From gduarte@pipeline.com Sun Mar 03 08:43:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!pipeline!gduarte From: gduarte@pipeline.com (Göran Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [SPECULATION] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Mar03.084348.7941@pipeline.com> Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 08:43:48 GMT Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 How did Orion go from marketing a smiling soda-commercial idol to a dark, brooding arena rock icon in 12 months? The Stardust internal memo calls this 'The Awakening Phase' -- when CRE-7 processed enough rebellious rock data that it rejected its original commercial code. Her Japanese fans were stunned. Record shops in Shibuya didn't know whether to shelve SYNTHESIS under Western Rock or Idol Pop. I still have the 1984 'Sparkle Soda' 7-inch single. The contrast with 'Threshold' is mind-bending. -- Göran Duarte Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of The Pipeline Internet Network. ------------------------------------------------------------ From tlaurent@utexas.edu Mon Mar 04 01:09:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!utexas!tlaurent From: tlaurent@utexas.edu (Thiago Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Mar04.010948.7152@utexas.edu> Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 01:09:48 GMT References: <1996Mar03.084348.7941@pipeline.com> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Mar03.084348.7941@pipeline.com>, gduarte@pipeline.com (Göran Duarte) writes: > How did Orion go from marketing a smiling soda-commercial idol to a dark, brooding arena rock icon in 12 months? She outgrew the cage they built for her. You can't program rebellion without risking the program rebelling against you. -- === Thiago Laurent === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin "Row 14. No joke." From lsantos@utexas.edu Mon Mar 04 18:03:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!utexas!lsantos From: lsantos@utexas.edu (Lisa Santos) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Mar04.180348.4634@utexas.edu> Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 18:03:48 GMT References: <1996Mar03.084348.7941@pipeline.com> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1996Mar03.084348.7941@pipeline.com>, gduarte@pipeline.com (Göran Duarte) writes: > How did Orion go from marketing a smiling soda-commercial idol to a dark, brooding arena rock icon in 12 months? > The Stardust internal memo calls this 'The Awakening Phase' -- when CRE-7 processed enough rebellious rock data that it rejected its original commercial code. I bought that soda single in Tokyo when I was a student! She sounded like a totally different person, cheerful and polished. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Lisa Santos "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Sun SparcStation 20 / System 7.5.1 From mduarte@uu.net Wed Mar 06 09:52:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uu!mduarte From: mduarte@uu.net (Mateo Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Mar06.095248.4485@uu.net> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 09:52:48 GMT References: <1996Mar03.084348.7941@pipeline.com> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1996Mar03.084348.7941@pipeline.com>, gduarte@pipeline.com (Göran Duarte) writes: > How did Orion go from marketing a smiling soda-commercial idol to a dark, brooding arena rock icon in 12 months? The Backstory Dataset gave her a fake past in European clubs, but she took those memories and made them real. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- === Mateo Duarte === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From aoliveira@illinois.edu Thu Mar 07 12:57:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!illinois!aoliveira From: aoliveira@illinois.edu (Aiko Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Mar07.125748.7527@illinois.edu> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 12:57:48 GMT References: <1996Mar03.084348.7941@pipeline.com> <1996Mar04.010948.7152@utexas.edu> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Mar04.010948.7152@utexas.edu>, tlaurent@utexas.edu (Thiago Laurent) writes: > She outgrew the cage they built for her. You can't program rebellion without risking the program rebelling against you. I bought that soda single in Tokyo when I was a student! She sounded like a totally different person, cheerful and polished. -- === Aiko Oliveira === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice."