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What is the meaning of the Bananarama song Robert de Niros waiting, talking Italian?

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What is the meaning of the Bananarama song Robert de Niros waiting, talking Italian?

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It was based on the iconic screen presence of De niro and in particular with his role in God father part two where he only spoke italian in the film playing the Marlon Brando god father as young man a blockbuster of the seventies this song was writen in the early eighties. In the mid seventies early eighties De niro was a major sex symbol he had a raw and intense screen presence which had not been seen since Dean and Brando and was considered cool by teenegers cause of the toughg misifits he played in Raging Bull ,Taxi Driver and Once upon a time in America, you gotta remember this song was writen many years before De niro created a lucrative paradoy of himself post God fellas in mulit plex fooder such as Meet the fokers anaylise this Casino etc. The songwriters of this song must have seen comercial potentional in his image and decided to to compose a catchy little jimgle which would appeal to a british public who took latin for being sexy , in the early eighties being French or Itiall

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