Making the Video

Making the Video
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	14
No. of episodes	approx. 133
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Original release
Network	MTV
Release	June 28, 1999 (1999-06-28) – 2010 (2010)

Making the Video is an MTV show consisting of half-hour episodes chronicling the process of filming various music videos. Usually the director outlines the concept of the video (or treatment) and the show often includes light-hearted and humorous moments. It always concludes with a premiere of the finished video. The show premiered on June 28, 1999, and ended in 2010.^[1][2]

MTV2 aired a similar show entitled [Name of Band/Artist] Makes a Video that featured artists such as 50 Cent, Fall Out Boy, Dashboard Confessional, Evanescence, and Mos Def among others.

Season 1

• 98 Degrees – "I Do (Cherish You)" (1999)
• Britney Spears – "(You Drive Me) Crazy" (1999)
• LL Cool J – "Deepest Bluest" (1999)
• Jordan Knight – "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" (1999)
• Jennifer Lopez – "Waiting for Tonight" (1999)
• Jay-Z – "Girl's Best Friend" (1999)
• Jewel – "Jupiter (Swallow the Moon)" (1999)
• Blink-182 – "All The Small Things" (1999)
• Mariah Carey – "Heartbreaker" (1999)
• Chris Cornell – "Can't Change Me" (1999)
• Puff Daddy featuring R. Kelly – "Satisfy You" (1999)
• The Offspring – "She's Got Issues" (1999)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Around The World" (1999)
• Sugar Ray – "Falls Apart" (1999)
• Garbage – "The World Is Not Enough" (1999)
• Enrique Iglesias – "Rhythm Divine" (1999)
• Whitney Houston – "I Learned From the Best" (1999)
• R.E.M. – "The Great Beyond" (1999)

Season 2

• Dr. Dre featuring Eminem – "Forgot About Dre" (2000)
• *NSYNC – "Bye Bye Bye" (2000)
• Sisqo – "Thong Song" (2000)
• Mandy Moore – "Walk Me Home" (2000)
• Hanson – "This Time Around" (2000)
• Jay-Z – "Big Pimpin'" (2000)
• No Doubt – "Ex-Girlfriend" (2000)
• Da Brat featuring Tyrese – "What'chu Like" (2000)
• Jessica Simpson featuring Nick Lachey – "Where You Are" (2000)
• Stone Temple Pilots – "Sour Girl" (2000)
• Beck – "Mixed Bizness" (2000)
• Christina Aguilera – "I Turn To You" (2000)
• Britney Spears – "Oops...I Did It Again" (2000)
• Kid Rock – "American Bad Ass" (2000)
• Eminem – "The Real Slim Shady" (2000)
• Foo Fighters – "Breakout" (2000)
• Metallica – "I Disappear" (2000)
• *NSYNC – "It's Gonna Be Me" (2000)

Season 3

• Janet Jackson – "Doesn't Really Matter" (2000)
• LL Cool J – "Imagine That" (2000)
• Britney Spears – "Lucky" (2000)
• Busta Rhymes – "Fire" (2000)
• Big Tymers – "#1 Stunna" (2000)
• 98 Degrees – "Give Me Just One Night" (2000)
• Christina Aguilera – "Come on Over Baby (All I Want Is You)" (2000)
• 2gether – "The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up" (2000)
• Lenny Kravitz – "Again" (2000)
• Destiny's Child – "Independent Women Pt. 1" (2000)
• Ricky Martin – "She Bangs" (2000)
• Backstreet Boys – "Shape of My Heart" (2000)
• Blink-182 – "Man Overboard" (2000)
• OutKast – "Ms. Jackson" (2000)
• Britney Spears – "Stronger" (2000)
• BBMak – "Still On Your Side" (2000)
• Jennifer Lopez – "Love Don't Cost a Thing" (2000)

Season 4

• Ricky Martin featuring Christina Aguilera – "Nobody Wants to Be Lonely" (2001)
• Snoop Dogg – "Lay Low" (2001)
• Eve – "Who's That Girl?" (2001)
• The Jackson 5 – "La-La Means I Love You (snippet)" – with a cameo appearance by Rob Thomas from Matchbox Twenty (2001)
• Aerosmith – "Jaded" (2001)
• Matchbox Twenty – "Mad Season" (2001)
• Destiny's Child – "Survivor" (2001)
• Jay-Z featuring R. Kelly – "Guilty Until Proven Innocent"/"Fiesta" (2001)
• Dream – "This Is Me"/Tyrese – "I Like Them Girls" (2001)

Season 5

• Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mýa, & Pink – "Lady Marmalade" (2001)
• Baha Men – "Best Years of Our Lives" (2001)
• U2 – "Elevation" (2001)
• *NSYNC – "Pop" (2001)
• Destiny's Child – "Bootylicious" (2001)
• Sisqo – "Can I Live" (2001)
• Jennifer Lopez featuring Ja Rule – "I'm Real (Murder Remix)" (2001)
• Ludacris featuring Nate Dogg – "Area Codes" (2001)

Season 6

• Britney Spears – "I'm a Slave 4 U" (2001)
• On the Line All-Stars – "On the Line" (2001)
• P. Diddy – "Diddy" (2001)
• Janet Jackson – "Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is about You)" (2001)
• P!nk – "Get The Party Started" (2001)

Season 7

• No Doubt – "Hey Baby" (2001)
• Ja Rule featuring Ashanti – "Always On Time" (2001)
• Creed – "My Sacrifice" (2001)
• Kid Rock – "Forever" (2001)
• Marilyn Manson – "Tainted Love" (2001)

Season 8

• Nick Cannon, Lil' Romeo, & 3LW – "Parents Just Don't Understand" (2001)
• Britney Spears – "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman" (2001)
• Foo Fighters – "The One" (2001)
• Enrique Iglesias – "Escape" (2002)
• Brandy – "What About Us?" (2002)
• Shakira – "Underneath Your Clothes" (2002)
• P!nk – "Don't Let Me Get Me" (2002)
• Usher featuring Ludacris – "U Don't Have To Call" (2002)
• Godsmack – "I Stand Alone" (2002)
• No Doubt – "Hella Good" (2002)

Season 9

• Sum 41 – "It's What We're All About" (2002)
• Puddle of Mudd – "Drift & Die" (2002)
• P.O.D. – "Boom" (2002)
• Eminem – "Without Me" (2002)
• P. Diddy featuring Loon, Ginuwine & Mario Winans – "I Need A Girl Pt. 2" (2002)
• Jennifer Lopez featuring Nas – "I'm Gonna Be Alright" (2002)
• Papa Roach – "She Loves Me Not" (2002)
• R. Kelly – "Ignition Remix" (2002)
• Nelly – "Hot In Herre" (2002)
• Will Smith – "Nod Ya Head" (2002)
• Beyoncé – "Work It Out" (2002)
• Kelly Osbourne – "Papa Don't Preach" (2002)
• Eve featuring Alicia Keys – "Gangsta Lovin'" (2002)
• Jennifer Love Hewitt – "BareNaked" (2002)
• Shakira – "Objection (Tango)" (2002)
• Michelle Branch – "Goodbye To You" (2002)
• Jimmy Fallon – "Idiot Boyfriend" (2002)
• Lil' Bow Wow, Lil Wayne, Lil' Zane, & Sammie – "Hardball" (2002)
• Avril Lavigne – "Sk8er Boi" (2002)
• Justin Timberlake – "Like I Love You" (2002)
• Nick Carter – "Help Me" (2002)
• Kelly Clarkson – "Before Your Love" (2002)
• Christina Aguilera featuring Redman – "Dirrty" (2002)
• Madonna – "Die Another Day" (2002)
• Missy Elliott – "Work It" (2002)
• Jennifer Lopez – "Jenny from the Block" (2002)

Season 10

• Good Charlotte – "The Anthem" (2003)
• Mariah Carey featuring Cam'ron – "Boy (I Need You)" (2003)
• DMX – "X Gon' Give It to Ya" (2003)
• Justin Timberlake – "Rock Your Body" (2003)
• Linkin Park – "Somewhere I Belong" (2003)
• Avril Lavigne – "Losing Grip" (2003)
• Jennifer Lopez – "I'm Glad" (2003)
• Christina Aguilera – "Fighter" (2003)
• Ludacris – "Act a Fool" (2003)
• Pink – "Feel Good Time" (2003)
• Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z – "Crazy In Love" (2003)
• Mýa – "My Love Is Like...Wo!" (2003)
• Ruben Studdard – "Flying Without Wings" (2003)
• Madonna – "Hollywood" (2003)
• Nelly featuring Murphy Lee & P. Diddy – "Shake Ya Tailfeather" (2003)
• Jessica Simpson – "Sweetest Sin"/ Nick Lachey – "Shut Up"
• Mary J. Blige – "Love @ 1st Sight" (2003)
• Hilary Duff – "So Yesterday" (2003)
• Beyoncé, Missy Elliott, MC Lyte & Free – "Fighting Temptation"
• Da Band – "Bad Boy This, Bad Boy That" (2003)
• Pink – "Trouble" (2003)
• Limp Bizkit – "Behind Blue Eyes" (2003)
• Britney Spears featuring Madonna – "Me Against the Music" (2003)
• Blink-182 – "Feeling This" (2003)
• Mary J. Blige featuring Eve – "Not Today" (2003)
• Triumph the Insult Comic Dog – "I Keed" (2003)
• Puddle of Mudd – "Away from Me" (2003)

Season 11

• Hilary Duff – "Come Clean" (2004)
• Chingy featuring Jason Weaver – "One Call Away" (2004)
• Britney Spears – "Toxic" (2004)
• D12 – "My Band" (2004)
• Jessica Simpson – "Take My Breath Away" (2004)
• Jay-Z – "99 Problems" (2004)
• Brandy featuring Kanye West – "Talk About Our Love" (2004)
• Yellowcard – "Only One" (2004)
• Hilary Duff & Haylie Duff – "Our Lips Are Sealed" (2004)
• Usher – "Confessions Part II" (2004)
• Mase – "Welcome Back" (2004)
• Nelly – "Flap Your Wings"/Nelly featuring Jaheim – "My Place" (2004)
• Green Day – "American Idiot" (2004)
• Good Charlotte – "Predictable" (2004)
• Ja Rule featuring R. Kelly & Ashanti – "Wonderful" (2004)
• Xzibit – "Hey Now (Mean Muggin)" (2004)
• Eminem – "Just Lose It" (2004)
• Lindsay Lohan – "Rumors" (2004)
• Nelly featuring Christina Aguilera – "Tilt Ya Head Back" (2004)
• Gwen Stefani – "What You Waiting For?" (2004)
• Ashlee Simpson – "La La" (2004)
• Jennifer Lopez – "Get Right" (2005)
• Twista featuring Faith Evans – "Hope" (2005)
• Snoop Dogg – "Let's Get Blown" (2005)

Season 12

• 50 Cent featuring Olivia – "Candy Shop" (2005)
• Eminem – "Ass Like That" (2005)
• Mariah Carey – "It's Like That" (2005)
• Snoop Dogg, Charlie Wilson & Justin Timberlake – "Signs" (2005)
• Nelly – "Errtime" (2005)
• Kelly Osbourne – "One Word" (2005)
• Shakira featuring Alejandro Sanz – "La Tortura" (2005)
• The Game – "Dreams" (2005)
• Ludacris featuring Bobby Valentino – "Pimpin' All Over the World" (2005)
• Foo Fighters – "Best of You" (2005)
• Jessica Simpson – "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" (2005)
• Ashlee Simpson – "Boyfriend" (2005)
• 50 Cent – "Window Shopper" (2005)
• Lindsay Lohan – "Confessions Of A Broken Heart (Daughter To Father)" (2005)
• Shakira – "Don't Bother" (2005)
• Jamie Foxx – "Unpredictable" (2005)
• KoЯn – "Twisted Transistor" (2005)
• Kanye West featuring Adam Levine – "Heard 'Em Say" (2005)
• Beyoncé featuring Slim Thug – "Check On It" (2005)

Season 13

• The Notorious B.I.G. – "Spit Your Game" featuring Twista, Krayzie Bone, and 8Ball & MJG (2006)
• Daddy Yankee – "Gangsta Zone" (2006)
• Fall Out Boy – "A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More "Touch Me"" (2006)
• Nick Lachey – "What's Left Of Me" (2006)
• T.I. – "Why You Wanna" (2006)
• Ashlee Simpson – "Invisible" (2006)
• Christina Aguilera – "Ain't No Other Man" (2006)
• Jessica Simpson – "A Public Affair" (2006)
• Justin Timberlake – "SexyBack" (2006)
• Janet Jackson featuring Nelly – "Call On Me" (2006)
• Danity Kane – "Show Stopper" (2006)
• Ludacris featuring Pharrell – "Money Maker" (2006)
• Chris Cornell – "You Know My Name" (2006)
• Diddy – "Tell Me" featuring Christina Aguilera (2006)
• Gwen Stefani – "Wind It Up" (2006)
• Beyoncé – "Listen" (2006)

Season 14

• Nelly Furtado – "Maneater" (2007)
• Jennifer Lopez – "Que Hiciste" (2007)
• Natasha Bedingfield – "I Wanna Have Your Babies" (2007)
• Rihanna – "Shut Up and Drive" (2007)
• Foo Fighters – "The Pretender" (2007)
• Avril Lavigne – "Hot" (2007)
• Mariah Carey – "Touch My Body" (2008)
• Usher – "Love in This Club" (2008)
• Bon Jovi – "Whole Lot Of Leavin'" (2008)
• Natasha Bedingfield – "Pocketful of Sunshine" (2008)
• Lily Allen – "The Fear" (2009)
• Ashley Tisdale – "It's Alright, It's OK" (2009)
• Katy Perry, Snoop Dogg – "California Gurls" (2010)

...Makes a Video episodes

2004

• Akon – "Ghetto" (2004)
• Kanye West – "All Falls Down" (2004)
• Lil' Jon & The Eastside Boyz featuring Ice Cube – "Roll Call" (2004/early 2005)
• Linkin Park – "Breaking the Habit" (2004)
• Mobb Deep – "Got It Twisted" (2004)
• N.O.R.E. – "Oye Mi Canto"

2005

• 50 Cent featuring Mobb Deep – "Outta Control (Remix)" (2005)
• Boyz n da Hood – "Felonies" (2005)
• Cassidy – "I'm A Hustla" (2005)
• Ciara – "Oh" featuring Ludacris
• Common – "The Corner"
• Common – "Testify"
• Daddy Yankee – "Rompe"
• Eminem – "Ass Like That" (entitled "Eminem's Making The Ass" rather than "Eminem Makes A Video", but is considered a ...Makes a Video episode)
• Green Day – "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
• Green Day – "Wake Me Up When September Ends"
• J-Kwon featuring Petey Pablo – "Get XXX'd" (2005)
• Jim Jones featuring P. Diddy, Jha Jha & Paul Wall – "What You Been Drankin' On" (2005)
• Juelz Santana – "Oh Yes"/"Clockwork"
• Lil Wayne – "Fireman" (2005)
• Ludacris featuring Field Mob – "Georgia" (2005)
• Memphis Bleek – "Like That"
• Mike Jones "Back Then" (2005)
• Mike Jones "Flossin'"/"Screw Dat" (2005)
• Mobb Deep featuring 50 Cent – "Have A Party" (2005)
• Paul Wall – "Sittin' Sidewayz" (2005)
• R. Kelly – "Playa's Only" featuring The Game (2005)
• R. Kelly – "Trapped In The Closet (Chapter 6)"
• T.I. – "ASAP/Motivation" (2005)
• Twista featuring Pitbull – "Hit The Floor" (2005)
• Ying Yang Twins – "Wait (The Whisper Song)" (2005)
• Ying Yang Twins – "Shake" featuring Pitbull
• Young Jeezy – "Trapstar"/"Go Crazy" (2005)

2006

• 50 Cent featuring Olivia – "Best Friend (Remix)" (2006)
• Cam'ron – "Touch It or Not"/"Wet Wipes" (2006)
• Dem Franchize Boyz – "Ridin' Rims" (2006)
• DJ Khaled – "Grammy Family" featuring Kanye West, Consequence, and John Legend
• DJ Khaled – "Holla At Me" featuring Lil Wayne, Paul Wall, Fat Joe, Rick Ross and Pitbull (2006)
• E-40 – "Tell Me When To Go" (2006)
• The Game – Let's Ride
• Ghostface Killah featuring Ne-Yo – "Back Like That" (2006)
• Ice Cube – "Go to Church" featuring Snoop Dogg and Lil' Jon (2006)
• Jim Jones – "We Fly High"
• Juvenile featuring Mike Jones, Paul Wall, Skip and Wacko – "Way I Be Leanin'"
• Lil' Jon featuring E-40 and Sean Paul – "Snap Ya Fingers" (2006)
• Lil' Scrappy featuring Young Buck – "Money In The Bank" (2006)
• Lil Wayne featuring Robin Thicke – "Shooter" (2006)
• Lupe Fiasco – "I Gotcha" (2006)
• Sleepy Brown featuring Pharrell & Big Boi – "Margarita" (2006)
• Snoop Dogg featuring R. Kelly – "That's That"
• T.I. featuring UGK – "Front Back"
• Three 6 Mafia – "Poppin' My Collar" (2006)
• Xzibit – "Concentrate"
• Yung Joc – "I Know You See It"/"Dope Boy Magic" (2006)

References

1. Rohwedder, Kristie (10 February 2016). "16 'Making The Video' Moments That Made The MTV Series Iconic". Bustle. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
2. Clarendon, Dan (11 July 2024). "'Making the Video' Turns 25: Artists With Episodes Still Online". TV Insider. Retrieved 11 November 2024.

External links

• MTV: Making the Video
• TV.com: Making the Video Archived 2011-05-17 at the Wayback Machine