonde person singing some lines and that's me, three hours of makeup and just getting into it"-Adrian

"It was really cool to watch Adrian get dressed up in drag. People didn't know that it was Adrian because he looked really good as a girl"-Gwen

"It’s definitely tongue in cheek - we’re kind of having fun with the dancing rather than doing a whole serious choreography thing. We wanted to go with a cabaret kind of vibe and just have fun with it. We had a really good time making it. And I think that song is one of the few songs on Return of Saturn that’s a little bit happier and had that old school kind of vibe and that’s why we wanted to go with that kind of video. Sophie Muller, who’s done tons of our videos, directed it, and Fatima choreographed it".-Tony

The CD single for Bathwater was only released in Australia. The song was re-released in few years later as a remix with a remix video for the UK

HEY BABY David Meyes


This video was shot in LA and features Bounty Killer. The video is based around the lyrics which is what Gwen sees backstage and at parties. They shot the video with David Meyers who famously directed Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On."
"It's a very lighthearted video. It captures us on the tour bus. All the guys hanging out in the back, drinking, gambling, the usual stuff. Gwen trying to rest her voice. We wake her up, stop at a dancehall club, go inside, and the hi-jinks begin".-Tony

"The idea was to try and recreate our Jamaican experience, Hollywood style so we put together this fake Jamaican dance hall and had us just goofing around and then Adrian naked"-Tom

The adrian scene actually happened at a Interscope party for the MTV awards, the year before
"Adrian's naked scene was actually based on a real bet that happened at a party. We were at an Interscope party and these gymnasts' rings were hanging down in the middle of this club. Some people put some money down and said, "Would you get up there and hang upside down nude for ten seconds?" I did it. It was a funny story, so we recreated that for the video".-Adrian

"It was me, Snoop dog and all his crew and then the next table over was Adrian and the band and these rings"-Gwen

"My friend said 'hey Adrian look at those rings, you should get up on those, nude for all the executives here at the party' and I said 'well you guys put some money on the table and I'll do it. Within minutes there was like $600 lying on the table. Caron Daley's like 'here, let's see what you got' so I took my clothes off, got up on the rings"-Adrian

"The next thing you know, we're sitting with out backs to Adrian and Snoop goes 'Is that your drummer?' and Adrian's like completely nude doing like flips on the rings hanging from the ceiling and I'm like, 'Oh my god it is' - Gwen

"Gwen said that Snoops looks up and goes 'what the f**k!' and she's [Gwen] like 'oh that's our drummer"-Adrian

"We always dare Adrian to do crazy sh** and pay him a lot of money to do it and that was one of those times"-Tony

Tom drank as much vodka as he could before the shooting of the video.

HELLA GOOD Mark Romanek


"I think that one was one of our best videos"-Gwen

The video features the band zipping around on JetSkis and playing dreamcast.
"We're like a motorcyle gang but in the habour, we're just kinda cruising around"-Tom They rehearsed and practiced at the Marine Stadium and put their skills into use zipping around three huge boats at Pier C two days later.

"We're in Long beach harbour on those jet skis. We were out there all day long and it was freezing cold definetly a challenge. Really proud of that one"-Gwen

"The most difficult video to make physically. Long hours and the water was freezing. Doing those jet ski scenes over and over again in the cold water. I hated it. I think the video came out really good and I think it suits the song well but it was tough"-Adrian

The video was directed by Mark Romanek who is famous for directing music videos such as Madonna's videos for Bedtime Story and Rain, Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson : Scream, Lenny Kravitz : If You Can't Say No, Janet Jackson:Got 'Till It's Gone, Fiona Apple:Criminal, Beck:Devil's Haircut.

"The Hella Good video was pretty much all Mark, he just took charge and we just let him do his thing. All the ideas were pretty much his. Everything from the black and white to the concept it was his vision"-Adrian

"It was the first time where we just let someone have artistic freedom to go and do what they were gonna do and we were gonna do what we he said"-Gwen

"That was his concept, I think he had seen some advertising campaign from an Italian Vogue magazine and that kind of just inspired him to do this Mad Max on water kind of theme. I love the way that video turned out because once again it was completely not what you would expect from that song"-Tony

"So much fun to film that video but f*cking freezing"-Tony

UNDERNEATH IT ALL
Sophie Muller

"Underneath It All was one of those ones where we were panicing. We didnt have an idea for a concept at all We only knew that we wanted to do something fairly simple. The whole idea of that video was to strip down. Starting off with me overly glammed up and then strip down to nothing"-Gwen

Filming started 12th June 2002 and premiered 18th July 2002 another video directed by Sophie Muller who Gwen considers to be one of her best friends and one of the best video directors of the moment. "It starts off with me totally made up with loads of makeup and hairdos, clothes, etc. and I slowly strip it away to a natural no makeup vibe: underneath it all…get it?"-Gwen

Lady Saw (who does the rap) is featured in the video, she doesn't actually make an appearance but you can see her picture on the wall where No Doubt ride pass on their bikes. On the pink wall (basketball scene) next to Gwen on the wall is written Douche. This is a nickname for Tom's alter ego when he drinks. For the bike scene each member was filmed riding a static bike seperatly in front on a blue screen.

The hat Gwen wears is a designer hat from Christian Dior.

RUNNING

The video was premiered on February 21st 2003. To get the old footage No Doubt searched through their basements and seached through really old stuff.
"We went through our basements trying to find all school stuff and really really old stuff"-Tony

"We have like footage from the first concert that we ever played so we have stuff back from all the way from 1987. We're not actually the ones picking out the shots so everytime they send us stuff we're like, 'aww why did you pick that one" so it's been kind of tedious and we ended up going down to Laugna Beach, shooting some b-roll type stuff to tie it all together. I ended up doing a photoshoot for teen vogue for Herb Ritz who was a good friend of mine who passed away and just like the stuff that we did on the beach was the inspiration for the beach stuff"-Gwen

Other scenes including the photo shoot for Teen Vogue with Herb Ritts who passed away just after the shoot, performing in Holland in 1997, Top Of The Pops in February 1997 and the main live shoots are from the Long Beach concert as part of the Rock Steady tour. The scene on the beach was filmed at Laguna Beach in California on January the 27th and the 28th.

There are three different versions of the video.


IT'S MY LIFE
Dave LaChapelle.


Filmed on 10th/11th October and directed

"I think its one of our best yet"-Gwen

The video was premiered on 28th October 2003.

It was filmed at the historic Ambassador Hotel, on Wilshire. The hotel closed in 1989 and in its hay-day was 'the' place to be. It has private bungalos where celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, the Kennedys' etc.

Its supposedly haunted and Jean Harlow actually filmed a movie there.

The video illustrates Gwen Stefani's "hits" — or murders, in gangster parlance — in flashback fashion as she heads toward her execution.

"She just played Jean Harlow, and I was really turned on by that idea," LaChapelle said. "She's a really good actor, so I took it into this video." Instead of playing an actress who plays a femme fatale, however, Stefani's character is that femme fatale, having murdered her bandmates in ways that make each look like an accident — bassist Tony Kanal in a driving "accident," drummer Adrian Young in a bathing "accident" and guitarist Tom Dumont in a sleeping "accident." What a girl won't do to go solo.

"I don't want to give it away," LaChapelle said, "but she bumps them off in interesting ways, the way you would think a femme fatale would bump someone off. They're crimes of passion and insanity. It's really the greatest hits."

The "hits" are shown in flashback as Stefani reflects on her life of crime during her arrest, trial and execution.


BATHWATER REMIX
Sophie Muller
Released in the UK as a remix to coinicide with the singles collection this video of the video includes different outtakes from the original bathwater.




GWEN SOLO
What You Waiting For?
Directed by Frances Lawrence (whodirected Constantine which starred Gwen's husband Gavin Rossdale )
"He [Frances] is very humble and so chilled and easy going its kind of shocking"
Shot in a mansion in Pasadena, in 102 degrees heat "and that's not counting the lights on top of it. I'm surprised that the little baby pig that I was holding didn't cook"-Gwen

"There wasnt really a pressure, it was more of an excitement when we first went in to go do the 'What You Waiting For?' video. The freedom to be able to kind of explore this theme that I had in my head, this whole 'Alice In Wonderland' trip. The whole song was exactly about what was going on, the making of the album so it was really fun to be able to put the visuals to it."

" I talked to frances lawerence so many times about doing a video together because I think he's super talented and I always felt that we could do something super great together. And there was this theme that kept on coming up through out the year of Alice In Wonderland. Its just something that kept on resurfacing for me in all different places. And he came back to me with this treatment that had it in there again so it was the perfect way to describe the surrealness of making the album and the way that I was feeling when I wrote that song. I totally feel like I am Alice In Wonderland right now. I feel like it is a Wonderland, its been such a journey and so magical and I don't even know how i got to this point. Its been such a maze and I feel like i've been dropping down this hole for a year. I've landed."- Gwen

"Theres one part in the video where I am Alice and I am curiously looking into a hole and behind me comes the Queen, I am also the Queen and I push myself into the hole and at that point I fall down the hole, I end up falling onto the tea party and that's when I see the Harajuku Girls and all these different kinds of inspirations"-Gwen

"There's another scene based on the crying scene and theres a lyric thats 'take a chance cause you might grow' and basically at that point it shows me in the house and I'm oversized and Im oh my gosh Im scared, I'm really big, I've over grown what I've been doing in the past and I have to move forward and then it shows me crying because I'm scared too move forward and work with new people and I cry so much that I'm actually drowning in everyone's creativity around me because everyone's so great that I'm working with. Then the Harajuku Girls come and save me and they inspire me."-Gwen

The Harajuku Girls fishing Gwen out of the water reflects what really happened when writing Love.Angel.Music.Baby. The Harajuku Girls gave Gwen her inspiration for the album and 'saved' her from her writers block "[Harajuku Girls] helped me to find a theme and somewhere to go"-Gwen

"I saw one the latest Dior shows that John Galliano,one of my biggest heros did. It was very inspiring for me. The dresses are so spectular you end up walking into this time warp. Anyway so I ended up getting to wear these couture dresses that John did."-Gwen

Gwen originally wanted to do a whole movie to coincide with the album. She told V Magazine that "I will make that sh*t happen"
When the movie didn't happen Gwen Stefani instead did an extended introduction for the What You Waiting For video. "It was unbelieveable but I was so pumped up and ready to be Alice in Wonderland on this crazy Harajuku journey that I had no fear and ready to go. We accomplished so much in two days and that's not even counting the whole intro we got to do on that video. The idea originally was that I wanted to do a whole movie"

Gwen's niece Madeline is sitting at the tea party.

On top of Gwen's piano is a custom Gwen Stefani Ipod and Dior Leopard wallet. During the waiting room scene she is holding a L.A.M.B. Music black bag-A print that was scheduled to be released but was cancelled last minute due to faults with the bags.
The music in the elevator was a bonus track on the UK edition of Love.Angel.Music.Baby

The pink bobble head bunny in the video are made by Mari Inukai and can be bought from MELTcomics.com

RICH GIRL
Shot in Hollywood the night after David LeChapelle "was off partying with Pamela Anderson all night long. He just rolled in the next day from Las Vegas and we shot the video"

"The Rich Girl video was probably one of the hardest video that I ever did, with David LeChapelle.I don't know if you know David but he is crazy and he wouldn't mind me saying that. We worked together with No Doubt when we did 'It's My Life' video together and that wasa really fun, easy video, cut to 'Rich Girl', really hard."-Gwen

"It was just one of those really long shoots. David had us up all night long. I was getting cut up with fisher wires on this anchor being swung around. It was just one of those really challenging videos but the rewarding part was being able to work with Eve again who I love and she's such a cool girl. I'd work with her any day. I hope she calls me up to work on her next record, which I don't think she will because she's probably over it"-Gwen

The video was inspired by Mark Squires (a photographer). The piece in particular was a scene of girls on a raft with a theme revolving around pirates and fashion. (Mark Squires also photographed Gwen Stefani for her The Sweet Escape promo shots)

"I called David, I thought he was the perfect guy, so we got together and I showed him the inspiration photographs and we talked about the idea, pirate and treasure chests and this whole thing seemed to be a really good way to go into the rich girl thing"-Gwen

"At the end of the day it turned out really pretty"-Gwen



HOLLABACK GIRL
"Hollaback Girl was with Paul Hunter. Somebody I had met years ago but never got to work with him. He just makes some really sexy, classy videos. We basically got together at my house and started talking about the concept of the video, what we wanted to do and the look.The car was just one of the ideas, I could just picture the Harajuku Girls, they're kind of like my posse. My harajuku posse, I just wanted to have them with me in a car"-Gwen

"The idea was just going around and trying to get everyone to join in and follow us wherever we were gonna go because we had this attitude"-Gwen

The video inspiration was from a movie called 'Drumline' about a marching band.
The cheerleading scenes were shot at Birmingham High School, Gwen gave out autographs to pupils during filming.
The outfits of the marching band were auctioned off on ebay.
"I used to be in the marching band in Highschool, so I have like total experience in the marching band world. So we basically went out and got the top cheerleaders, drill team and marching band from around the country and they came in and those are the people that you see in the video. These kids were spectacular at what they do, they're the tops tops. So I remember I went in rehearsal and it was a whole gigantic gym full of kids and they were all doing these cheers and amazing choreography. I was blown away and I do not do choreography to save my life, so I was really blown away"

The line 'this my sh*t' was replaced with 'this my shhhh'

At the beginning of the video Gwen photographs the Harajuku Girls with her own designed Harajuku Lovers camera in collaboration with HP. She says 'Super Kawaii' Kawaii being Japanese for the word 'cute'
Gwen's niece Madeline can be seen in the shopping aisle scene.


The car used in the video was a 1962 Chevrolet Impala Convertible replica and was giving away on KIISFm
The image on the front was painted by artist J.Martin

Pharrell Williams also makes an appearance.


COOL
Premiered 30th June 2005
"The 'Cool' video I went back to work with Sophie Muller who is one of my best friends and she lives like 5minutes from me in London and I met her for the first time when we did the Don't Speak video with No Doubt and that was a long time ago so we've been working together since then. She's the one girl I always turn too and I know that we'll always do good videos together. When I did the 'Cool' video it was obvious I was going to ask her to do it"

The inspiration was Sophia Loren and the 1950s, so it was obvious to Gwen that the video had to be shot in Europe. Someone recomended to Gwen that they should shoot the video in Lake Como in Italy because of the weather at that time of year.

"I had all these different actors lined up that I wanted to play the male lead, I was going to be getting Gavin back for some video he had done earlier, where I promised I would kiss another boy in and we ended up finding this guy that funny enough looked a lot like Gavin"-Gwen

"It was so beautiful, to be on location and have all your best friends. Everyone that I work with, my hairdresser, my makeup artist, my stylist, the video director. my management, we're all really close friends because we spend so much time together and we really enjoy eachother and we're all kind of really passionate about it. I'll never forget that whole four day shoot. We got to all be there together. It's just beautiful, I think the video turned out gorgeous"-Gwen

The video tells a tale of past loves and the memories that can linger. "Cool" is a stunning trip to Lake Como, Italy where Gwen plays an actress who has returned to her hometown for business. She meets her ex-boyfriend and his new fiance at her lakeside hotel, and while she is genuinely happy for them, she is also distracted by memories of the past. Flashbacks show a brunette Gwen and her former lover stealing kisses from one another in cobblestone alleyways and walking through the startlingly gorgeous landscapes. The video weaves between these two time periods to create a dramatic story only matched by Sophie's intoxicating visuals. The video is hard to look away from, with Gwen Stefani steeping out as both a blonde bombshell and brunette ingenue placed in one of Italy's most beautiful settings. Sophie Muller has created another sumptuous video mixing a compelling story with intricate and striking visuals.
The actor in the video is Daniel Gonzalez.
The girlfriend in the video is Tony's girlfriend Erin.


LUXURIOUS
Filmed in Griffith Park and themed around chola-and long inspiration for Gwen (especially makeup wise) a cross between Mexican street gang culture and surrealistic style and features crazy pinatas and beds of candy. In a look ranging from beacon street era Gwen and Carmen Miranda.
Some versions of the video edited out the word "hydrophonic"

Below is the casting call for the video

GWEN STEFANI "LUXURIOUS" VIDEO CASTING:
LOOKING FOR TRUE MEXICANS. THIS VIDEO WILL BE VERY "FAMILIA" OREINTED. ALL CHILDREN UNDER 18 MUST HAVE WORK PERMITS!! NO EXCEPTIONS, LOOKING FOR COUPLES, GANGSTER AND "NON" MAYBE EVEN AUNTS, UNCLES, GRANDMOTHERS, AND GRANDFATHERS. PLEASE ALSO FEEL FREE TO SUBMIT ANY PHOTOS TO AWCASTING@YAHOO.COM. THIS IS A "PAYING" JOB. SHOOTING OCT.1ST AND 2ND....
Gwen Stefani Ritterbach Casting
Music Video, No Union Affiliation Posted: 9/27/2005
Director Sophie Muller
Production Company
Oil Factory Audition Date
Saturday October 1st, Sunday October 2nd
Shoot/Performance Location
Los Angeles CA
Roles
submit REAL COUPLE ($300+20% FOR EACH PERSON) / Featured / Male or Female / Asian, Hispanic, Multi-Ethnic / 18-25
Looking for realistic couples that are either echo park style/venice beach and or mi vida loca.
submit NEW BORN BABY ($150+20%) / Featured / Male or Female / Multi-Ethnic / 6-1
Age range 6mths-1yr. mixed ethnicity: aa/asian, aa/cauc, cauc/hisp, hisp/aa.
submit HERO MALE ($300+20%) / Featured / Male / Asian, Hispanic, Multi-Ethnic / 18-25
Looking for realistic guys that are either echo park style/venice beach and or mi vida loca.
remove HERO FEMALE ($300+20%) / Featured / Female / Asian, Hispanic, Multi-Ethnic / 18-25
Looking for realistic ladies that are either echo park style/venice beach and or mi vida loca.
submit EXTRAS ($75 CASH) / Background / Male or Female / All Ethnicities / 18-25
Hip, Cool, Edgy, Trendy. Extras with energy. Echo park/venice beach presence with your own style.

Slim Thug (One of Pharrell's proteges) makes an appearance in the video.

"I was thinking about the song and trying to work out I was going to get to sing on it and Pharrell was like 'you gotta get Slim', I was like 'ok' I didn't really know who he was at the time. We were in the studio together and Pharrell had Slim just show up to rap on these songs and he just left, like Pharrell just left us there together alone. We were like 'hi, nice to meet you'. He wrote his part on his blackberry , he's just sitting there and wrote his part and he went in and sang it one time and that was that"-Gwen

"Then he [Slim Thug] came down to the video shoot. Sophie [Muller] Clearly has never worked with too many rappers so she was really excited to that and I think they got along really well"-Gwen

"At the very end of the video you can see I'm sitting on the fountain and I have my sister on one side and my niece on the other side"

CRASH
"The live performance for the 'Crash' video was done when I was about 3 and a half months pregnant on the Harajuku tour. I remember thinking Sophie was gonna come out, film it and do the live DVD. I was like 'I don't know if i wanna film it, I feel really gross, I don't know if I wanna have this captured because when you're pregnant, especially when you're first really pregnant, you just feel really yucky. The idea of capturing it on DVD for life doesnt sound like a good idea at the time, but now that I see it and we got it on tape, I'm really glad that we ended up doing it "

"When i did the Love.Angel.Music.Baby. record I never intended to do a tour or perform that song live, it was just not in the plan and when I did perform for these radio shows, I did a couple song lives I was really like 'oh my god' thats kind of what inspired me to do the whole tour. I was going to do like 19 shows that turned into 42 shows, then turned into me pregnant for 42 shows, so it was a crazy kind of time"

SERIOUS
WIND IT UP
THE SWEET ESCAPE
4 IN THE MORNING
GUEST APPEARANCES

1993 (?)
Fishbone : Swim
Gwen & Tony make a guest apperance. It was filmed in a large pool on the UCLA campus (a college in LA).


August 1998
Rufus Wainwright : April Fools.
Gwen made a guess appearance in the music video wearing a black wig.
She played an waitress and is joined by Hole's Bass player. Gwen is only in the video for a short moment.


January 2001
Moby feat Gwen : Southside
Director : Joseph Kahn

Gwen and Moby's duet for Southside. An interpretation of a video shoot, Gwen plays a 'star with a huge ego' which Moby said was ironic because she is the total opposite.
It was funny because before we met I invisioned her to be some huge untouchable rock star surronded by security guards.- Moby

They are stereotyped as being the two stars in their false imagery as 'Moby and Gwen: Rock stars' and are potrayed as being spoiled, demanding, bratty and in response are treated like royalty. They also poked fun of celebrity endorsements (Gwen bottled water).

Even though Moby is seen in a car he doesn't drive in real life as he views them bad for the environment.
Moby had to wear women's clothing for size reasons, he kept the pants.

Moby waited two years before releasing the version with Gwen's vocals. He was reportedly 'dis-satisfied' with the way Gwen's vocals sounded on it. Gwen was heart broken. Then Moby remixed it and asked Gwen to do a video for it.



August 2001
Eve feat Gwen : Let Me Blow Mind. Gwen and Eve's duet with the video directed by Philip Atwell who produced The Wash in 2001 and directod Eminem's videos, My Name Is and Stan (he directed Stan with DR.Dre).
The video won best female video at the 2001 VMAs beating Madonna, Janet Jackson, Missy Elliott, Dido and Jennifer Lopez.
Gwen and Eve crash a rich 'folks' party and convince them to indulge in their music.




September 2001
All Star Tribute : What's Going On A tribute featuring a number of stars including Bono, Christina Aguleria, Eve, Fred Durst with proceeds going to AIDS and 9/11 charities. This all-star team came together to help raise awareness and funds to fight against the scourge of AIDS in Africa and other impoverished nations. After the attacks on the U.S. on September 11, Artists Against AIDS Worldwide have decided to split the proceeds between United Way's September 11 Fund and the AIDS relief effort which includes the Global AIDS Alliance among others. The song and video premiered on radio stations across America and MTV on Friday September 21, 2001. Gwen sings the lines 'Oh, brother, brother, brother. There's far too many of you dying'



June 2004
Shifty Slide Along Side Tom appears in Shifty's video for Slide Along Side a few times. Shifty was the guy in Crazy Town and is Mieke's brother (Mieke is Tom Dumont's wife.) Tom has written a song for Shifty's album called When We're Young. The album titled Happy Love Sick was out July 13th. There's a small picture of Tom in the video on shiftymusic.com under media.


Can I Have It Like That
 Inbetween her two solo albums, Gwen sang on the Pharrell track 'Can I have It Like That' making an appearance in the video also.


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