{"id":1412,"date":"2017-02-01T19:29:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T01:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intlwota.com\/happydisco\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2017-02-01T19:29:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T01:29:39","slug":"song-of-the-day-13-moritaka-chisato-watashi-ga-obasan-ni-natte-mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/02\/01\/song-of-the-day-13-moritaka-chisato-watashi-ga-obasan-ni-natte-mo\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day #13: Moritaka Chisato &#8211; Watashi ga Obasan ni Natte mo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GewWg-T29Js\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Along with Nantettate Idol, I&#8217;d say that Watashi ga Obasan ni Natte mo is a pretty defining piece of idol music. Considering how youth-obsessed the Japanese idol industry really is (I know that at 25 I would be way too old for a lot of idol groups), having a song directly be about aging fits this industry all too well. While it&#8217;s not quite as obviously self-referential as something like Nantettate Idol, having a song directly ask about if they&#8217;d still be loved when they become older is still self-referential and self-aware &#8211; I think that&#8217;s a big part of why this song is still very frequently covered.<\/p>\n<p>That said, even without the lyrics Watashi ga Obasan ni Natte mo would probably be covered all the time just because it&#8217;s a great song. In fact, it&#8217;s possibly my favorite Japanese song of all time. The melody is what rules all here &#8211; while Chisato&#8217;s voice and the arrangement is good, this is possibly one of the catchiest and most fun to sing melodies out there &#8211; in fact, that might be why it&#8217;s covered so much. Watashi ga Obasan ni Natte mo is my go-to karaoke track, and it&#8217;s all becaus it has a great melody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with Nantettate Idol, I&#8217;d say that Watashi ga Obasan ni Natte mo is a pretty defining piece of idol music. Considering how youth-obsessed the Japanese idol industry really is (I know that at 25 I would be way too &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/02\/01\/song-of-the-day-13-moritaka-chisato-watashi-ga-obasan-ni-natte-mo\/\">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-1412","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\/1412","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=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}