Synopsis

In a stark, authoritarian reform school, students are divided by gender, subjected to rigid discipline, and forced into uniformity. As blink-182 perform inside a cage, the students' suppressed energy gradually turns into open rebellion. Their revolt spreads through the facility in a burst of riots, physical chaos, and destruction. Amid the disorder, a boy and girl connect through a glass partition, turning the video's atmosphere of repression and confinement into an explosive release of youthful desire.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video was filmed at the abandoned Lincoln Heights Jail in Los Angeles on September 30, 2003, only a few days before its premiere.

• The band's concept combined elements of a prep school and a reform school, built around strict authority, repression, and students eventually taking control.

• blink-182 wanted the clip to feel more like an art piece than a conventional performance video, reflecting the darker and more experimental direction of their 2003 self-titled album.

• The band members appear largely as performers within the setting rather than as the story's central characters. Their performance functions as a soundtrack to the students' revolt.

• The production's exaggerated visual details include marching students, shaved heads, an oppressive warden, oversized balloons, unusual duct tape, and acrobatic movement through the jail's corridors.

• "Feeling This" was the first song recorded for the self-titled album. Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge wrote their vocal parts separately without discussing the subject beforehand, and both ended up writing about sex.

• An early version of the song appeared in the video game Madden NFL 2004 under the incorrect title "Action." The band had always referred to it as "Feeling This."