{"id":1385,"date":"2017-01-22T19:05:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T01:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intlwota.com\/happydisco\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2017-01-22T19:05:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T01:05:52","slug":"song-of-the-day-3-especia-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/01\/22\/song-of-the-day-3-especia-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day #3: Especia &#8211; Danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cxmw-cSzVys\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Especia recently announced they&#8217;re disbanding, which is a shame because they only just released one of the best songs they&#8217;ve ever released. In fact, I&#8217;m actively unhappy that I only just listened to this after I made my Top 25 song list, because Danger is easily one of my top 5 songs of 2016, and is up there.<\/p>\n<p>While Especia has been in the business of doing late 80s\/early 90s city pop with a lot of disco and funk inspired sound, a lot of their music sounds very purposefully dated. Songs like Kuru Ka Na and No1 Sweeper purposefully sound pretty archaic, like the 90s music you&#8217;re not all that nostalgic for. Danger keeps the inspiration, but instead doesn&#8217;t sound dated, and instead sounds inspired by the best parts of the era. There&#8217;s no early 90s cheese, but only the best of that funky sound.<\/p>\n<p>The bass line starts off the song and is perfect throughout. As is the instrumentation and arrangement, really &#8211; there are so many things going on throughout this song. The bass line is always present, there&#8217;s a shock of trumpet every so often, the guitar line is great, there are strings in the chorus and sparingly (but perfect) keys. When I mention instrumentation and arrangements being lacking in relation to other songs, this is what I mean by a good one. It&#8217;s lush without being too busy, it&#8217;s noticeable but it doesn&#8217;t take away from the melody line sung flawlessly by Tominaga Haruka, who, if there&#8217;s any justice in this world, will have some sort of solo career following Especia&#8217;s disbandment. Also, isn&#8217;t it kind of weird and amazing that this song is 100% in English?<\/p>\n<p>Danger is perfect. Just, everything about this song is wonderful and I need you to go listen to it. And I need more songs like this in idol music, immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Especia recently announced they&#8217;re disbanding, which is a shame because they only just released one of the best songs they&#8217;ve ever released. In fact, I&#8217;m actively unhappy that I only just listened to this after I made my Top 25 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/01\/22\/song-of-the-day-3-especia-danger\/\">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":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","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=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}