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"Just a Girl" is the first single from the breakthrough 1995 album, Tragic
Kingdom, by No Doubt. The famous opening riff that guitarist Tom Dumont uses was
actually taken from an earlier Eric Stefani effort.[1] Matthew Wilder, Tragic
Kingdom's producer, was instrumental in teaching the band simplicity in getting
a song's idea across.
Gwen Stefani came up with the title.The song itself discusses the paradox of
post-feminism. The song is heavily influenced by New Wave music, using synth
noise from a Roland Jupiter 8, '80s keyboards and effects, and retro sounds.
The song helped No Doubt's career immensely, peaking #23 on the Billboard Hot
100 chart and #10 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.It was also featured in the
movie Clueless and the opening credits of Romy and Michele's High School
Reunion.
Music video
The two bathrooms from the music video.The music video was directed by Mark Kohr.
It opens with Stefani sitting in front of a beat-up car while the rest of the
band loads the car. They then drive off and arrive at a building where she
enters the women's bathroom and the rest of the band enters the men's. The band
sets up its equipment in the grey, dingy bathroom while Stefani sings in the
decorated and brightly colored bathroom. Eventually, the band takes to lifting
people through the ceiling to get into the women's bathroom, and the video ends
with Tom Dumont and Tony Kanal standing directly in front of the wall that had
been separating the bathrooms.
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