The Whitney Houston Hologram Tour 2020

[editor]

As Ian Faith, Spinal Tap manager stated, "death sells." Tickets from £28 to £71.

An Evening With Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Tour is an iconic and awe-inspiring live theatrical performance that celebrates Whitney’s incredible life, work, and the everlasting legacy of the most awarded female artist of all time! This one of a kind holographic experience will reunite audiences with the beloved Queen of Pop using state of the art technology and digitally remastered arrangements of her classic hits – backed by a live band, singers, dancers – all surrounded by a spectacular and cutting-edge stage and lighting extravaganza to create a truly breathtaking concert experience

An Evening with Whitney - The Whitney Houston Hologram Tour

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This reminds me of Hatsune Miku!

Hatsune Miku

I really like Hatsune Miku. She is the true digital idol. Created as software that can mimic a human voice she has evolved into an amazing pop sensation. Being digital she sounds synthetic but deliberately so. rather like Cher's believe. There are some songs that sound more...

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[maomao]

Are they going to have a hologram of her stumbling around looking for her crack pipe?

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

This reminds me of Hatsune Miku!

Hatsune Miku

I really like Hatsune Miku. She is the true digital idol. Created as software that can mimic a human voice she has evolved into an amazing pop sensation. Being digital she sounds synthetic but deliberately so. rather like Cher's believe. There are some songs that sound more...

www.urban75.net

I think this is one of the times the thing I like is actually less wierd than the mainstream alternatives.

 

[killer b]

Are they going to have a hologram of her stumbling around looking for her crack pipe?

I hate to be po-faced, but I wonder if this kind of joke is really ok?

 

[DotCommunist]

how hard is it going to be to break into the industry come 2045 when you've got to compete for ticket sales with the dead

 

[killer b]

how hard is it going to be to break into the industry come 2045 when you've got to compete for ticket sales with the dead

It's just a tribute show really - and the price of the tickets is more or less in line with other tribute shows doing shows this size.

 

[8ball]

I hate to be po-faced, but I wonder if this kind of joke is really ok?

Just coming up to 8 years. Technically kind of on the cusp.

 

[ska invita]

This reminds me of Hatsune Miku!

Hatsune Miku

I really like Hatsune Miku. She is the true digital idol. Created as software that can mimic a human voice she has evolved into an amazing pop sensation. Being digital she sounds synthetic but deliberately so. rather like Cher's believe. There are some songs that sound more...

www.urban75.net

Having checked out this Miku phenomenon I think there's an important difference between this and Whitney.
The fans at the Miku gig are practically cult-like in their appreciation of what they know is not a real person. Going to the gig and knowing it will be a projection you are seeing isn't a shock, its central to the experience.

Whitney audience isn't like that. They want to hear one of the greatest ever singers doing so live. That is not going to be the case here.
When Miku fans clap and cheer after a song they must be doing so as part of the collective group experience. They clap for each other.
Why applaud a hologram of Whitney. She can't hear it.
Maybe there are enough fanatical fans to create the atmosphere of a Miku gig, but I doubt it. I could imagine you could get a room of those Michael Jackson devotees together to watch a holograph of him and make it work, but I just cant imagine this working for Whitney.

No doubt I'm wrong and they've done the research and this works.

I'd be up for seeing some kind of really dark fantasy hologram metal band if the stage show was x rated enough. That could be interesting.

 

[killer b]

Just coming up to 8 years. Technically kind of on the cusp.

I meant more laughing at the debilitating effects of drug addiction rather than laughing at Whitney Houston tbf

 

[8ball]

Whitney audience... they want to hear one of the greatest ever singers doing so live.

Which is why the expanded dictionaries reference them in their definition of 'irony'.

 

[killer b]

Having checked out this Miku phenomenon I think there's an important difference between this and Whitney.
The fans at the Miku gig are practically cult-like in their appreciation of what they know is not a real person. Going to the gig and knowing it will be a projection you are seeing isn't a shock, its central to the experience.

Whitney audience isn't like that. They want to hear one of the greatest ever singers doing so live. That is not going to be the case here.
When Miku fans clap and cheer after a song they must be doing so as part of the collective group experience. They clap for each other.
Why applaud a hologram of Whitney. She can't hear it.
Maybe there are enough fanatical fans to create the atmosphere of a Miku gig, but I doubt it. I could imagine you could get a room of those Michael Jackson devotees together to watch a holograph of him and make it work, but I just cant imagine this working for Whitney.

No doubt I'm wrong and they've done the research and this works.

I'd be up for seeing some kind of really dark fantasy hologram metal band if the stage show was x rated enough. That could be interesting.

It's just a tribute night so people can go and dance and sing along to their favourite songs. It's not much different to The Australian Pink Floyd Show, or a motown revue, or those 'hits of the 80s' tours, or a David Bowie disco or whatever.

 

[skyscraper101]

When are they gonna get the 2Pac one back out on tour? They should do a Biggie one too and have them do a holographic rap battle

 

[editor]

It's just a tribute night so people can go and dance and sing along to their favourite songs. It's not much different to The Australian Pink Floyd Show, or a motown revue, or those 'hits of the 80s' tours, or a David Bowie disco or whatever.

Oh come off it. It's a whole different thing if there's no actual singer there reacting and responding to the crowd. There is zero spontaneity with a hologram and every vocal 'performance' will be absolutely identical to the previous one, and equally devoid of human interaction with the crowd.

 

[8ball]

Oh come off it. It's a whole different thing if there's no actual singer there reacting and responding to the crowd. There is zero spontaneity with a hologram and every vocal 'performance' will be absolutely identical to the previous one, and equally devoid of human interaction with the crowd.

I was wondering about that. Granted, there a live band and backing singers, but any flexibility in crowd interaction seems near impossible.

 

[killer b]

It is't a whole different thing - it's just a weird twist on the same thing. The audience is same audience who'd go and see a whitney tribute with an actual singer, and what it's doing for them is the same too.

I hate tribute acts too, mind - don't get me wrong. But people like to sing along to the hits with flashing lights and stuff going on, so they're always going to be popular.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Maybe there are enough fanatical fans to create the atmosphere of a Miku gig, but I doubt it.

Her first solo concert was 25000.

 

[Spod]

This sounds well Black Mirror!

 

[editor]

It's as weird and as tacky as you might expect...

In The Mirror, critic Alun Palmer wrote: “In life, Whitney Houston was exploited by everyone around her. So why should passing to the great beyond make any difference when there is money still to be made?”

Whitney Houston hologram tour branded a ‘mind-f***’ that inspires ‘overwhelming guilt’

‘Has everyone gone mad?’ one critic wrote

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Detroit City]

can't people just leave poor Whitney alone? now they've turned her into a hologram

 

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Theres money to be made in dead celebs............

 

[Idaho]

... singer there reacting and responding to the crowd. There is zero spontaneity .....and equally devoid of human interaction with the crowd.

To be fair, 70% of gigs are like this anyway.

 

[killer b]

Yeah, a gig of any size and the 'interaction' is just acting.

 

[skyscraper101]

It would be funnier if they purposely deep faked her but with like really obvious spliced in audio

Whitney: Wooo hi everyone, it's sooo great to be back again in...
Robotic voice: SHEFFIELD

 

[JimW]

It would be funnier if they purposely deep faked her but with like really obvious spliced in audio

Whitney: Wooo hi everyone, it's sooo great to be back again in...
Robotic voice: SHEFFIELD

Sudden "network unavailable" error message during the climax.