^ Well, you're right. Anyway, I'm happy if they decide to release another DH this year :)

Guys, could you help me a bit with mu-mo/tenso? On mu-mo, the Delivery Status of my WOML copies is 転送コムに納品・配送済み, does it mean it has been shipped to tenso already? Cause iirc I had received an email the last time with a tracking number, but I have got none yet

I haven't listened to such a damn fucking bad album since ages. I loved "Dance In The Rain" since its release, but all of the other songs are so bad I don't have any words for it. If I had to say something good about the album it would be that I like the chorus of "PIECE IN THE PUZZLE".
Kumi never had amazing compositions, but she's able to pull off some great dance songs. This time not only the compositions are weak, the arrangements are the worst I've listened to in a while. They are all over the place and all I can hear are sounds that hurt my ears and are just noise.
People keep saying this album is "very western". I disagree. This album is what Kumi thinks is western. All those strange sounds in the songs are supposed to be western and therefore "cool". But it's just one big epic fail. I give this album a -1 out of 5.

http://shinitakashi.blogspot.sg/2014...el-lyrics.html

omg this is the translation to HOTEL. LOLLLLLLL why are the lyrics so random and her Engrish I CAN'T ANYMORE Kumi

Lol.

Somebody asked yesterday, why Kuu's English pronounciaton was so much better in the acoustic performance of WALK OF MY LIFE yesterday than in the studio version.
She always was pretty inconsistent, but according to that one article beforehand, she also took those vocal lessons before recording to improve her English.
On the WOML album she has some songs with pretty good pronounciation (e.g. Lippy) and some are a bit off (e.g. WOML, thougb as the main title it was probably recorded first).
That she was now so good in comparison yesterday at that live event... maybe it just took her longer to actually transfer what she learned than she and avex expected?
This happens sometimes.
We will know for sure, if she got more consistent, when she's gonna perform the new songs on tour.

Btw. here's the Ninki for this week:

http://i57.tinypic.com/33m61wn.jpg

The lyrics are tripe. But if this is the walk of her life it does say something *cough*. Or maybe she really doesn't care about lyrics and this is who she really is. I still wanna do an in depth analysis when I get the cd and give it enough spins. But when I do it, it's gonna be under the impression that every single word on the album IS her and this is the real Koda Kumi. She can't name an album walk of my life and not have that connotation attached to it...

I listened to the new album this morning. I didn't want to believe those hard critics I read here, but I have to admit that I have mixed feeling about WOML....
Out of the new songs, the only one that pops out for me is Piece in the Puzzle.
With such a classy/mature album artwork, and with titles like Mercedes, I thought Koda would have served us a very consistant album.
And I am truly disappointed.
Those songs are the definition of bad hip-hop/RnB or whatever you'd call it. It's trashy and not even sexy. In comparison, TOUCHDOWN was a sexy RnB song, an "Epic Win" for me because usually I don't like this type of music.
In WOML, on the contrary, I don't feel anything besides "I don't want to listen to this anymore". The songs from the singles are quite good, even the title song is hearable now.

Well, I think I won't buying Kuu this time, and I regret it :(

Suuure, because a POP song called Hotel needs to have a deep lyric. Okay. haha

My album will be here tomorrow!!! Or so fedex says. Im so excited!!!!

There's probably no meaning behind it and she named the album "WALK OF MY LIFE" because she thought it'd sound nice, or because of the song by the same name. Isn't that what often happens in J-Pop? I don't even bother having high expectations.

You guys forget, it's an original album, not a concept album.
She probably named it WALK OF MY LIFE, cause of the title song, which connects to her and her 15th Anniversary. And maybe, cause the songs on the album are reflecting, what she personally wants to do, as she is stating in interviews. It's the long road, she had to take to get that far, to get that freedom. Her walk of her life.

I feel like she really doesn't want to be doing this anymore.

^ What? Where did you get that? When she's finally doing what she wants to do and sing what she wants to sing, you think she doesn't want to doing this anymore? Gosh...

Just based on the quality of songs shes releasing. Totally my possibly incorrect opinion, but I feel like the last album that was really "her" was a cover album.

I'm a huge kuu fan, and I'll always support her, but it's a lackluster release with barely effort in quality. That's not like her.

I absolutely think this is what she wants to be doing. Whether she executed it well or picked good songs is another story lol

HOTEL lyrics may make very little sense but the 'birds sing and morning call' part remains the catchiest melody on the album.

Mercedes wants to be a good funk song but falls a bit short. Its grown on me though.

@Zahara: This is who she is right now, it might not be something for your taste, but it is what it is. :)

I hope she sells around 60k with this album. :)

Besides this whole discussion about the album, how do you guys think it will be the tour? I might try and guess a couple of songs later on. I was talking with Gustavopc and so many good ideas came to my mind. haha

We have some little hints on the global FC in the staff diary.

She already shot the tour videos and they didn't want to show the dress she's wearing in them, but the nails:
http://i59.tinypic.com/dzzfw0.png

And here she's picking stage costumes for the tour:
http://i61.tinypic.com/9u0pe0.png

Seems it will be really colorful? And maybe a bit crazy?
A contrasting concept to the album shooting maybe.

Did anyone get an e-mail about their fc order shipping yet?