Soarix Channel I like the animation in episode 1 to episode 5 as t wasn't bad. However, the animation picks up from episode 6 right up to the last episode, which is episode 65. 😊😃
It was their bread and butter. If they caught our attention with the opening, the game was won. Seriously, watching openings was probably 50% of the fun back then.
And Netflix never tried to air it so I bought the DVD set instead. That was a mistake as the quality of the DVD production is the absolute worst. Sometimes the discs won't even play!
@@hexkwondo the fierce competition from Barbie was simply too tough to fight off. Mattel even tried to shamefully copy the idea by making a Rock n roll Barbie edition. It seems Hasbro caught them totally off guard as they thought the show would flop. It has instead become a classic example of the shows and cartoons associated with the 1980s. However its time slot on Saturday mornings may have led to its fall as channels no longer wanted to even fund Saturday morning cartoons by the mid 90s. I remember getting up early every Saturday to watch this with sooo many other shows on USA network's Cartoon Express.
Or maybe the way the Misfits does the cutoff mid-way through the intro would be like the Troublesome Trucks of Thomas and Friends bumping and pushing the Sodor engines to their limits. Because the trucks are known to be chaotic. They like to cause trouble. Hence the name “TroubleSome Trucks.”
Jem is a prime and perfect example of product positioning. On paper it's a MTV inspired barbie alternative. In reality it is a beloved 80's cartoon many young boys watched right along Transformers and Inhumanoids.
Lyrics Jem Jem is excitement. Ooooh Jem. Jem is adventure. Oooooh Glamour and glitter. Fashion and fame. Jem! Jem is truly outrageous. Truly, truly, truly outrageous. Woooahh Jem! Jem! The music's contagious. Outrageous. Jem is my name, no one else is the same. Jem is my name! But we're the Misfits. Our songs are better. We are the Misfits. The Misfits. And we're gonna get her! Jem! Jem! The music's contagious. Outrageous. Jem is my name, no one else is the same. Jem is my name! Jem!
I’m 17 (born in 2004) and I know this show was way before my time but it’s still my favorite. I used to watch it when I was getting ready for school at 6 every morning when it’s used to come on while I was like 9 or 10 years old. I literally fell in love with it!!!😍😍😍 Still in love with this show and the songs to this day!!!❤️❤️❤️
@@Thewritingelf YESSSS!!! I'm also apart of the "secondhand" generation lol. Got a huge influx of 80s and 90s cartoons from the Hub and they still hold a dear place in my heart (even though not from my time). Similar to the millenials who got reruns of shit from the 50s-60s, feel like that's a big part of why culture cycles in and out of itself every 20-30 years too
I'm a 2004 baby too and this used to be my favorite to watch on The Hub. I also loved the original He-Man and She-Ra that used to come on at night on Qubo. The memories 😭.
That's truly outrageous! I wish I had known about "The Hub" when I was much older. Good on you. It shows that you have good taste and that the toon stood the test of time. It was a magnificent animation that appealed to all, even though no boy at the time would admit it. Probably because most cartoons of the time crossed over to toy lines to sell toys. But us boys loved it even if we didn't care for the toys, which speaks to the quality of the production. (Though, the glowing Jem earring on the Jem dolls intrigued me, if not made me a bit jealous. Lol.)
I literally used to run home from school to catch this show! It was a 15 minute walk. But school was out at 3:20 and this was on at 3:30. Unashamed fan of it 💗
Same school finished it be weekday afternoons here get there and watched along list of Cartoons just winner winner and competition aplenty just like the Music in 85,86,87,88,89 blows anything and everything else out to shame from 90s to now and whatever else after that happens forever
@kallistiX1 She also had a cold at the time she recorded this. I think you can tell by her nasaly voice upon listening! Still a great recording which I have a copy of with the 1-2-3 intro on a rare master recording cassette including 70 songs from the first season of Jem. No SFX and all of the tracks are from the original tape reels. The Jem theme is in stereo!
@@SuperMarioBrosIII Wait, omg, are you saying you have a copy of a master recording cassette? Where did you get it (I'd love to hear about its origins) and where might I obtain a copy?
Me and my friend watched the movie because we knew how bad it was. I knew it was bad but I didn't that it was THAT bad. It was. It's actually the worst movie I've ever seen in my life.
I saw the final showing on the final night it was playing before it went out of theaters. I stood up after the Misfits post-credits scene and shouted "THAT should have been the movie!" I then spent five minutes explaining to a total stranger why the movie sucked.
@@erintoney7137 Don't leave out "Takin It All"...they was on that female empowerment tip decades before it became a 'new' thing. The Misfits had some slappers.
The misfits would be far more popular today. Strong women who took what they want (albeit psychos and homicidal asses) and they do rock-pop-punk. Their music wasn't bad
I wasn't born in the 80s but my mom was so when I was little she let me watch some 80s shows like he-man, she-ra, and jem and the holograms and I absolutely got addicted to them so whenever I here their theme songs it's so to me nostalgia
My mum used to haunt me about the OG She-Ra while i watched the reboot, and she even dressed up as one of the J&tH characters for halloween. My mum is a literal legend at making me cringe, but she's a good mother
@@largol33t1 my mom had a cd pack for all of the seasons of the show, that's probably how they were able to watch it. Also I remember watching a episode where they had a princess and pauper moment with kimber on the hub channel
TheMitigating Incredible. I can't even imagine how you obtained those. Bravo, and thank you for sharing them with the world. Your channel is a treasure.
I showed my children this cartoon because my youger son was fascinated with the cartoons i grew up watching. After a few minutes into the very first episode after Jerrica transformed into Jem he asked me why they had big hair. I explained to him that big hair was popular in the 80s. I miss that decade and was so lucky to be born during that time.
The detail in this is amazing ..... Everything from the fringe on Jem's belt to the hair movement and direction . The fluidity of movement is spectacular . The beat is mesmerizing .
+Andrèr François LeJonèss Cause these were the days where they were still using super imposition to learn how the human body moves and re create it in animation. They used the same techniques for when He-Man was running.
this song sounds nothing like EKT, I swear most of the people searching for EKT now are a bunch of teenage retards from tiktok who don't know shit about music from the 80's, they'll hear any music with a retro vibe and think it's the same as EKT
I'm only 11, but my father would have me and my brother watch shows from the 80's and we talked about games. He also owns comics and he's an all around cool guy. Hes 41. I remember watching this, the ledgend of zelda, and the Mario Bros. show. I miss you dad. I wish I could see you more often.
The bassline in this theme is freaking nuts. One of my favorite openings ever. Done great justice! Also, at :31 I love how Jem is like "beeyatches please" and knocks them out of the song. lol.
Transformers, G.I. Joe & Jem are some of the coolest cartoons of the late 80's I use to watch all 3 of them on Chicago's Very Own WGN and later on The Hub
Wow.. my childhood just flashed by watching this amazing intro.. Jem was really outrageous.. loved it then and still love it now!, specially because of the angel singing.. Britta Phillips!!
Everything I needed to know about being a girl, I learned from this queen . 1. Smearing pink eyeshadow over half your face is a total look 2 Don't let anyone, especially the Misfits, steal your spotlight 3. You can be anything you want in life, as long as you're truly truly outrageous!! Happy birthday to MEEEEE!!!!🎉🎉🎉
I’m 11 right now in 2019 and I grew up watching this show when I was like 3 I love this show man, memories. I used to be so excited when this should would air on tv.
OMG This cartoon takes me waaaay back to my childhood days pretending to be Jem because we have the same name, hah!! Touching my earring and changing outfits haha!! Havent seen the movie yet, i hear it suxx, but i need to see it for myself. Someone needs to do remakes or remixes of the songs!! SHOWTIME SYNERGY!! XD
It's Jem in name only. No Jem songs. No synergy(just a small toy) Gender bending of Eric Raymond. No Misfits(only with the credits because of complaints). No Misfits songs. No Starlight Orphanage. No Starlight Records. Character history is completely rewritten( Mother is still alive but can't sing and father is no genius inventor etc). Jerrica and the rest are no independent women but needy teens. Need I go on? Basically it's just a Hannah Montana story with Jem names. They could've left the names out and it still would be a mediocre movie. It seems they would want to make them have a rol in the upcoming Transformer movie.
It's even worse than that. All that you mention, it's just bad adaptation. But it's also badly shot, badly written, the few special effects are incredibly cheap (they used Google Maps for their travel montage and in some scenes, they even left the logo in) and worst of all, a good third of the movie is made up of RUclips videos. Some of these RUclips videos were part of a contest that would allow fans to "appear" in this movie. They just had to film themselves talking about what they loved about the cartoon and they poorly edited it to make it look like they were talking about the character in the film. This push the movie from simply bad to despicable. Now, Michael Bay's Transformers don't look so bad.
@@toydigger lets just hope that someone takes the initiative to do a totally fresh remake. i feel like with the special effects of today it a really cool live action movie that is totally separate from the first attempt could be made, just need to get the idea to the right person :)
okay. I'm here because some studio decided to make Jem and The Holograms into a live action film. Saw the trailer and was totally disappointed. I was looking for the action and the effects that I remember from the show and just had to look for it to make sure that it wasn't my memory that was faulty. This live action is a travesty to the awesome show and sounds of Jem.
When I was a kid in the early 2000s, my family used to rent VHS's from a shop 20 minutes away from our house, and my younger sister got our parents to rent jem and the holograms for her. She would replay this intro over and over again because it was well animated and the theme song was so catchy.
That's a commercial theme, it was included on the Glitter and Gold doll cassettes. There are only two theme songs, this and the "Jem Girls" song used in later episodes.
It already WAS old when you started watching it. Still I'm glad you liked it. I guess 1980s glitz and glamour and hairbands still have universal appear and don't always come off as comically dated to anyone who didn't live through it.
When I use to watch this show on Netflix, I always thought how beautiful, smoothly and lifelike the animation for the intro was. Then on my animation course it was a prime example of rotoscoping. Which is a lot used in the 80’s but it’s one of my favourite ways to animate so this was very inspirational to me.
Man I use to fight with my sisters over the TV, this use to come on the same time as Voltron back in the day..hated Jem back then, but it makes me smile now thinking about my sisters and how life has come a long way. Thank you
my mom made me watch this when i was little and she thought i would hate it cause it wasn't one of the "new" more entertaining shows but instead i fell in love with it
Jem (Jem is excitement) Ooh, Jem (Jem is adventure) Ooh (glamour and glitter, fashion and fame) Jem (Jem is truly outrageous, truly, truly, truly outrageous) Whoa, Jem (Jem), the music's contagious (outrageous) Jem is my name, no one else is the same Jem is my name But we're The Misfits Our songs are better We are The Misfits, The Misfits And we're gonna get her Jem (Jem), the music's contagious (outrageous) Jem is my name, no one else is the same Jem is my name (Jem)
-> I can imagine this remaster with updated animation (it would be perfect as a Josei-style anime)! Everything would be untouched (OST, voice-overs, etc.) except the animation. -> If I had the money I would fund it!
The sad thing is, if this series were ever published on Blu-ray, it actually wouldn't look as good as this, because it would almost surely be taken from the same source as the Shout Factory complete boxed set, which are the TV masters. But the earlier Rhino set (which I believe is the source of the video element here) was far superior, because it was taken from the actual original negatives, so the colours are much richer, the lines much sharper, etc. Now, a Blu-ray of the Rhino set would be, well, truly outrageous -- and unsurpassable in quality. But it likely won't ever happen, since Shout apparently now has the rights and, as mentioned above, they're using the TV masters that are one generation removed from the negatives, resulting in the drop in visual quality from what we see here.
Stephanie Mcgarry not completely true. CW has brought back Saturday morning cartoons. Only problem is instead of lasting from 7 to 12 it only lasts from 7 to 10, but I guess it's better than nothing.
I look back and it just feels weird to me now being a young black boy back then and religiously watching this cartoon every saturday morning, I think my stepfather thought i was gay, lol
Best fact about this? This first take was so good, that the team didn’t want to part with Britta so they kept her as the singing voice for Jem after this theme (Samantha Newark was supposed to be both the singing and non-singing voice).
after listening to the three different section tracks, you kind of get a new appreciation for the full thing. (Although I didn't realize how little lyrics Britta had outside of "Jem" and "ooh".)
Jem was really freaking good from what I remember. But I do recall she was in a love triangle between her, her boyfriend and her persona and tiny child me thought it was so messy 😭
My God, this brings me all the way back to that 4 year old girl who pretended she was Jem all afternoon in her bedroom. I don't know how many times I sang this song as a kid. :-))
@@qwertyshook4872 - most likely the poster is NOT from The States, as JaTH wasn't anywhere there from 1993-2011. It was rerun by Cartoon Network in 2004-05 everywhere but US and Canada.
This intro is so awesome especially the misfits part "But we're the Misfits our songs are better we are the Misfits the misfits and we're gonna get her! Amazing song
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This show was actually animated in Japan by the same company behind Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball. I find that fascinating.
hell yeah, because it looks so awesome.
A lot of 80s US cartoons were made by Japanese companies
Cool
I didn't know that 😳
That would explain why Jem does the Idol Step there during the opening song.
This intro alone is better then the live action movie
Joe Young Truth
Amen to that!
The opening itself is better animated than the entire series
Soarix Channel I like the animation in episode 1 to episode 5 as t wasn't bad. However, the animation picks up from episode 6 right up to the last episode, which is episode 65. 😊😃
The movie did bad it got pulled because of poor reviews.
The quality of this video is outrageous.
Truly truly truly outrageous!
It’s from I think the 70’s
Jello actually from the 50's
The actual show looks like hot, wet ass
Nah, that hair is totally 20's.
They used to put in WORK on these opening themes back in the day...this is so dope
Adventure Time, Rick and Morty are pretty good.
It was their bread and butter. If they caught our attention with the opening, the game was won. Seriously, watching openings was probably 50% of the fun back then.
Look up 'Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors'. A lot of people consider it the best intro from the 80s
@@TheKyrix82 I am among the one who prefers Ulysses 31 and the one from Fraggle Rock, but Jayce's is up there in the podium of awesome.
Um not really, this was a musical show so It had to have a good theme song? I mean we have good theme song today
seriously not even netflix has this quality
It used to be on Netflix.
Lol that's what I used to watch this on
Hun i wonder why they took out the show. It would have way more watchers than the movie would
And Netflix never tried to air it so I bought the DVD set instead. That was a mistake as the quality of the DVD production is the absolute worst. Sometimes the discs won't even play!
@@hexkwondo the fierce competition from Barbie was simply too tough to fight off. Mattel even tried to shamefully copy the idea by making a Rock n roll Barbie edition. It seems Hasbro caught them totally off guard as they thought the show would flop. It has instead become a classic example of the shows and cartoons associated with the 1980s.
However its time slot on Saturday mornings may have led to its fall as channels no longer wanted to even fund Saturday morning cartoons by the mid 90s. I remember getting up early every Saturday to watch this with sooo many other shows on USA network's Cartoon Express.
0:07 WTF! The show hasn’t even started and they all just die in a car crash?
someone should make a conspiracy theory video about it
💀💀💀
Wow.. maybe the Holograms were actually.. ghosts??! OMG
Just like Yuyu Hakusho.
That's how we got Jiz and the Mammograms. The flawlessly stepped in after the accident.
The Misfits music would have done much better in the 1990s, when grunge and anger songs were more popular. All started by Nirvana.
Courtney love is the live image of the blonde of The Misfits (Hole).
Nirvana was in the show too, Riot was backup guitar but left the band to start the Stingers.
@TheVoiceOfTruth not on a mainstream level. i think that was what was meant
Not really, the punk scene was bigger in the 80s.
How much they ruined the Jem movie is truly truly outrageous. They could've made it something great, but they made it terrible.
GalaxyLynx AJ they turn the whole plot around it’s the worst But my favorite jem episode is when she saves the orphanage
I refuse to watch that monstrosity. I heard they were releasing a movie and I got excited, then the trailer comes out and I was pissed.
you are stupid
Douglas Newson How
That’s because they put a bunch of kids in it who weren’t even alive when this show was on. They didn’t capture the magic.
who here from EKT?
MEE i hate to say it but its not from Jem my mum has watched ALL the eps i showed her EKT and said she dosent recognise it sorry :(
@@Duckiiiixx15 it alright :D
@@Duckiiiixx15 Thank you for letting us know!! 💗
Me🙋🏼
Lol
The Misfits rolling in mid-way through is like being hit in the face by a swarm of wasps. Absolute gold. ❤
Hell yeah perfect cutoff
Or maybe the way the Misfits does the cutoff mid-way through the intro would be like the Troublesome Trucks of Thomas and Friends bumping and pushing the Sodor engines to their limits. Because the trucks are known to be chaotic. They like to cause trouble. Hence the name “TroubleSome Trucks.”
and it's interesting we never see Eric Raymond in that breakaway. We see Rio but not him.
@@robinorlowski2449you briefly see Glen Danzig
They were better! They played their own instruments and didn't need Senergy for shit!
Jem is a prime and perfect example of product positioning. On paper it's a MTV inspired barbie alternative. In reality it is a beloved 80's cartoon many young boys watched right along Transformers and Inhumanoids.
What about He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Voltron Defenders of the Universe, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero.
Me and my brother both watched JEM.
Me included
I certainly did.
Guy here. Proud fan of Jem. It's a great show.
Lyrics
Jem
Jem is excitement.
Ooooh Jem.
Jem is adventure.
Oooooh
Glamour and glitter.
Fashion and fame.
Jem!
Jem is truly outrageous.
Truly, truly, truly outrageous.
Woooahh Jem!
Jem!
The music's contagious.
Outrageous.
Jem is my name, no one else is the same.
Jem is my name!
But we're the Misfits.
Our songs are better.
We are the Misfits.
The Misfits.
And we're gonna get her!
Jem!
Jem!
The music's contagious.
Outrageous.
Jem is my name, no one else is the same.
Jem is my name!
Jem!
Thanks!
That’s me
that quality was off the hook!!!
+Angeliquelovely she was my first crush, but don't tell chetarah from the thunder cats!!!!
+Angeliquelovely wow lol that's whats up lol
Angeliquelovely Merry Christmas mami
Peter Lyday is sarcasm
Facts!
I’m 17 (born in 2004) and I know this show was way before my time but it’s still my favorite. I used to watch it when I was getting ready for school at 6 every morning when it’s used to come on while I was like 9 or 10 years old. I literally fell in love with it!!!😍😍😍 Still in love with this show and the songs to this day!!!❤️❤️❤️
Wait so like....did you also watch it on the channel The Hub ? Cause that's where I saw it as well if you did.
@@Thewritingelf YESSSS!!! I'm also apart of the "secondhand" generation lol. Got a huge influx of 80s and 90s cartoons from the Hub and they still hold a dear place in my heart (even though not from my time). Similar to the millenials who got reruns of shit from the 50s-60s, feel like that's a big part of why culture cycles in and out of itself every 20-30 years too
I'm a 2004 baby too and this used to be my favorite to watch on The Hub. I also loved the original He-Man and She-Ra that used to come on at night on Qubo. The memories 😭.
That's truly outrageous! I wish I had known about "The Hub" when I was much older. Good on you. It shows that you have good taste and that the toon stood the test of time. It was a magnificent animation that appealed to all, even though no boy at the time would admit it. Probably because most cartoons of the time crossed over to toy lines to sell toys. But us boys loved it even if we didn't care for the toys, which speaks to the quality of the production. (Though, the glowing Jem earring on the Jem dolls intrigued me, if not made me a bit jealous. Lol.)
LITERALLY SAMEEE
I literally used to run home from school to catch this show! It was a 15 minute walk. But school was out at 3:20 and this was on at 3:30. Unashamed fan of it 💗
Good way to keep fit. XD
Truly truly outrageous.
FACTS
I was running with you.
Same school finished it be weekday afternoons here get there and watched along list of Cartoons just winner winner and competition aplenty just like the Music in 85,86,87,88,89 blows anything and everything else out to shame from 90s to now and whatever else after that happens forever
I miss the 80's😖
This World Crazy don’t we all
This was Britta Phillips AUDITION. She nailed so hard they made it the theme song!
@kallistiX1 She also had a cold at the time she recorded this. I think you can tell by her nasaly voice upon listening! Still a great recording which I have a copy of with the 1-2-3 intro on a rare master recording cassette including 70 songs from the first season of Jem. No SFX and all of the tracks are from the original tape reels. The Jem theme is in stereo!
@@SuperMarioBrosIII Wait, omg, are you saying you have a copy of a master recording cassette? Where did you get it (I'd love to hear about its origins) and where might I obtain a copy?
now this is jem not that bullshit movie
Thank you! I wasn't going to even consider wasting money on that garbage having grown up with the original Jem.
i know that's right
Me and my friend watched the movie because we knew how bad it was. I knew it was bad but I didn't that it was THAT bad. It was. It's actually the worst movie I've ever seen in my life.
I didn't even see it and I know it was one of the worse movies ever to come into existence.
I saw the final showing on the final night it was playing before it went out of theaters. I stood up after the Misfits post-credits scene and shouted "THAT should have been the movie!" I then spent five minutes explaining to a total stranger why the movie sucked.
my mom got me hooked on this show...
Dk’s reindeer costume same
My mom introduced me this too😂
Nya same my mom has been showing me this since I was a baby
My sister got my hooked and I'm her brother
My mom introduced me to the show a while back as well, back when it aired on Hub
0:27 The Misfits part is the most played part. They didn't lie when they said their songs were better lol
LIES😂 Their songs are so not better.
@@TheMissuz82 idk… Scandal and Queen of Rock and Roll might’ve ate up Jem’s whole catalog 😅 Tho I really love Dear Diary.
@@erintoney7137 Don't leave out "Takin It All"...they was on that female empowerment tip decades before it became a 'new' thing. The Misfits had some slappers.
The misfits would be far more popular today. Strong women who took what they want (albeit psychos and homicidal asses) and they do rock-pop-punk. Their music wasn't bad
Its just so satisfying to watch idk
I wasn't born in the 80s but my mom was so when I was little she let me watch some 80s shows like he-man, she-ra, and jem and the holograms and I absolutely got addicted to them so whenever I here their theme songs it's so to me nostalgia
My mum used to haunt me about the OG She-Ra while i watched the reboot, and she even dressed up as one of the J&tH characters for halloween. My mum is a literal legend at making me cringe, but she's a good mother
What channel did you watch them on if they went off the air at the end of the 1980s?
@@largol33t1 my mom had a cd pack for all of the seasons of the show, that's probably how they were able to watch it. Also I remember watching a episode where they had a princess and pauper moment with kimber on the hub channel
I just listen to this for 3 hours on loop. It hurts, man. It hurts. The past was so good..
Lol
Appearently the audition tape for Jems singing voice was so good it became the opening with no rerecording.
Who is the original singer for this theme song?
@@georgemanzur6789 Britta Phillips
@@Eszra One last question invite me asked, how do I find a 2024 signing tour? (Texas/
@@georgemanzur6789 not sure other then to google it
WOW. This is the finest quality of the opening I've ever seen or heard. How did you get this?
TheMitigating Incredible. I can't even imagine how you obtained those. Bravo, and thank you for sharing them with the world. Your channel is a treasure.
+TheMitigating can you explain why it doesn't look like this on Netflix? This looks and sounds amazing.
+TheMitigating IT'S ERIC RAYMOND!!! He stole the master tape!!!!!!! lol
+TheMitigating love the sound.. so nice to be able to hear the words clearly, thanks! =)
+TheMitigating The original mix master tapes, will you be.....maybe toreenting them? to spread it to the Jem fans?
It’s been seven years of me watching this. I’ve watched hem since I was five. Now I’m twelve and still watch jem!
The quality is outstanding.
You mean "outrageous". ;)
#truly
MARVEL + Anime that's WHY!!! =D
I showed my children this cartoon because my youger son was fascinated with the cartoons i grew up watching. After a few minutes into the very first episode after Jerrica transformed into Jem he asked me why they had big hair. I explained to him that big hair was popular in the 80s. I miss that decade and was so lucky to be born during that time.
That Misfits break SLAPS!!!!
RIGHT!!?!
This is MIND BLOWING!!! The quality and density of the sound!!! WHAT A JEM YOU GOT IN YOUR COLLECTION! (yes, pun absolutely intended!)
Who's reliving the 80s by researching this Classic in 2019?
You know a show is good when a guy wants to watch the show
That’s a weird way to validate a show’s quality.
@@MsMvsc keep in mind that Jemez target audience is mostly young girls.
@@LightKing1237
Yes, obviously. The way you worded it made it seem like "if a guy likes something, it must be good" though
@@MsMvsc not my intent
@@LightKing1237 many dudes like the show
Truly, truly, truly one of the greatest intros ever!
The detail in this is amazing ..... Everything from the fringe on Jem's belt to the hair movement and direction . The fluidity of movement is spectacular . The beat is mesmerizing .
+Andrèr François LeJonèss Cause these were the days where they were still using super imposition to learn how the human body moves and re create it in animation. They used the same techniques for when He-Man was running.
It's a beautiful looking theme song! I have also heard it was rotoscoped.
Slooshie fully . Still leaves me in awe
THE SOUND CLARITY IS "OUTRAGEOUS!!!"
=)
It's 2023 and I STILL find her truly outrageous❤❤❤❤❤
Anyone come here from
Everyone knows that (ulterior motives)?
Yes
Me
this song sounds nothing like EKT, I swear most of the people searching for EKT now are a bunch of teenage retards from tiktok who don't know shit about music from the 80's, they'll hear any music with a retro vibe and think it's the same as EKT
@@iwantalienstotakeme FACTS
So it's the movie that "shall not be named." Okay. Got it.
One of the best shows from my childhood. I will always love this show.
I'm only 11, but my father would have me and my brother watch shows from the 80's and we talked about games. He also owns comics and he's an all around cool guy. Hes 41. I remember watching this, the ledgend of zelda, and the Mario Bros. show. I miss you dad. I wish I could see you more often.
The bassline in this theme is freaking nuts. One of my favorite openings ever. Done great justice!
Also, at :31 I love how Jem is like "beeyatches please" and knocks them out of the song. lol.
Omg the bassline is like CRACK frfr….definitely one of my favorite shows growing up.
Transformers, G.I. Joe & Jem are some of the coolest cartoons of the late 80's
I use to watch all 3 of them on Chicago's Very Own WGN and later on The Hub
Funny, WGN came free with Cox cable subscription in Oklahoma City so they aired a few shows I might have missed out on like Punky Brewster.
I'm young and I have to thank my parents for showing me old shows like this.......
I get chills....
Shows like he-man, brave star, she-ra, thunder cats, etc.
My Mom introduced me too
Soo nostaligic lol miss the old times
someone please make a soundtrack for this! I don't care if it's fanmade or not I want it to happen!!!
Wow.. my childhood just flashed by watching this amazing intro.. Jem was really outrageous.. loved it then and still love it now!, specially because of the angel singing.. Britta Phillips!!
I'm so greatful my mom showed me this show as a little girl AwA been my favorite show from child to adult
Everything I needed to know about being a girl, I learned from this queen .
1. Smearing pink eyeshadow over half your face is a total look
2 Don't let anyone, especially the Misfits, steal your spotlight
3. You can be anything you want in life, as long as you're truly truly outrageous!!
Happy birthday to MEEEEE!!!!🎉🎉🎉
and don't forget people naturally have colored hair, This includes Rio who although never sings has purple hair??
i’m watching this while crying i miss this show
I’m 11 right now in 2019 and I grew up watching this show when I was like 3 I love this show man, memories. I used to be so excited when this should would air on tv.
I grew up on this even if I’m young. This was my fav show ever as a kid. Might just go find it and watch it 😂
We love Jem! ❤
this song is so catchy
OMG This cartoon takes me waaaay back to my childhood days pretending to be Jem because we have the same name, hah!! Touching my earring and changing outfits haha!! Havent seen the movie yet, i hear it suxx, but i need to see it for myself. Someone needs to do remakes or remixes of the songs!! SHOWTIME SYNERGY!! XD
It's Jem in name only. No Jem songs. No synergy(just a small toy) Gender bending of Eric Raymond. No Misfits(only with the credits because of complaints). No Misfits songs. No Starlight Orphanage. No Starlight Records. Character history is completely rewritten( Mother is still alive but can't sing and father is no genius inventor etc). Jerrica and the rest are no independent women but needy teens. Need I go on? Basically it's just a Hannah Montana story with Jem names. They could've left the names out and it still would be a mediocre movie. It seems they would want to make them have a rol in the upcoming Transformer movie.
It's even worse than that.
All that you mention, it's just bad adaptation. But it's also badly shot, badly written, the few special effects are incredibly cheap (they used Google Maps for their travel montage and in some scenes, they even left the logo in) and worst of all, a good third of the movie is made up of RUclips videos. Some of these RUclips videos were part of a contest that would allow fans to "appear" in this movie. They just had to film themselves talking about what they loved about the cartoon and they poorly edited it to make it look like they were talking about the character in the film. This push the movie from simply bad to despicable.
Now, Michael Bay's Transformers don't look so bad.
+POLE7645 At least Bay succeeded in doing what the originals did. Jem didn't do anything with the franchise.
I hope after all these years you never watched it.
You'll be so sad.
@@toydigger lets just hope that someone takes the initiative to do a totally fresh remake. i feel like with the special effects of today it a really cool live action movie that is totally separate from the first attempt could be made, just need to get the idea to the right person :)
okay. I'm here because some studio decided to make Jem and The Holograms into a live action film. Saw the trailer and was totally disappointed. I was looking for the action and the effects that I remember from the show and just had to look for it to make sure that it wasn't my memory that was faulty. This live action is a travesty to the awesome show and sounds of Jem.
***** I will do so. Thanks!
+Melissa D there's also a really funny skit with people dressed as Jem characters reacting to the horrible movie trailer.
the artists had fun with this show
Man they really used too put a lot of work on there theme songs
You'll never see a show again that put so much work into the Wardrobe ever
Are you kidding? These outfits look horrible.
@@bored_person how many cartoons change clothes bad or not. I guess that's why you're boring
Winx Club
Monster High
Ever After High
@@bored_person it’s the 80s, what do you expect 😂
@@taylord28 I expect modern viewers to recognize how horrible it looks today.
When I was a kid in the early 2000s, my family used to rent VHS's from a shop 20 minutes away from our house, and my younger sister got our parents to rent jem and the holograms for her.
She would replay this intro over and over again because it was well animated and the theme song was so catchy.
That's awesome
That's a commercial theme, it was included on the Glitter and Gold doll cassettes. There are only two theme songs, this and the "Jem Girls" song used in later episodes.
i just listen to "Jem Girls" its not as catchy as this one lol
Jem Girls was okay, but it just wasn't as powerful as this intro.
Edit for typo.
Do they still sell them somewhere?
my mom introduced this to me when I was growing up since she loved the tv show while she was in her teens and now it’s one of my favorites too
*Israel
Reminds me of my childhood...makes me want to cry. Catoons were so good...Jem...Transformers...GI joe...being a kid in the 80s was the best!!!
You are so right.
Don't forget Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, TMNT (1987)
80's was the best time!
Nostalgia Overload💖💖💖
This show was the reason I love 80’s music 💖
I started watching this when I was 12 and now I’m 16. This show will never get old
It already WAS old when you started watching it. Still I'm glad you liked it. I guess 1980s glitz and glamour and hairbands still have universal appear and don't always come off as comically dated to anyone who didn't live through it.
I started watching this when I was 6 or 7, I’m now 36.
I watched this with my mom. Looking back now I probably would LOVe this a lot more now.
You can watch it on *Tubi* for free.
tsntana I know, she has seasons 1-2 on dvd so that’s where we watch them.
When I use to watch this show on Netflix, I always thought how beautiful, smoothly and lifelike the animation for the intro was. Then on my animation course it was a prime example of rotoscoping. Which is a lot used in the 80’s but it’s one of my favourite ways to animate so this was very inspirational to me.
PLEASE TELL ME THE TRUUUUUUUUTH!!!
Man I use to fight with my sisters over the TV, this use to come on the same time as Voltron back in the day..hated Jem back then, but it makes me smile now thinking about my sisters and how life has come a long way. Thank you
"Show's over Synergy!"
The star earring illuminates....and (aww man!) she's one of us again.
all these years ive never realized you can hear the count before the song starts
my mom made me watch this when i was little and she thought i would hate it cause it wasn't one of the "new" more entertaining shows but instead i fell in love with it
Jem (Jem is excitement)
Ooh, Jem (Jem is adventure)
Ooh (glamour and glitter, fashion and fame)
Jem (Jem is truly outrageous, truly, truly, truly outrageous)
Whoa, Jem (Jem), the music's contagious (outrageous)
Jem is my name, no one else is the same
Jem is my name
But we're The Misfits
Our songs are better
We are The Misfits, The Misfits
And we're gonna get her
Jem (Jem), the music's contagious (outrageous)
Jem is my name, no one else is the same
Jem is my name (Jem)
This IS music. I have goose bumps and am about to cry. No joke.
I remember watching Jem with my mother every morning from 7 to 7:30 and then I would go to my school that I was new to at the time. Ahh good times. :3
-> I can imagine this remaster with updated animation (it would be perfect as a Josei-style anime)! Everything would be untouched (OST, voice-overs, etc.) except the animation.
-> If I had the money I would fund it!
please! somebody do this!
I am from the 2000 and I love jem
The sad thing is, if this series were ever published on Blu-ray, it actually wouldn't look as good as this, because it would almost surely be taken from the same source as the Shout Factory complete boxed set, which are the TV masters. But the earlier Rhino set (which I believe is the source of the video element here) was far superior, because it was taken from the actual original negatives, so the colours are much richer, the lines much sharper, etc.
Now, a Blu-ray of the Rhino set would be, well, truly outrageous -- and unsurpassable in quality. But it likely won't ever happen, since Shout apparently now has the rights and, as mentioned above, they're using the TV masters that are one generation removed from the negatives, resulting in the drop in visual quality from what we see here.
Yeah, the difference in quality between these masters is jaw-dropping. I could barely get used to watching the remaining episodes in inferior quality.
A blu-ray in French version like this would be magical : ruclips.net/video/fTXzieYi66E/видео.html
Me and my mom luv this show. She watched it when she was a kid.💗
Luv this show so much.😍😍😍😍
Omg sugar cereal and Saturday morning cartoons was the life!It's a shame these shows are no longer part of today's kids Saturday morning life lol 😂
Stephanie Mcgarry not completely true. CW has brought back Saturday morning cartoons. Only problem is instead of lasting from 7 to 12 it only lasts from 7 to 10, but I guess it's better than nothing.
I look back and it just feels weird to me now being a young black boy back then and religiously watching this cartoon every saturday morning, I think my stepfather thought i was gay, lol
Don't feel bad. I'm black and my brother used to watch it too.
I used to watch Jem and Centurions before my elementary school bus picked me up in the mornings; I will never stop saying how much I miss the 80s.
Just gotta ask who let them COOK ?? In all seriousness though this is easily one of the greatest cartoon theme songs of all time
Best fact about this? This first take was so good, that the team didn’t want to part with Britta so they kept her as the singing voice for Jem after this theme (Samantha Newark was supposed to be both the singing and non-singing voice).
The best fact is that Britta was ill recording this and she still killed it.
Miss the 80’s cartoons. Great intro music!!
after listening to the three different section tracks, you kind of get a new appreciation for the full thing. (Although I didn't realize how little lyrics Britta had outside of "Jem" and "ooh".)
Honestly this is so iconic i just cant 😍 My moms friend got me star earrings just like Jem has and I got childhood flashbacks omg
Best opening ever!
Jem was really freaking good from what I remember. But I do recall she was in a love triangle between her, her boyfriend and her persona and tiny child me thought it was so messy 😭
I don't know how many times I've watched this video, it's so addictive. Definitely this opening is truly truly truly outrageous!
Man this show was awesome back in the day.
Coming back to my childhood shows again! :) it’s now 2023. I watch this back in 2014 😻! I actually had the DVDS from the 80’s ahhhh
DVD's didn't exist in the 80's
Such high quality
My God, this brings me all the way back to that 4 year old girl who pretended she was Jem all afternoon in her bedroom. I don't know how many times I sang this song as a kid. :-))
Gotta say, the music videos were bangers. I'm tempted to rewatch sometime.
WOW! Jem and Holograms! amazing
Any other 2000s kids that grew up on this?
Right here Mate.
@@Nightbear460 YAY
This was *the* girliest show I watched as a child, and I’m proud of myself
I am crying. How I loved this cartoon. OMG.
I wasn’t even born in the 90s and this was still my childhood
It was like all I watched in 6th grade
kh critical player this came out in this 80s ;-;
Having it be a part of your childhood when it was popular is a different experience, just saying.
@@qwertyshook4872 - most likely the poster is NOT from The States, as JaTH wasn't anywhere there from 1993-2011. It was rerun by Cartoon Network in 2004-05 everywhere but US and Canada.
This intro is so awesome especially the misfits part "But we're the Misfits our songs are better we are the Misfits the misfits and we're gonna get her! Amazing song
In D7. Best bridge ever.
My mom told me this was one of her favourite shows when she was a kid
12 dislikes!!!! F"""ing outrageous. Truly.