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INTEREST: Vocaloid Song Crowd-Sourced to Sell Fried Chicken


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Sunday Silence



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I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
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machetecat



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I laughed so hard I cried.

The headline alone just made my entire evening. Thank you.
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TitanXL



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Cute singers > Colonel Sanders
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What is this? Laughing

They are trying way too hard to milk this Vocaloid franchise.
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asimpson2006



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 8:10 pm Reply with quote
TitanXL wrote:
Cute singers > Colonel Sanders


Agreed. I do not really eat fried chicken but if she was selling, I would eat it right until they put me in my grave.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 9:14 pm Reply with quote
Rukiia wrote:
What is this? Laughing

They are trying way too hard to milk this Vocaloid franchise.


Perhaps they're just trying to spice up their marketing....
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ArsenicSteel



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 9:40 pm Reply with quote
Sunday Silence wrote:
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I don't want to live on this planet anymore.


The company sells fried chicken and has a singing/dancing mascot to help drum up sales? Is the logic there so offensive that it makes you need to become a hermit and relocate to another planet?
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Zarquon



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 9:59 pm Reply with quote
If it was a fried chicken chain in the deep south I could see there being a problem with a singing and dancing mascot. ITS IN JAPAN! Sometimes a singing and dancing batch of pixels is sometimes just that. *sigh* some people see trouble everywhere...

I love this idea personally, its cute, its innovative and its engaging. We already are inundated with virtual mascots (Geico Gecco, yeah, I'm talking about you >>) but at least this will be one singing an original, crowd-sourced song. I await the first US company to take this idea stateside.

WIN
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Teriyaki Terrier



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:07 pm Reply with quote
Apparently chicken (in this case fried) is completely relevant with anime?

Even though I personally don't eat fried chicken, does chicken really have anything to do with a Vocaloid?
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:10 pm Reply with quote
Teriyaki Terrier wrote:
Apparently chicken (in this case fried) is completely relevant with anime?

Even though I personally don't eat fried chicken, does chicken really have anything to do with a Vocaloid?


Do geckos have anything to do with car insurance(Geico)? Or clowns with hamburgers(McDonald's)?

One thing I wonder is whose voicebank they are going to use or were they able to make their own?
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Teriyaki Terrier



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:24 pm Reply with quote
Scr1be wrote:
Teriyaki Terrier wrote:
Apparently chicken (in this case fried) is completely relevant with anime?

Even though I personally don't eat fried chicken, does chicken really have anything to do with a Vocaloid?


Do geckos have anything to do with car insurance(Geico)? Or clowns with hamburgers(McDonald's)?

One thing I wonder is whose voicebank they are going to use or were they able to make their own?


You've got a point there. But to be fair, the gecko isn't always those commercials, just some of them. And I suppose with clowns are associated with fairs and some fairs sell hamburgers, so I suppose that also makes sense as well.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 11:42 pm Reply with quote
Scr1be wrote:
Teriyaki Terrier wrote:
Apparently chicken (in this case fried) is completely relevant with anime?

Even though I personally don't eat fried chicken, does chicken really have anything to do with a Vocaloid?


Do geckos have anything to do with car insurance(Geico)? Or clowns with hamburgers(McDonald's)?


Gecko sounds like Geico. And who wouldn't take this Japanese ad McD clown? Laughing




So, fried chicken is what Vocaloid is reduced to, eh? Here goes: Laughing

There's barkin' at the kitchen
Yellin' in the hall
Ringin' at the door bell
Poundin' on the wall
Kids out a sight
And kids in the way
No time to cook on this hectic day
Come on, come on, come on
Get a bucket of chicken
Finger lickin' good
Have a barrel of fun
Goodbye ho-hum
Say hello to your family
Come on everyone
At LAWSON Fried Chicken
Have a barrel of fun


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ArsenicSteel



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 11:42 pm Reply with quote
Teriyaki Terrier wrote:
Scr1be wrote:
Teriyaki Terrier wrote:
Apparently chicken (in this case fried) is completely relevant with anime?

Even though I personally don't eat fried chicken, does chicken really have anything to do with a Vocaloid?


Do geckos have anything to do with car insurance(Geico)? Or clowns with hamburgers(McDonald's)?

One thing I wonder is whose voicebank they are going to use or were they able to make their own?


You've got a point there. But to be fair, the gecko isn't always those commercials, just some of them. And I suppose with clowns are associated with fairs and some fairs sell hamburgers, so I suppose that also makes sense as well.


And is the mascot for the store always in those commercials?
I've never had a hamburger at a fair...elephant ears, hot dogs on a stick, chicken tenders, cotton candy. Most of the time when I think Fair food it comes on a stick.
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Jedi Master



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 11:56 pm Reply with quote
She seems more suited to selling ice cream. Must be the Baskin Robbins color scheme and her hair resembling two scoops.
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Teriyaki Terrier



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:23 am Reply with quote
ArsenicSteel wrote:
Teriyaki Terrier wrote:
Scr1be wrote:
Teriyaki Terrier wrote:
Apparently chicken (in this case fried) is completely relevant with anime?

Even though I personally don't eat fried chicken, does chicken really have anything to do with a Vocaloid?


Do geckos have anything to do with car insurance(Geico)? Or clowns with hamburgers(McDonald's)?

One thing I wonder is whose voicebank they are going to use or were they able to make their own?


You've got a point there. But to be fair, the gecko isn't always those commercials, just some of them. And I suppose with clowns are associated with fairs and some fairs sell hamburgers, so I suppose that also makes sense as well.


And is the mascot for the store always in those commercials?
I've never had a hamburger at a fair...elephant ears, hot dogs on a stick, chicken tenders, cotton candy. Most of the time when I think Fair food it comes on a stick.


No, the mascot for the store probably isn't in every commercial. I am not saying it entirely logical, but there is some, albeit not much.

Most fair food does a stick, but it's possible there is a vendor that also sells hamburgers as well. I haven't been to a fair in more than a decade, so I don't really know if the food sold there has changed that much since then.
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