Background The music video was directed by
Wayne Isham and produced by Dave Robertson. In an interview with
MTV, Adam and Joshua Paskowitz explained the conception of the video, describing how they got the leads of
Disturbing Behavior (1998),
Katie Holmes and
James Marsden, to agree to star in the video. Paskowitz said, We met Katie and James Morrison [
sic], and they were doing this teenage, whacked film, and we were like, 'Oh, that's kind of wild. We have this song, and it's called "Got You Where I Want You," see if you like it.' And they did, which was cool. My deal was, if we're going to do your movie, then you come do our video, [although] we didn't really want James Morrison [
sic] in our video.
Synopsis The video starts with a close-up of Katie Holmes' feet moving around in hay spread over the ground. As the first verse begins, Holmes stands up and runs toward The Flys performing on the top of a cliff. The video then cuts to a scene from
Disturbing Behavior featuring Holmes and James Marsden, before briefly cutting to a shot of Holmes standing in a large crowd. As the first chorus begins, Holmes walks past the band as they continue to perform, then pushing two jocks off of a cliff. Once the second verse begins, the video alternates between shots of a group of teenagers running to the top of the cliff and The Flys continuing to perform. As the teenagers reach the top of the cliff where the band is performing, the teenagers all begin to dive off the edge of the cliff into a body of water. As the bridge and final chorus begins, a
supercut of more scenes from
Disturbing Behavior are shown, with the band themselves then jumping off the edge of the cliff into the water. The band members walking away from the cliff is seen in the last shot. A version of the video without scenes from
Disturbing Behavior also exists; shots of the band performing the song are replaced by clips from the film as described above. ==Track listings and formats==