{"id":1457,"date":"2017-02-15T19:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T01:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intlwota.com\/happydisco\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2017-02-15T19:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T01:00:32","slug":"song-of-the-day-27-matsuura-aya-chocolate-damashii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/02\/15\/song-of-the-day-27-matsuura-aya-chocolate-damashii\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day #27: Matsuura Aya &#8211; Chocolate Damashii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w7BxEkDuR4w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Every few months I do nothing but listen to Matsuura Aya&#8217;s music for a few days &#8211; even though it&#8217;s been years since she&#8217;s put out any music, she&#8217;s still one of my favorite performers. Her music was consistently great and Aya is incredibly talented.<\/p>\n<p>Chocolate Damashii was the last major single Matsuura Aya released and it&#8217;s a bit of a weird one. At the tail end of Aya&#8217;s career she was performing a lot of ballads, a lot of jazzy music, things that would show off her vocal prowess more than her earlier pop hits. So a cheerful, fast, almost classic pop song like Chocolate Damashii feels like a departure from Aya&#8217;s singles around that time like Egao or Kizuna.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not to say Aya doesn&#8217;t sound great in Chocolate Damashii &#8211; far from it. In this song she sounds almost effortlessly good. It&#8217;s not a song where she shows off, but instead one where she just sounds great. The song is also a nice, easy to listen to mid-tempo song. It&#8217;s not quite as fun and poppy as Aya&#8217;s early work, it&#8217;s not quite as interesting as her later albums, but it&#8217;s somewhere in between &#8211; mature but sweet. I think because of that the title of the song works really well, and it works well for its intended purpose &#8211; a Valentine&#8217;s Day gift to Aya&#8217;s fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every few months I do nothing but listen to Matsuura Aya&#8217;s music for a few days &#8211; even though it&#8217;s been years since she&#8217;s put out any music, she&#8217;s still one of my favorite performers. Her music was consistently great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/02\/15\/song-of-the-day-27-matsuura-aya-chocolate-damashii\/\">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-1457","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\/1457","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=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}