The not-so-perfect pop princess: How Japanese music producers fooled thousands of fans with computer

[AsahinaKimi]

To her thousands of fans she was the perfect pop star.

But scratch beneath the coiffed hair and delicate features of Japanese singing sensation Aimi Eguchi and all was not well.

The sickly-sweet pop idol had actually been computer generated from composite pictures of six of the most attractive members of the band AKB48. Her high-pitched voice merely an auto-tuned actor's.

Computer generated: Aimi Eguchi smiles and waves in the Japanese candy advert she starred in that first started to arouse suspicions among fans

Fans who followed the supposedly 16-year-old star in the Japanese girl group have been shocked by the revaluation.

Earlier this year Aimi joined the musical group AKB48 which has become a musical sensation in Japan.

The 61 group members make daily performances at a theater in Tokyo while thousands of teenage girls compete to become new members. They also star in a hit TV show.

Aimi’s AKB 48 profile said that she was 16,competed in track and field, and that she was from Saitama, a prefecture on the island of Honshu. It also said Aimi had debuted in a photoshoot for Shueisha’s Weekly Playboy magazine.Fans who followed the supposedly 16-year-old star in the Japanese girl group have been shocked by the revaluation.

Earlier this year Aimi joined the musical group AKB48 which has become a musical sensation in Japan.


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[trumad]

1. Hi-Tech Milli Vanilli.

[HockeyMom]

8. Kick

ROFL

[Doctor Hurt]

2. at least there was no hentai pr0n involved.

[Iggo]

9. Rule 34 of The Internet.

If it exists, there is porn of it.

[sakabatou]

11. Just go to gelbooru.

[KamaAina]

3. Life imitates art.

William Gibson's "Idoru".

[Jazz Ambassador]

5. Beat me to it! n/t

[MineralMan]

4. Fascinating. A composite. And the video at the link

shows exactly how it was done. I'm impressed by the technology.

Watch for more of this.

I don't really care, since all entertainment is pretty fakey anyhow. This has to be really expensive to put together, too, so I don't expect it to be used for more than small productions, like ads.

[arcane1]

6. I thought that's how all pop music was created these days...

:silly:

[DJ13]

7. That shouldnt be a surprise, they have real concerts with anime singers already

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTXO7KGHtjI&feature=player_embedded#at=13

[sakabatou]

10. Hastune Miku

Probably the most well known animated singers besides the Gorillaz.