Get ready for a day just like any other, because we’ve learned that a soulless, pre-programmed, one-dimensional pop star is going on tour. Of course, unlike 75 percent of the other pop stars on the Billboard Top 200, this singer has a good excuse. Gizmodo reports that Hatsune Miku, a Japanese “virtual pop star,” is going on a short tour of the U.S. and Canada in 2016. Presumably, Katy Perry is in a blind rage right now after not getting the response she was hoping for this morning when asking her vanity mirror, “Who’s the most manufactured singer of all?”
Miku is a computer-generated hologram made from software known as Vocaloid, which produces a human-sounding singing voice without using any actual human sounds in its creation. Its Facebook page (which currently boasts more than 2.5 million fans) describes Miku as a “virtual singer who can sing any song that anybody composes,” which is like bragging that your butterfly net can hold any butterfly in existence, but okay. Lady Gaga fans might be familiar, given this assemblage of ones and zeroes opened for the American pop singer last summer.