Songfacts®:

• In her Eve collaboration "Rich Girl," Gwen Stefani sings about how she'll be living the diamond life if she becomes a wealthy girl. In "Luxurious," she's arrived, enjoying all the goodies her hard work has earned her. From now on, it's Egyptian cotton and cashmere.
• "Luxurious" was the fifth single from Stefani's debut solo album, Love.Angel.Music.Baby. She wrote the song with her No Doubt bandmate Tony Kanal, who produced it with Nellee Hooper. Stefani and Kanal dated for about seven years in the late '80s and early '90s, but somehow managed to keep working together and remain friends; this tension resulted in some powerful songs, including another track on the album, "Cool."
• This samples "Between The Sheets" by The Isley Brothers. Stefani is not the first artist to sample this song; it was used on Whitney Houston's "One Of These Days" and Notorious B.I.G.'s "Big Poppa."
• Guest vocals on the single mix come from the rapper Slim Thug, making one of his early appearances. Thugger also showed up on Beyoncé's "Check On It" around this time.
• The video, shot by Sophie Muller, marks her ninth video with Gwen Stefani. The singer told the director her idea for a clip about the life of a Latina "chola" girl. Stefani told MTV News: "Usually I have [a video concept] right when I write the song. I had this one vision of this girl that was from high school named Mercedes... she's very inspiring. She's this total like chola girl, white face, and she used to sit in class and put on tons of makeup. And I used to just watch her, mesmerized. And she would just wear this dark liner and this red lipstick and she had this safety pin and she'd be picking her eyelashes apart. She hadn't taken that mascara off for months."