Hatsune Miku to join Lady Gaga concerts

Popular Japanese vocaloid mascot Hatsune Miku is joining Lady Gaga to open her ARTPOP Ball concerts. For the unfamiliar, she’s a singing synthesizer that's represented as a 16 year old girl with turquoise hair. Sega publishes numerous games starring her and other vocaloids.

Andrew Yoon

April 17, 2014 5:30 PM

The Escapist has a list of dates if you're interested in seeing the virtual pop star perform. She'll be hitting cities like Atlanta, New York, and San Diego. Here's what one of her holographic performances looked like:

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Andrew Yoon was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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April 17, 2014 5:30 PM

Andrew Yoon posted a new article, Hatsune Miku to join Lady Gaga concerts.

Popular Japanese vocaloid mascot Hatsune Miku is joining Lady Gaga to open her ARTPOP Ball concerts. For the unfamiliar, she’s a singing synthesizer that's represented as a 16 year old girl with turquoise hair. Sega publishes numerous games starring her and other vocaloids.
- Orange Pylon
  
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  April 17, 2014 6:03 PM
  
  Yes, this makes perfect sense.
  - sogelegos
    
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    April 17, 2014 6:50 PM
    
    It sure does. Two performers with no substance working together.
    - Orange Pylon
      
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      April 17, 2014 8:54 PM
      
      I don't know about that. Every time I see something about a Vocaloid song pop up on TVTropes.com or some other internet bullshit site I go to that's better than this one, it makes the whole Vocaloid universe seem like this vast Homerian epic that I just don't have the ability to comprehend.
      
      Then I watch a video of the music and all I see is anime bullshit and intensifying disappointment in my father's eyes.
      - jayacheess
        
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        April 17, 2014 9:02 PM
        
        Yep, pretty much. It's pandering bullshit to the otaku crowd which is destroying creativity in Japanese entertainment. Everything MUST contain a stereotype cute girl for virgins to imagine themselves with before it can contain substance, so oftentimes it won't.
        
        This almost sounds like western entertainment, but I assure you that this idea is far more pervasive in Japan.
      - sogelegos
        
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        April 18, 2014 10:10 AM
        
        I was more making a joke about Lady Gaga than anything else. See, Hatsune Miku is not a real person. She has no physical substance. My comment was intended to deride the meaning of Lady Gaga's music as equally insubstantial. Just a little clarification.
- Mad Brahmin Disease
  
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  April 17, 2014 8:49 PM
  
  I see the Shack is broken again.
- boarder2
  
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  April 17, 2014 9:13 PM
  
  Why is this a story on shacknews?
  - RikiTiki2
    
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    April 17, 2014 9:15 PM
    
    the character is in a bunch of sega published games? i dunno
  - Orange Pylon
    
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    April 17, 2014 9:48 PM
    
    Because this place is infested with lady gaga apologists and closeted fans of cute japanese pop (I'M BOTH, FUCK OFF)
    - Memphis-Ahn
      
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      April 18, 2014 11:50 AM
      
      Nothing wrong with being a fan of cute japanese pop.
  - Hoax
    
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    April 18, 2014 12:41 AM
    
    slow news day on the printer security front.
  - Cognoscenti
    
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    April 18, 2014 10:14 AM
    
    Sega publishes numerous games starring her and other vocaloids.
- bolneze
  
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  April 18, 2014 12:17 AM
  
  is that some fancy hologram shit or just like a projector or what