Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20160430010301/@comment-26427856-20160614122633

-Momoiro-Saru- wrote: http://www.dallasobserver.com/music/hatsune-mikus-hologram-concert-is-a-sure-sign-of-endtimes-and-i-cant-wait-7780679A couple of others out there as well, trying to find them again.

EDIT:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hatsune-miku-the-worlds-fakest-pop-star/

And even though this one is NOT by a paid writer: http://www.dailytoreador.com/opinion/johnson-virtual-musicians-endanger-music-s-future/article_c906d064-5411-11e4-9490-0017a43b2370.html

I'm not trying to say the article is perfect or anything, but at least it's way more neutral than what older web/internet news articles were when they first came out. None of those seem as bad to me as the magazine article. All of those actually mentioned Vocaloid in general with a bit of accuracy, while the one in the magazine says that Vocaloid was created by Crypton. The magazine one also said that Miku's voice is crowdsourced, and that "all Hatsune Miku fans and creators ar​e ​Hatsune Miku." Like, I understand that the author is saying this to attempt to explain the fact that anyone can create works using Miku's voice, but in doing this the author says something that just isn't true at all.

What really bothers me is when articles say that all Vocaloid (or Miku) is is just a singing, dancing hologram and nothing else. Like, did you bother to do any research AT ALL before writing that?! As much of a somewhat inaccurate undervaluation as it is, at least say that they have voices from a computer. Saying that they're just characters from a video game series bothers me a lot too, but not as much as saying they're only holograms and nothing else. And then of course there's the whole 'Miku is the first (and maybe only) Vocaloid' thing, although in a video that was posted on YouTube of a guy giving a demonstration of Cyber Diva at some technology convention, he said that Cyber Diva (which he was running through V4 for Cubase I think) was the first version of Vocaloid. WTF, no.

And like most people here I'd like for articles not to only be about Miku, and some aren't only about her and are more focused on the software (which I personally prefer that the articles be mostly about Vocaloid as singing software), but few seem to state or even give an idea as to how many Vocaloids there are. However, Miku i​s the most popular/well known Vocaloid, so if an article is going to mention only one Vocaloid (hopefully just as an example), it will most likely mention Miku. A lot of articles also don't mention that there are Vocaloids that sing in not just Japanese but also English, and even fewer mention Spanish, Chinese, and Korean. [I'd write a lot more but I need to work on writing an essay for my summer class. Also I'm tired.]   [Okay, this is like the fifth time I've tried to post this (thank goodness for copy and paste).]