Making the Video

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Making the Video is an MTV show, consisting of half-hour episodes, which chronicles 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.

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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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)

Previous ...Makes a Video episodes[edit]

2004[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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)

External links[edit]

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