They are mentioned a couple times in the July 27 issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine! :
(I couldn’t bear to cut out the Jimmy Cliff article hehe.) I love seeing No Doubt in the “Who’s Playing” list!!
Hello! Since people were having trouble downloading the original file I posted, I’ve re-uploaded in three separate parts. I believe the problem was that the file was so large. I’ve added them here. Please let me know if you’re still having trouble with them because, if so, I know the problem is my FTP program.
Hello! I just added a bunch of video stills from the “Settle Down” premiere to the gallery.
Hello! I’ve added a bunch of stills from the “Settle Down” video to the gallery. There are a lot, and you may find some “duplicates”, though they won’t be exactly the same. The reason is that at first I made a bunch of stills from the video I captured. Then, I decided to also make stills from the video No Doubt posted on YouTube, as that video is HD.
I was going to only add the captures I made from the HD video, but I decided to add the others as well, because there are some cool shots in there which I’m not sure I also captured from the HD video, so didn’t want to discard them. When you go through a video frame by frame twice making hundreds of captures each time (my finger hurts lol), it’s pretty hard to duplicate exactly which frames you captured the first time. So, I uploaded them all in case there are some nice shots I grabbed in the first round that I didn’t get in the second HD round. :)
I’ve also added 8 photos that my lovely friend Laurie sent me from the Today Show performance in 2009. Thanks, sweetie! :)
Also, I’ve heard from a couple people that they are having trouble with the video I uploaded of the premiere special only playing for two minutes. I’m not sure why that is happening. Is everyone having that same issue? Perhaps I should have split it up into two or three files, instead of uploading one huge file that is over 1GB. I think that must be the problem. I’ll re-upload in sections shortly. In the meantime, I’ve uploaded the interview portion to YouTube.
I’m feeling extremely inadequate now lol! I’m sorry for the trouble with the video. Love all of you No Doubters! So excited that the new era is upon us!
Hello! I’ve added the E! “Settle Down” video premiere special to the videos section. It’s an mpg2, and not split up into parts, so it’s a pretty big file. I hope you like it! :)
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So, what does everyone think of “Settle Down”? I love it, and can’t stop listening to it. Please show your support, and buy a copy! You can buy it on the official No Doubt site, on Amazon
The E! “Settle Down” music video premiere special airs tonight at 8pm EST! Can’t wait! I’ll be hysterical all over again like I was listening to the whole song for the first time at 3am today haha!
There is a new interview with Sophie Muller on Rolling Stone’s web site:
“No Doubt Cast Themselves as Truckers in ‘Settle Down’ Video
‘They’re driving to meet after having had their separate lives over the last 10 years,’ says director Sophie Muller
When No Doubt finished recording Push and Shove, their first album in more than ten years, they turned to esteemed director and good friend Sophie Muller to direct the video for “Settle Down.” “I’ve worked with them so long, it was kind of natural that I would do this one,” Muller tells Rolling Stone of the clip, premering tonight at 8 p.m. on E!. “They sent me this song and said ‘Do you like this?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, I love it.'”
Muller, who has worked with Eurythmics, Coldplay, and Sade, has directed eight videos for No Doubt throughout their career including “Don’t Speak” and “Simple Kind of Life.” “We collaborate completely,” she says. “I’ve become friends with them. When you have a working relationship with a band, it’s a very comfortable and lovely process.”
In the video for “Settle Down,” No Doubt cast themselves as truck drivers as they steer their own highly stylized rigs to a celebratory reunion party. “I think (bassist Tony Kanal) came up with the idea that we should do something with trucks,” Muller says. “The idea is they are all driving to meet after having had their separate lives over the last 10 years.”
To honor his heritage, Kanal drives a garishly decorated Indian-style truck to the party. Drummer Adrian Young has his kit fastened to the top of what Muller describes as a neon Transformer. Overflowing with speakers is the Jamaican-flavored rig of guitarist Tom Dumont. And Gwen Stefani drives a “proper, old-fashioned Seventies truck” that the band lifted straight from the 1977 Burt Reynolds comedy Smokey and the Bandit.
“It’s such a mix of cultures, their band, and what their music is like,” Muller says. “We tried to do something that resembled different parts of the world rather than a specific place.”
Although there’s a joyous atmosphere throughout, Muller said she tried to portray the uncertainty in Stefani’s lyrics.
“Lyrically it’s not really a party song,” she says. “It’s got a real emotional desire to get through something. You have a combination of this party feel with her struggle to be able to express herself.”
In addition to helping cultivate the image of female icons such as Courtney Love and Annie Lennox, Sophie Muller has worked alongside Stefani on both No Doubt and her solo material.
“The amazing thing about Gwen is her unbelievable enthusiasm,” Muller says. “You could feel her absolute love for making videos and her total commitment to every single scene that she does. It’s just lovely.”
Just heard the single premiere! I’m so incredibly excited, and in tears! You can buy it on Amazon
Hello! A user on Soundcloud has uploaded a 45 second clip of “Settle Down”! :
Hello! I just received a comment and e-mail from Rita at AMP Radio in LA that they are going to be the first radio station to play “Settle Down”. They will be playing it at 12am on Monday, and they do stream on their web site. They have posted about it on their Facebook page.
Hello! Webisode 4, making of the “Settle Down” music video part 2 is now online! :
Also, a TV commercial for the E! video premiere has been uploaded to YouTube by safireskeye! :
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