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Hatsune Miku: Japan’s holographic pop star might be the future of music | Musique Non Stop

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Friday, December 5, 2014

Hatsune Miku: Japan’s holographic pop star might be the future of music

She may look like a pile of pixels but Miku is a lot more, including the world’s first open-source singer


Imagine you could design what kind of heinous headgear Harry Styles wears next. You could pen Nicki Minaj’s next ass anthem. Or you could make a Peter Andre megamix that plays each time he flogs a £1 Iceland gateau on your telly. In Japan, this is already a reality for one of its biggest music personalities, Hatsune Miku. She’s the first million-selling android idol – and the first open-source one, too. Her admirers write her songs and style her looks. The most popular of these make it into her live shows (where she performs, Tupac-style, in holographic form) and into the fan-art expos that take place around the world.


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by Kate Hutchinson via Electronic music | The Guardian

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