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I lost my heart to a starship trooper

September 3rd 2008 03:34
Hot Gossip Sarah Brightman I lost my heart to a starship trooper

I quite enjoyed "Starship Troopers", Paul Vehoeven's candied adaptation of the Robert Heinlein novel. The film won praise and scorn for deviating from the tone of Heinlein's book, projecting a sense of anti-war satire.


The movie was quite successful, spawning video games and sequels, none of which won much acclaim, especially since director Verhoeven left the series after the first film.

It's a little known fact, however, that Sarah Brightman made her own contribution to the Starship Troopers universe, with a song from her early years, "I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper".

It's from '78, and it's sci-fi disco, sampling lyrics and music from Star Wars and Flash Gordon.

In 1978, that might have seemed like a great idea, but now, lyrics based on Star Wars are purely rooted in nerdcore, I think.




Space disco, baby! It's something missing from the original Star Wars movies... sure, they listened to cosmic jazz in the Cantina, but what about the club scene? I think we missed out on important scenes, with Han and Chewie dropping death sticks and sweatily coming onto young, nubile Twi'leks.


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Comment by Tracy

September 3rd 2008 05:17
Oh my gosh, Cib, I didn't know Sarah Brightman sang this song. And I didn't know that I remembered the song and its lyrics so vividly...

Comment by Cibbuano

September 3rd 2008 05:57
I didn't know either, until someone posted it on the net... ha! Sarah Brightman!


Comment by Tracy

September 3rd 2008 06:27
Gosh, who says blogging isn't informative?!!

Comment by Tracy

September 3rd 2008 06:35
PS That song is stuck in my head now...

Comment by James Rickard

September 3rd 2008 23:06
I never knew there were sequels to that movie!!!!

Comment by Raoul Duke

September 4th 2008 01:15
Sweet Jesus, that was dreadful.
And to think I had the hots for Hot Gossip when I used to watch the Kenny Everitt Video Show.

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