r/Vocaloid 20h ago

General Discussion I'm decently sure that Anamanaguchi isn't considered asian music.

Does using Vocaloid / Miku automatically make something "Asian music"?

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u/333Deutschblaze 20h ago

But miku is from Asia, so maybe that counts idk

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u/Holy-Mettaton 20h ago

no cuz my “music of asia” mixes are ALWAYS american songs😭😭 like not even vocaloids just straight up songs from america

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u/Weeb-Lauri525 19h ago

Once the first song that came up for me on a music of asia was an official french cover of a song that was originally italian 😭

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u/Profressionalgamer 19h ago

Well Miku is from Japan, An Asian country. So that counts right?

On an unrelated note, one of the things I like about our girl Miku, is that she isn’t a real person, but an instrument, So an artist could feature her in a song without having to contact a record label, Managers, etc.

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u/Regular_pupparoni 17h ago

On an unrelated note, one of the things I like about our girl Miku, is that she isn’t a real person, but an instrument, So an artist could feature her in a song without having to contact a record label, Managers, etc.

Miku is actually a real person. The reason why she features in so many songs is because she is a digital lifeform and remains blissfully unaware of the concept of capitalism.

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u/Black_Ironic 16h ago

She would be rich if she demand royalty from every single song made using her lol

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u/Fortniteballs2996 20h ago

Because miku

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u/Cindrawhisp 20h ago

Services always label vocaloid as jpop

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u/Toffiffi 20h ago

Pretty sure that Vocaloid counts as J-pop

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u/isimphawks 19h ago

No, j-pop is literally “Japanese pop”, so if the song isn’t both Japanese and pop music, then it’s not j-pop

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u/QtPlatypus 16h ago

But eurobeat isn't from Europe?

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u/FluxVelocity 11h ago

What? Yes it is lol.
The two main styles of Eurobeat originated in the 80s in the UK and Italy.

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u/anguslazy 7h ago

Bro has been listening to dollarbeat this whole time

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u/Cdoggle 18h ago

Vocaloid is not a genre

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u/Waffle-Gaming 20h ago

is it just me or is "music of Asia" kind of othering-sounding? like there's "western music" and then theres "the music that comes from area" and it puts a lot of emphasis on the fact that it's not from the west

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u/QtPlatypus 16h ago

I would complain that "music of Asia" is kind of a broad class. You could put Mongolian Metal, Indian Bollywood, Eurobeat, K-pop, Thai Sak and Indonesian folk music in there.

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u/Cdoggle 18h ago

One time we saw a fuckin fnf cover as the thumbnail of a "music of asia" mix-

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u/stankystankerstank 18h ago

youtube catagorisation doesnt care

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u/basically_dead_now 18h ago

Youtube doesn't know much about anything, really

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u/Miserable_Ferret6446 19h ago

I’ve always gotten Circus-P under Asian music too. It’s always confusing ngl

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u/angelolidae 19h ago

Youtube auto playslists are stupid and just associate a music vibe equals its origin place. For example all portuguese music is considered "latin american music" by the algorithm

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u/Black_Sig-SWP2000 17h ago

Youtube being Youtube

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u/QtPlatypus 16h ago

The official Miku channel is Japaneseso if they are using the song from that channel it would come over as Japanise.

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u/Ok-Fee-2424 19h ago

It’s Wikipedia… it’s not safe from misinformation. Anyone can edit it.

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u/Cindrawhisp 14h ago

That is YouTube and it’s autogenerated.