{"id":1234,"date":"2015-12-14T21:22:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T03:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intlwota.com\/happydisco\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2015-12-14T21:22:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T03:22:21","slug":"the-twelve-days-of-idol-christmas-santa-san","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2015\/12\/14\/the-twelve-days-of-idol-christmas-santa-san\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twelve Days of Idol Christmas &#8211; Santa-san"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh yes.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jpopsuki.tv\/media\/embed?key=13d1be9c39253d6ad6aad8a8a0a8fe59&amp;width=720&amp;height=400&amp;autoplay=false&amp;autolightsoff=false&amp;loop=false\" width=\"720\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Song<\/strong>: I absolutely adore Santa-san, and its been a favorite of mine since it came out. Momoiro Clover Z&#8217;s foray into Christmas songs (though they have had some venue-only Christmas singles), Santa-san is all over the place yet somehow coherent in a way that Maeyamada Kenichi can only do. Bringing together melodies from Jingle Bells, Joy to the World and MomoClo&#8217;s own summer song Koko Natsu, Santa-san shouldn&#8217;t work but absolutely does. In fact, for combining these songs, it feels remarkably cohesive.<\/p>\n<p>Maeyamada Kenichi&#8217;s composition is, as always, an absolute joy to listen to. He&#8217;s become the master of composing the weirdest songs that somehow manage to make sense. He&#8217;s also great at writing songs for a specific group, and Santa-san feels like a perfect high energy song to fit Momoiro Clover Z very well. Because of this, MomoClo&#8217;s members add a lot to the song, using a lot of energy and making it all work.<\/p>\n<p>I mostly love how goofy Santa-san is. Every member hams it up while singing, eschewing things like &#8220;quality vocals&#8221; to just play up the song (the over exaggerated way Kanako sings her last solo in the song is just perfect, as is Reni asking fans to send her presents). It&#8217;s a song that doesn&#8217;t take itself too seriously, and is honestly just what I want from an idol song during the Christmas season.<\/p>\n<p><b>PV:\u00a0<\/b>This PV does a great job of taking what was great from the PV and just doing it in PV form. The silliness quotient is high here, as it&#8217;s pretty much Momoiro Clover Z goofing around in a house. Momoka sings into a ladle, Reni air drums with chopsticks, all the members dress Kanako up with ornaments and garlands and a Christmas tree. A Facebook group I&#8217;m in votes yearly with the simple question: Shopping cart Shiori or Refrigerator A~rin (I&#8217;m always Team Refrigerator A~rin, myself). It&#8217;s obviously a constructed PV, but they capture the effect of Momoiro Clover Z goofing around.<\/p>\n<p>The editing is pretty perfect, keeping a quick but not frantic pace. I think the slow motion works as well. The only complaint I have is that occasionally the color balance is a little weird &#8211; I wonder if the slow motion camera is part of that, as it looks strangest during the slow motion sections. However, the whole PV is a little desaturated for a reason I don&#8217;t quite get.<\/p>\n<p>Still, this is a modern classic of idol Christmas music and PVs, and is probably the most fun one I&#8217;m going to cover in this series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh yes. Song: I absolutely adore Santa-san, and its been a favorite of mine since it came out. Momoiro Clover Z&#8217;s foray into Christmas songs (though they have had some venue-only Christmas singles), Santa-san is all over the place yet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2015\/12\/14\/the-twelve-days-of-idol-christmas-santa-san\/\">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-1234","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\/1234","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=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}