Video: The Next Katy Perry Is a Japense Animated Pop Star

You want to know what those crazy Japanese kids are into these days? Her name is Hatsune Miku, she’s topping all the music charts, and she’s a 3-D hologram. She also plays to sold out stadiums in Japan and gets millions of hits on YouTube. Not creeped out yet? Watch.

See all those people with glowsticks? Those are real, flesh and blood human beings. Meanwhile Hatsune is “projected” as a 3d hologram onto the stage, where she prances around. Nothing about her is real: her voice is synthesized and can be made to say just about anything (the porny implications are endless). Fans can bring her into their living rooms on their PSPs. Even weirder?
From Geek.com:

Japanese fans are so crazy about her they successfully petitioned for the creation of three plates depicting the computer generated singer to be used as a balancing weight for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Akatsuki spacecraft which was launched on May 21st of this year to explore Venus.

How much do holograms weigh again?

Comments

By Jessie

Nothing weird about this at all. Don’t compare her to Katy Perry, it’s two completely different things. Katy Perry is an artist. Vocaloid is a program. The hologram thing is new. I’d love to go and see Miku live.

By Al

WTF? I’d rather put a hologram through such a hellish lifestyle than a real person… what’s so creepy about it? The fact that you’re not waiting for a real person to fall? The fact that you’re enjoying her as an image, which is the same thing you’d do to any other pop star? Or is it that it’s hardly different from watching said pop stars on your tv? Maybe you’re scared by science and the artists that put this together, who knows, but creepy was the last thing that came to mind.
I think that concert would be fun as hell! I think the whole concept is incredible and a huge testament to our progression as a society, I feel totally put out by your creepy comment when I enjoy this soooo much.

By Nat_a_nat

I don’t really see how this is creepier than what we’ve done to flesh and blood pop stars.

By that girl

She’s not just a hologram- she’s the mascot of a Garageband-like software using synthesized voices to create original songs.

The hologram was only created recently.

By Q.Mack

GO MIKU!! I don’t like how they compare her to Katy Perry. Ew! Miku has been out waaaay longer then that tramp. Miku Hatsune FTW!! ^________^