{"id":404,"date":"2006-09-06T18:20:08","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T10:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2006\/09\/06\/aya-hirano-cant-sing\/"},"modified":"2006-09-06T18:24:16","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T10:24:16","slug":"aya-hirano-cant-sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2006\/09\/06\/aya-hirano-cant-sing\/","title":{"rendered":"Aya Hirano can’t sing"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s the truth and you know it.<\/p>\n

Well she certainly sings better than me, but so does most of the entire population of this planet! I will be lying if I say that I don’t like “God knows…”, but I think Aya’s over-hyped popularity comes almost entirely from her role as Haruhi.<\/p>\n

So anyway, Aya’s 3rd Single “Asu no Prism<\/a>” went on sale today and the first pressing sold out<\/a> in a matter of seconds with people queuing overnight, selling their first borns and whatever not for a copy of more mediocre music from a cute-looking girl. Surprise, surprise.<\/p>\n

\"Asu<\/a>
\nImage from Akiba-blog<\/a><\/p>\n

After listening to the song, I can safely say that I do not regret not having pre-ordered it, neither do I intend on ever buying it except maybe from a second hand store for 200 yen the next time I’m in Japan.<\/p>\n

Seriously, if it wasn’t Aya Hirano I think no one would’ve cared for a song like “Asu no Prism” at all. It’s the kind of song that grows on you after a while, but really, it’s nothing special. It makes me wonder how long Aya Hirano’s fame will last once Haruhi is all but forgotten.<\/p>\n

Okay, I think I should stop provoking the Hirano fanboys out there. You can get the torrent<\/a> for the single and listen to it for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s the truth and you know it. Well she certainly sings better than me, but so does most of the entire population of this planet! I will be lying if I say that I don’t like “God knows…”, but I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}