Rockin' with Barbie and the Rockers!
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- Опубліковано 11 гру 2016
- Let's take a look at the 1987 special Barbie and the Rockers: Out of this World (combined with Barbie and the Sensations: Rockin' Back to Earth). SHUT UP DEREK.
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Wait, so Barbie _literally and canonically solves all global conflict?_ Wow, I guess no-one can ever give Barbie any shit for living an indolent, carefree lifestyle, cuz she damn well earned it!
Fors Clavigera this amd the Wyld Stallions. What was with time traveling bands saving the world?
Music is the powerful vibration that shapes the world. Craft perfection and birth a world of ideals given form.
Barbie: *Starts singing*
ISIS: I guess we’ll just stop now
*"Move your face, Ken. That's what makes you human...."*
a world of multiple kens all living different lives trying to escape? police officer ken, firefighter ken, surgeon ken... barbie bonfire ken? oh that could go to dark places :/
although lone man of the mountain ken sounds like a hilarious one as well as Kung Fu Master Ken.. but Ken exists as one of barbies excessories to extend her own enjoyment of the world and therefore only exists in ways that allows him to be various forms of excessories to Barbies Hubris and Id. It actually sounds like a super concept to explore for a robot chicken movie that would be live action and with high budget and actual.... people dressed as barbies and kens instead of the usual stop motion etc
Robot Chicken: Ken in Fight Club!
i just finished watching barbie and i thought of this comment
yes. you are an oracle
Guys holy shit
Your prayers have been answered in 2023❤🥳
so people in the 50's where left in shock as barbie andthe sensations dissapear and never come back? imagine the depression and anguish of fans
Pinkie and the Brain actually did that right.
This is outrageous. Truly, truly, truly outrageous.
It's also unfair
Jem is so much better...
lol this really does remind me of Jem and the Holograms!
@@radiactivemermaid8691 That's actually the point! This doll line was made to steal Gem's thunder. I think the Barbie and the Rockers dolline hold the record for the fastest time between conception and release.
Oooooooo, Jem!
Why haven't they made a thrash metal Barbie figure?
I'd buy it.
I think they did, I've seen a few metal af Barbie designs out there
Black Canary Barbie wears black leather, fishnets and has heavy makeup if that counts lol
MaverickhunterXZero please do not
There’s a Joan Jett and Debbie Harry Barbie
What kind of fucked up ice cream parlor were they in? Who the hell puts raisins on a banana split?
I forgot to mention that but YES. That looks DISGUSTING.
zotar the mighty Did you not see the severs face? He was completely wasted.
Raisin companies were really pushing for product placement in the mid-1980s. They tried to get prominently featured in Back to the Future but the producers turned them down because raisins look like shit on film.
The same people who put pineapple on pizza.
no wonder, this didnt become a show. Where's the conflict?
Needs more Misfits
I actually really love the aesthetic of this whole special. Like the plot and dialogue is terrible but... I love the way it looks and the sounds of the music.
Wait, so the music they played in the 50's still sounded like 80's music? And the people weren't weirded out by all that synth?
barbie and the synthsations ^-^
Guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it
Patrick De Brun aha, I see what you did there
Plus one of the band members is black, in the 1950s....
@EarthboundX You've obviously never heard of the Drifters, or Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. Or seen the movie that Patrick De Brun quoted.
Barbie goes up to Space, and suddenly becomes Princess Peach. :p
Due to the coronavirus, I'm stuck at home and rewatching old Barbie movies. I remembered this one and _oh my god_ I wish this had become a full series.
I am currently watching "Barbie Life in the dreamhouse", a kind of self-parody show, and it's incredible how their tongue-in-cheek "Barbie's the most popular person ever" approach is similar to the one played completely straight in this cartoon.
I am planning to watch it as soon as I have a chance, thanks for showing this treasure!
The creepy deadpan stares in this show...they're penetrating my soul...
Cheap animation for you.
Huhuhu... *penetrating*
I loved the hell out of this as a kid but I gave away my tape as a teen, like an idiot. When I was cruising eBay, about 8 years ago, looking for a replacement, I stumbled onto something- The Soundtrack!!!!! There was an actual music, not included with the dolls, soundtrack cassette! I don't know if you've been to my channel in past but I do have the FULL LENGTH VERSIONS of the songs up for people to listen to. If you haven't heard the full songs yet, oh, prepare yourself; You'll never look back once you've have. I'm glad to see someone who gushes over this as much as I do! And, yes, I would love to see other VHS reviews.
MollyAnnMissie where can I get hold of the soundtrack???
I had that as a kid. Probably in my mom's attic somewhere now, but I played it all the time. I had the VHS too. So many memories watching this.
upload it for everyone to enoy! Jem and the holograms-songs are very popular n youtube and Barbie had some sweeeeeet 80s tunes in this film!
"Barbie is everybody's favorite for all of time" that makes me really uncomfortable for some reason
Glorious unending leader Barbie.
Scootakip It's delivery was very stilted and unnatural to... Turns out Barbie's big change was actually making Barbie into a god like figure, for whom they would be willing to spend billions of dollars on pink space ships, and flower based space stations. All for there time traveling pink god whom would one day would come again for the first time! Everyone loves Barbie! Forever! Hail Barbie!
Barbie is the Alpha and the Omega. There is, was, and never shall be one like her. All must emulate her. All must be Barbie. All must love Barbie.
Barbie will take over the world! And no one can stop her.
Toby F. Is Barbie the God-Empress? Should we replace our Ultramarines with the Sisters of Style or something? Someone should make a custom chapter for this, we might have something here.
"The beautiful but perfectly empty Derek" Hahaha so true!!
Let's see
80s pseudo-anime art style?✔
synthpop/hi-nrg soundtrack that I unironically enjoy?✔
Being truly truly truly outrageous? * buzzer sound*
The anime animation is undercut by the bleh American character designs
I wonder if that was so, because it was make by a japanese animation studio?
Yeah I think it was@@SoramimiKeiki
In that case I must recommend a film called Interstella 5555.
I still think Jem and the Holograms were better....
well Actually... the Misfits' song's were better. They were the Misfits. The Misfits! And they're gonna get her...
Too bad Glenn Danzig quit though...
Ah well, at least we got "Mother" out of it
well that's cause they had conflict which is always more interesting. This barbie special, despite having the characters do interesting things like perform concerts, fly to space and even TRAVELLLLL THROUGH TIIIIIIIME, they're less interesting cause nothing really happens with those setpieces.
Barbie and the Rockers was actually ripped off of Jem because Jem dolls were outselling Barbie.
Atleast Jem had its heart at the right place and teached good morals, Barbie and the rockers is clearly mindless fluff
Dexter Riley Jem turned into a Martian, whoaoooooo!
OMG! I remember the commercials for the dolls. If I remember it was an attempt to compete with Jem and the Holograms back in the day.
This looks like something I would’ve loved as a kid as I adored Jem and The Holograms - yes I’m getting the Jem vibes from this 😄
i have a feeling you'd like Jem and the Holograms as a kid.
Yeah, this really feels like someone decided to make a Jem knockoff with Barbie, but without the interesting premise or surprisingly-decent-for-SatAM writing.
As a Barbie phobe, I know that's EXACTLY what Mattel did. JEM & The Holograms came out, and Mattel got early word of it coming out, so they conceived the Barbie & The ROCKERS line to compete. Mattel knocks off everyone and everything since 1959 when they knocked of the German street walker Bild Lilli doll and called her Barbie!
But she is too young to know
While the lack of characterization for Barbie's friends and the crazy way the time travel thing happens, I really do appreciate the way the movies were trying to make Barbie contemporary to the time of the movies production AND honor her roots in the 50's.
Perhaps it would have been better to make her have episodic quantum leap type of stories through time.
8:17 Sweet non-euclidean guitar tricks
You should do a video on Jem & the Holograms! I've been obsessed with that series of late.
I used to LOVE Barbie and the Rockers' original tunes, and as a kid, listened to my sisters' tape over and over again. A perfect audio aesthetic. Thanks for shedding some light on this great band, too rad to be real.
Corniness and cheesiness overload, those can be some of the best things life can offer somehow.
The animation in these specials look surprising really good, especially when you compare it to gem and the holograms... don't get me wrong I love that absurd ass show with the only good animation occurring in the intro to each episode, but god was the animation atrocious in an absolutely comedic way.
Geez, Barbie's popularity had hannah montana's popularity before hannah montana was even a thing!
In the UK, a VHS tape was released called Barbie: Double Bill which contained both episodes and the series was called Barbie and the Rockstars. For some reason, on that tape, they switched the order of the episodes playing Rockin’ Back to Earth first and then Out of This World when it should be the other way around. Not sure why they did this. 🤷♀️
please do more of these videos on childhood shows. I had so much fun watching this video.
1-The coreography looks like it was made in a way that girls could immitate with their dolls...or as the Nostalgia Critic puts it, "the trying to kill a spider while having a headache" kind of moves.
2- So, that message in the end of the first short was inspired by Superman 4?
This was my FAVORITE movie as a kid :) and honestly? If I’m in a crappy mood or feeling down, even though I’m 33 now I’ll still watch it lol and it holds up. I love everything about it
It just seems like a Jem and the hologram cash in. But hey that just me.
Jepp, it was. Mattel wanted to get rid of Jem and the Holograms with Barbie and the Rockers.
Actually this is based on a real life building here in America .Google Space Needle in Seattle .
I just wanted to say that I've struggled heavily with depression this year and your videos really make my day. I've watched you for years now and you've helped me through some tough times.This video is especially fun. Seeing your happy singing and dancing brings a smile to my face. So thank you for inadvertently being one of the best parts of my life. :) Okay end sappy comment.
I somehow, years ago, managed to find someone who had transferred their VHS onto DVD format. I own this on DVD. Proof that this was not just a childhood fever dream. Also, the soundtrack is BANGIN'
We appreciate when you switch up the formula every now and then. It keeps us alert! Go with the flow and create what entertains you because we'll feel the genuineness. We can wait on the video game entries if they're not ready.
"It's going to be, Out... of this world." I'd always heard this doll line and movie were made to stop the Jem & The Holograms line. But I didn't know they even went so far as to get as close as they could to even imitate the iconic catchphrases. You can't tell me that paused wasn't there on purpose to make you think she was going to say "Outrageous!"
I remember the old version of this video you had back in the day. This new one is super well done. It's always good finding a new old song.
So Barbie's musical act was sorta the polar opposite of Dethklok? Most popular act in the world, but rather than ruining economies and the environment everywhere they go, they're just... popular. And they do a concert in space rather than, say, in the Mariana Trench.
I was going to say that this is giving me serious Metalocalypse vibes, but sanitized and therefore more boring, (which is similar to what I think of Jem and the Holograms).
I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS TAPE SINCE I FIRST SAW IT AS A YOUNGIN 💘 THIS MADE MY DAY 😆👍
Oh wow, the music in this thing sounds actually pretty good!
YES ROSES. JUST YES.
And now I think you're commenting on Cadbury's Roses. Just yes!
Right in the nostalgia, I remember my sister owning this on VHS back in the day. Never knew this was the name of it. Since the copy we had just Barbie Double Bill on it in pink with a random barbie doll on the front.
Jem and The Holograms was my show though the plot was everywhere. I never heard of this barbie special.
Chris Burks Jem and the Holograms was a very good show
This looks very Jem-ish.
Matthew Collins but a lot worst
This video is pure nostalgia for me, I also played this VHS on repeat. It was so good!
This Cartoon screams 80s. The Animation is actually pretty good and somehow the artsyle look like a mix between 80s Anime and American Cartoons from the period
i miss this artsyle of Cartoons today they don't make cartoons like this today
Did this come out after Jem? I freaking loved that show as a kid!
This special and the dolls came out in 1986 a year after the Jem cartoon and dolls came out, and the Sensations one came out in 1987
this whole video feels like a Jem rip off hahaha Barbie and her tyrannical peace initiative is a better group name
HAHAHA TYRANNICAL PEACE 🤣🤣🤣
Barbie and the Rockers was created as a response to Jem. Beat Jem to market, too.
Roses is so adorable when she does “clouds in the sky!”- I almost died.
I really like the way the eyes look in this. It's a shame we didn't get more of this.
have you ever heard of Barbie living in the dream house? Is a great and funny show and wonderfully selfaware. XD
I was searching for someone else to go through this special in detail…I literally rewatched it today and couldn’t understand why I loved it so much as a kid. No plot! No conflict! Barbie is such a goody two shoes who never stops smiling and no one ever gives the other guys any credit. They don’t even get to go to the ball!!
Music was rad tho
Oh.my.gosh! I am so happy that you reviewed this!!! I hunt for old animations especially ones that I missed as a child and holy cow! This is going to be one I look for at the flea market!! ahh love it!!
That Ford Fusion IN THE NAME OF THE MOON ad played after your video....all in all this is a great combo of AD & video lol
I started watching your videos last night and I now LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!!! And it is fantastic to see someone is as passionate and nostalgic about Barbie and The Rockers as I am :D WOOP!!
6:21 she became princess peach
this made me go on amazon and buy like 5 dvd's of shows I loved as a kid. thanks PUR :) I love your channel and constantly watch your videos at random :)
I just wanted to tell you that you are a HUGE inspiration for me and you were the person who gave me that final push that I needed to start my own channel x thank you
Came here from Film Theory. Subscribed because of the sound of your voice.
Do you wanna dance was in my head everyday for years and years even after I lost the tape and before the Internet came into it's own. Iconic moment for me 😃
Thank you for this video - Barbie and the Rockers was my favourite video growing up. Bless u Derek.
So many good gifs can be made from the live action parts of this. Great job Roses, I am going to use your dancing and thumbs up all the time!
Inspired to revisit this because of you-know-what film and your recap is still golden! 🎉
I love to watch these videos about your childhood references! They're so lovely!
More of this type of content please!!!!!! Love your work! Thank you
What about Jem and the Holograms? That was awesome
dang it I was ninjad!
My sister had the doll and the cassette tape. So I remember hearing 🎶Barbie, and the Rockers🎶
wow i actually remember seeing this. thanks for bringing this back!
Um, what was that?...Wait...If it needs a Barbie concert from space for world peace I´d be okay with that 😉
Has anyone noticed Daria Morgendorffer in a pink shirt at 1:44?
Little late to the party here, but I found your channel via the video you did on Hey Dude, which I remember watching as a kid on Nickelodeon. As a result I've been sitting here binging on your videos on the old TV shows that were on when I was a kid. I love your reviews and your presentation style. Thanks for bringing back these little treasures from my youth!
Doctor Merryhew? No, that's clearly Cyril Figgis, from Archer.
7:19 - dark hair boy resembles Morten Harket in 'Take on me' cartoon part
I was fucking crying laughing throughout this whole thing oh my god this is unbelievable, haah. You are insanely funny, girl.
Barbie and the Last Rockers guest starring Vice Squad might have sold me on this... instead I'm just going to imagine the traumatic events that young girl/grown woman went through over the years without Barbie in her life. Further tragedy would ensue when the rocking started as the young girl was crushed in the pit.
Awesome video, Roses. I like seeing your take on things outside of video games, and I think this was a great episode for it. Good jokes, a fun dance from you, and delightful music. Keep up the good work.
Hi Roses! I'm coming out from just lurking, and commenting to say that I love your videos! even though I'm not into retro games and such, you add a lot of your own style and creativity in your videos which made them thoroughly enjoyable to watch! I'd love to see you continue on VHS specials, and see your take/pov on them.
I appreciate this muchly! Thank you!
PushingUpRoses curious different topic who did you vote for in last election?
This was a wonderfully fun review! Please review more VHS specials in the future!
Wow... I actually like the music in this. haha
You have a great voice. It sounds so crisp and clear.
After reading about the hell it was to make this video on your twitter, I'm really glad to see it completed. Worth the wait!
I Was The Only Little Girl in my Family Who Hated Barbie With a Passion Until I 1st Saw Her Kick Ass in Toy Story 3,I Never Knew Barbie Could be so Badass
why have i only just discovered you now??? also thank you so much for reminding me that this Barbie special existed!!! i used to love watching it as a kid, hoping oneday i'd be a rockstar like Barbie! but instead, im in my pjs and dressing gown watching youtube videos all day! still, i haven't given up hope yet!!!
This is so nostalgic, I used to watch this all the time with my cousin! Our version had the songs translated to brazilian portuguese and til this day i can't take the "best friend" song out of my head!
Ah, the good old times!
I've been subscribed to your channel for a while and I just found this video, and my mind has been blown - I was totally obsessed with Barbie and the Rockers as a child and turned out to be a gothic-metal-whatever chick, and I always KNEW I would find someone else who made the same connection ♥ I feel like we're kindred souls, gimme a hug
"This little channel of mine is normally about videogames"
I know your channel almost exclusively for your TV show breakdowns xD
I'm impressed that they had a period-accurate American Flag in the 1950s.
Considering Hawaii became a state in 1955, I believe.
OH. MAH. GAWD! It's so 80s! It's so cheesy! It's so insanely ridiculous! I must find this movie and watch it!
I love how you use Kings Quest soundtrack. One of my favorite games and you fit it so well in your videos
Dear Roses,
I really enjoy everything you make. Even videos about Barbie and ancillary materials, and I am a gruff, surly middle man approaching middle age.
Thank you for sharing all this cool stuff with us!
P.
When I was a kid, you were either a Barbie and the Rockers girl or a Jem and the Holograms girl, and I was Jem all the way. This looks fun though. Wondering if you're a Home Movies fan? Your comment to Ken about moving his face reminded me of Coach: "And you really should blink. Because blinking shows that you're human." lol
Oh wow. I know this from my sister also watching it 100,000 times when we were kids. Just the sound of the songs brings back so many memories of playing in the house and rotating through VHS tapes all day long.
You're already a rockstar Roses :)
DO I want more VHS-themed specials? Does humanity need air and water or we'll stop living? Yes, please.
Oh wow this takes me back! Me and my sister found it hilarious! So much narm
"Barbie's singing at Cape Canaveral!"
OMG!!!!! I watched the shit out of this movie also!!!!!!!! I absolutely adored it as a child. And the doll line was out of this world fantastic! The hair-the makeup-the outfits!!!! I so want to re-invent her somehow with the fashionista line. LOL!!
Barbie’s speech about world peace sounds a bit cultish which oddly seems appropriate since she is practically a goddess given her huge influence in this universe’s version of Earth.
omg shut up! I had this tape and I also watched it so much it pretty much became yellow/green glitches. Never heard anyone mention it since my early childhood! This video made my day!