{"id":19,"date":"2019-10-16T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-21T19:46:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T19:46:46","slug":"hp-all-stars-yeah-yeah-yeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidoruhands.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/16\/hp-all-stars-yeah-yeah-yeah\/","title":{"rendered":"H!P All Stars &#8211; Yeah Yeah Yeah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-thumbnail-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/9FRXTnor64w\/0.jpg\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9FRXTnor64w?feature=player_embedded\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, its just another idol song\u2026\n<p>Umeboshi  Onigiri perfectly describes this song. A quick glance would have you  think its a plain dish, but one only needs a couple bites to be  transported to a whole new world.<\/p>\n<p>If something starts out  \u201cunremarkable\u201d, when it becomes \u201cremarkable,\u201d that moment has a more  lasting impression. Playing with expectations leads to delightful  moments. If you have ever eaten Onigiri, you know the rice is too bland  on its own, but at the same time, the filling is too flavorful on its  own. However, if you eat Onigiri from top to bottom, at first you only  get rice. As you go further down, you get nori mixed in the bites as  well\u2026 then and as you eat further you stumble upon a bit of the filling.  At last, the bottom is nothing but rice and nori. That is this song, in  a walnut shell.<\/p>\n<p>This song works so brilliantly to me because the  verses are so bland, that the dance solo (bridge) stands out like a guy  walking around Walmart in a bespoke Armani suit. For the majority of  the video, the background coloring on the set is standard white light.  However, in the dance solo, the lighting has this tasogare, dusky kind  of \u201csun in the sky\u201d feeling on he set, to let you know the flavor here  is going to be stronger. The verses are so generically typical, so  closely adhering to the \u201cidol guidebook\u201d that its almost as if they are  mocking other idol groups or something. Like, at H!P we can do \u201crun of  the mill\u201d typical idol stuff, too, we can cram a bunch of pretty girls  on stage, too. We will give you guys a \u201csafe\u201d song, a \u201csafe\u201d routine&#8221;  with \u201csafe\u201d little outfits, just like other idol groups. In the end,  however, in true Tsunku fashion, the song ends up being so much more  nuanced than most idol pop (for example with lyrics that appear to be  Tsunku talking to his self about what he has accomplished over these 20  years), so much more layered than idol pop (for example the subtle vocal  harmonies in the verses), and to have much deeper meaning than most  idol pop (for example the impending transfer of the H!P leader torch  from Ayacho to Fuku-chan).<\/p>\n<p>Tsunku has really been experimenting  with counterpoint these days (Tsubaki Factory\u2019s Date no Hi also had a  bit of counterpoint in its verses). Please pay close attention to the  harmonies the strings have together in the dance solo (bridge) before  the piano comes back in. The dance solo part is the Umeboshi deep inside  the Onigiri. In fact, this wota would listen to this song, just for  that little morsel.<br \/>What do you guys think about H!P 55? Would you  like H!P as much if the girls were bundled up like this, instead of the  discreet groups they are in now (sonically, visually, and  personality-wise)?<\/p>\n<p>Omake: Here&nbsp;is a video with just the dance solo\u2026 I\u2026 certainly have not obsessively been watching it\u2026<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-thumbnail-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/r_7efpEWi4Y\/0.jpg\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r_7efpEWi4Y?feature=player_embedded\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, its just another idol song\u2026 Umeboshi Onigiri perfectly describes this song. A quick glance would have you think its a plain dish, but one only needs a couple bites to be transported to a whole new world. If something starts out \u201cunremarkable\u201d, when it becomes \u201cremarkable,\u201d that moment has a more lasting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3,4,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hp-allstars","category-helloproject","category-idol","category-j-pop","category-tsunku"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidoruhands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","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=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aidoruhands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/aidoruhands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidoruhands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidoruhands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidoruhands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}