{"id":15,"date":"2019-10-16T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-21T19:46:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T19:46:46","slug":"%e3%83%a2%e3%83%bc%e3%83%8b%e3%83%b3%e3%82%b0%e5%a8%98%e3%80%8218-%e3%80%8eare-you-happy%e3%80%8f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidoruhands.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/16\/%e3%83%a2%e3%83%bc%e3%83%8b%e3%83%b3%e3%82%b0%e5%a8%98%e3%80%8218-%e3%80%8eare-you-happy%e3%80%8f\/","title":{"rendered":"\u30e2\u30fc\u30cb\u30f3\u30b0\u5a18\u3002&#8217;18 -\u300eAre you Happy?\u300f"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-thumbnail-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/DGKGT91D9dI\/0.jpg\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DGKGT91D9dI?feature=player_embedded\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u30e2\u30fc\u30cb\u30f3\u30b0\u5a18\u3002&#8217;18\u300eAre you Happy?\u300f\n<p>\u4f5c\u8a5e\uff1a\u3064\u3093\u304f\u3000\u4f5c\u66f2\uff1a\u3064\u3093\u304f\u3000\u7de8\u66f2\uff1a\u5e73\u7530\u7965\u4e00\u90ce<br \/>Tsunku and Shoichiro. I have no other words. Classic combo.<\/p>\n<p>I  generally won\u2019t be talking about the idols in this space too much, but I  am compelled to since this was Ogata\u2019s last single. She looks so great  in this video and she will be missed by me. I don\u2019t think she was a  great singer, but she was a beauty in the top ranks in my opinion, up  there with Dawa and Aarii, in my opinion. Anyways, I am in lust with  Ha-chin and Akane-chin\u2019s little scene at 3:34, I must have watched that  exchange like 15 times now\u2026. Also I am so glad that 12ki got to be  featured in this video. It gives a glimmer of what Musume will be like  in 4+ years\u2026<\/p>\n<p>So this song reminds me of <a href=\"https:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DhAcP5L4oBPg&amp;t=MzY0ODI0OTAyY2JmNDNhMzUyMjQwMzQzODJlZjBmZmJjYzhhMTQxMyw4dE1VMHFYeA%3D%3D&amp;b=t%3AbgH2YKN0vxqFihIlC_vDkA&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fhellopromusic.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F175024031833%2F%25E3%2583%25A2%25E3%2583%25BC%25E3%2583%258B%25E3%2583%25B3%25E3%2582%25B0%25E5%25A8%259818are-you-happy-%25E4%25BD%259C%25E8%25A9%259E%25E3%2581%25A4%25E3%2582%2593%25E3%2581%258F-%25E4%25BD%259C%25E6%259B%25B2%25E3%2581%25A4%25E3%2582%2593%25E3%2581%258F-%25E7%25B7%25A8%25E6%259B%25B2%25E5%25B9%25B3%25E7%2594%25B0%25E7%25A5%25A5%25E4%25B8%2580%25E9%2583%258E&amp;m=1\">Tribal House Music<\/a>&nbsp;,  mainly because of the syncopation and the bongos. I strongly recommend  that you guys really listen to some of these instrumentals of these H!P  songs. They are really fanastic. You can really hear the percussion in  the song. You should check ot this one in particular, it really  highlights the strenth of the instrumental and the strentgh of the  melody.<\/p>\n<p>The most notable thing for this song was <a href=\"https:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fhelloproject.wikia.com%2Fwiki%2FSide%3AYOSHIKO&amp;t=ZmY5ZWEzNTU1ZmM0M2JhZGQ4OGNlN2Y0OTRhYzMxMTY4YTJiOTI0YSw4dE1VMHFYeA%3D%3D&amp;b=t%3AbgH2YKN0vxqFihIlC_vDkA&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fhellopromusic.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F175024031833%2F%25E3%2583%25A2%25E3%2583%25BC%25E3%2583%258B%25E3%2583%25B3%25E3%2582%25B0%25E5%25A8%259818are-you-happy-%25E4%25BD%259C%25E8%25A9%259E%25E3%2581%25A4%25E3%2582%2593%25E3%2581%258F-%25E4%25BD%259C%25E6%259B%25B2%25E3%2581%25A4%25E3%2582%2593%25E3%2581%258F-%25E7%25B7%25A8%25E6%259B%25B2%25E5%25B9%25B3%25E7%2594%25B0%25E7%25A5%25A5%25E4%25B8%2580%25E9%2583%258E&amp;m=1\">YOSHIKO<\/a>\u2018s&nbsp; dance routine dance routine (They talk about it in the \u201c180605 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2F2mtuJiaZIFA%3Ft%3D17m23s&amp;t=MzQwYjEwNzk2YjgxYmNmZjcxNTRhYzY3M2JhZjUwZjY4ZmMxNzM3Yiw4dE1VMHFYeA%3D%3D&amp;b=t%3AbgH2YKN0vxqFihIlC_vDkA&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fhellopromusic.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F175024031833%2F%25E3%2583%25A2%25E3%2583%25BC%25E3%2583%258B%25E3%2583%25B3%25E3%2582%25B0%25E5%25A8%259818are-you-happy-%25E4%25BD%259C%25E8%25A9%259E%25E3%2581%25A4%25E3%2582%2593%25E3%2581%258F-%25E4%25BD%259C%25E6%259B%25B2%25E3%2581%25A4%25E3%2582%2593%25E3%2581%258F-%25E7%25B7%25A8%25E6%259B%25B2%25E5%25B9%25B3%25E7%2594%25B0%25E7%25A5%25A5%25E4%25B8%2580%25E9%2583%258E&amp;m=1\">FULL CHORUS Morning Musume&#8217;18 talk+perf<\/a> (1080p h265)\u201d episode of Full Chorus), if you can hunt it down. Its very <a href=\"https:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FgDPdBiR5aoQ&amp;t=YmRlNzZmMGJiNjI2MmEzOWIwOThjNjg4YTIwYjkzNTMxY2NjYzVjMCw4dE1VMHFYeA%3D%3D&amp;b=t%3AbgH2YKN0vxqFihIlC_vDkA&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fhellopromusic.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F175024031833%2F%25E3%2583%25A2%25E3%2583%25BC%25E3%2583%258B%25E3%2583%25B3%25E3%2582%25B0%25E5%25A8%259818are-you-happy-%25E4%25BD%259C%25E8%25A9%259E%25E3%2581%25A4%25E3%2582%2593%25E3%2581%258F-%25E4%25BD%259C%25E6%259B%25B2%25E3%2581%25A4%25E3%2582%2593%25E3%2581%258F-%25E7%25B7%25A8%25E6%259B%25B2%25E5%25B9%25B3%25E7%2594%25B0%25E7%25A5%25A5%25E4%25B8%2580%25E9%2583%258E&amp;m=1\">tribal \/ african<\/a>,  especially that koko kara deshita part. I love love love it! The girls  don\u2019t have any booty (except my Yokoyan and my Pheromone Diva  Sakura-chan), but they were trying to sling it in this routine. They get  an A for effort. I am going to resist the urge to talk about the  routine for the entirety of the review, but I really liked it.<\/p>\n<p>So  in my book, of the many talents Tsunku has, writing melodies and lyrics  are at the top for me. This dude is older than me but he still can write  lyrics from a young girl\u2019s point of view so well! This song is  literally a young lady who is jealous and in love with a guy she thinks  she probably doesn\u2019t deserve. So she is fixated on making him prove he  loves her by demanding so much from him because she is insecure.  Anyways,its a great story.<\/p>\n<p>So men culminate all the deeds done in  the past and add them up to figure out how they feel about you, but I\u2019m  guessing ladies only think about, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dr9uizdKZAGE&amp;t=MzVmNmFiNTVjNTRlODYxNGIwMmVlMzQyNTEzZTQ1NDZlYjE1NzFlMCw4dE1VMHFYeA%3D%3D&amp;b=t%3AbgH2YKN0vxqFihIlC_vDkA&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fhellopromusic.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F175024031833%2F%25E3%2583%25A2%25E3%2583%25BC%25E3%2583%258B%25E3%2583%25B3%25E3%2582%25B0%25E5%25A8%259818are-you-happy-%25E4%25BD%259C%25E8%25A9%259E%25E3%2581%25A4%25E3%2582%2593%25E3%2581%258F-%25E4%25BD%259C%25E6%259B%25B2%25E3%2581%25A4%25E3%2582%2593%25E3%2581%258F-%25E7%25B7%25A8%25E6%259B%25B2%25E5%25B9%25B3%25E7%2594%25B0%25E7%25A5%25A5%25E4%25B8%2580%25E9%2583%258E&amp;m=1\">What have you done for me lately?<\/a>\u201d  We start this song off in a similar way, lol. Basically the protagonist  is saying that, to prove your love for me you need to continually do  new acts of love for me. Otherwise you don\u2019t love me.<\/p>\n<p>Then the  protagonist starts talking about how she envys all these other girls and  she want to be them, likely because they have the type of relationship  she thinks is ideal. They say that in every relationship there is a  person who likes the other person, more than the other person returning  their love, and it seems like the protagonist loves her boyfriend more  than he likes her. Its funny because the girls in Musume have to be like  in like the top 5% of Japan in attractiveness, but they are singing  about these unflattering love positions like common girls, its great.  (Not that beautiful people have more functional relationships, but its  generally not made public like Nakamori Akina for example).<\/p>\n<p>Favorite  Line is without a doubt is the line that makes her seem the most  despirate. Isshoni ita ato wa, fuanshikanai (After we are together the  only thing that lingers is the anxiety). As if she can only believe he  loves her while they are together and in her arms. Otherwise, she is  constantly worrying that he is looking at other girls and stuff. This is  the kind of protagonist I love, and I love the feeling of imagining  these beautiful women as regular jealous girls. Tsunku sure knows how to  write protagonists that I moe over\u2026 smh.<br \/>As I look over the  lyrics, it really seems like its possible the protagonist could have  been cheated on by her boyfriend and is now feeling really bad about her  relationship and wanting to leave, while still being attracted to the  guy. But still I think that its a jealous girl trying to get her  boyfriend to prove his love, because she is insecure. Either way, I  think the \u201cAre you Happy?\u201d is directed to the boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>The song  is in Dmin. The melody is superb, especially in the pre-chorus and the  repetitive chorus. There aren\u2019t a bunch of changes in the chord  progressions until the chorus anyways, this is a melody showcase, imo.  In the beginning of the song, the melody basically bounces back and  forth from the 1 and the 5. Then when they get to the motto watashi dake  part, its a 1st, 3rd, 5th, and the 8th degrees but layered as a chord  in the harmonization. Then at the Jishinmonai part that Miki sings she  goes from the 4th to the 3rd to the 2nd to the first degree and then the  5th, but the Second one with \u201cShiawasei\u201d is 4, 3, 2, flat 5. Then comes  the orgasmic pre-chorus with \u201cyou know\u201d chorus which is like that <a href=\"https:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dz52Q_ejCUXM&amp;t=NmYxMTRhOWUxNmYwMWEzNDk4MDA5MDZkNDQxYjk3YWVkOTI2N2E4Yiw4dE1VMHFYeA%3D%3D&amp;b=t%3AbgH2YKN0vxqFihIlC_vDkA&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fhellopromusic.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F175024031833%2F%25E3%2583%25A2%25E3%2583%25BC%25E3%2583%258B%25E3%2583%25B3%25E3%2582%25B0%25E5%25A8%259818are-you-happy-%25E4%25BD%259C%25E8%25A9%259E%25E3%2581%25A4%25E3%2582%2593%25E3%2581%258F-%25E4%25BD%259C%25E6%259B%25B2%25E3%2581%25A4%25E3%2582%2593%25E3%2581%258F-%25E7%25B7%25A8%25E6%259B%25B2%25E5%25B9%25B3%25E7%2594%25B0%25E7%25A5%25A5%25E4%25B8%2580%25E9%2583%258E&amp;m=1\">\u201cdoitsumo koitsumo\u201d buddist chant thing<\/a> Berryz did. Its splendid. The chant has 3 rhythms in it, the sung \u201cYou  know\u201d line, then 2 different lines (Aitsu wa iina) chanting the same  words with different rhythm: a constant 8th notes part; and a part  chanted to a rhythm similar to the bongos in the background. So the \u201cYou  know\u201d is a 5th sliding to the sustained 4th degree. The chorus itself  (Sugoi suki) Sakura-chan singing 5, 2, 3, then Mizuki singing 5, 7, 6.<\/p>\n<p>So  much like any house track, the beat is mostly percussion and  syncopation. Notable percussion is the bongo, vibraphone \/ xylophone  (Jishinmonai and sugoi suki parts), and the triangle. There is also the  syncopated keyboard stabs that are associated with house music. Its too  hard to show the syncopation without me recording myself doing it, but  this song has a lot of it. Almost every vibraphone hit is syncopated,  and the bongos are playing a syncopated rhythm. Syncopation makes me  want to dance, so naturally this song has me feeling \u201cas bashful as a  tribal dance.\u201d There is minimal harmony going on outside of the vocals.  The basslines bring it hard and make the melody sound as great as it is,  but outside of that there are a couple of keyboard jabs here and there,  but this is a melody heavy song and I LOVE it!<\/p>\n<p>So naturally I  love Tsunku songs, but this one is one of his special ones, the kind of  song only Tsunku could of wrote and only Hello!Project would greenlight.  Its so peculiar in the pop scene. To a music lover like me its nothing  new, but I can imagine this being wtf to regular idol music lovers.  Tsunku almost drug me back to the 90\u2019s with this one. Anyhow, I hope  people can appreciate that no one else is really making this kind of  music in the idol scene. Ever wondered what real music is.. this is it  kiddos\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u30e2\u30fc\u30cb\u30f3\u30b0\u5a18\u3002&#8217;18\u300eAre you Happy?\u300f \u4f5c\u8a5e\uff1a\u3064\u3093\u304f\u3000\u4f5c\u66f2\uff1a\u3064\u3093\u304f\u3000\u7de8\u66f2\uff1a\u5e73\u7530\u7965\u4e00\u90ceTsunku and Shoichiro. I have no other words. Classic combo. I generally won\u2019t be talking about the idols in this space too much, but I am compelled to since this was Ogata\u2019s last single. She looks so great in this video and she will be missed by me. I don\u2019t think she&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,7,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-helloproject","category-idol","category-j-pop","category-morning-musume","category-tsunku"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidoruhands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidoruhands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidoruhands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidoruhands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidoruhands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aidoruhands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/aidoruhands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidoruhands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidoruhands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidoruhands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}