{"id":1469,"date":"2017-02-20T19:37:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T01:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intlwota.com\/happydisco\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2017-02-20T19:37:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T01:37:40","slug":"song-of-the-day-32-wakita-monari-boy-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/02\/20\/song-of-the-day-32-wakita-monari-boy-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day #32: Wakita Monari &#8211; Boy Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jilbr-dW2Cc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When I wrote about The Cut I mentioned that it would be on my top 25 list if it wasn&#8217;t a cover. Boy Friend is the first song I&#8217;m pretty sure will be on that top 25 list in general. It&#8217;s Wakita Monari&#8217;s second single (who I featured early on with her first single, In The City), and man is it good. Monari was a member of Especia, and Boy Friend feels like a continuation of that, a take on 80s pop music. That all being said, Boy Friend feels less intentionally dated &#8211; instead of focusing on the gaudy, dated city pop that Especia focused on when Monari was a member, intentionallhy being both nostalgic and kind of tacky, Boy Friend is what&#8217;s good about the 80s pop music. It reminds me of Carly Rae Jepson&#8217;s fantastic album Emotion, which has that same kind of feel. <\/p>\n<p>The melody is incredibly catchy and Monari sells it completely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I wrote about The Cut I mentioned that it would be on my top 25 list if it wasn&#8217;t a cover. Boy Friend is the first song I&#8217;m pretty sure will be on that top 25 list in general. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/02\/20\/song-of-the-day-32-wakita-monari-boy-friend\/\">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-1469","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\/1469","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=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}