From yokonkwo@hanse.de Fri Nov 04 12:18:50 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!hanse!yokonkwo From: yokonkwo@hanse.de (Yuki Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [INFO] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1994Nov04.121850.5629@hanse.de> Date: Fri, 04 Nov 1994 12:18:50 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Looking back at the complete 180-degree shift between the 1984 idol campaign and the late 1985 rock era. 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? -- Yuki Okonkwo Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg. ------------------------------------------------------------ From lsilva@stanford.edu Sun Nov 06 08:51:50 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!stanford!lsilva From: lsilva@stanford.edu (Lars Silva) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1994Nov06.085150.4883@stanford.edu> Date: Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:51:50 GMT References: <1994Nov04.121850.5629@hanse.de> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Nov04.121850.5629@hanse.de>, yokonkwo@hanse.de (Yuki Okonkwo) writes: > Looking back at the complete 180-degree shift between the 1984 idol campaign and the late 1985 rock era. > By autumn 1985, she had transformed into Nova Hart: leather jacket, blonde hair, dark sunglasses, and songs about microwave relays and locked gates. I bought that soda single in Tokyo when I was a student! She sounded like a totally different person, cheerful and polished. -- Lars Silva Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Stanford University Computer Systems Lab. ------------------------------------------------------------ From schoi@cern.ch Sun Nov 06 21:06:50 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cern!schoi From: schoi@cern.ch (Sun-mi Choi) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1994Nov06.210650.6842@cern.ch> Date: Sun, 06 Nov 1994 21:06:50 GMT References: <1994Nov04.121850.5629@hanse.de> <1994Nov06.085150.4883@stanford.edu> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Nov06.085150.4883@stanford.edu>, lsilva@stanford.edu (Lars Silva) writes: > I bought that soda single in Tokyo when I was a student! She sounded like a totally different person, cheerful and polished. Yes, always blonde! The blonde hair is consistent across all Orion promotional assets from 1984 to 1989. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Sun-mi Choi "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." NeXTstation Turbo Color / FreeBSD 2.1