Talk:Sweet ANN/@comment-87.114.200.233-20160409162037/@comment-5665682-20160418172116

I think it would do the opposite.

Unlike Japan, where technollogy is "good", in the west, the general reaction towards the concept of Vocaloid is "robots replacing human singers"; if by a miracle, a famous artist decided to synth his/her vocals into VOCALOID, it would lead people to generally believe that the artist is now disposable since it's voice is commercial for public use.

This is an idea that has been considered since LEON and LOLA, hence why many western voice providers prefer to stay anonymous. Only Miriam Stockley tried to be positive about it, with her "you can't fight progress" explanation, tho imo it has negative implications, since sounds like "we can't stop the inminent".

Also, even if people didn't react like that, considering some of the few articles and reviews in the internet, musicians and producers can't find anything special in Vocaloid software, considering it nothing more beyond a curiosity and a simple variant of Vocoder and Autotune, prefering the latters since both are relatively "easier" and "cheaper". This argument is reinforced if we think that some of the very few "known" musicians that used the software for their productions (Susumu Hirasawa, Porter Robinson, Mike Oldfield) are also known tech & anime enthusiasts...