[lbo-talk] Jewel creates new Nickelodeon cartoon, "Punk Rock Angel Girl, " who fights evil "Megacorp"

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 18 00:47:34 PDT 2006


[Meh. -B.]

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1536485/07172006/jewel_pop_.jhtml

Nickelodeon will premiere a new cartoon created by, written by, and starring Jewel this Fall. It'll be called Punk Rock Angel Girl.

In the series, Punk Rock Angel Girl (PRAG) "discovers that a big, faceless corporation called Megacorp is trying to brainwash the youth of America to buy things that nobody would ever need. Megacorp's minions are disguised as celebrities — but underneath, they're actually robots, and if revealed as such, they attack."

"It's a faceless network conspiracy to make people stupid," Jewel said, according to MTV news.

Jewel further explained: "Punk Rock Angel Girl, or PRAG, she's just a teenager. She's a punk rocker, but what I call punk rock is getting angry with a cause. A lot of the show is about anger as a transformational, useful tool. There's a difference between pent-up aggression that's randomly expressed — that's just confrontational with no thought behind it — versus positive anger, thinking for yourself and making tough decisions."

Punk Rock Angel Girl's special power is her rebel yell: "Punk Rock Angel Girl gets a strange sensation when she gets angry, a feeling like she needs to throw up, which becomes a yodel as a lightning bolt comes out of her. These 'Yellow Yodel Bolts of Energy' help PRAG tap into her inner reserves of power — but she also discovers that everyone has this power within them," MTV News says.



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