{"id":1400,"date":"2017-01-28T18:25:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T00:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intlwota.com\/happydisco\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2017-01-28T18:25:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T00:25:41","slug":"song-of-the-day-9-matsuura-aya-happy-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/01\/28\/song-of-the-day-9-matsuura-aya-happy-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day #9: Matsuura Aya &#8211; Happy to Go!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, if there&#8217;s any person that could have and should have matched Matsuda Seiko as being an Eternal Idol it was Matsuura Aya. I still find it entirely frustrating just how little Aya&#8217;s career was supported near the end, when she&#8217;s one of the most talented and charismatic performers in Japanese pop history. She has a gorgeous voice, tons of personality and stage presence.<\/p>\n<p>While a lot has been said and written about Aya&#8217;s early career when she was at her most popular (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/culture\/2014\/11\/25\/music\/pop-artifice-never-better-aya-matsuura\/#.WIt2NdUrKM8\">This article<\/a>\u00a0is particularly good), the song of the day is off one of her later, less listened to albums, Double Rainbow.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TPwpZd70DL0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I think one of the reasons I love this song so much is because of this performance. If I&#8217;m ever asked about why I love Matsuura Aya, I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s all in here. Like always Aya&#8217;s vocals are great, but she also plays to the audience so well, so almost effortlessly, that it&#8217;s immediately clear how great of a pop performer she is. <\/p>\n<p>The other thing about Happy to Go is that it&#8217;s just a great song. Double Rainbow is a lot slower of an album than Aya&#8217;s earlier work, with more ballads and more jazzy numbers, but Happy to Go has that kind of jazzy feel with an upbeat sound. It&#8217;s a lot more mature than her earlier music, but it&#8217;s completely suited to Aya&#8217;s vocals and her strengths as a performer at that time. In general Double Rainbow is one of my favorite albums ever, so if you like this then I definitely recommend that as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, if there&#8217;s any person that could have and should have matched Matsuda Seiko as being an Eternal Idol it was Matsuura Aya. I still find it entirely frustrating just how little Aya&#8217;s career was supported near the end, when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/01\/28\/song-of-the-day-9-matsuura-aya-happy-to-go\/\">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-1400","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\/1400","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=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}