Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20160713122023/@comment-79.166.46.118-20160730135834

Meh, I personally got over my saltyness about Miku pretty fast. I listen to Vocaloid and utaite covers more than I do original songs anyways lol. Everytime I find a song I like I just naturally assume Miku is the original singer :P What bothers me a bit is that, even though her appends are pretty damn great ('specially Solid, Sweet and Vivid), Miku by herself is pretty... meh. I know I'm gonna get the "WELL YOU CAN'T CALL SOMETHING GENERIC IF IT WAS THE FIRST EVER TO DO THE THING THAT YOU CONSIDER GENERIC!!1!!1" argument, but Miku's voice in general to me is pretty bland.

Which can be a good thing, considering Miku has sort of become a canvas. Nothing special, not much of a "personality" of her own, like say, flower, so people can take her voice and tune it and make it theirs and do whatever the heck they want with it. I mean think about it, are there two producers who tune Miku the exact same way? Giga's Miku is really nice and solid if a bit nightcore-sounding, Kikuo's Miku is creepy af, Mitchie's Miku comes straight out of an anime character song CD, I've even seen some super realistic-sounding uses of her V4 trial on SC. Same with her english VB, despite the wobbly accent. So, if it's not someone who I know will make her sound very great, I just go ahead and listen to covers 'cause yolo//shot I mean I've never had a DECO*27 Miku song with its original vocals in my phone, and deco is like my second favourite producer lol

You just have to learn to ignore her if you really don't care about her voice. I see some Miku news, I'm like "kay" and I move on with my life. And you have to admit, her design is pretty damn awesome and clever-ly made lol She's become an icon and she's everywhere, so naturally you'll eventually find a portrayal of her that you like even if it's just that (bless delusion tax, streaming heart and ghost rule). I mean, she's inspired two of my favourite anime-related characters ever (Black Rock Shooter and Takane Enomoto) so I can't really be "mad at her" xp If anything, I just wish she left a bit of room for the more unique vocals to shine.