Hey, music fans: ready for your daily dose of existential angst? No, not the Morrissey kind — more like the where-is-this-industry-going-is-art-dead-should-I-just-give-up-now variety. Anyway, brace yourselves. Japan has a new favorite pop star. She’s not human. She’s not even a cyborg. Her name is Hatsune Miku, and she is a goddamn hologram who looks like Sailor Moon and sounds like Alvin and the Chipmunks. And she’s not even the avatar for a real singer. Hatsune’s grating voice is created using Yamaha’s Vocaloid synthesizer. The fact that she is a 3-D projection isn’t preventing Japanese teenagers from going in droves to see her, waving glow sticks and screaming like there is an actual famous person in the room. Watch — and lament — after the jump.
[via Geekologie]
Comments (4)
Why does she dance as badly as a real pop star? If she’s a hologram, why not make her do backflips or bounce off the rafters or shoot feathers out of her eyes? What limited thinking on the programmers’ part.
I agree it should do a lot more…but the new arrival of this type of celebrity persona is awe striking for the general public of Japan so that all they really need as a pacifier..now if you amped up the music and got like a performer like JSBX to program this thing my godddddddddddddd you would send people in cardiac arrest
It could be worse, at least they are using real instruments…
This makes me sick… There are a bunch of talented artist out there that don’t have nearly as much recognition as a hologram and they struggle to maintain their careers… This is what Spiro Agnew is talking about in his speech titled “Age of the Gross”… especially the part were he mentions that people’s minds will “no longer respond to moderate stimulation”…
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