Could You Have a Crush on This Girl?

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Fnord
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25 Jun 2011, 2:35 pm

This is a picture of Eguchi Aimi, a member of a J-Pop girl-group.

(From Wikipedia)

Think she's crush-worthy? Think again...

Gizmodo Article

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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25 Jun 2011, 2:55 pm

I can't see your picture but I saw the article and was like "Yes, I-oh wait..."

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25 Jun 2011, 2:58 pm

Haha I read about that earlier.. that's crazy!

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25 Jun 2011, 2:59 pm

Eguchi was announced as the group's newest member in June 2011. According to an official profile she was a 16-year-old from Saitama, north of Tokyo. She featured in the Japanese magazine Weekly Playboy, and appeared in a television commercial for the confectionary company, Ezaki Glico.

And then the truth came out...

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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25 Jun 2011, 5:28 pm

Meh.

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25 Jun 2011, 5:34 pm

Too Uncanny Valley for me.

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25 Jun 2011, 5:45 pm

Yes, she is a great singer as for the who she really is....they took the best parts for her.

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26 Jun 2011, 2:57 pm

You know what this means, don't you: the end of the flesh-and-blood tween pop idol as we know it (and not in a good way). Because tween pop music puts more emphasis on image as opposed to real talent, the idol's staying power is limited since they have to, you know, grow up. With this new technology, the record companies can use them indefinitely. And since they can just make a composite character out of the physical features of several people, we're probably only going to see a lot more of these factory-made idols.

Hey, if they make a composite character from multiple people, do they have to pay royalties to the people they used to make the composite? How do copyright laws apply to these characters?

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26 Jun 2011, 3:22 pm

Fnord wrote:

This is a picture of Eguchi Aimi, a member of a J-Pop girl-group.

(From Wikipedia)

Think she's crush-worthy? Think again...

Gizmodo Article

:lol:

No crush. She is only slightly older than my grand daughter.

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26 Jun 2011, 3:25 pm

No, thank you.

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26 Jun 2011, 3:27 pm

ruveyn wrote:

Fnord wrote:

This is a picture of Eguchi Aimi, a member of a J-Pop girl-group.

(From Wikipedia)

Think she's crush-worthy? Think again...

Gizmodo Article

:lol:

No crush. She is only slightly older than my grand daughter.

ruveyn

So your grand daughter is less than a year old, right?

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26 Jun 2011, 3:34 pm

She does look strange and unreal in the videos with uncoordinated facial expressions...

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26 Jun 2011, 4:03 pm

pree10shun wrote:

She does look strange and unreal in the videos with uncoordinated facial expressions...

Yes ... very Aspie-ish ...

:idea:

I nominate Eguchi Aimi as our WrongPlanet mascot!

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26 Jun 2011, 7:56 pm

TheSnarkKnight wrote:

So if they can just pay smart people to make good looking people to sing. think they can make real music now?

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27 Jun 2011, 2:45 pm

This is the most confusing thing ever. lol. She is 6 girls made into one. This blurs the lines of reality too much for my tastes, I have to stop thinking about it a.s.a.p. LOL.

can't stop thinking about it though, geez. I feel bad for the people who were her 'fans' when in reality she never existed.

If they did this with her face, did they render her a voice as well? So weird..

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27 Jun 2011, 7:39 pm

Reminds me of the Al Pacino movie S1m0ne, which was a rather boring movie made from an interesting concept.

S1m0ne at IMDB

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