From bstewart@illinois.edu Sat Dec 16 10:59:15 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!illinois!bstewart From: bstewart@illinois.edu (Bill Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Dec16.105915.2726@illinois.edu> Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 10:59:15 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up? 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 Stewart "We don't sign stars. We build them." Macintosh IIfx / AmigaOS 3.1 From jeriksson@mit.edu Sat Dec 16 17:36:15 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mit!jeriksson From: jeriksson@mit.edu (Ji-woo Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Dec16.173615.9354@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 17:36:15 GMT References: <1995Dec16.105915.2726@illinois.edu> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Dec16.105915.2726@illinois.edu>, bstewart@illinois.edu (Bill Stewart) writes: > Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up? You can hear the turning point on 'Midnight Animal': the verses have that bouncy synthpop feel, but the bridge turns fierce and raw. -- Ji-woo Eriksson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.