Another Prefab Pop Star

guitslinger · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 9:08 am

Just when I thought I'd seen it all with Justa Beaver and Lady Gag the Japanese have taken the prefab Pop star to the extreme.The latest pop star is known as Tatsuni Miku (spelling?)which roughly translated means "voice from the future".What makes this one different is that Tatsuni is a hologram that performs in packed concert halls with a real live band and the fans can't get enough.I guess that if they could take a semi talented bimbo and make a star out of him/her it was inevitable that someone would come up with a "real fake"popstar just as hollow as the real living ones.The whole story was on "Q" on CBC Radio this morning with Jian Ghomeshi.You should be able to get to the story by looking here: www.cbc.ca/q

Screamin' Armadillo · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 9:15 am

guitslinger wrote:

Just when I thought I'd seen it all with Justa Beaver and Lady Gag the Japanese have taken the prefab Pop star to the extreme.The latest pop star is known as Tatsuni Miku (spelling?)which roughly translated means "voice from the future".What makes this one different is that Tatsuni is a hologram that performs in packed concert halls with a real live band and the fans can't get enough.I guess that if they could take a semi talented bimbo and make a star out of him/her it was inevitable that someone would come up with a "real fake"popstar just as hollow as the real living ones.The whole story was on "Q" on CBC Radio this morning with Jian Ghomeshi.You should be able to get to the story by looking here: http://www.cbc.ca/q

Since it's a fake pop star, I guess I'll have to feign disinterest....unlike Justin Bieber, in whom I'm truly disinterested. :mrgreen:

tbazzone · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 9:24 am

This will be the down fall of real musicians.

Screamin' Armadillo · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 9:35 am

tbazzone wrote:

This will be the down fall of real musicians.

No, because just after every "step back" like this we have a revolutionary artist/group/scene come along.

What was happening just before the Beatles & Stones? What was happening just before Hendrix? Bob Dylan? Elvis? Stevie Ray Vaughan? Nirvana & Pearl Jam?

There were good/great/cool regional music scenes and recordings before these groundbreaking artists burst onto the scene, but there were lulls in the national/international music scene before they "hit", and these "down" times often go down as some of the blandest, most boring music in history...kinda like the pop/hip-hop scene now.

I think it's because people get hungry for something substantial and meaty, as opposed to fluffy and manufactured (like Kawasaki or whatever her digital name is).

tbazzone · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 9:51 am

Its not a matter of what is happining musicly is how it is being presented.

martynrss2 · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 11:31 am

Yeah, but in all fairness Japan's weird as hell.

53magnatone · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 11:40 am

I'm not surprised, it's typical japanese :shock:

culture. Always interestingly amusing as to how far they take a fad and stretch it to a point that makes you wonder. Karaoke would be the prime example.

That's it...A Karaoke/Air Guitar version of " Deuce " ' Detroit Rock City " :lol:

This is what happens when I'm home sick with the Flu :cry:

Floyd_The_Barber · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 12:57 pm

martynrss2 wrote:

Yeah, but in all fairness Japan's weird as hell.

+1.....

i mean, for Christs sake have you SEEN some of that anime?!?!? its like a schizophrenic was given a pencil and some LSD, dropped in the middle of disney world, and told to have it..... :shock:

martynrss2 · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:33 pm

Well this is coming from the country that gave everyone "vending machine disguises", to escape unnoticed or hide from a mugger.

Floyd_The_Barber · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:45 pm

martynrss2 wrote:

Well this is coming from the country that gave everyone "vending machine disguises", to escape unnoticed or hide from a mugger.

hmmm... i wonder which one is the disguise..... :lol:

Negative Creep · **Joined:** Sat Nov 20, 2010 2:16 pm **Posts:** 881

Screamin' Armadillo wrote:

tbazzone wrote:

This will be the down fall of real musicians.

No, because just after every "step back" like this we have a revolutionary artist/group/scene come along.

What was happening just before the Beatles & Stones? What was happening just before Hendrix? Bob Dylan? Elvis? Stevie Ray Vaughan? Nirvana & Pearl Jam?

There were good/great/cool regional music scenes and recordings before these groundbreaking artists burst onto the scene, but there were lulls in the national/international music scene before they "hit", and these "down" times often go down as some of the blandest, most boring music in history...kinda like the pop/hip-hop scene now.

I think it's because people get hungry for something substantial and meaty, as opposed to fluffy and manufactured (like Kawasaki or whatever her digital name is).

pearl jam

Screamin' Armadillo · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 3:46 pm

Yes, Pearl Jam.

I don't know how old you are, but I was in my early 20s when grunge "hit"; although I wouldn't put any grunge band on the level of some of the other bands and artists I mentioned, Nirvana and Pearl Jam pulled new music out of the power ballad/spandex crap that was being thrust upon us. They changed the musical landscape, and IMHO, for the better.

Floyd_The_Barber · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 3:56 pm

Screamin' Armadillo wrote:

Yes, Pearl Jam.

I don't know how old you are, but I was in my early 20s when grunge "hit"; although I wouldn't put any grunge band on the level of some of the other bands and artists I mentioned, Nirvana and Pearl Jam pulled new music out of the power ballad/spandex crap that was being thrust upon us. They changed the musical landscape, and IMHO, for the better.

of course the aftermath of the epic musical juggernaut of the 90s has been absolutely God-awful.... Nickelback is THE rock band, lil wayne is "the best rapper", justin bieber is R&B..... just horrible

Screamin' Armadillo · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 6:15 pm

Floyd_The_Barber wrote:

Screamin' Armadillo wrote:

Yes, Pearl Jam.

I don't know how old you are, but I was in my early 20s when grunge "hit"; although I wouldn't put any grunge band on the level of some of the other bands and artists I mentioned, Nirvana and Pearl Jam pulled new music out of the power ballad/spandex crap that was being thrust upon us. They changed the musical landscape, and IMHO, for the better.

of course the aftermath of the epic musical juggernaut of the 90s has been absolutely God-awful.... Nickelback is THE rock band, lil wayne is "the best rapper", justin bieber is R&B..... just horrible

All of Nickelback needs to be taken out in a field and shot with a small caliber handgun at medium range. Repeatedly. By the chimpanzee under Floyd_The_Barber's name. That Chad dude's voice is like someone rubbing a rasp file on my buttocks. The only thing they ever did right was somehow convincing Billy Gibbons to play on a couple of their songs...the only good songs on any disc they have ever made, btw.

Outside of a few bright points (like the Black Keys, Jack White's various projects, solo artist Lincoln Durham and a couple of other groups/artists) the trends of the last decade are leading up to proof or disproof of my theory. Something's gotta give soon, and there is bound to be another "revolution" along the lines of Elvis, the British Invasion, Hendrix, something good...we've suffered long enough.

way cool jr · **Joined:** Tue May 18, 2010 7:34 pm **Posts:** 6911

actually i like lady gaga's songs for the most part.
at least she isnt singing about the biotch's and the hood, and hood rich topics.

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