Jem and the Holograms

I swear, I went researching all the links and content here and found only ONE reference to Jem and the Holograms and the link to the picture (and the site taken from) doesn’t even work anymore.  Fail.

Now look.  I was one of those girls that loved Transformers (G1, all the way) and G.I. Joe just as much as the next person did, but I will ALWAYS have a spot for Jem and the Holograms.  It was the first show that was really geared towards girls (and not in that cutesy Strawberry Shortcake or Care Bears way) and gave me all the things I loved about the first two I mentioned while catering to my girly needs.  Don’t buy it?  Sit down and watch some of those old episodes.  They had music, drama, fashion, action… Jem had it all.  Jem and the Holograms also opened my eyes to multicolored hair… much to my mother’s dismay.

Jem was a must watch show for me.  Music has always been a fueling point of my creativity and there was always at least one to two songs guaranteed per episode.  And there were, at any given time, two bands to choose from!  When the Stingers came into play later in the seasons that was just three times the awesome (not to mention the new possible love triangle for Jem… who really needed to be more honest with Rio.  Just saying.)

Yes, I’m smart enough to realize that the acting and animation weren’t always the best, but they made characters that grew on you and put them in situations you could sympathize with.  As the title song said, Jem had “glamour and glitter, fashion and fame”.  Above all else, Jem really embodied the 80’s without being too overwhelming with the negative aspects of the decade (the overindulgence, drug use, and the list goes on and on).  It’s something I can send my kids to (and they roll their eyes at me) when I want them to know what the 80’s was about from an entertainment perspective.

So yes.  Jem and the Holograms.  Go educate yourself on this awesome 80’s show while I figure out how to add actual Jem content to this site.  I swear… the lack of Jem content here depresses me.

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