{"id":23647,"date":"2016-10-12T10:48:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T09:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=23647"},"modified":"2016-10-12T10:48:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T09:48:48","slug":"characula-gets-into-the-halloween-spirit-with-mummy-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/10\/characula-gets-into-the-halloween-spirit-with-mummy-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"CHARACULA Gets Into The Halloween Spirit With &#8216;Mummy Dance&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"23648\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/10\/characula-gets-into-the-halloween-spirit-with-mummy-dance\/characula\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Characula.jpg?fit=486%2C487&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"486,487\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"characula\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Characula.jpg?fit=486%2C487&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-23648\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Characula.jpg?resize=640%2C641&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"characula\" width=\"640\" height=\"641\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>It might only be halfway through October but Halloween is fast approaching, and for some it&#8217;s Halloween all year round. Characula is one of those people for whom the ghoulish is her bread and butter, and she&#8217;s\u00a0fully embraced her love of B-movies and all things Halloween and created her horror rock goddess persona.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Characula&#8217;s new video, &#8216;Mummy Dance&#8217;, shows the larger-than-life singer in a sultry and sexy performance, accompanied by \u00a0cast of blonde beauties dressed in ancient Egyptian garb, as well as a giant spider (which she plays with, then later eats), Mummies, snakes (asps?) and bodies rising from the dead. It&#8217;s a very simply put together video but the total effect is both humorous and very catchy. With her Siouxsie Sioux hair and makeup, she&#8217;s familiar and yet something we&#8217;ve never encountered before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Characula describes her music as &#8220;a blend of metal, dance and the old drive-in movie theater&#8221;, and the end result is a sound that&#8217;s 3 parts Munsters and 2 parts out of this world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Find out more about Characula online from her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.characula.com\" target=\"_blank\">official website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Characula\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/characula\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/characula\" target=\"_blank\">Soundcloud<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/characula\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_63438\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bbXiX7BXj78?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/essentiallypop.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"YouTube player\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/bbXiX7BXj78\/maxresdefault.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Characula&#8217;s new video, &#8216;Mummy Dance&#8217;, shows the larger-than-life singer in a sultry and sexy performance, accompanied by  cast of blonde beauties dressed in ancient Egyptian garb, as well as a giant spider (which she plays with, then later eats), Mummies, snakes (asps?) and bodies rising from the dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":23648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[7733,7731,435,1169,7732,77,289,1945,203,4118,81],"class_list":["post-23647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","tag-b-movies","tag-characula","tag-halloween","tag-metal","tag-mummy-dance","tag-new-release","tag-new-song","tag-new-video","tag-rock","tag-siouxsie-sioux","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-69p","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30423,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/09\/characula-mummy-dance\/","url_meta":{"origin":23647,"position":0},"title":"CHARACULA &#8211; &#8216;Mummy Dance&#8217;","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"28\/09\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"It's just about Halloween and you know what that means! 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