Consequences of Vocaloid / Miku Hatsune?

Lol not sure whether to put it here or Technology, but considering  everyone loves to make fanart of her...

Anyhoo, i was wondering about the consequences of such software coming out now...

I mean, the creative potential this could unleash with songwriters with no, uh, voice (or maybe no female one lmao) can now fulfill their creative needs to a bit.

But now we've come to a precedent. We are now able to, more or less, synthesize a human singer's voice. Not perfect, and it's still based on samples of an original singer, but damn well near it.

If you were able to perfect this shit, wouldnt japanese idols kinda like go out of business so to speak? Japan would probably need the sex symbols still, but the creative aspect for their careers would be shot. I mean, how many of them actually write their own songs?

Plus, what happens when people start venting, goin "arrgh, yer takin the humanity out of it rabble rabble". But eventually technology will be able to replicate speech patterns perfectly... if not already.

Philosophically, it's kinda wierd. Bascially you're reducing even the human voice down to a mere instrument, moreso when you can manipulate it as much as you can through Vocaloid.

I don't have a problem with Miku Hatsune or the whole Vocaloid project- Miku is so cute!! >w< But, I understand what you're getting at.

I think no matter what, people will go to music to express themselves -- regardless of what technology is made available. Real musicians will continue making music and hoping that other people out there will hear it and possibly relate to it.

Maybe this could serve to kill off some of the more synthetic pop "stars" that are only out there to be mass publicized...(i.e. Paris Hilton or The Jonas Brothers). -gag- >__>

I think what the world needs is more music education! More blues, more rock & ro~o~oll! ( > o <)9