{"id":1462,"date":"2017-02-17T19:56:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T01:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intlwota.com\/happydisco\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2017-02-17T19:56:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T01:56:56","slug":"song-of-the-day-29-lyricalnaissance-the-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/02\/17\/song-of-the-day-29-lyricalnaissance-the-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day #29: Lyricalnaissance &#8211; The Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FzU3dcHXlEw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s early to start thinking of my Top 25 list for 2017, but if this wasn&#8217;t a cover this would 100% be on that list. As it stands it&#8217;s most likely going to be a honorable mention. The Cut is easily one of my favorite recent idol songs and I&#8217;ve been listening to it pretty frequently for the past few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>A cover of the Base Ball Bear original (featuring the hip hop group Rhymester), this is a collaboration between the hip hop unit Lyrical School and the group Idol Renaissance, that performs covers and generally has a classic idol feel to them. It&#8217;s not a collaboration that I would have expected but it works incredibly well &#8211; the sung vocals are lovely, and Lyrical School is on point. All the MCs in Lyrical School have fantastic flow and totally elevate the material.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t listen to the Base Ball Bear original until today, and while it&#8217;s different and great, I think I have to prefer the Lyricalnaissance cover &#8211; this cover has a darker feel to it, a darker beat to it. It&#8217;s kind of interesting, I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d expect the idol cover of anything to have a darker feel, but the background instrumentation has a dark, minor beat behind most of the song that works well.<\/p>\n<p>The Cut is absolutely fantastic and it&#8217;s great to hear more interesting music coming from interesting groups. I hope Lyricalnaissance will keep up this collaboration in the future, because The Cut is fantastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s early to start thinking of my Top 25 list for 2017, but if this wasn&#8217;t a cover this would 100% be on that list. As it stands it&#8217;s most likely going to be a honorable mention. The Cut &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/02\/17\/song-of-the-day-29-lyricalnaissance-the-cut\/\">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-1462","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\/1462","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=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}