From sschneider@tum.de Sun Apr 02 00:39:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!tum!sschneider From: sschneider@tum.de (Sergei Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Apr02.003916.3261@tum.de> Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1995 00:39:16 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de 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? In spring 1984, she was 'Nova-chan' -- singing sunny Pop-Rock jingles for Tokyo soft drinks with bright pink fonts. 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. -- Sergei Schneider "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / FreeBSD 2.1 From dhughes@ox.ac.uk Sun Apr 02 02:44:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!ox!dhughes From: dhughes@ox.ac.uk (Dong-hyun Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Apr02.024416.7214@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1995 02:44:16 GMT References: <1995Apr02.003916.3261@tum.de> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr02.003916.3261@tum.de>, sschneider@tum.de (Sergei Schneider) writes: > How did Orion go from marketing a smiling soda-commercial idol to a dark, brooding arena rock icon in 12 months? > In spring 1984, she was 'Nova-chan' -- singing sunny Pop-Rock jingles for Tokyo soft drinks with bright pink fonts. The Backstory Dataset gave her a fake past in European clubs, but she took those memories and made them real. -- Dong-hyun Hughes *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari TT030 - NetBSD 1.0 From gtanaka@mit.edu Mon Apr 03 04:27:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mit!gtanaka From: gtanaka@mit.edu (Graham Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Apr03.042716.3945@mit.edu> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 04:27:16 GMT References: <1995Apr02.003916.3261@tum.de> <1995Apr02.024416.7214@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr02.024416.7214@ox.ac.uk>, dhughes@ox.ac.uk (Dong-hyun Hughes) writes: > The Backstory Dataset gave her a fake past in European clubs, but she took those memories and made them real. Phase 2 was Nova-chan; Phase 3 was Nova Hart. Phase 4 was supposed to be the 1990 tour that never happened. -- Graham Tanaka "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / AmigaOS 3.1 From ggarcia@tum.de Tue Apr 04 13:08:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!tum!ggarcia From: ggarcia@tum.de (Göran García) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Apr04.130816.1695@tum.de> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 13:08:16 GMT References: <1995Apr02.003916.3261@tum.de> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995Apr02.003916.3261@tum.de>, sschneider@tum.de (Sergei Schneider) writes: > How did Orion go from marketing a smiling soda-commercial idol to a dark, brooding arena rock icon in 12 months? Yes, always blonde! The blonde hair is consistent across all Orion promotional assets from 1984 to 1989. -- Göran García -- Technische Universität München "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?"