![]() Miku is what’s known as a Vocaloid, an avatar of voice-synthesizing software (also called Vocaloid)-roughly, Siri–meets–GarageBand. Indeed, last month, shortly after she made her much-discussed American-network debut on The Late Show With David Letterman and shortly before her two headlining shows at the Hammerstein Ballroom, a New York Times headline wondered, “Does Hatsune Miku’s Ascent Mean the End of Music As We Know It?” (Don’t even think about calling her a cartoon.) She is, depending on whom you ask, a harbinger of a radically collaborative future in pop music or a holographic horsewoman of the apocalypse. But both of these are the kind of misnomers that are liable to send her legions of die-hard fans-and there are 2.5 million of them on Facebook-into cardiac arrest. If you’ve heard of her, you’ve probably heard her described as a “hologram” maybe you’ve also heard people say she doesn’t exist. ![]() She has opened for Lady Gaga, collaborated with Pharrell, and sung more than 100,000 songs, dabbling quite literally in every genre imaginable. ![]() She wears her cascading aquamarine hair in pigtails that skim the ground when she dances, and according to stats offered up on her record company’s website, she stands five-two and weighs about 93 pounds. Hatsune Miku, one of Japan’s most famous pop stars, has been 16 for the past seven years. ![]() This article originally appeared in Vulture.
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