{"id":1239,"date":"2015-12-16T23:34:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T05:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intlwota.com\/happydisco\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2015-12-16T23:34:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T05:34:34","slug":"the-twelve-days-of-idol-christmas-aitai-lonely-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2015\/12\/16\/the-twelve-days-of-idol-christmas-aitai-lonely-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twelve Days of Idol Christmas -Aitai Lonely Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2DhZ_1bETkg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From Hyadain&#8217;s bitter Christmas song to C-ute&#8217;s depressed one, both about being lonely on Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>First, can I say just how weird it is that Aitai Lonely Christmas is five years old? Generally, when I think of idol music I think of &#8220;anything that came out before I was an idol fan&#8221; is old, however, as idol music continues to grow, that definition is increasingly archaic. So even though Aitai Lonely Christmas feels very recent to me, it happens to be already five years old. Wow.<\/p>\n<p>I love just how overwrought and melodramatic this song is. It starts off with a darker beat and then goes straight into the chorus of &#8220;aitai no ni&#8221; that just begs to be belted out. I went off to do something else while writing this, and the entire way I couldn&#8217;t help but sing &#8220;AITAI NO NIII.&#8221; The verses are fine, but the chorus has a very catchy melody that is easy to sing dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the lyrics do fit, by the simple reason of ending the chorus with &#8220;konna kimochi hajimete&#8221; (it&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve felt this) &#8211; the contextualization of first love makes the melodrama work. And the fact that it&#8217;s Christmas adds on to that &#8211; it&#8217;s not only that they aren&#8217;t with their love, it&#8217;s Christmas too!<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the song is pretty typical Hello!Project, but I love that there is a melodramatic song about moping around during Christmas, unable to be with your boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>The PV, while not necessarily the greatest thing, came at a time when H!P PVs could be counted on to be fairly lazy and unimpressive. This actually looks nice. The interior sets have a nice, warm feel to them and the &#8220;outside&#8221; set utilizes cool colors. While there are some moments of unintended humor (Maimi looking dramatic after writing &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; and &#8220;suki&#8221; on a piece of paper mostly), the set design is pretty great.<\/p>\n<p>While this isn&#8217;t something I listen to often during the holidays, I appreciate that it exists, and I still get &#8220;aitai no niiii&#8221; stuck in my head more often than I&#8217;d like to admit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Hyadain&#8217;s bitter Christmas song to C-ute&#8217;s depressed one, both about being lonely on Christmas. First, can I say just how weird it is that Aitai Lonely Christmas is five years old? Generally, when I think of idol music I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2015\/12\/16\/the-twelve-days-of-idol-christmas-aitai-lonely-christmas\/\">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-1239","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\/1239","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=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}