Revisiting Jem and the Holograms
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- Опубликовано: 18 ноя 2024
- What are the best songs by The Holograms and their rival band, The Misfits? We use some of Jem's greatest hits to inform which episodes of the series we should watch!
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This show helped me get through a bad relationship/break up and a generally bad part of my life. I spent so much time watching it on my old laptop when I was like 19 and dealing with life. I'm 34 now and it still holds an important place in my life and I still listen to a lot of the music to this day. I wish it was more popular but it might also get some butchered reboot/remake if it was so I'm torn on wanting it to keep going.
I wrote to the original creator almost a decade ago now. She was so gracious and emailed me back, and unfortunately, told me how they never asked her about being involved with the movie and only hasbro had the rights to the show and all properties with it. In my email i told her my idea for what i think would be a great idea for a movie/tv special. Pretty much it would be an oprah tv special, two hours, discussing what really went on back in those days and rehashing the incident that caused jerrica to come out and let the world know she was jem. Going through more adult themes, like the misfits using drugs. One of the holograms having a cancer scare. And more good things like what happened with the starlight childrens home. Eventually, I have a reuning performance of a medley of songs by both bands. I dont even care if i have credit, but i think this would be an excellent closure to the show and series as a whole. I still sing "always there in my heart" for my dad on fathers day because it is such a beautiful song. All the songs are wonderful. I hope they give this show the justice it deserves.
A 2 hour special with Video interviewing Jem & The Holograms to go over what happened post Ba Nee would've been amazing. What did she think of it?
@windego999 she never really addressed that, i think she wanted to avoid what could have been and focus on what was and what is still great. Which is the og show. She ended it with keep watching jem and the holograms, and i do! But i hope she takes it, honestly. If she ever is able to revisit the show, I'd gladly accept her taking any idea from my email. Cause the movie was such a tragedy and ik a good cartoon special to tie up loose ends in a show canceled too soon, she can use it all!
i can i speak for the fandom when i say that the tv series was much better than film. And how they trick fans into saying they liked the film rather than the series.
I've never seen this show, only a few clips here & there. I became aware of this Jem because of 2015 movie, aka a bunch of anal fluids.
I watched a few episodes after finishing this video, and you can tell the songs were priority number 1 and stuff like plot & characterization wasn't to important.
Still, the songs were pretty catchy and the visuals during the songs looked nice. It's a charming time capsule of a pre-Ren & Stimpy/Simpsons era of TV animation.
The lyrics were written by Barry Harmon. The music was composed by either Anne Bryant or Ford Kinder. For each song both Anne and Ford created their own demos to the lyrics. And then someone at Sunbow or Hasbro picked which version they liked better. Usually Anne’s was picked for the Holograms songs, and Ford’s was usually picked for the Misfits. But the Misfits “Universal Appeal” was Anne’s version.
To be continued… that was pretty common for Transformers and G.I. Joe too. The first three episodes of Transformers was a 3-part episode. The first 10 episodes of G.I. Joe is made up of two 5-part episodes. All three series had several 2-part episodes sprinkled in. The multi part episodes usually introduced new toys.
Did you catch the Toys That Made Us on Netflix? Mattel made Barbie and the Rockers to compete with Jem when they found out Hasbro was coming out with a singing fashion doll. So instead of taking the normal 18 months, Mattel got Barbie and the Rockers out in 3 months. So the Rockers van was actually the Barbie camper from the 70s and the Rockers stage was the stage created for Donnie and Marie Osmond dolls in the 70s.
Fun fact, there was a new rival band the Stingers. The second to last episode “Riot’s Hope” was about how the male lead singer Riot struggled to get permission of his father to play music. He met another Stinger, Minx, and joined the band she was in named “Nirvana.” Years before the real life Nirvana became popular.
I also own this series on DVD, and know that a part from Jem, I have seen Christy Marx write episodes of the series Reboot, also own the complete series of that, too, and she published a game for Sierra, Robin Hood Legend Of The Longbow.
I had better subscribe now.
Take care, and all the best.
I know that the film gave Christy Marx the role of Lindsey Pierce, but like Ghostbusters 2016, the Jem movie doesn't exist.
The songs were not fillers. The writer of the episode would write notes, like a paragraph, of what the song should be about in the script, and then that was sent to the lyricist and composers. The song would be written, two versions demoed, one version approved, recorded, and sent back so that the storyboard artists could make the music videos. The issue with the consistency between the action and the song is because two separate teams were creating the storyboards. The first five episodes are not a good representation of the series. They were written as just seven minute segments that would appear in a show called Super Sunday. So it would be seven minutes of Jem, seven minutes of Bigfoot and seven minutes of Inhumanoids or something else each week in 1985. So when those fifteen 7 minute segments were put together as Jem episodes in 1986, they are a little choppy. They even had to go back in and add scenes to fill out the whole 22-1/2 minute episode.
Not a good reference for the difference between boys and girls shows. Unlike My Little Pony, Jem was written to keep the attention of boys. The thought was if the brothers couldn’t get into the show they would change the channel and the sisters would not see the characters and want the dolls. In general girls were less likely to be watching television, and the boys would be more likely to change the channel. They even had to change the theme to “Jem Girls” for the last 26 episodes to try to get more girls to watch it, because more boys were watching it and that made it uncool for girls to watch. So in a way Jem was very gender, neutral, if not more a boys than a girls show. Actually Britta’s demo was used for the “M” theme song. Hasbro and MTV had a deal worked out which the cartoon would air at a specific time and the theme song would play during regular video air play. For some reason MTV dropped out very last minute and Hasbro changed M/Morgan to Jem/Jerrica. The “M” theme song sound was on par with songs on the radio, when they switched the name Hasbro requested the sound to be more kids orientated. Besides a new arrangement, the vocals had to be re-recorded as Jem.
That's interesting to hear about the theme song. What you're saying fits perfectly with my experience as a male viewer, I watched Jem all the time, and loved the season 1 theme. That's all very spot on.
The woman in this video is annoying so pessimistic.
Well isn't that mean, everybody is untilled to their own opinion.
@Randomlad.0737 These Jem fans are feral. Haha!
Indeed my fellow chump.