{"id":1393,"date":"2017-01-25T18:03:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T00:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intlwota.com\/happydisco\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2017-01-25T18:03:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T00:03:22","slug":"song-of-the-day-6-wakita-monari-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/01\/25\/song-of-the-day-6-wakita-monari-in-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day #6: Wakita Monari &#8211; In the City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cb1ZEdsOQMs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Much like Especia&#8217;s Danger, which I wrote about a few days ago, Wakita Monari&#8217;s debut single, In the City, is a song I really wish I knew about before I wrote my Top 25 songs of 2016 list. And, coincidentally, Monari is a former member of Especia. <\/p>\n<p>In the City is very much a continuation of Especia, in a way, being retro sounding city pop. It&#8217;s not quite the same sound (this doesn&#8217;t have the same synth sound as earlier Especia) but it&#8217;s also excellent. The with a lot of strings, a strong bassline and clapping that gives it a real disco feel, perhaps even more old fashioned than Especia&#8217;s standard late 80s \/ early 90s sound. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like In the City nearly as much as Danger, but In the City is a very promising debut. I love all the strings, the clapping, and Monari is a compelling singer. Monari has a new single coming out next month, and I&#8217;m hoping for future successes for her. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much like Especia&#8217;s Danger, which I wrote about a few days ago, Wakita Monari&#8217;s debut single, In the City, is a song I really wish I knew about before I wrote my Top 25 songs of 2016 list. And, coincidentally, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/01\/25\/song-of-the-day-6-wakita-monari-in-the-city\/\">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-1393","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\/1393","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=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}