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Sign on - Rat Boy

'Sign On' in an indie song released in 2015 by indie rock band Rat Boy. The song contains very fast editing with vibrant colours and inclusions of props such as a bouncy castle. These things may have been included to emphasise the fast pace of the song, and to show that the artists are young and energetic.

 The car used throughout the song could typically be seen as a car owned by people on the lower class, this connoted that the young men portrayed in the video are lower class, which links to the theme of the song, which is about signing onto the benefits system. 

There is also an inter-textual reference in the video to 'Alright' by Supergrass. This reference is that all the band members are shown driving in a car in 'Sign On', and in 'Alright', the band member are shown riding around on a bed. Another reference, is a scene in 'Sign On' where a band member is riding a chopper bicycle, this also happens in 'Alright' by Supergrass. This infers that Rat Boy used some ideas from 'Alright' and used the songs video as inspiration for their own.