{"id":1504,"date":"2017-03-04T18:39:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T00:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intlwota.com\/happydisco\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2017-03-04T18:39:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T00:39:10","slug":"song-of-the-day-44-up-up-girls-kakko-kari-bijo-no-yajuu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/03\/04\/song-of-the-day-44-up-up-girls-kakko-kari-bijo-no-yajuu\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day #44: Up Up Girls (Kakko Kari) &#8211; Bijo no Yajuu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6bMZ4zgkEiE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going out to an exhibit by and about Guillermo del Toro in about an hour, so I wanted to make this quick and thematically relevant. While I don&#8217;t know if any idol music gets quite as intense as his movies (though maybe BiS comes close), the first thing that came to mind is Up Up Girls&#8217; Bijo no Yajuu, considering the title and song literally refer to beasts, and monsters are a big theme of this exhibit. <\/p>\n<p>The thing about Bijo no Yajuu I find most interesting is how it&#8217;s a bit of a departure for Up Up Girls. While Up Up Girls&#8217; have had more party-themed music or songs with electronic instrumentals, a lot of their early music is upbeat, happy, typically idolly. There&#8217;s nothing wrong with that, but within the past couple of years UUG has tried to differentiated themselves by having more dance centric songs, epitomized in 2016&#8217;s Party People Alien. Bijo no Yajuu has a dark, interesting beat that doesn&#8217;t sound idolly at all, but is still one of my favorite UUG songs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going out to an exhibit by and about Guillermo del Toro in about an hour, so I wanted to make this quick and thematically relevant. While I don&#8217;t know if any idol music gets quite as intense as his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/03\/04\/song-of-the-day-44-up-up-girls-kakko-kari-bijo-no-yajuu\/\">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-1504","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\/1504","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=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}