Hatsune Miku: Japan’s holographic pop star might be the future of music
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Miku was created in 2007 by Yamaha Music and become popular for youth in Japan because Miku suits otaku subculture in Japan.
"She’s a hit with Japan’s otaku (anime and manga) subcultures, with her larger-than-life eyes, sweeping aquamarine pigtails and upbeat digi-pop ballads that sound like a fairy singing Heal The World."
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Hatsune Miku is the first million-selling idol and the first open source. Which mean, Hatsune Miku is an idol that you can do anything to her. Her live-stage is holographed.
"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."
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Miku's popularity in Japan noticed by western celebrities. As she being conducted by famous celebrities in their works such as music, live tour, and TV shows.
"Earlier this year, she supported Lady Gaga on her North American tour and headlined her own shows in New York and LA; Pharrell remixed a track she guested on, and she performed on US chatshow The Late Show With David Letterman in October."
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Hatsune Miku became a "creative tool" to many music producer and composer as being said by Crypton Media. Many Miku song composed by Online Community.
"Her songs – and there are more than 100,000 of them – have been written by her online community, many of whom work together. and who have never made music before. New York Magazine called it “a wildly new model of pop stardom that’s both participatory and anti-hierarchical”.
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Once an online composer made a song by using Miku, it's belong to theirs. It's Miku all about.
"It’s the users that make the music and once it’s theirs, it’s theirs. That’s what Hatsune Miku is; it’s not just the person, or the animation, but it’s about the internet community and their creativeness."
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Hatsune Miku is not as par as Many westerns. Hatsune Miku development are in the hands of her fans. Fans can create many genre using Miku.
"When the power is in the fans’ hands, anything could become a reality."