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Ghost in the Shell's Real Rock Connection Isn't Metallica — It's The Police (and U2)
A stubborn fan myth says “Master of Puppets” was inspired by Ghost in the Shell. The timeline kills that in one move, and the real rock connections buried in this franchise are better than the myth ever was.
The claim, as it circulates, is that Metallica wrote “Master of Puppets” about the Puppet Master, the body-hopping villain of Ghost in the Shell. Puppets, puppet master, control, loss of self: the vocabulary lines up so neatly you can see why people want it to be true.
'Money for Nothing' Wasn't the First CGI Music Video — But It's the One That Changed Everything
Everyone remembers the blockhead movers from 1985. Almost nobody remembers the two animators behind them, or that their next act was the first all-CGI TV series in history.
First, let’s kill the myth
Ask anyone to name the first computer-animated music video and you’ll get the same answer: Dire Straits, “Money for Nothing,” 1985. The blocky delivery guys. The floating dog. “I want my MTV.”
Wrong, and the real story is better.