Plot Summary

Melanie C wakes in a sleek, futuristic world of glass, steel, smoke, and wide-open landscapes. She moves through a series of serene, almost dreamlike images: running on a treadmill, resting in shallow water, meditating, and floating through a vast white room. Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes eventually joins her, delivering the rap and taking part in a synchronized tai chi routine. Icelandic scenery, including the Blue Lagoon, adds an otherworldly quality to a video about physical and emotional renewal.

Factoids & Trivia

Francis Lawrence directed the video. He was still primarily known as a music-video director at the time; his later credits include films such as Constantine, I Am Legend, and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

The studio footage was filmed in Malibu, California, in January 2000. The visual language, however, suggests a remote Icelandic setting, reinforced by the opening sound system’s Icelandic greeting and the Blue Lagoon imagery.

Melanie C reportedly originated the concept. Rather than making another high-energy pop performance video, she wanted something calmer that reflected health, exercise, and self-care.

The video’s futuristic architecture and clean white styling place it firmly in the sleek, post-The Matrix visual world that was popular around the turn of the millennium.

Tai chi gives the collaboration a deliberately peaceful centerpiece. Instead of presenting Left Eye’s rap as a separate performance break, the video folds both artists into the same controlled, meditative environment.

The pairing was especially meaningful to Melanie C, who had admired TLC and considered Lopes her favorite member. She initially had not imagined her solo material featuring rap, but could hear Lopes handling the song’s middle section.

The single became Melanie C’s first solo No. 1 in the United Kingdom, adding considerable visibility to the video’s transition from Spice Girls pop toward a more mature solo identity.