“Kia Tu Mahea” is positive, bilingual HI-NRG dance track, though it’s just hitting the end of this particular musical style’s life in the pop charts.
The video is great – bold, colourful and sometimes split into Mondrianesque segments. Maree is joined by kapa haka performers, children, an African man, dudes in fresh urban threads, and fly girls.
Maree Sheehan always comes across with great confidence in her videos. She’s never taken the traditional video babe route (no rolling around with/in silver spandex for her), but the early ’90s feels like a kinder, gentler time when no one with NZ On Air funding was doing the hard-sell sexy video. At least not yet.
Best bit: Maree and pals in casual shorts, doing casual dancing.
Director: Matt Palmer
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Next… the bleak, urban wasteland that represents the soul.
NZOS Embed is here 🙂
http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/kia-tu-mahea-1994
Thanks for this too – I’ve updated.