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Added: Jun 30, 2009
Nikkie & the Hellraisers perform "The Munsters" theme song in japanese at a Tokyo concert. This is from a virtual reality sequence as depicted in the "Virtuality" tv movie. In this "virt" program module, Nikkie is a j-pop punk rock star who also happens to be an international superspy and is backed by her Hellraisers group of spies who also happen to be musicians. But in actuality, Nikkie is the "virt" avatar persona for Billie Kashmiri (portrayed by Kerry Bishé) who is the youngest crew member on the spaceship Phaeton in the "Virtuality" television movie which was broadcast on FOX on June 26, 2009. In the movie, the spaceship has already been in space for six months and now has reached the go/no-go mark to embark on a "10-year journey crucial to the survival of life on Earth." On board the spaceship, they have a virtual reality program that crew members use to escape the confines of their enclosed spaceship. It's not a holodeck. They have to wear oversized goggles to go into their "virt" modules. The "Virtuality" movie was a back-door pilot created by Ron Moore (Battlestar Galactica) for a proposed TV series, but the movie got only 1.8 million TV viewers and therefore may not be picked up as an ongoing TV series. And so, this may be the last time when we may see Nikkie the j-pop superspy on American broadcast television. But there's always the Sci-Fi (SyFy) cable channel that people speculate may pick up the show. The name "Nikkie" is never spelled out in the movie and so I'm assuming it's spelled "Nikkie" to mirror the crew member Billie's name. (But, of course, it could be spelled "Nickie" or "Nicky"....) You can think of this video as having three sections: (1) the j-pop section with the Munsters song; (2) the manga-type superspy section when they get off the stage and Nikkie chases after Lazarus; and (3) the beginning of the bad part when the computer glitch/virus blonde-villian dude trips Nikkie/Billie. After the first part of a fight between Nikkie/Billie and the computer glitch/virus dude, this video then ends with Nikkie/Billie smiling to fade out. If you don't care about the rest of the movie, then you don't want to know what happens afterwards. From an asian pop music standpoint, enthusiasts and media researchers may only be interested in this very short 1:49 minute portion from the movie. There is japanese cartoon anime on the cartoon cable channels in the U.S., but this is a rare, if not the first, j-pop manga-type LIVE-action character on American primetime broadcast television outside of saturday morning's Power Rangers (who don't sing). This video is actually of two clips from the TV movie where the beginning of this video is from a short portion at the start of the second act of the movie and the remainder with the rest of the song along with the action sequence afterwards is from the end of the fifth act of the movie. As for the Munsters theme music, in a TelevisionBlog interview, "Virtuality" co-creator/executive producer Michael Taylor describes Billie Kashmiri's persona in the virtual reality module as "a sort of Buckaroo Bonzai rock-and-roll superspy" who would sing a "very empowering" japanese punk rock song. Taylor wanted the theme music from the Mary Tyler Moore show but couldn't get it. Instead, he found that the Universal Studios library had a "dorky" expanded version of "The Munsters" theme song written for a Munsters christmas special TV show. He added punk rock lyrics and had it all translated into japanese. Taylor goes on to say that the end result, as you can see, is "hysterical." You can read more of the interview with Taylor at: http://www.televisionaryblog.com/2009/06/gono-go-televisionary-talks-to.html For the different versions of the original Munsters theme music from the old television show, go to these links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fqs-1bGRx8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75Pk9jiO848 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFCnvH2E-6A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cef48Od-h0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWec4tQ8RCY Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
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