{"id":1231,"date":"2015-12-13T22:19:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T04:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intlwota.com\/happydisco\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2015-12-13T22:19:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T04:19:35","slug":"the-twelve-days-of-idol-christmas-pittari-shitai-xmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2015\/12\/13\/the-twelve-days-of-idol-christmas-pittari-shitai-xmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twelve Days of Idol Christmas &#8211; Pittari Shitai X&#8217;Mas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I was thinking of doing a feature about idol music. However, I remembered that I had in the past done a list of my favorite idol Christmas tracks, so I was unsure if this would be repeating too much. I looked back to see when I did that list and it was in 2010, so I think we&#8217;re good.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I was talking with<a href=\"http:\/\/okaymusumetime.blogspot.com\/\"> Chiima of Okay! Musume Time<\/a>\u00a0who reminded me she has been doing the exact same thing for years. Which, as a regular reader of that blog, somehow slipped my mind. Whoops! Sorry for stealing your idea, Chiima!<\/p>\n<p>The idea of this post is to be a short but sweet look at Christmas-themed idol songs and music videos. Please note that all of these are going to be Christmas themed, not generic idol winter themed. While I like a lot of idol songs that have a winter theme (RYUTist&#8217;s Fuyu no Mahou, Dempagumi.inc&#8217;s Fuyu e to Hashiridasou, and Babyraids&#8217; Koyomi no Ue de wa December being particular favorites) I&#8217;d like to be more direct with these posts.<\/p>\n<p>The first song and PV I&#8217;d like to take a quick look at is Petitmoni&#8217;s Pittari Shitai X&#8217;Mas. The reason this happened to be the first is because for a lot of international idol fans it is the first Christmas-themed idol song we really were aware of, because a lot of idol fans (myself included!) started out as Hello!Project fans.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zn6uBI8rCkk\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Song: I quite enjoy Pittari Shitai X&#8217;Mas. It has a retro girl group kind of sound (and this\u00a0was retro in 2001!). But it&#8217;s held up very well in a way that a lot of old-school Hello!Project songs have held up. This has a great melody and a really solid arrangement that&#8217;s fun to listen to. The lyrics are a bit stereotypical (the good old &#8220;Santa, please bring me a man!&#8221; kind of thing) but they are definitely serviceable. All the members do a great job with the material too &#8211; while Yoshizawa Hitomi is the weak link to vocal heavyweights like Yasuda Kei and Goto Maki, she does a good job matching them here.<\/p>\n<p>The one thing that I don&#8217;t quite get is just how often Tsunku has to do his additional vocalizations. I think this is one of those polarizing things about Hello!Project music. Personally, I don&#8217;t mind Tsunku being among the background vocals in H!P songs, but some of the weird grunts in Pittari Shitai X&#8217;Mas just sound weird and don&#8217;t quite fit with the rest of the song being so cute.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, aside from not quite getting some of the Tsunku vocal parts, I quite like Pittari Shitai X&#8217;Mas. It&#8217;s not my favorite Hello!Project song and it&#8217;s frankly my least favorite Petitmoni single, but that&#8217;s in part because the rest of their singles were so great &#8211; this song doesn&#8217;t live up to the heights of Chokotto Love and Baby Koi ni Knockout. Still, this is a song I listen to every single year around this season and one I enjoy a lot.<\/p>\n<p>PV: It&#8217;s almost amazing how terrible Hello!Project PVs have been and how low the production values have been. This PV is nothing but pure cheese, done either on green screen or on a very low-budget set. The green screen work is all with some pretty poor animation that was most likely slapped together quickly.<\/p>\n<p>That said, while this is pretty much an objectively bad PV, I kind of love it? I think the thing that sells it are the three members &#8211; they ham it up in front of the camera, act silly, and somehow manage to make the terrible animation work. The editing isn&#8217;t terrible, either &#8211; the PV has a good movement to it, and doesn&#8217;t tend to linger on any one element (which is a good thing).<\/p>\n<p>Is this objectively good? No. Is this very fun to watch? Yes.<\/p>\n<p>Overall: If Pittari Shitai X&#8217;Mas isn&#8217;t one of your classic idol songs you listen to every holiday season, I don&#8217;t know if I can help you there! It&#8217;s cheesy but very fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I was thinking of doing a feature about idol music. However, I remembered that I had in the past done a list of my favorite idol Christmas tracks, so I was unsure if this would be repeating too much. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2015\/12\/13\/the-twelve-days-of-idol-christmas-pittari-shitai-xmas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-12-days-of-idol-christmas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}