Stephen Thompson of NPR Music was disappointed with the music video because it " undercuts its message to an alarming degree : The words say ' Since you 've been gone / I can breathe for the first time , ' but the pictures say , ' Breaking up with you necessitates destroying all of your property . ' " On the other hand , Johnni Macke of E! felt the video was amusing and Clarkson was " at her rocker prime . " She added , " It features the tomboy side of the singer messing up her ex 's closet , destroying his bed and getting some major revenge by destroying his place . " At the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards , the music video received nominations for three awards ; it won Best Female Video and Best Pop Video , and received a nomination for the Viewer 's Choice Awards but lost to Green Day 's " Boulevard of Broken Dreams " . MusicOMH ranked the music video as the 86th best video of the last decade . In February 2012 , the music video received a '' Pop-Up Video '' treatment by VH1 which shows " pops up " bubbles containing trivia , witticisms and borderline sexual innuendos throughout the video
2005 MTV Video Music Awards
2005 MTV Video Music Awards
Since U Been Gone