Republica - Top Of The Pops - The Story of 1997

[@jesselaurencemusic]

Saffron is a fascinating person! And I love this footage! That year 1997, this band, incredible!

[@joejacko1587]

she should update her haircut

[@JoshHipHopLivin]

​@@joejacko1587How come? Lmfao 😂😂😂😂

[@samsicles_jr]

she’s awesome

[@manueldesant4849]

No ​@@joejacko1587

[@adrianaxcx777]

So nostalgic! I've been in such a 90s mood lately too

[@Lanae8199]

Me too.

[@nimitz1739]

Got times

[@Lanae8199]

@@nimitz1739 I think you meant “Good Times.”

[@nimitz1739]

@@Lanae8199 Oops..

[@purplxed1519]

Love Republica forever ❤️

[@melonycrumpet]

Absolutely great memories as a student living in Leeds. I loved my Republica cd, blasted it out every weekend 🎉

[@MrBrown-is2nv]

I'd love to see a documentary done on Republica.

[@Laidengizer113]

I just came here from a video on them by rock and roll true stories.

[@MrBrown-is2nv]

@immgennaro I've seen that one as well. I'd like to see a full-fledged doc, with unseen footage and interviews from all the bandmates, especially from members of the original lineup from the first album.

[@AriesSagSexxx]

Yes ‼️ it's been long overdue

[@yorubamexico]

i was 21 in 2008 and at the time i discovered this band many years after their time but ummediatly fall in love with their music and Saffron, nice to see her how is today

[@Bbbvvviiii]

I met with Republica in ~ 99-2000 years on local TV by chance, there was showing a clip with them. It was not popular group in Kazakhstan, but I still remember theirs "From the rush our with love." Last year I found their all hits on Apple music and these are my favourite songs in my playlist.

[@Nekoamursky]

Me encanta tu peinado Saffron y mas aun tu voz. Ms. Saffron I like your hair but your voice is super. ¡Saludos desde Uruguay!🌎🇺🇾

[@mattscott573]

Saw Republica in Huddersfield last night and they are as awesome as ever!

[@ThexBorg]

This was a nightlife anthem for me for many years. The track was stuck on repeat.

[@RicardoClement-vm4il]

Its worthy of such play. It totally has that 90's sound. Brings me right back. Gettin' old

[@JaimeMartinezJr-k5v]

Saffron.. beautiful inside and out ❤️

[@davidsommer1358]

i didn't know british women were so beautiful and saffron is the most beautiful of them all

[@williamprokipchak]

Like Republica? Check out the 90s band Curve, they helped create the template that REPUBLICA adopted years earlier with their work from. 91-93 plus an Lp in 1998.

[@fishitreelitreelitfishit881]

I think Saffron is still really attractive!

[@mariposamoreno]

YES!!!!! ‘97 was fantastic, the 90s were period. no doubt, republica, SP, 311, beastie boys… on and on i can go. i absolutely adored and adore most 90s music

[@melonycrumpet]

Saffron is so flipping gorgeous ❤

[@nateserpico2886]

She's fascinatingly smart, and find her to be an absolutely funny personality...what an interesting person. Could listen to her for hours talk, and the singing is just peachy.

[@DethronerX]

Damn, old footages and the lighting, colors, all look lively

[@raeraebadfingers]

She sounds good live. I'm happy to hear real vocals!

[@meal_team_six]

Absolutely beautiful!

[@terrianne6077]

I was 13 in 1997,my beloved nanna died September 13th 1997 and it devastated me😢The music was indeed great that year though;)

[@sunnydennison3302]

Ohhh nooooo, when were they in Nashville!?! I lived there at the time. Man that would have been epic. I liked their interviews, Fashionably Loud, and of course the Scream version video! Fan for life!

[@wrinkleneckbass]

Cool video. I really love Republica and their music. The synths, the driving guitar, top notch song writing, and Saffrons incredible voice and hypnotic stage presence, they were and still are a great band. I wish they had more albums though, every song they've written is a banger, they don't put out throw away tunes.

[@Lanae8199]

I turned 16 in ‘97. That year I got my driver’s license,and my first job at Burger King. I had an enormous crush on Maureen O’Boyle from the show “Extra” at the time.

[@Laidengizer113]

You're the same age as me. It's actually my birthday today. Getting older sure does suck.

[@Lanae8199]

@@Laidengizer113 Happy Birthday. My birthday is tomorrow, July 19th.

[@Laidengizer113]

@@Lanae8199 Oh wow, that's really coincidental. Also, my mom's name is Marie.

[@garywest9819]

Bloody Awesome!!!! Republica are top!

[@manueldesant4849]

Saffron was perfection 😍

[@timothyw98]

I saw Republica at the Robin 2 in Bilston back in June. Great night.

[@realkekec4028]

Saffron is 6 months older then me.And the Republica is back again in 2024.

[@Starflare5]

I was today years old when I learned Drop Dead Gorgeous was the basis for Scream.

[@saffcat101]

I love Republica so much!!! i was even named after Saffron :)))

[@dirtywhitecountryboy4404]

Awesome!

[@johnknight9150]

Literally!

[@davidponseigo8811]

Saffron is still " Drop Dead Gorgeous " literally !

[@DentyandShaz]

Saffron is a legend. End of story. 💘💘

[@mjh5437]

I remember the first time I ever saw her thinking Saffron was the sexiest woman I had ever seen since Deborah Harry...Still do.

[@innervisionjj]

Why did you guys do only so many tracks? I could see in Saffron's eyes, all she ever wanted to do was sing and perform. Please do some more, possibly independently cause the music industry sucks.

[@TheDamageinc81]

Yeah ... the record company crashes RUINED great music.

[@maurizioruvolo5411]

I had a genuine crush on Saffron back in 90ies 😅

[@dundundun4242]

Unfortunately the video was wrecked by seeing Tony Blair’s face

[@TheDamageinc81]

1997 was a GREAT ... I mean EXCELLENT year.

[@Curls105anarm]

Saffron Sparkling is a neat name. Neat to say.

[@lillinablue]

I want a time machine

[@migzmedua104]

im gen z and i just discovered them and im obsessed

[@vikinginspace4881]

I hat a right crush on Saffron when I was 15 lol she looks great now too

[@el_prezz]

Saffron becomes more chinese as she grows.

[@richatlarge462]

I love this song, but I don't understand the emphasis on how 'everything changed in 1997". Actually everything changed more monumentally a few years earlier with the 90s music explosion.

[@atomcraft4067]

Pop music was on the wane sort of between mid 94 to 97. Grunge had pretty much been homogenised. Hip Hop/RnB was transitioning. Brit Pop was hanging in there. There dark horse to emerge was the electronic scene that had been going for years. House. Drum and Bass. Techno. Somehow electronica got pushed forward to mainstream and with rock still lingering it made sense to combine the two.

[@douglasalfseike3867]

Came in a dream - automatic writing! Hello love!

[@davidponseigo8811]

Prince would still be with us making music but he went the heavy drug route and did himself in !

[@CodeCube-rv1rm]

Saffron’s hair ran so Knives Chau’s hair could walk

[@lancslad1972]

Saffron was gorgeous

[@enigma8088]

Saffron, cutie!

[@davidsommer1358]

oh English have invaded my mind and conquered my heart take all my territory😍🤗🤗

[@Macca-rb5ok]

She's Nigerian-Chinese!

[@douglasalfseike3867]

Started with an idea!

[@douglasalfseike3867]

1920's Bob hairdo, what a turn on!

[@KowankoMusic]

I love Saffron! But c'mon doesn't the rest of Republica get any credit at all for the first rate music and production?!

[@hadeseye2297]

Funny how politics had to be mixed into video about music. Well done bbc. Entertainment can't be fun no more. And additionally a MESSAGE that women were breaking through. Yeah, right. Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Alanis Morissette, Madonna, Kim WIlde, Kylie Minoque, Sabrina, Kate Bush, Samantha Fox, Aretha Franklin, and tons of more women were sinnign for decades. But somehow women had to break that invisible wall of patriarchy. xD It's a clown world we're living in. Thumb down for THE MESSAGE!

[@sparkmanuk]

Bother great English band!

[@Reticuli]

Brit shows stopped requiring them to lip sync to their own music.

[@joemilo2710]

After the amazing 80's and early 90's music came a terrible music era and it's still there 30 years later.

[@mjh5437]

Great days but Labour won the election that year and Britain has gone downhill ever since.

[@Domzdream]

Always made my head turn this girl. 👌

[@PARACLYTICC]

She did not age well.

[@richatlarge462]

She didn't age poorly. She just got older like all of us.

[@JoshHipHopLivin]

She was fine af back then, but I agree lol.

[@LilMissPandaPants]

She was ageing finely and normally in 1997 and still is, check out N-Joi 'Anthem' in the early 90s

[@davidbowman4259]

Gawd, Saffron was SO hot in "Ready to Go." Whew!

[@WANDRES.N-JOY]

Uma grande cantora mais infelizmente ela seguiu um estilo de música que não combina com ela o seu talento combina com estilo de música quando ela cantava no N-JOI que é o estilo de música que mais combina perfeitamente com ela mais infelizmente ela seguiu o estilo errado de música que não combina com o talento é personalidade dela uma grande cantora mais seguiu um estilo de música errado infelizmente.