#憧れのStress-free

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ハロプロ・オールスターズ『憧れのStress-free』(Hello! Project All Stars [The longing “Stre...

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H!P All Stars - 憧れのStress-free

Akogare no Stress-free Lyrics and Composition: Tsunku Arrangement: Hirata Shoichiro Music Video: Nomura Toru

Normally I do not engage in idol talk, but I always make exceptions when I'm moved. So this video was great because it showed the members of H!P in a way that shows the popularity of the members and a slice of personality for them. The whole video is a collection of Solo Shots (one red background, one blue background) that were put together in a manic fashion. This girls on screen correspond to the girls singing in the song. Since its the HP all stars, the singing lines are generally split up by group, so one group sings this line, another sings this line, you can see who is singing by what solo shots are on the screen. In general, the groups do not mix when they sing, but not all members sing at once. So 5 girls from MM may sing at one time, but its not a mix of 3 MM and 2 Angerme girls on screen at once. Its pretty cool. I think Dawa and Fuku-hime are the only ones to get a solo line, and they are the leader and sub-leader of hello project respectively. If you focus on the center of the screen, you can see who the "most popular" girls are in each group. The  closer to the middle of the screen, the more popular, except probably Maa-chan who is not represented as such. So fan favorites like Ayacho, Kumikkyo, Hama-chan, kiki-chan, etc got big pictures and were near the center. This gives you a general ranking of the popularity of the girls. If she is off in the corner, she is probably an acquired taste. But if you study those solo shots, my oshis were SHINING! I was Love love LOVING Akane's solo shots, they were almost as charming as Maa-chan's but not quite... I am excite!

Biggest thing in this video is how this is the first single that Beyonds participated in. So It feels good looking at these girls who have been patiently waiting to debut. They look so nice here, but I am waiting until they get more mature as a group to really cheer for them, but I'm patiently waiting for them to blossom.

General Thoughts

Surf Rock + Baroque = WTF. Just how in the world did Tsunku mix the two genres? Why would he even try... this song is another really good example of songs you will only hear in H!P. So surf rock is a style of rock that emerged with the electric guitar. This is probably one of the most popular surf rock songs. The sound of the guitars and the space between the notes... yes, this IS my aural image of the surf rock sound... and baroque is a period of "classical music" that is highly distinct...

Song Structure

Okay disclaimer time. I am no music major or performer, so my musical vocabulary to talk about some of the things Tsunku does is limited. He does not often write typical songs, so I do not have the correct vocabulary for the variety of parts he has in this song. I have just chosen to name the parts of the song as follows and whenever I want to mention a part of a song, just know that is what I'm talking about.

Lead In - 1 bar Intro - 8 bars 1st Verse -  8 bars Chorus -stress 8 bars 2nd Verse - 8 bars Part A (Peace) - 8 bars Part B (Naritai) - 6 bars Baroque Bridge - 10 bars 3rd Verse - 8 bars True Chorus (Fuku-Hime) - 2 bars  True Bridge - 20 bars

1st Verse -  8 bars Chorus -stress 8 bars 2nd Verse - 8 bars Part A (Peace) - 8 bars Part B (Noritai) - 6 bars Baroque Bridge - 10 bars 3rd Verse - 8 bars True Chorus (Dawa) - 2 bars  Outro 10 bars

Lyrics

Its hard for me to tell what this song is about without me translating it. I do not want to translate it at the moment, so I think that I will just be in the dark about this song until I translate it. However, it seems to be a song about the stress in young women's lives. They stress other bring to them, and the stress that they put on themselves. I think the protagonist wishes that they lived in a stress free time like when they were a child, but alas, no such luck.

Arrangement 

So the sounds in this songs seem to be keyboard, drums, guitars, bass. A very stripped down small combo sound. I generally favor this sound over the very large, tons of sonic layers, sound. Its probably a symptom of my Jazz preferences. I think the most understated part of this song may be the bassline. Tsunku is known to be a fan of "funky" basslines, and in this song he really gives the song a lot of bounce with his basslines in the verses. In the intro, the bassline is very typical of surf rock, but after the intro the bassline gets very groovy baby. It is, of course, very plain in the Baroque Bridge, because its baroque-like. But outside of the baroque bridge the bassline is really worth noticing.

The True bridge is quite "ProTool-y" in that its like a EDM breakdown-y type thing. No emulations of live instrumentation like the other parts of the song. It certainly is a different experience.

I think I have clearly stated that I am a very very helpless circle of fifths addict and would do anything to "get my fix." Tsunku serves up a really nice version of it first 4 bars of the baroque bridge. Here is an example of legit baroque music played on piano. Of course the voice is one melody (and harmony) and the keyboards play another melody and the bass is the slope that serves as the base for us to descend the beautiful circle of fifths slide.

One of the notable things in this song is the amount of space in the song. Its a fairly open song with so much space in between the notes and the phrasings of the instrumentation. Its not this huge cacophony of sound. Its likely because so few elements were used to make the song and the genre of the song lent itself to leaving spaces and openess between the instruments. Its so great, its like a grilled cheese sandwich, the lack of things competing for your taste buds allows you to really taste what the cheese, bread, and butter bring to the eating experience... In a way that they may be lost or not as noticeable in eating a fully dressed burger. Anyways, I just think that the keyboards play the most chilled part in the background part of the song. Ever so often, just popping in on 1 to give us some color to the song. The rhythm guitar is just chugging along, lol. The lead guitar is like a drizzle of dressing that just shows up every so often and just gives us a sweet simple guitar lick to chew on, then disappears. Then that main guitar riff that starts the song off in the lead in is playfully withheld from us listeners.

The vocal part in general is two part harmony. But in times is gets more complex (Part A Peace) and more simple (True Chorus). In my opinion, its standard H!P fare (which I like a lot), but I think that its hard to notice how much flavor H!P give to songs without listening to instruments. Maa-chan already told the people they need to listen to more instrumentals... On the other hand, the harmonizing parts of the vocals are not shabby. The youtuber “Hello Factory” has a channel full of extractions of the isolated vocal and chorus versions of H!P songs. Please like and subscribe to them if you like what they are doing. You can find their channel here. Just listen to the harmonies in this song, aren't they just splendid? Listen to the Vocal Version and the Chorus Version。Its actually more nuanced and has more parts than I realized on first listen. The harmonization is so beautiful... man H!P is certainly for music wota.

All in all. I think its songs like this that make it worthwhile to be a Tsunku wota. All of his stuff is good, but from time to time he will give you something you can only hear from Tsunku. This is one of those songs.

[helloproject-ness]

憧れの Stress-Free ♡ Hello! Pro All Stars (2018)

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Hello Pro All Stars - Akogare no Stress-free

[marumanu35]

ハロプロ・オールスターズ『憧れのStress-free』(Hello! Project All Stars [The longing “Stress-free”) (MV)

[haropro-confessions]

憧れのStress-free. The "s-s-s-sutoress" part is so great. I'm bummed they wasted it on a song with basic lyrics.

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[haro-mem-no-kotoba]

「憧れのStress-free」 良すぎるね...大好き ソロフェスでよこちゃん歌ってたら あーブログで言ってたなぁって思ってて笑

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■2018年9月に買った音源

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はじめてのアンジュルム現場

こんにちは。

9月29日にアンジュルムのリリースイベントに行ってきました。

このリリースイベントはHello! Project 20周年を記念してリリースされた｢YEAH YEAH YEAH/憧れのStress-free/花、闌の時｣の【ハロプロ・オールスターズ】シングル発売記念イベント ～ミニライブサーキット～ というものでした。

仙台に来てくれたのはアンジュルムとこぶしファクトリー！私はアンジュルムのみ参加しました。

アンジュルムは現在秋ツアーをやっていて、仙台にも10月に来てくれるのですが、私は行けないことが決まりしょぼくれていたところにこのイベントの開催が決まったのです。ありがたい。

さて、はじめてのアンジュルム現場、

綺麗なお姉さんが券と小田ちゃんのトレカを譲ってくださったり、私の後ろに並んでいた優しい男性が、｢センター行きなよ！ここがセンターだよ｣と案内して下さって、まさかの最前、センターに！私今日死ぬのかな？と思いつつ雨の中待機、イベント開始は18時15分ですが、18時頃にメンバーがいちどステージに上がり公開リハーサルというものが行われました。

そしてイベント開始時刻になり、再びアンジュルムのメンバーが登場。

まあみんな脚が長くて顔が小さい。本当に同じ人間か？？なんてボーッとしていたら、リーダーのあやちょがあやちょらしさ全開なMCをして、その後全員自己紹介、ミニライブ、握手会と楽しすぎるイベントでした。

ミニライブと握手会のレポートを書きたいのですが、すごく長くなるのでやめておきます。Twitterにはレポートあるのでぜひ見てください、メチャメチャ簡潔ですが…

はじめてのアンジュルムのパフォーマンスを見た感想はひとりひとり個性的で明るくて楽しいグループだなあと思いました。

あと、MCとパフォーマンスのギャップが物凄い。

メンバーの中には私より歳下の子もいるのにみんな大人っぽくてかっこよかったです…

というわけで後半メチャメチャ端折りましたが、はじめてのアンジュルム現場、メチャメチャ楽しめました。

私の推しである船木結ちゃんとスマイレージの頃から憧れていて、来年卒業を控えているあやちょに会えて、大好きと伝えられて本当によかった…

他のメンバーも｢寒かったでしょ���！｣とか｢あ！一番前にいたね！｣とかこんなオタクに優しくしてくれる素敵な子ばっかりでした。

また機会があれば会いに行きたい。行こう。

[uta365com]

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[kasi007com]

憧れのStress-free ハロプロ・オールスターズ

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憧れのStress-free ハロプロ・オールスターズ

[tsubasaichijo]

急に降り出した大雨… 雨宿りを兼ねて立ち寄ったのが〜 『魚貝亭』 そんな世間は連休最終日の夜☆ 逆に自分は連勤終わり♪ ヤッパリ 「多くの人達が休んでる時に自分は仕事をして、 逆に多くの人達が働いてる時に自分は休む」 飲食店も 昼時(12:00〜13:00)や夕食時(18:00〜20:00)を避ける事でやはり空いてるから これが "憧れのStress-free" (魚貝亭) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn1fzhonww-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1psfzmqzentl2

[fujiwararailhibiki]

INFINITE REPEAT

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[動画あり]ハロプロ・オールスターズ『憧れのStress-free』(Hello! Project All Stars [The longing “Stress-free”])(MV)[アップフロントチャンネル]

[動画あり]ハロプロ・オールスターズ『憧れのStress-free』(Hello! Project All Stars [The longing “Stress-free”])(MV)[アップフロントチャンネル]

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