The T-shirt design contest winners have been announced:
Let's PaintDATE
January 19th Sun. 2020
4:00pm - 8:00pm
LOCATION
TAK Berlin
ADDRESS
Prinzenstraße 85 F, 10969 Berlin
REGULATION
All age
*parent or guardian accompaniment required for ages under 16
FEE
TBA
Aw, I can't attend Let's Paint, or even the Digital Stars event :( I'm flying to Berlin on Sunday and landing about an hour after Digital Stars begins.London
To be announced
Paris
DATE
January 15th Wed. 2020
4:00pm - 8:00pm
LOCATION
Le Dernier Bar Avant la Fin du Monde (All ages)
ADDRESS
19 Avenue Victoria, 75001 Paris
FEE
Free
Berlin
DATE
January 18th Sat. 2020
1:00pm - 5:00pm
LOCATION
Figuya (All ages)
ADDRESS
Oranienburger Straße 13/14, 10178 Berlin
FEE
Free
Amsterdam
DATE
January 25th Sat. 2020
1:00pm - 5:00pm
LOCATION
Animere in Almere (All ages)
ADDRESS
Europalaan 939, 1363 BM Almere
FEE
Free
Barcelona
DATE
January 27th Mon. 2020
5:00pm - 9:00pm
LOCATION
GOKURAKU (All ages)
ADDRESS
Carrer Malats 8, 08030 Barcelona
FEE
Free
I get where you're coming from, but in American tours we have songs in Japanese about Japan and it's not considered weird then.MikuFiesta is... nice? I feel like I'm being really negative but it just feels like completely the wrong context for the song to be picked as the winner though. Like it's the perfect song for a Mexico/South America tour, but for a Europe tour it feels kinda weird.
MikuFiesta is... nice? I feel like I'm being really negative but it just feels like completely the wrong context for the song to be picked as the winner though. Like it's the perfect song for a Mexico/South America tour, but for a Europe tour it feels kinda weird. The English/Dutch/German/French part felt kinda shoehorned in there, too. Ah well, it's a cute song, production on it is nice enough.
I understand that feeling, too. For me, at least, I think it's because I'm from the US and English is my first language. I sort of feel like there isn't a truly "native" culture that most people share in my country (though I'm sure some anthropologist who has studied/surveyed/thought a lot about it would disagree); I'm just not sure what it would be--something involving baseball and hot dogs? So when something like a Miku tour happens, it doesn't seem inappropriate for her to bring whatever along with her, because there's nothing really dominant for her to be neglecting.I get where you're coming from, but in American tours we have songs in Japanese about Japan and it's not considered weird then.
Plus I feel like the idea of Miku Expo is to connect the world through Miku.
I can see that. From how I see it though, Miku expo and perhaps Miku herself represents bringing all kinds of different people together, so it makes sense to me :)From my point of view, then, seeing a primarily Spanish song have other languages thrown in feels kind of weird, since Spanish is associated with, in my mind, a more unifying/dominant culture of its own.
Oh, yeah, for sure. The way Vocaloid/Miku as one of its primary ambassadors makes a hand available to everyone is one of its aspects that I find really cool as well! The disconnect I feel is just because that more immediate/intuitive response that I described isn't quite as smart as my head is :) .I can see that. From how I see it though, Miku expo and perhaps Miku herself represents bringing all kinds of different people together, so it makes sense to me :)