{"id":1583,"date":"2017-04-03T22:29:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T04:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intlwota.com\/happydisco\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2017-04-03T22:29:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T04:29:56","slug":"song-of-the-day-74-morning-musume-genki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/04\/03\/song-of-the-day-74-morning-musume-genki\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day #74: Morning Musume &#8211; Genki+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k5U46sdnB7M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As regular readers of this blog would know, I&#8217;m currently going through and reviewing every Morning Musume album in honor of their anniversary. While I&#8217;m currently working on 4th Ikimasshoi, arguably my favorite Morning Musume album, I&#8217;ve been listening to a lot of album songs in advance. I&#8217;m having a lot of fun doing this, but one thing I find interesting are finding the patterns within the albums. One pattern I&#8217;ve noticed is that almost every Morning Musume album starts with a big, splashy, energetic song. Moonlight Night, SONGS, Night of Tokyo City, etc. <\/p>\n<p>However, one that I feel gets sadly overlooked is Genki+ from Sexy 8 Beat, which is an interesting album in itself. 2006-2008 is an interesting time for Morning Musume, in that it only has a few tenuous connections to the original\/golden eras of the group (Yoshizawa Miki, 5th generation was there near the end of it), but isn&#8217;t quite the Platinum era which feels very distinct. So Sexy 8 Beat is in many ways the last hurrah of the old guard before the new Platinum Era. That being said, Genki + is great. The echoed &#8220;yasashii koe ga kikoeru&#8221; lines are very memorable, the melody is great, it has a great serious feel to it. It&#8217;s just a bummer this isn&#8217;t as well remembered. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As regular readers of this blog would know, I&#8217;m currently going through and reviewing every Morning Musume album in honor of their anniversary. While I&#8217;m currently working on 4th Ikimasshoi, arguably my favorite Morning Musume album, I&#8217;ve been listening to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/04\/03\/song-of-the-day-74-morning-musume-genki\/\">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-1583","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\/1583","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=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}