Republica: Ready to Go (Version 2)

Well, it's a Friday night about twenty-seven years after this video was released, & I found myself watching it on YouTube. I was writing a review intermittently for something else while listening, & decided to see if IMDb even had a page for this music video. Lo & behold, it does - & nobody has reviewed it yet!

I will attempt to be the first.

Well, the video is even simpler than the song. Republica is in what appears to be an empty garage, save for one vehicle in the background, & a hurried set-up for their performance. The theme almost seems to be that they were rushed there, told that they had one chance to perform the song to pump up the audience for some very important but unexplained reason - & they put everything they had into it.

Saffron has all the energy & attitude of a sassy ten-year-old girl in this music video - flexing her eye smoke, bobbing her hair, etc., - & as immature as it is, it's irresistably adorable. The audience is sort of in the role of her bathroom mirror, with that ten-year-old girl lip-syncing to herself in that mirror.

These cuts of the band are interspersed with fast zoom shots of random urban settings. This detracts from the ease of viewing the video, & could be headache-inducing for some viewers. Maybe it's meant to symbolise the increasing pace of life at the dawn of the Information Revolution.

I am almost sure that there were people who heard this song when it first came out & knew that they had just heard a classic in its own time. Much like the music of other artists of that decade, it just has not aged at all.