Talk:LOLA (VOCALOID1)/@comment-71.252.136.132-20150218031529/@comment-53539-20150218163312

Blonde Leon is merely a representation of a "typical westerner". A lot of early stuff didn't take the "Soul" musician genre slapped on their box into account, boxart or not it was ignored. I can remember pointing this out to someone in 2010 and their reaction was surprise.

Even then there was resistance to accept their "black" representation because leon/Lola were made in Great Britain. Here in the UK you have a sub-genre of soul called "blue eyed soul singer", which refers to a white singer doing soul music. So there was arguments for Leon being blond.

I kinda pointed out that Lola sounded more ethnically liable to have been black then Leon, that having them BOTH as white was arkward. Everything fell on deaf ears. Then last year (I think) someone found an article which openly stated that both had British Black singers as vocalists behind them, which FINALLY laid the whole dam issue to rest. Yet STILL we see blonde Leon.

There should be NO ISSUE with the very first two vocaloids being black at all.