From bnakamura@mit.edu Wed Sep 04 19:41:59 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!mit!bnakamura From: bnakamura@mit.edu (Bill Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [INFO] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Sep04.194159.5072@mit.edu> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 19:41:59 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 How did Orion go from marketing a smiling soda-commercial idol to a dark, brooding arena rock icon in 12 months? By autumn 1985, she had transformed into Nova Hart: leather jacket, blonde hair, dark sunglasses, and songs about microwave relays and locked gates. Her Japanese fans were stunned. Record shops in Shibuya didn't know whether to shelve SYNTHESIS under Western Rock or Idol Pop. Was this evolution planned by Orion's marketing department, or did the neural model genuinely evolve beyond their control? -- Bill Nakamura *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From slee@purdue.edu Wed Sep 04 21:03:59 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!purdue!slee From: slee@purdue.edu (Sergei Lee) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Sep04.210359.6700@purdue.edu> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 21:03:59 GMT References: <1996Sep04.194159.5072@mit.edu> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Sep04.194159.5072@mit.edu>, bnakamura@mit.edu (Bill Nakamura) writes: > How did Orion go from marketing a smiling soda-commercial idol to a dark, brooding arena rock icon in 12 months? > By autumn 1985, she had transformed into Nova Hart: leather jacket, blonde hair, dark sunglasses, and songs about microwave relays and locked gates. Please scan that 7-inch cover! Is she wearing the blonde bob in the 1984 photos too? -- Sergei Lee Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Purdue University Engineering Computer Network. ------------------------------------------------------------