Can we talk about how the holograms are slaying those background vocals

Even more brilliant considering Britta Phillips (singing voice of Jem) was a self proclaimed grunge rock singer who took the gig on a whim. She had to learn up to 20 songs a week and sing 1 to 2 octaves higher than she’d normally sing. She delivered everytime ❤️❤️❤️

Jem is a f*cking BEAST! Her high notes are amazing!

She hit that note at the end.

For those who want to know the last note at the end, it was a high Soprano C (C6). The highest belted note Jem ever hit was a B5 in "Show Me the Way". If she kept hitting high notes in many of her songs and that her upper middle notes (E5-A5) was where she was at her best, Jem must be a true soprano. Usually, a pop singer would be a mezzo soprano (the most common female voice type) who usually sings best at the lower middle (Bb4-Eb5), but Jem must be lucky.

I remember when I was a kid and got the Glitter And Gold Jem doll. I put in the cassette tape, and this was the version I heard. And I got goosebumps! The high note at the end is the highest note Jem ever hit, and it blew me away! At 41 years old, it still does today. :)

U know it's a hit when jem starts with that rasp in her voice

Jem just fucking KILLED that last note!! I'd pay good money to see her live!

Fun Fact: Jem & The Holograms is an American production that can also be technically labeled as an anime, as it was animated by Toei, way back in the 80's while they were in the middle of working on Dragon Ball/Z.

The high notes gave me goosebumps.

Jem & The Holograms MURDERED THIS!!!! 👐👐👐

Every little detail. .... Man , this is magic . The moment right before they show shana's sketches.... The way Jem just falls into a pose . Wow

I did a tone generator match for Britta Phillips' high note: C#7Db7. That is not an easy note for many female singers to hit. Wow!!

Britta did that!!

BEST JEM SONG EVERRRRR

Absolutely iconic. Pop stars take notes

0:51 lol turning a new page and burning the old, damn just broke up with someone today. Such a true coincidence

Each of the songs from "Jem & the holograms" (misfits & co too) are tiny masterpieces. such quality was put in these series.

The songs still sound dope and the fashion still rocks... the favorite song is “Like a Dream”

how iconic this cartoon is ,best ever,i love this song

Coated in the sleek, dazzling veneer of the 1980's!

Jem has range!!!!!!!!!

💥😱🤩I'm still losing my mind over this song decades later! It still holds up!TFS!!!💛

The signature song from the final episode of season 1, created to launch a new doll line. The song and the episode were home runs. Alas, the doll sales weren't. Can't win them all, I guess.

My dream is to see a movie/TV series that is similar to Grease or Glee but with Jem & The Holograms. And that it stays true to the cartoon. Small modifications is ok but pls nothing like the actual poop live action movie that came out and flopped hard. Or to see real life singers in their character's outfits/makeup/hair and just have them actually sing a bunch of the songs from the show LIVE! I'd pay $200 general admission to see that! Pls. But I guess it must be super hard nowadays to find someone with an amazing voice like Britta Philips or Samantha Newark!

Listening to this while GnG Jem and Rio arrive. Outrageous!

One of those songs that live rent free in my mind 🎶

Jem is so good!😇🤩🤩🤩

This gets me in the mood for dancing

She SLAYED!!!!!

Those notes Britta hits in this song are ridiculous!

Ahh glitter and gold Jem , this was my favorite outfit form jem absolutely gorgeous

This episode was aired the day of my 8th birthday

Jem songs are truly outrageous! love them lol

Bruh.... SLAY!!!

song always gives me goosebumps because of the high notes.

Lol Kimber and Aja have contrasting dresses to their hair. At first I thought the pink would be something Kimber wears, and blue for Aja. But now, it looks good as an adult watching

"You see, Mr. Powers. I love GOOOOOLD."

I know Britta is the singer, but I met Samantha Newark yesterday at a con and man oh man is she a darling! She was super sweet and gahhh. She talked to me about the movie and how people should take it as an alternate universe and give it a second chance.

Fucking Cash Money Millionaires up in this bitch!

I had all the dolls! Even Rio

glitter and gold is my favorite song by jem and the hologram

Favorite Jem song for sure!

my fav jem song 😘😘😘

Leave the SBF alone, this is classic animation from the 80s/90s, you know when cartoons was good? I grew up in the same age as these guys (save Baby Liam) and spent my puphood watching a shit ton of beast wars, gargoyles and my little pony. Jem is just good shit! If you took all the animated music from the 80s and 90s and compared them to ANYTHING from the 2000s, shit son..forget about it. Hell the Lion king sound track ALONE pwns the modern age of music. Much love Zaibatsu, forever your loyal fan!

Here comes gold!

This song is so rare!

still fire

This sounds amazing, !!! so clear..

I adore this song! Also…For some reason, every time I hear it I think of the Muses from Hercules…I could see them singing this as well 💖

I love this cartoon Jem I used to watch it when I was younger and I loved it I wish they had a set of this gem-set I would buy it right away

This quality is superior to the DvD set...

I love this cartoon series to death but i’ve always thought that the holograms’ outfits are never as stylish as Jem’s. It’s like how Beyonce’s outfits are always flashier than the other members of destiny’s child. 😂😂

80s and 90s had the most amazing cartoons, most of them had a deep meaning, they also have poor techonolgy and so amazing realistic drawing and now is the opposite... amazing technology and no tallented drawers and directors etc... fortunately internet exist and we can watch again our precious and beloved cartoons

I love this song!

This is gold.

Las mejores caricaturas como estas ningunas

I love this song ❤❤❤❤

Jem is better than mariah carey

I'm sensing that The Misfits' Abracadabra and Krissie's You May Be A Star sampled this.

My #2 fave song in the series! #1 for me is Top of the Charts because all three main bands are singing together. It's my fave Holograms song, though.

Now I remember that this was the very video that started your Master Tape Collection, on which you've updated the video and sound on both English and Spanish-sung songs, TMF. Good things to remember by...

This is off the free mail away cassette it also had back in shape

Thanks zaibatsu needed this

Bro something about the way the hair is drawn just tickles my brain.

They're pushing to ban glitter! and this was the first thing that came to mind

La voz de esta mujer, por favor! Me parece maraviloso lo bien hechas que estaban las canciones, sobretodo pensando que era un dibujito para nenes creado para vender muñecas.

heh.. i wanted these doll so bad as a kid. My family was pretty dammed poor.. so it never happened but i woulda loved em.

When you can get around to it, I'd love to hear the steams to this (Acapella and instrumental). Good work mister!

Why isn't this Goldust's entrance theme?

Jem 🤔 my next tattoo

Show ❤️

theyre queens

The word OUTRAGEOUS gets thrown around a lot in these comments.

Fantastic upload of a fantastic clip! The vibrant colors, the properly-paced motion, and the audio... wonderful! :D The noise removal is a tad too heavy-handed in my opinion though, causing a sort of blobbing effect that makes background forms look more featureless. But, it's always a tough compromise when you take media meant for CRT and analog signals, and convert them to high-res and digital. Old media looks best in its native format, and it's difficult to really emulate that in modern videos. Just like how with old 8 or 16-bit video games, load 'em up on an emulator or run them on your HD TV (hopefully with the picture forced back to 4:3 resolution as intended).... and it's like "Man, those graphics looked so much better to me back then, guess it's cuz it's old." But if you run it on a CRT monitor/TV, lo and behold, they still look good in their at-the-time way! The pixel art and animations were made specifically to work around the screen's pixels, to creatively use signal noise, etc. Same with animations from back then; they could use coloring tricks to fill in the illusion of detail, but those tricks fall apart when viewed without the lower resolution connecting those dots, and even more is lost and blended together with noise removal such as used in this clip. To us nowadays, those old low resolutions seemed to restrict media at the time. However, when you take those "restrictive" elements away, you get an image that's NOT what was originally intended. So yeah, in our quest for crisp clear picture, old media like this ends up suffering a good bit when it's cleaned up and over-perfected. A small bit of grain is a GOOD thing in many cases. The age of the format wasn't so much restricting the art, more like the art *embraced* the format it partnered up with to bring us these excellent oldskool animations. Uh, now that my nerdy tangent is out of my system... I still am amazed at the pure, stable picture and audio quality here from the source. It must've been pretty darn well kept and converted. I'm impressed! Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this. It's really something that the official company's upload of this clip is riddled with combing (jagged rows of lines between frames) due to a TERRIBLE attempt to convert the interlaced video to progressive format. So to get this with the smooth motion intact is super friggin' awesome. :D Yes, the frame-rates in these old shows were clumsy (they looked quite a bit better at the time in their native interlaced format, but like I said, today's screens just do NOT play nicely with interlacing, so a good bit of smoothness is lost in the conversion even when done as perfectly as possible)... but they worked by hand on painted cels, their budget was limited, and they were basically told "We're making toys, make these characters do stuff so the toys get popular." And yet, so many of those producers NAILED it. They weren't just half-hour toy commercials, they were works of vision, passion, and true art. Time and again, the quality of the toys themselves were cheap and shallow compared to the shows that had been commissioned to sell them! Though I have heard great things about certain merchandise too.... I missed a lot of that due to poverty at the time, but I watched He-Man/She-Rah, My Little Pony (G1), Thundercats, Transformers, Centurions, and of course Jem, as much as I possibly could. They had compelling stories (even if rushed/simplified for young audiences), interesting characters, and in many cases, AMAZING music. And those were elements kids of any gender could enjoy, as well as even adults on an artistic level. And man, did Jem deliver, both on the music, and the 'truly outrageous' fashion of the time. These mini music-videos were what I really watched for, always so imaginative and purely for audio-visual aesthetic. I miss that sense of confidence the loud proud styles of the 80s (and early 90s) gave me as a little girl. Over time, society tightened up, got more judgmental, formed "cringe culture" to shame anyone for being true to themselves if it happens not conform to some arbitrary level of dignity. So I'm glad the 80s-90s styles of clothing are coming back. I've indulged in some crazy outfits and accessories, and wearing them while reminding myself to stop worrying about what others think of me, has helped me immensely in overcoming my self-esteem and social anxiety issues. So that's why I love to revisit this show, and the others which bravely went forth with passionate ideas. Shows that didn't HAVE to go so hard on creativity, but they did anyway. That bravery of both the teams who brought those shows to life, and the memories and fashion of the times, continue to inspire me, and help me reclaim a decent piece of my life after circumstances tore it apart. Heh... sorry for the rambling (I've got ADHD and boy do I do that, jeez). Just typing what runs through my mind as it does. But I wanted to again thank you for this great upload. This is about as good as we can get on our modern screens, and it's so vital for this classic to be preserved, and passed down over time. This upload does that so much better than the actual property owner, and that's saying something. How over time, corporations may consume the individuals within them and lose touch with audiences, may shrug and give in to demands as they hear them to maximize profits yet not care about the passion behind those properties... but we remember (and Pepperidge Farm remembers! ;D), and we know that these works of art deserve appreciation and care. You never know whose day might be made, who really NEEDS the inspiration or confidence boost of this old media, whose very lives may be saved in part due to these clips being a light in the darkness. True art is both shaped by the world around it, and in turn can continue shaping that same world. A show that combined so many elements of visual and auditory brilliance definitely deserves to keep its place as an inspirational medium, and deserves this respectful, high-quality presentation. Thanks a lot. ^_^

The dancing animation at 0:38 is giving me flashbacks to that one scene from Rock Me Twinkle Nora :'D

I love The Misfits Album Cover, I feel they were robbed. I know there Album went platinum too. 😅

jem & holograms = madonna ...the misfits=cyndi lauper xD

🥳

Remind me why didn’t get an album? Or 4?

awesome 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😇😢😇😇😇

This sounds like Far from Over by Frank Stallone. If you don’t know who Frank Stallone is he is Sylvester Stallone’s younger brother and they look a little alike.

I hope they bring this back and no, not in the fashion of that fuck shit live action film either. The REAL Jem and the Holograms.

Jojo Bizarre Adventure Part V: Vento Aureo Opening

I'm just saying the cassette had the same stuff as the master they didn't clean it up before putting it on the mail away ^_^

Is there an app or website I can watch the series

My god, the outfits back then. I don't know if I should be fascinated or horrified.

Can I stream the show somewhere?

While there might be better songs that Jem sung... THIS song is the one that shows how irreplaceable Britta Phillips (singing voice of Jem) was.

Wow, that sounds and feels VERY much like a Misfits song. "Aren't I awesome, just look at how amazing I am, I'm just stunning, huh?" sort of stuff. "Turning their heads with glitter and gold"---themes of wealth and the power of shallow appearances--classic class-conscious Phyllis Gabor. "Turning a new page and burning the old"--yep, a Misfit just loves burning down the boring old stuff and making it all new. Even the arrangement is much less sweet and soft than the typical Jem song. The only thing there that Pizzazz wouldn't sing was the line about her heart; leave that out and this sounds very much like it was the Holograms stealing and recording a Misfits song for once. (^_^) I guess turnabout is fair play. I always loved the show, but this has to be in my personal top five worst Holograms songs; blech.

They need to remake the song so that can be a bit more longer amd find someone who can sing it right

People used to watch this?!?!

Dammit, Zaibatsu. This Pseudo-80's shit was terrible, lol. I've got a friend who mentioned that he liked this show, now I'm even more confused as to why.

"You see, Mr. Powers. I love GOOOOOOLLLLLLD."