{"id":1237,"date":"2015-12-15T22:31:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T04:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intlwota.com\/happydisco\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2015-12-15T22:31:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T04:31:39","slug":"the-twelve-days-of-idol-christmas-christmas-nani-sore-oishii-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2015\/12\/15\/the-twelve-days-of-idol-christmas-christmas-nani-sore-oishii-no\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twelve Days of Idol Christmas &#8211; Christmas? Nani Sore? Oishii No?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yRJRqSLw55U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know Hyadain isn&#8217;t an idol. However, since he writes almost exclusively idol music, I tend to put him on my blog. That, and I&#8217;m a big Hyadain fan, and I&#8217;d just like a venue to talk about his music. <\/p>\n<p>Song: This song has a lot of the same elements as Momoiro Clover Z&#8217;s Santa-san, which I covered yesterday. For one Hyadain (AKA Maeyamada Kenichi) wrote both of them, and they are a modern take on classic Christmas melodies, most prominently Jingle Bells (though this song incorporates even more songs than Santa-San did). However, despite having the same DNA, they couldn&#8217;t be more different. Santa-san is bright, upbeat and cheerful, whereas &#8220;Christmas? Nani Sore? Oishii no?&#8221; is incredibly bitter. The lyrics are all focused on being a single adult at Christmas and the difficulties involved in it. It ends up being very bitter the round of Joy to the World in a minor key sounds so despondent and sad. That said, a lot of it is funny in that kind of way &#8211; a particularly memorable lyric is Hyadain describing what a &#8220;white Christmas&#8221; is, which is a bit off-color and not what I was expecting at all. Replacing &#8220;Jingle Bells&#8221; with &#8220;Single Hell&#8221; also works so well.<\/p>\n<p>That said, as great as Santa-san is, &#8220;Christmas? Nani Sore? Oishii No?&#8221; is more of a feat. It&#8217;s combining more Christmas songs into one thing, and while it&#8217;s not quite as cohesive as Santa-san it is still very listenable. The song works up from a quiet start to a frantic end, where &#8220;Jingle Bells&#8221; and &#8220;Silent Night&#8221; are sung over each other. Of course, knowing that all the vocals are Hyadain (some with the use of voice modulation) make it all more impressive.<\/p>\n<p>If &#8220;Christmas? Nani Sore? Oishii No?&#8221; Isn&#8217;t on your Christmas music rotation, you should amend that immediately. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know Hyadain isn&#8217;t an idol. However, since he writes almost exclusively idol music, I tend to put him on my blog. That, and I&#8217;m a big Hyadain fan, and I&#8217;d just like a venue to talk about his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2015\/12\/15\/the-twelve-days-of-idol-christmas-christmas-nani-sore-oishii-no\/\">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-1237","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\/1237","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=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}