{"id":1407,"date":"2017-01-30T19:22:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T01:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intlwota.com\/happydisco\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2017-01-30T19:22:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T01:22:48","slug":"song-of-the-day-11-koizumi-kyoko-nantettate-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/01\/30\/song-of-the-day-11-koizumi-kyoko-nantettate-idol\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day #11: Koizumi Kyoko &#8211; Nantettate Idol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qKRMKqmC_84\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen this referred to as a definitive idol song and it&#8217;s hard to argue why. With some stellar lyrics written by Akimoto Yasushi, this is very self-referential and refers back to the life of being an idol singer in Japan. The translated lyrics can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/redfreesias03.tumblr.com\/post\/92114835326\/nantetatte-idol-an-idol-through-and-through\">here<\/a>\u00a0and I think they&#8217;re worth a read purely based on how much they feel like an idol song. Sections like this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As for the subject of love, I do fall in love, but<br \/>\nIf it\u2019s a scandal you want, then no thank you<br \/>\nMy image is important!<br \/>\nBeing pure, proper, and beautiful&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>work really well as being a comment on idol culture that still works today. It&#8217;s this directly commenting on idol culture and things like dating bans that makes some of Akimoto Yasushi&#8217;s lyrics so interesting &#8211; he touches on this again in NMB48&#8217;s Mousou Girlfriend, for example. It&#8217;s one of the most interesting aspects of Akimoto&#8217;s lyric writing, and I wish he&#8217;d touch more on it.<\/p>\n<p>Nantettate Idol is also a really great song &#8211; the melody works well throughout and it&#8217;s \u00a0fun song to sing. I know that I love doing this one at karaoke and hamming up the &#8220;scandal nara NO THANK YOU&#8221; line. While it&#8217;s a relatively old song, being from 1985, it feels really current. While I enjoy Matsuda Seiko&#8217;s work despite (or maybe because?) it&#8217;s a little dated, Nantettate Idol sounds like it could be a new song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen this referred to as a definitive idol song and it&#8217;s hard to argue why. With some stellar lyrics written by Akimoto Yasushi, this is very self-referential and refers back to the life of being an idol singer in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/01\/30\/song-of-the-day-11-koizumi-kyoko-nantettate-idol\/\">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-1407","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\/1407","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=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}