{"id":1499,"date":"2017-03-02T19:30:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T01:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intlwota.com\/happydisco\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2017-03-02T19:30:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T01:30:42","slug":"song-of-the-day-42-especia-no1-sweeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/03\/02\/song-of-the-day-42-especia-no1-sweeper\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day #42: Especia &#8211; No1 Sweeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e089x6ba1Zo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still not OK with Especia breaking up. <\/p>\n<p>OK, granted, my facorite member is probably Wakita Monari whose solo career has been great. But Especia back a few years ago, when they put out something like No 1 Sweeper, was really special.<\/p>\n<p>Especia at this period really dug into the late 80s\/early 90s city pop \/ pseudo-vaporwave sound and aesthetic, but they also made it incredibly listenable. Whenever I check out vaporwave I think it&#8217;s fine but not for me. Especia takes some of that aesthetic and sound and makes a funky city pop sound that just works. No1 Sweeper is one of the more accessible pop songs from this era of Especia, with a funk beat and synthesizer sound but a catchy melody that works even today. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to miss Especia so much. Even if they aren&#8217;t doing this sort of thing anymore they&#8217;re still doing great music like Danger. I only hope someone picks up on this type of music once they&#8217;re gone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still not OK with Especia breaking up. OK, granted, my facorite member is probably Wakita Monari whose solo career has been great. But Especia back a few years ago, when they put out something like No 1 Sweeper, was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/03\/02\/song-of-the-day-42-especia-no1-sweeper\/\">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-1499","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\/1499","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=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}