Miku Hatsune

Miku Hatsune is a new Japanese Pop Star, a new phenomena.

Miku is related to the Yamaha family she is only 16 YO 5"4 with extra long pigtails. Miku changes outfits at the  speed of light in a cloud of smoke

Britney, Paris and others of the same caliber be very careful because this little Japanese girl is going to kick your ass.

Unlike you girls she has no addiction, doesn't drink and drive, doesn't go to jail or rehab and doesn't make sex tapes, she is a role model.

I totally love the way her hair moves when she dances. I wasn't so sure about a Disney character voice but I got used to it and it is part of who she is. Miku doesn't try to be what she is not. Maybe it's why her concert sold out all over Japan and also in Singapore and Los Angeles where she was in concert at the Nokia Theater on July 2, 2011.

She seems so perfect because she is not an actual person but a Singing Synthesizer Application developed by Crypton Future Media with a Yamaha software.

Because she is a 3D virtual image I am a little disappointed that she doesn't metamorphoses herself into a colorful butterfly or fly over the crowd. But maybe the fact that she stays as human as possible makes her more approachable.

In the video, notice our the Japanese crowd is reacting: Always respectful, listening to the songs, sited and waving glow sticks.

Miku is not the first virtual singer, in the U.S there is Gorillaz, in France there is Bebe Lilly and Rene La Taupe. The 2 French ones are targeting a very young audience. Miku is more teenagers oriented.

Is this the future of music? If yes I hope for more creativity. Anyway how real are our idols today? They are mostly created and molded into a mold that most of them don't fit into. The mold is way too tight. No wonder a lot of celebrities become addicted to some sort of numbing drugs.

It seems like the normal way things progress. In 500 year from now or even less all our idols will be Holograms and we will be able to change its voice and appearance at our likings. And a music producer will have the revolutionary idea to have an actual human being singing with his own voice. Crazy!

There is nothing more beautiful than a real voice singing with some imperfections and quacks. That's what makes it real, beautiful and unique.