Miku, the internet popstar icon from Japan, has announced her first North American tour dates. Starting April of next year Miku will play in seven select U.S. cities. A Pledgemusic campaign has recently started online to build up the money for Miku to come to the United States. Fans can buy access passes and tickets for special events going on during the tour dates, but also can buy from exclusive Miku items from the Pledgemusic site, titled “Miku Expo Let’s Go.” Fans can even enter a chance to have Miku to play in their town, but the price tag is one million dollars. For one million dollars and a Dr. Evil pinky finger to the lips, fans can have the option of having Miku perform at their town with that tagline of again, one million dollars. But this one million dollar chance is not for the whole tour, its for rerouting the tour around that one luxury performance, and then continuing with the scheduled dates that were announced.
Let’s appreciate the fact that the first Miku Expo went well in 2014. Even though financially and logistically, getting Miku from Japan to the US is a big challenge. The “Miku Expo Let’s Go” for Miku’s first North American tour was recently opened December 1 on the Pledgemusic website. The Pledgemusic site for the Miku Expo offers exclusive items you can get: an original wristwatch, an OMOCAT collaboration T-shirt, and even a photo-shoot opportunity with Miku on stage. There are still some options left and so far only 170% of the entire campaign has been established in profits from merchandise and ticket sales. But there are seventy-four days left until Miku comes to the American stage. Who knows, maybe next year will be her European tour.
Recently, Miku herself has teamed up with musician Laurel Halo for Berlin’s CTM festival. Berlin’s CTM festival will host a celebration titled Still Be Here, which Miku, Laurel Halo, and other people have come together to create an art and music collaboration. Still Be Here is all about Miku, since Miku is a electornic and technological creation, there is often a projection of what various fantasies are often depicted. She is supposed to be the young age of 16, where dating and driving independence are often conjoined in the United States, but not in other parts of the world. The whole epitome of this project is exploring the desires and fantasies that we place on some hologram or even a robotic young girl and what it means to be placing these problems onto such young adolescent children in most cases. In regards to the community of people who are often on the internet, Miku is there typology and their allegorical commodified female body. Still Be Here, is one of the most heavily constructed notions of what often coins the phrase of the perfect female body or what it means to put such expected socialized behaviors on young girls. Even though the CTM’s festival is currently under heavy production, it has been shown in parts to the masses and often provides a shocking insight into what is transferred across the globe as the female body or the young female expectations. Still Be Here will premiere as a joint highlight of the CTM / Transmediale 2016 festivals before traveling to Donaufestival and the Barbican later next year.
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