Exclusive premiere: Listen to the debut track on 'Jem' tribute album

Noelle Bean was too young to watch Jem and the Holograms when it originally aired in the '80s. Instead, she discovered the animated series on Netflix as a teen and began binge-watching it.

"As soon as I watched my very first episode, I was insanely obsessed with it," says the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter, a self-admitted animation fanatic who records under the name BEAN. "The fashion for a cartoon like that was absolutely incredible, and the storyline had everything that I apply to my life nowadays in the music business."

So BEAN, 23, was a natural choice to record Truly Outrageous, the lead track from Hasbro's new Truly Outrageous: A Tribute to Starlight Records Hasbro's album, out Friday. The track premieres at Paste BN.

The Truly Outrageous tribute features such up-and-comers as Amanda Brown, Meiko and LACES performing songs based on the ones from the TV show, which chronicled the adventures of a young record-label owner and her performing alter ego and ran in syndication from 1985 to 1988.

"The track has a different sound," BEAN says, "but I think it describes exactly the mood and theme they're going for with the new Jem and the Holgrams movie. Even taking it back to the cartoon, it's a transformation of the whole Jem and the Holograms theme. I'm stoked for everybody to it it."

Hasbro hopes the new album also will generate buzz about the forthcoming live-action Jem and the Holograms film. Set to open Oct. 23, the film stars another '80s icon, Molly Ringwald, as well as Juliette Lewis. Nashville's Aubrey Peebles plays Jem.

"Jem was a fan favorite for the '80s; we're very excited to reintroduce such a popular series and brand to not only the fans that remember it but also a current generation," says Stephen Davis, Hasbro Studios' chief content officer. "As part of the strategy for rolling the movie out in October, we thought it would be a lot of fun to re-introduce the music in a contemporary way very consistent with how we've contemporized the story in the feature film."