The Go-Go's - Yes Or No

What this video is

Released in 1984, 'Yes or No' arrived at the apex of the Go-Go's cultural visibility and at the precise moment the group was fracturing internally. As the third single from Talk Show — the band's most critically mature album — the video captures the Go-Go's at a crossroads: the polished, high-energy performance aesthetic of early MTV coexisting with the creative tensions that would dissolve the band that same year.…

Why it matters

The Go-Go's were the first all-female band to write their own songs, play their own instruments, and reach number one on the Billboard album chart. 'Yes or No' and its video represent the final chapter of that breakthrough run, cementing their place in the canon of women in rock while…

The director

Mary Lambert (born October 13, 1951, Helena, Arkansas) is an American director of music videos, feature films, and television. A Rhode Island School of Design graduate, she became one of the most prominent music video directors of the 1980s, working with…