Puffy AmiYumi - Teen Titans Theme

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Puffy's cover to Nice (2003) is based on John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Bed-In for Peace.

Puffy AmiYumi - Teen Titans Theme

Puffy AmiYumi

Okay, so I've started this video page over at Stage6: W♥M. The quality is so much better than youtube. I've only uploaded a few videos, including T.Rex and Belle & Sebastian.

Anyway, today's video is for Christopher: it's both theme song and it's Jpop.

Since I was already a big fan of Marv Wolfman and George Perez's Teen Titans, so I was really excited for the cartoon series that they were developing in 2003. Because the show was deeply inspired by Japanese animation (or simply japanimation or anime), the show's creators sought after Puffy AmiYumi to do their theme song.

I remember reading an interview with one of the show's creator in a fanzine that he also based the music and song in the style of "Secret Agent Man". It's funny because Johnny Rivers' "Secret Agent Man", which is the theme song to Danger Man (aka Secret Agent) also lifted the music from James Bond 007. (For a Spanish version of Secret Agent Man, see The Plugz - Hombre Secreto.)

Anyway, Puffy's relationship to Sam Register through Teen Titans, lead them to starring in their own television show called "Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi". The show only lasted 39 episodes.

If you watch the video to the "Teen Titans Theme", you'll notice a surprise guest star: Guitar Wolf! He does what he does best, looking cool and stuff. When he turns his back to you, if you press pause, you can read the back of his jacket:

To Seiji,
You are a true rocker,

Love,
Joan Jett

Who knew Guitar Wolf was such a fanboy :).

See full-sized video at stage6.divx.com

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 July 06, 2007 2:33 AM  vu vu@weheartmusic.com puffyamiyumi.com