{"id":2345,"date":"2009-05-18T11:33:15","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T18:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2009-05-18T12:06:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T19:06:39","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-definitive-boogie-wonderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-definitive-boogie-wonderland\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day &#8211; Definitive Boogie Wonderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=La-8dy6U1e8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2381\" title=\"pink-lady-boogie-wonderland-main-shot1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pink-lady-boogie-wonderland-main-shot1.png\" alt=\"pink-lady-boogie-wonderland-main-shot1\" width=\"424\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pink-lady-boogie-wonderland-main-shot1.png 424w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pink-lady-boogie-wonderland-main-shot1-300x244.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>In what could easily turn into Kitsch O&#8217; The Day&#8217;s Musical Monday because of all the insane versions of my songs on YouTube, this one by Pink Lady, a Japanese duo who had a short-lived but utterly fantastic cheese wheel of Kitsch tv show in the 1980&#8217;s, is way near the top of the heap. &nbsp;The Oriental opening, bad lip-synching of the pink person on the right, &nbsp;cheesy choreography, clear fascination with American dancers,&nbsp;glitzy&nbsp;costumes, dorky synth patches, bombastic arrangement and cheap set all add up to musical heaven in Boogie Wonderland.<\/p>\n<p>When I first started having hits, this was the very first cheesy version of one of them I saw. I prayed I could keep knocking &#8217;em out as this is the kind of reward a Kitsch lover such as myself dreams of.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2355\" title=\"pink-lady-boogie-wonderland5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pink-lady-boogie-wonderland5.jpg\" alt=\"pink-lady-boogie-wonderland5\" width=\"400\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pink-lady-boogie-wonderland5.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pink-lady-boogie-wonderland5-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2357\" title=\"pink-lady-boogie-wonderland4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pink-lady-boogie-wonderland4.jpg\" alt=\"pink-lady-boogie-wonderland4\" width=\"400\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pink-lady-boogie-wonderland4.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pink-lady-boogie-wonderland4-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2361\" title=\"pink-lady-boogie-wonderland31\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pink-lady-boogie-wonderland31.jpg\" alt=\"pink-lady-boogie-wonderland31\" width=\"400\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pink-lady-boogie-wonderland31.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pink-lady-boogie-wonderland31-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what could easily turn into Kitsch O&#8217; The Day&#8217;s Musical Monday because of all the insane versions of my songs on YouTube, this one by Pink Lady, a Japanese duo who had a short-lived but utterly fantastic cheese wheel of Kitsch tv show in the 1980&#8217;s, is way near the top of the heap. &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-definitive-boogie-wonderland\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,73,283,219,111,87,193,13,249,75],"tags":[61,3229,3232,3245,287],"class_list":["post-2345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-art","category-boogie-wonderland","category-dance","category-disco","category-earth-wind-fire","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-music","category-people","category-songwriting","tag-allee-willis","tag-boogie-wonderland","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-pink-lady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}