{"id":37127,"date":"2012-04-25T03:39:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T03:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/twenty-five-thousand-screaming-fans-fill-a\/"},"modified":"2012-04-25T03:39:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T03:39:52","slug":"twenty-five-thousand-screaming-fans-fill-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/twenty-five-thousand-screaming-fans-fill-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Twenty-five thousand screaming fans fill a darkened stadium, forming a sea of bodies and frantically waving glow sticks. Lights and fog dramatically set the stage. Cymbals clash; then suddenly, she rises up: the girl they\u2019ve all been waiting for, belting out one of her chart-topping Japanese dance hits. Her name is Hatsune Miku. And she\u2019s a hologram. Unlike the hologram that brought rapper Tupac Shakur back from the grave for a sensational Coachella performance on Sunday, however, Miku isn\u2019t based on a real person. She\u2019s entirely fictitious, an avatar created by the Japanese technology firm Crypton Future Media, using Yamaha Corporation\u2019s Vocaloid 2\u2014the so-called singer-in-a-box program that allows users to input lyrics and melodies, control elements like vibrato, and instantly pop out flawless vocals. Since she originated in 2007, Miku\u2019s performed live for paying audiences of up to 25,000 people and was the face of Google Chrome\u2019s promotion blitz in Japan (a post occupied in the U.S. by her popularity equivalents, Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga). She has her own video-game series and boasts a fan base so formidable that they threatened a Clash magazine writer\u2019s life after he dared to use the word \u201cslutty\u201d when describing her somewhat risqu\u00e9 attire. Miku is, by all accounts, a teen pop idol.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/04\/18\/hatsune-miku-japan-s-hologram-pop-idol.html\">Hatsune Miku, Japan\u2019s Hologram Pop Idol &#8211; The Daily Beast<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-five thousand screaming fans fill a darkened stadium, forming a sea of bodies and frantically waving glow sticks. Lights and fog dramatically set the stage. Cymbals clash; then suddenly, she rises up: the girl they\u2019ve all been waiting for, belting out one of her chart-topping Japanese dance hits. Her name is Hatsune Miku. And she\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539,716],"class_list":["post-37127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","tag-idoru","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9EP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}