User blog comment:IAliceVoice/Vocaloid Fandom Rant/@comment-87.21.84.57-20140602095323

I think I'm the same problems too with the fandom, basically because comparisons.

Don't get me wrong, I love Miku, really, and enjoy her voice a lot in the originals, but I don't get the whole "xxx sounds like a Miku rip-off" that I see like EVERYWHERE, especially with high vocals. I'm a Lapis fan, and seriously, she got compared to Miku in every single demo she got. I also found people saying that if you don't love all the VOCALOIDs you can't be a VOCALOID fan, just because I defended Lapis in a demo saying that I prefer her over Miku or Rin.

Is this normal? I mean, liking every single voicetyle is impossible as liking every singer that exists. If I like Lapis better than Miku and dislike Luka's voice, what's wrong with that? I thought there was some sort of "freedom" in the fandom but I might got it wrong.

Zunko? Zunko got compared to Yuki and Lapis. Okay, they have an high tone but no, they're completely different from eachother. If people keep saying "sounds like xxx" then none of the new VOCALOIDs will get a chance, since people still think that "they like the old VOCALOIDs better" without even listening to the new ones.

Merli to me was really well made, but what? Everyone was too focused on the dark skin tone for enjoy her as she needed, endind compared to Luka and IA. I don't get it, really.