Hatsune Miku appearing on Letterman tonight
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KirbYuuYuu
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Anime is saved
Banana Aeon
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Welp, this is the future.
I love the future.
I love the future.
I'll agree with this.
I don't hate Miku, so I really wanted to like this, but man was it awful sounding on air. Holographic effect is cool, though. That technology is going to be used in really interesting ways in the future (beyond reviving dead pop stars, of course).
lol blame space
ChoklitReign
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I don't know why you guys find here cute. Her outfit and proportions were unsettling, I couldn't directly look at her. At least the instruments were okay.
JordanN
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Dude, she's only 6 years old.
Nah, I agree. Hatsune Miku songs in English don't work the best. I mean, everyone knows she's from Japan anyway, so they should have just let her sing the song in Japanese.
Still, a few of her English songs were done better, such as Tell Your World [livetune]. Still highly inferior to the Japanese version, though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gef60KvRQeU
this typo made me laugh
ActuallyHulk
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This made me pretty uncomfortable and I like Miku. It was one of those situations where you get embarrassed even though you're the only one in the room.
No backstory, same looks always, 16.
She has her own game. A lot of her own games! They also have way better songs than the one she did tonight.
It seems like you own a lot of Anime. I'm not around here a lot, but it would seem like you actually do.
Prop to you.
JordanN
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I was joking about how people see anime characters as underage.
Blargonaut
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the cringe
the cringe
IIRC, she's a Gulf War veteran.
OpinionatedCyborg
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japanimation will never recover from this shit performance
Shes super cute and has dozens of versions. Also many many fan created outfits and designs and just aaaaaahhhhhhhh I love her *bounces
Crash Station
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I'd say it's based on a licensing issue or something, but Black Rock Shooter got an anime, so no clue what the hold up is with Miku. Shit is massive.
Yeah, at least I can recognize the words there as English, even if the cadence is way off. Japanese version of that song is one of the few Miku tracks I know, and I feel like the English edition loses some of the semi-annoying catchiness of that tune.
but it's 2014 and she doesn't even facial expressions. it looks like a selection of canned animations chosen from some generic set.
this country has already seen hologram tupac, there's no going back.
Um..I would have preferred if they let her sing in Japanese.
PAULINK
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Wait, that was English?
I couldn't tell, but then again, I can never understand what she is saying, so it's a-ok
perfectchaos007
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Wow that was awkward. I could just read Letterman's mind after that performance. Just like 99.99% of American's watching, he doesn't get the appeal of a computerized anime character singing a "live" performance.
InfiniteNine
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They should have brought in Luka too and done World End Dancehall instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDD6Vbw9llI
Crash Station
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7 apparently.
Exactly.Wait, that was English?
Should had just aired one of the many superior Japanese songs.
Yeah, it doesn't flow as well in English. One of the better displays of her in English, but still not exactly a positive. Maybe with time they'll get better, I'm not sure.
As hard as it is to believe, yes it was.Wait, that was English?
Wait, that was English?
I didnt know until after. Might as well have picked a better song.
I would have been down for that.
There's something incredibly weird about a dance off between two virtual pop-stars. I love, I hate it, and the song is now stuck in my head. The future is weird, guys.
yeah I have an ever growing collection of it. Keeps me feeling young and happy and less stressed.
Yamaha created a voice synthesizing program called vocaloid and created Miku to market it with. Many other vocaloids exist both official and unofficial but Miku remains by far the most popular one. There are still regular figurine releases of her, worldwide hologram concerts, countless fanarts and songs, collectibles, even racing sponsorship.
leatherhat
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I knew it would be weird but they could have at least played one of her good songs.
Please. Or many other songs. That just was the wrong choice.
Twitter is pretty preeeetty great right now.
Just saw the YouTube vid. 2 wahjah
it'll be revealed Gaga is our savior and she was simply testing our faith all this time.
You'll be left behind, Beerman462. Left with Bieber
Just saw the YouTube vid. 2 wahjah
You'll regret this when the apocalypse goes down
it'll be revealed Gaga is our savior and she was simply testing our faith all this time.
You'll be left behind, Beerman462. Left with Bieber
HypnoDarkrai
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What could have been.
Yes, if we arent counting the fact their voices sound electronic inherently as making the song have hints of it.
I would honestly probably have a large collection myself if my wallet allowed it.
phoenix296
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"What the fuck am I doing?"
I should have checked out that World End Dancehall link before I made that last post. That was more of the Japan buttrock type of stuff that I'm more familiar with (from games). You're right that their voices lend to any song a hint of electronic. I guess they just can't help it being the way it is...yet.
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