Truly Outrageous 03
Somewhere, it doesn’t matter in which place, there was a television turned on in which news were being presented by people in suits talking about important stuff and several things that could probably fly over the head of many people. It was at that moment that the news that truly mattered for us readers was about to be presented.
“Thank you Hard Hit for the weather forecast; now, let’s go with Spot Light with some news concerning our own city Canterlot and the future of entertainment” the man with the dark suit said sitting behind the desk while the camera then focused on a beautiful woman in a black dress with a monitor behind her.
“Thank you Flash News; so what’s been happening these last few days? Well, unless you decided to stop login in to any Social Media page or receive any news you probably won’t know about the latest craze on internet.
It all started 2 days ago when a simple MyStable post caused the site to crash due to the traffic it produced, later on it was found that the reason for the crash had been a song uploaded by a Canterlot High student; that same day a follower of the girl put the song on YouTube where in less than 24 hours later reached five million views.
The song, ‘Truly Outrageous’, quickly became the trending topic on Twitter and the singer, Jem, the most searched word on Goggle that same day; so who is this Jem? The answer was that nobody knew and there was no information about her. No label or recording studio raised their hands to say that this new singer worked for them or was working on a project, so who is this Jem and why did she become so popular this quickly?
Both Countess Coloratura and Sapphire Shores were interviewed by E entertainment about Jem and why her song was received so well. Both of them had similar answers which boiled down to sincerity and going back to the basics of music, using a sound that was both familiar and at the same time a fresh breeze in a genre of music that had become stale.
Both singers know all about it since Coloratura’s last album, right after dropping both her manager and the royalty title, reached platinum being a country album while Sapphire Shores is having huge success in her latest tour with R&B songs that take people back to the 90s.
So what does this mean for the industry in general? Not much beyond having some success as a one-hit wonder, but that all changed three days after the original video was uploaded. This time there was an official Jem channel created on YouTube, followed by a Twitter, Facebook and Instagram account, all of them followed by this video” she said turning around to the screen behind her to watch a video filmed by a mobile phone due to the quality. The one who was holding the phone ended up being a young woman with pink long hair and 80s style pink makeup.
“Hello denizens of the internet, Jem is my name and I want to thank everyone for all your support and nice comments; I’m doing this video because a friend of mine, Rarity Belle, who was also the one who uploaded the song, convinced me to finally make an appearance” she said while walking around what seemed an apartment complex, the camera then moved to show a girl with indigo hair and a white dress busy drawing something on a sketch board, the girl noticed the camera recording and send a half lidded look at Jem.
“Yeah, sorry, she is right now a little busy with a project of hers; anyway, I wanted to do this video to tell you all what’s going on; so, first of all, the original writer of ‘Truly Outrageous’ is working alongside my new manager and friend in more songs” she said refocusing the camera on a pair of girls sitting down on a sofa with several sheets of paper, pencils and color markers, one with pink hair of a less variant than Jem and the other one with deep red and yellow hair wearing a jacket with chevrons at the sides; both girls were busy checking and writing what seemed to be new lyrics.
“Did you told them about the plans for a band?” the red haired girl said still paying attention to the pages in front of her and Jem seemed to be quite surprised about that.
“I was about to Sunset… I have never understood how she could do that” Jem said shrugging her shoulders completely bewildered by Sunset’s antics “so, like my good manager reminded me of is that I am in the middle of creating a band and if any of you are interested of being a part of it you can send your applications to the link at the description of the video, hopefully if everything goes right and Sunset works her magic we will have a chance, so don’t go anywhere because the next few weeks will be truly outrageous! Jem out!”
The screen then changed and Spot Light was the focus for the camera as she turned around to finish her report on what had been happening.
“Well, as you can see the young woman has dropped a bomb on the music industry; if she does indeed creates her band and starts working on material and the chance to get a contract you can bet your money that there will be a huge war among labels to get Jem to sign for them; so far the official webpage for Jem’s band project had received several thousand applications and one has to wonder how many there will be before Jem starts making new songs for all of us. This has been Spot Light, thank you for listening” and like that the television was turned off as six girls that had been watching the news turned to watch each other with huge grins.
“That! Was! Epic!” the party girl among them screamed jumping up and down while the rest of the girls celebrated their success and first appearance of Jem on national television, for some reason the Jem project truly seemed to come to life after the coverage they had received.
“I cannot believe it worked, I mean, this still feels completely surreal” Applejack said aloud still not believing everything that happened the last few days.
“Yeah, that part with you as Jem and a hologram of yourself in the same shot was definitely mind boggling, since, you know, we know Jem and Sunset are the same person” Rarity said checking her cell phone and the amount of new followers that the Twitter account for Jem seemed to have amassed.
“I know, but by putting both Sunset and Jem at the same time everybody will take us as two separate entities and I can work on all the details of job applications and label contracts that are being sent to us”
“Good luck with that, the applications are still coming, hell, we even got an email from Sapphire Shores asking Jem if she would like to appear as a feature on a future single” Rainbow said with eyes glued to Rarity’s laptop and the mountain of emails that were being filtered thanks to Synergy.
“Well, seems like I have my job cut out for me” Sunset said laughing aloud at the current events “still not wanting to be part of the band Rainbow?”
“Oh hell no, I would love to get some popularity and appear on TV but not with this kind of music, besides I won’t have much time with trials for the Canterlot U soccer team” Rainbow said knowing well that her true passion would always be sports.
“Don’t worry Sunset, I’m sure we will find good band members” Rarity said putting a hand over Sunset’s shoulders, they knew that from now on they would be under the lights of the media and fans and things would get even more hectic.
“So that will be our immediate future then? A road full of glamour and glitter?” Sunset said joking making everyone giggle around the room.
“Don’t forget the passion and fame apparently” Applejack joked back as they all were prepared for the future of Jem and the most ironic name for a band. Seriously, Jem and the Holograms? Sunset didn’t know if the name was weirdly fitting or if it had came out of a cartoon show.
whoa i figure that their would be somestort of jem based story with in the e.girls verse
great job
good story glad you made this its own full story now some critics
1. rainbow dash is clearly more passionate about music than soccer so i cant see her caring more about soccer in university than music
2. (this one is more personal) i really wish you had left Countess Coloratura plot of dropping her old music and going generic in mlp as i find that to be the biggest insult to music as an art form and that made it my most hated episode of the show just becuase lady gaga and others music is different dont make it any less of a form of art but that episode was all about how wrong that style was and how apple jack was so great for saving coloratura and putting her back on the path of true music instead of the aseop being some times people change and just because this music is different dont make it any less of a art (hell jems music which this story is based on has more in common with that style than it does the generic crap coloratura went to int he end)
now back to pros
1. i am mixed over all on having sunset not just form the holograms with the girls but im interested to see where this goes and which characters you will bring in so over all im happy i reconemnd vinyl scratch (as a mute) just a bit sad to see they will not be the holograms
2. i love the bit with jemset and sunrgy (my nick names) durring the video
3. cake
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Thank you for your comments and the critic, now I'll try to answer some of those concerns.
Cons
1.- I originally thought of making the Rainbooms into the Holograms but then I decided to use other characters for the band, that's why they start the contest. Also, I decided to make Rainbow more interested into sports in this universe due to the potential problems with Sunset/Jem for leading on the band, after all it is Jem and the Holograms and ego is one problem for the human Rainbow. Yes, it would have been funny and more dramatic to show them in the same band and having internal problems but I decided to let her stay as the leader of the Rainbooms and later on maybe make a friendly rivalry arc.
2.- Don't worry, the Countess will return, in fact her and Sapphire would probably be recurrent characters. The reasn she dropped the title was to make a new album, kind of like a concept one where she experimented with new sounds, which is pretty important with artist to remain fresh, that doesn't mean she will stop using the veil and the huge hairdos, I mean, this IS a Jem and the Holograms crossover fic, it fits way too perfectly.
Also, the reasons you give for not liking that episode mirror much of my own critique, so yes, the Countess will re-appear in this show just with many changes to her situation this time around.
Pros
1.- I decided to do that because I don't see AJ or Pinkie leaving everything to go for fame, Applejack is way too down to eart and in this dimension she focuses more on working with her family, she joined the Rainbooms because she wanted to help Rainbow Dash and play with her friends while Pinkie... is Pinkie, she will do things because they are fun and to be with her friends while making people happy, while Fluttershy will work on lyrics with Sunset. For the rest of the Holograms I have in mind girls with a more 80s type of style from either the movies or the toyline, don't worry, all of them have appeared before in EG or the show. Also, yeah. Vinyl will be part of the band, just not all the time playing.
2.- I had way too much fun creating this Synergy; since she wasn't created by Papa Benton I wanted to give her a unique look and personality and that's how Synergy ended up like, it wasn't even a conscious decision, it just made sense while I was writing her, their interactions will be a focal point in the story unlike in the cartoon where she was only a gadget, here she will have her own opinions and shenanigans.
3.- Love cake.
7217086 so you like the nick names :P jemset and sunrgy i used? (hey this is the fanbase that has universal adopted scitwi for human twilight so i can nick name the incarnations of characters in your story)
Reminds me of Josie and the Pussycats.
Just found this and I love this.
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Cartoon 80's jem and the holograns
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That sounds like a cooler idea for the author and I agree on that I have seen clips and gifs (the surfboard one being my favorite) of jem and the holograms but have never seen it back then but I have watched Josie and the pussycats on boomerang.