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Idk if you know, but... Usually asian popular music is gender based, look at k-pop for example, SNSD is a full girl (idols) music group (which was made to target the male audience), and then we have Big Bang another full boys music group (which was made to target the female audience). None of the group members for both sides, are permitted to have girlfriends/boyfriends. Which making a fictional character that anyone can use, doesn't eat, doesn't recieves a salary, and most importantly can't have engage in real life relationships, makes the perfect business...

 

Fukken genius! (Now to return to engineering to make a multilingual 'vocaloid' and start making moniez...)

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Fukken genius! (Now to return to engineering to make a multilingual 'vocaloid' and start making moniez...)

There are already vocaloids with english voicebanks. 

 

Some are in other languages too I believe. Their growing and expanding. 

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Oh oh don't forget to add, ANYONE with the voicebank/synth can make music therefore adding to the fandom. 

 

Look at all the different Vocaloids that exist now. The super popular song "Porter Robinson - Sad Machine" took itunes charts by storm a while back and the vocals featured Porter himself and AVANNA a vocaloid synth. 

 

This is one of my top 3 songs. So good IMO. 

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The Hatsune Miku opening for Lady Gaga was well received, but I think it was due to the open minded young audience.
Letterman's show? People in their 40s are watching it, and grandma and paps will freak the hell out. We'll see...

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pfft, that's nothing on Mariza.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7UDQDl1tcw

 

His reaction and that of the entire audience must have been where the hell did THAT come from?  The musical guests are usually garbage.  The booker probably thought he was just adding some random filler singer, and then that happens.

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So that happened.

Haha I feel like he's at a lost for what to say. 

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The Hatsune Miku opening for Lady Gaga was well received, but I think it was due to the open minded young audience.

Letterman's show? People in their 40s are watching it, and grandma and paps will freak the hell out. We'll see...

 

 

 

So that happened.

how I feel exactly. It's not for an audience that didn't grow up either watching anime or knowing about it/knowing people who did in the least. 

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how I feel exactly. It's not for an audience that didn't grow up either watching anime or knowing about it/knowing people who did in the least. 

Sounds about right. It's the mentality of the age group. 

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I have never heard Hatsune Miku speak english and to say the least it just seemed... off. I listen to vocaloid music on a fairly regular basis and not understanding the lyrics is part of why I like it. The words end up more like an instrument. I personally would have preferred her to sing in Japanese with English subtitles above her or something, since I couldn't really understand her speaking English anyway.

 

Regardless I'm glad to see this happen and hopefully it will become a more regular thing

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I have never heard Hatsune Miku speak english and to say the least it just seemed... off. I listen to vocaloid music on a fairly regular basis and not understanding the lyrics is part of why I like it. The words end up more like an instrument. I personally would have preferred her to sing in Japanese with English subtitles above her or something, since I couldn't really understand her speaking English anyway.

 

Regardless I'm glad to see this happen and hopefully it will become a more regular thing

 

I like the way you think... Foreign music has that certain charm to it...

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I like the way you think... Foreign music has that certain charm to it...

I know what you're talking about.

I've always found that I seem to prefer foreign music (specifically J-POP and J-Rock) over English/American music, I'm not sure why, maybe because I subconsciously want to be different. But my conscious reasoning is that it simply sounds better to me, the melodies always seem more pleasing and I've never found a song in English that connects with me more than a foreign song.

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I don't mind some foreign music, but most of the time that only lasts until I read the lyrics. English music is similar if unintelligible. I remember going through death metal lyrics and thinking they were written by some angsty middle school kid. "How old is this guy? 38?" That's embarrassing, but it sounds neat!

 

I think Vocaloid lost out on that "foreign charm" here by going with an English song, but more because the song wasn't striking or catchy.. or intelligible. The personality of digital avatars can come later. If you want to grow an audience or user base with Vocaloid, they need to know that Miku isn't the only thing out there, and neither are light rock songs. To grow with English artists, it might make more sense to push others with better English voicebanks like Megurine Luka.

 

I probably would have went with something like this for Letterman:

 

Shows off different languages and voicebanks, and still manages to be catchy at a more tolerable pitch.

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I know what you're talking about.

I've always found that I seem to prefer foreign music (specifically J-POP and J-Rock) over English/American music, I'm not sure why, maybe because I subconsciously want to be different. But my conscious reasoning is that it simply sounds better to me, the melodies always seem more pleasing and I've never found a song in English that connects with me more than a foreign song.

Same here... I don't even know why... I used to like English and local songs, but they felt hollow and repetitive... Then I stumbled upon the Touhou doujin music scene and then everything changed...

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Same here... I don't even know why... I used to like English and local songs, but they felt hollow and repetitive... Then I stumbled upon the Touhou doujin music scene and then everything changed...

All those touhou songs.... Beautiful compositions and arrangements.... So many producers and composers adding to the scene... Its beautiful. Listening to "The Gensokyo the Gods Loved" right now.

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