Ex-Girlfriend (song)
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| "Ex-Girlfriend" | ||
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| Single by No Doubt | ||
| from the album Return of Saturn | ||
| Released | May 23, 2000 | |
| Length | 3:32 | |
| Writer(s) | Tom Dumont, Tony Kanal, Gwen Stefani | |
| Producer(s) | Glen Ballard | |
| Chart positions | ||
| No Doubt singles chronology | ||
| "New" (1999) |
"Ex-Girlfriend" (2000) |
"Simple Kind of Life" (2000) |
"Ex-Girlfriend" is a song by the band No Doubt. Released as the lead single from their fourth album Return of Saturn, it failed to chart the Billboard Hot 100, but did climb all the way to number two on the Modern Rocks chart. Gwen Stefani originally composed the song as a dirge about her relationship with Bush lead singer Gavin Rossdale, who she married in 2002, but the band turned it into a fast track to balance the album. In fact, the lyric "You say you're gonna burn before you mellow" is a reference to a lyric in the Bush son "Dead Meat", "I'm doing you in tomorrow/I'll burn before I mellow", The song contains a mixture of flamenco guitar parts and new wave.
[edit] Music video
The music video for "Ex-Girlfriend" was directed by Hype Williams. In the video, Stefani cross-dresses to enter a men's bathroom and, upon being discovered assaults Tony Kanal, who plays her ex-boyfriend, and several other men. When Kanal regains consciousness, he grabs Stefani and jumps out the window, and the two plummet to the ground. The bathroom scene in the music video is associated with the highly controversial Japanese hentai anime movie Kite (pronounced key-tae). The storyline is cut with scenes of the band playing on a stage. No Doubt's guitarist Tom Dumont's initially played the part of a police officer but was cut from the final version of the "Ex-Girlfriend" video. He can be seen enacting the role in MTV's 2000 "Making the Video".
[edit] Awards
- 2000 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards Most Stylish Video Ex-Girlfriend
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