You got this all backwards... Lol.

It's perfection. I remember I overplayed the album and got bored with it for a while but I still think it's one of her best albums to date. I just wish she could sing Anata ga shite kure ta koto live someday. ;__; That's like, one of the best songs ever made for me and there's no live performance. I wonder why. XD

Kuu seems to go on peeproom quite often, actually. It's so lovely to go there and see Kuu has liked someone's post♥

I'm obsessed with the mp3 rip of Dirty Ballroom. Awesome concert even though there was a bit too much of those special effects on the screen. :D

Amen to that. It always was and I'm almost sure will forever remain my favorite Kumi's album ever. As much I love Kingdom & JAPONESQUE ~second session~ is still the BEST to me.

Does high resolution of this cardboard sleeve cover even exist? I believe someone here shared HQ version, before.
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/0ec1285057.jpg
This edition w/cardboard sleeve is so hard to find now too. I'm going to Yahoo Auctions like everyday, but no luck finding brand new one.

Koishikute is pushed back to 12/26!

http://rhythmzone.net/koda/news2/2012/11/post-12.html

Ohhhhhhh, so Koishikute is being release the sameday as Hikki's Sakura Nagashi... luckily they won't be competing face to face :D

avex most probably did it on purpose. I doubt that she'll get #1 now but single might actually sell better.

Wow, what a push back o__o Maybe that's why there's no preview for Alone yet

But God! It was two weeks from now and it'll be after xmas, thats too much... And the PV was already released weeks ago... What a mess

Maybe they pushed back the release for a tie-in, which means more sales... So I'm okay with the new release date.

It's photoshop, I saw the concert end now xD

wonder what type of tie-in since for ballads, the only two that usually go with it are movies or dramas

anyway I hope at least they release it digitally a bit earlier since her ballads are made for that market and her ~first post-pregnancy pv which she stars~ in buzz is already dead

totally forgot but music fair on Saturday, can't wait *~*

Dear my little Kuu family..

If you had a chance to cosplay.. Which outfit would you choose?? (PV/Tour outfit)
and also pic, if you don't mind

(Thinking about cosplaying for the next tour :laugh)

V.I.P. outfit from setsuka's signature. I just love this MV and everything about it.

I swear, I thought that no one liked that song :P

that song is greatness. It got so much ****** hate~

^
I really love that song too! Well, I love every single track on that album with the exception of the diabetic Wonderland xD

BUT is a major contender, found someone else who has cosplayed from tumblr

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9...5t0xo1_500.jpg
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9...5t0xo2_400.jpg


for me I dunno, maybe as one of Kumi 's Show Girls, lol

^Oh yes for the BUT PV cosplay! I love that outfit she had there. *_*

I fell in love with it the moment I heard it for the first time. :)

I don't understand the hate at all. I mean, I understand that people don't like all of her songs (I don't either!) but this song has awesome lyrics and great atmosphere in it so where does all the hate come from anyway? :D

Wonderland was one of my least favorite songs on the album too. I don't really hate it because it makes me feel good when I feel sad but at that time I thought it was a stupid song. Later, when I had became a huge Kuu fan, I realized how much I actually love the song. I think Kingdom is a flawless album. :heart

I love Wonderland so much, but I think I really am the only one. It's one of my favorite songs^^

^No, you're not. :)

I knew they're gonna pull stay with me again! They pushed the single back a couple of weeks after TABOO had topped the charts. 8D I wonder if they're aiming for another #1 for Kuu then, haha. Actually I'd love to see that happen again. Kuu deserves some new chart toppers after the break imo. :)

From what the website says they cite production problems as the reason for pushing back the release so something probably went wrong with the manufacturing so they can't distribute them in time for the 5th lol

NAIL VENUS photos:

http://i.imgur.com/bMrZC.png

http://i.imgur.com/IJnuz.png

http://i.imgur.com/c0Wju.png

http://i.imgur.com/gxpsD.png

http://i.imgur.com/pacwo.png

http://i.imgur.com/HiRWf.png

credits: Lidayu <3

^ QUEEN , EPIC , FLAWLESS >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


D: ?? ---> http://imageftw.com/uploads/20121123...fd536633c6.jpg

^ it's asking people what female artists do you think are stylish, and Kuu came 2nd :D

God, she's so hot.

OMG, that list is all of my favorite singers in the world... except the top spot, which is my least favorite singer.

MUSIC FAIR preview :luv2

http://i.imgur.com/atB4n.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ksxkj.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/D7UUy.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/MiaW5.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/AzvXI.jpg

video on the right: http://www.fujitv.co.jp/b_hp/mfair/index.html

credits: IloveKuu, Lidayu

best one, love the title and her pose

can't wait for Music Fair, they have the best lives

I don't really remember the differences between the live shows. Like, I think Hey! x 3 has those two moronic guys, yeah? ...No?

yup Hey X3 has those two guys, the show is more so about them joking around with the artists then the music imo
Music Japan has Perfume as the hosts
Music Station is the most formal and prestigious~ I guess, but I like the interactions between the artist....their countdown of songs are so boring and the hosts is like a hundred years old
Happy Music has BECKY and the artist show up with a bag with some favorite things and they explain it to them, this show has the most variety of guests from reallly famous like Kuu to nobodies like mini
Music Fair is more so stripped down and collaborations happen a lot on it like Kuu had with Chara

there are more but idk
anyway my fave is Music Fair and Happy Music

I swear, I love this pic and the cover so much! :love
The 4th is also great!

All pics for NAIL VENUS are beautiful imo :) Her best shoot in this era alongside the ViVi one

And she looks so cute on that first pic of Music Fair :laugh When is it gonna be aired?

The Nail Venus previews are just ... :heart She's so flawless and gorgeous!

Awesome photos. All of them are lovely♥

Kuu got second? Lovely♥ It feels like it's been forever since she appeared in one of these polls. Seriously. I'm also happy that Ayu got in as well. :)

Was the video supposed to show the whole performance? If that's so then I couldn't see it at all for some reason. :< And I really wanna see this because I love Music Fair performances the most♥

^
no it was a preview

anyway the full thing~, sorry it is yinyeuntai (I know some people have issues with this player) but it is the most up to date one ..

anyway

Cutie Honey / http://www.yinyuetai.com/video/552630

Koishikute / http://www.yinyuetai.com/video/552641

the rest of the episode just showed past lives

Koi no Tsubomi / http://www.yinyuetai.com/video/552688

Butterfly / http://www.yinyuetai.com/video/552689

Ningyo Hime/ http://www.yinyuetai.com/video/552637

her vocals for Koishikute were flawlessssssss!

I'm really glad they showed the older ones, too! It gives me a chance to add some of the older ones in .ts format to my kuu live collection that you can't find nowadays :D JPDDL has uploaded them in .ts asides from Cutie Honey and Butterfly, I can't find those. D=

Does anyone know where can i download the whole episode?

Cutie Honey live was okay, not her best outfit neither perfomance. idk when she sings it in a concert it is much more envolving and energetic, maybe cause of the crowd, maybe cause of herself, but it was a mid live for me

Koishikute was outta this world. Seriously. She sounded much better than in the studio version - which is tyical for her ballads lol - and that dress totally owns the white one in the PV :laugh There was something in her voice during this perfomance which made me love it, it is like now she was a hundred percent into perfoming the song and showing us the feelings of this song. Oh Kuu, why you amazing like this? :heart

Not sure if anyone is interested, but I found some contacts which are very similar to Kuu's. Obviously kuu wears her own contacts, but Starmish by GEO are very similar in appearence to the ones she has been wearing recently, such as in Vivi.

http://www.eyecandys.com/geo-starmish-brown/

I've been admiring Kuu's contacts since Vivi, so I'm glad I've found 1 year disposable ones that look similar. :D

Oh, I think I'll wait for the vimeo links. Yinyuetai just doesn't load on this laptop at all.

youtube links:

flawless as ever. like whoaa :luv2

^She's so pretty! Flawless performances.

omg flawless vocals for koishikute~

Don't care for the song but I hit play out of curiosity regarding the performance and I was like "wow, I can't believe this is really LIVE!"

Omg gorgeous vocals. That arrangement is beautiful too.

The vocals for Koishikute were great
Cutie Honey was great as usual as well

Cutie Honey is always so fun. :) Her vocals were great but I still don't really like Koishikute, which is a shame. Oh well. :)

PS That interrupting message above the cutie honey performance was for an earthquake that was the strongest I've felt in a while lol.

I don't really care for koishikute either. It's nice, but the melody just doesn't stay with me. Composition is all over the place for me.

But she looked nice. I downloaded the episode. I have to say. I didn't really care for her hair or the color when she was in the interview parts...but whenever she does it up it looks nice.

i really don't like it when she's blonde/pink whatever, it matches her skintone too much... i love contrast on her! i forget what koishikute sounds like 2 seconds after listening to it but that live is great! she just sounds super amazing~

whenever i watch american performers i always forget that kumi is an anomaly when it comes to being just as good / better live than on a recording...

Yeah I think it's the memorability that this song lacks for me. It's a song I won't mind listening to when it comes on randomly, but nothing I'll really go searching for, especially when she has so many other (and much better, imo) ballads in her discography. But the video is still beautiful. Simple, but beautiful.

KUU IN MAGAZINES IS JUST TOO EPIC THIS YEAR I CAN'T HANDLE THIS :love :luv2 :thud

Thank you for these. Both are absolutely flawless as always. I love her so much♥

Kuu is going to Kouhaku,obviously

but wonder what she is gonna perform, she has only two hits out this year so maybe Koishikute + ripped dress Go To The Top, lool

most likely Koishikute I guess, since the release week is the same week as Kouhaku and that is the best promo

her voice is beautiful, but koishikute is pretty dull. i can't help but feel like i've heard it before (a few times already) in her discography.

Pretty certain she'll perform Koishikute, it'd be the best choice in terms of marketing and everything... But I was expecting her to perform stay with me back in 2008 and she came up with TABOO in that awesome kimono/dress :heart Still, I'm expecting Koishikute, in a fashion-creepy dress just like the Ai no uta one rofl

She will perform Koishikute, but if she performs Love Technique i'll die, XD

She should perform Lay Down, imo. I would die of happiness.

^It's gonna suck big if she's not gonna perform it at JAPONESQUE TOUR. I hope she'll perform Say Her Name as well. I adore this track.

Holly... she sounds amazing. Queen 4Ever.

lmao stay with me is one of her best winter ballads IMO.

What's this about? A new album release in February?

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=AVCA-62136

OHHH nvm just a soundtrack and "go to the top" is featured.

can't believe people here are not liking koishikute. I keep listening to it (and sakura nagashi) on my stereo at full volume and I'm in heaven. stay with me, suki de, suki de, suki de and ai wo tomenaide haven't had the same effect on me tbh. koishikute is her best ballad a-side since moon crying imo.

kuu and hikki made my winter with their ballads lol. can't wait for Alone!


lame tie-up:

I don't get all the hate for Moon Crying. This song is epic. One of the very few songs that actually made me cry.

^ MTE. of course it depends on taste, but kuu+piano is always a win for me.

I updated the schedule in the main post :D

I don't like Koishikute not do I like Moon Crying. Both are horridly boring. As I've said, the only generic Kuu ballad that I like is Ai no Uta.

^I agree, and I think part of the reason I like Ai no Uta is because everyone spazzes when she starts singing it during her lives, lol.

I prefer her mid-tempo ballads like No Way and Okay.

I really liked "stay with me" but then she kept releasing winter ballad after winter ballad "Suki de, Suki de, Suki de.", "Ai wo Temenaide", and now "Koishikute" that's it's boring

You dont know how much you scared me :thud

I liked Moon Crying. Koishikute just kind of reminds me of a watered down version of Suki de. Which I did like.

I'm not huge on ballads though, and I do like them to be catchy when I hear them. Koishikute isn't for me.


I do very much appreciate the piano though. I love piano ballads and I'm glad she does them...I just don't like this one.

I don't remember ai wo tomato either. But I think I did like stay with me...

I always end up worship the ballads that people seem to hate. Seriously. Ai no Uta, Moon Crying, stay with me, Ai wo tomenaide and Koishikute are all definitely on my top 10 favorite ballads (Suki de x3, Kiseki and Promise as the top 3 of course). Kuu's winter ballads kick ass every year. Gosh, I can't get into the winter mood without those~

Again we feel the same=)

I abolutely adore Koishikute, Suki dex3, Moon Crying and Ai no Uta.

Ai no Kotoba, Promise and hands are awesome, too!

stay with me and Ai wo tomenaide are okay( I love them during the christmas time).

I think her ballad singles are extremely emotional, honest and somehow cute:luv2

I love Stay with me. I've loved it since it was released. But that song is much catchier, imo.

Ai no Uta, though, I've always been so so on. It just sounds...whiney to me. Moon Crying I liked at the time of release. Ai wo Tomenaide is good. you, Yume no Uta are Gods.

I'm a ballad stan. I love/like/adore all her balladas but Kiseki. Top three is hands, you and come back, but I also love ai no kotoba, Promise, Suki de and No Way.

i think suki dex3 was absolute perfection, though anata dake ga surpasses it by far. koishikute just feels pretty meh, like it's one of those ballads that's so very pretty but it never really leaves a mark.

i thought moon crying was pretty, too but.. idk XD i'm also weird because i think no way is the best song she's ever done evaaahhh.

you guys just gave me the idea to make a kuu winter ballad playlist to blast at work, since they're already playing xmas music 8|

Suki de is my least favourite single by her, Koishikute is pretty but tbh I ain't replaying as much as AWT or any other past ballads tho I remember dropping Moon Crying pretty quick, I think the last one I completely loved was Stay With Me

its just there, I like but not love

her best ballads are her older ones or the ones on the album,

Aitakute >>>>>>>>>Suki De

Brave>>>>>>>>>> AWT

waits for her next album to have a ballad that will slay this one

Moon crying is E P I C . the lyrics the music and melody it makes me cry ;__;

I've never been crazy about Kuu's winter ballads, they all seem so similar and dry to me. Koishikute is nice but i forgot about it after 3 days.
Yume No Uta, You & Sukix3/Anata Dake Ga are great. Stay With Me & Ai Wo Tomenaide are passable at times, i don't really care for Moon Crying or.. yeah well, sadly Koishikute now too. I think Ai No Uta is the only one i dislike though :P

Mind that i still have to listen to her discography before Best Second Session, so there might be some gems there.

OMFG. ALONE PREVIEW.

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDgwNzY5NDY0.html

password: 1226

OMFG. It completely owns Koishikute

perfection :xmas

i love the Koishikute performance so much. Flawless vocals.
and oh my Koishikute sounds great but Alone is sooooo amazing from the preview. can't wait!

Stay with me sucks! And I absolutely LIVE for BIG winter ballads!! So that one was a HUGE disappointment for me. The chorus is just so awkward, it just doesn't feel as powerful as she's trying to make it sound. Ayu's "You were..." also fails to deliver on this level.

You know what I really love though? ai no uta (urban kiss version) during the Holidays! I always felt ai no uta was so dull and dry, but this version gives it that extra bit it needed, while making it seem more "winter-ish"

Edit: Just watched some of the stay with me video to recall bits and wow, I forgot she had that hideous hairstyle during that period where her bangs were parted in the middle and abruptly cut straight off at her cheeks/chin. My God, worst hair of her entire career!

Oh wow, the Alone preview is AWESOME. I can't wait to hear the full! I won't say for definite til I hear the full, but I kinda wish that was the A-side and she was performing that now, it has so much energy and winter spirit to it. <3

I was surprised that I like Koishikute! There's part of the melody to that stays with me personally, even though it's not my favourite kuu ballad, I do really like it and look forward to hearing it performed. :)

I have to say that my favourite kuu ballads are her older pop/R'N'B ones, with also some recent ones :) My most loved Kuu ballads (some more than others) are:

1000 no Kotoba (first kuu ballad I ever loved, stil do)
Come Back
Pearl Moon
Taisetsu na Kimi E
Hands
Kiseki
Tsuki to Taiyou
Candle light
Yume No Uta
0-ji Mae no Tsunderella
Faraway (so underrated to me, I love it)
Always
Aisho
IN THE AIR
Moon Crying
Himitsu
Slow (Would probably like it more if there was less autotune on the verses and the rap makes it less epic for me. Love the chorus, though.)
No Way
Say Her Name

Others I like are You're so beautiful, Okay, You Are Not Alone, Darling and Walk, but not as much as those. :) Taking another listen to Brave as well, while It's not my fav, I do like it too.

worst than her Trick tour mullet :gnash

or whatever the hell this hairstyle is called: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wBvzRkLSn4

anyway she is performing GO THE THE TOP, cuz Kumi is gonna show who is dey top diva on Kouhaku

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me5fc4NQJV1ruliew.jpg

I love IN THE AIR but it's more of a mid-tempo

Lmfao, ok that one is pretty bad.

Alone sounds good. It sounds like it would fit well in ETERNITY, I wonder if she pretended releasing it back then, but for some reason took it from the album...

Oh, what a surprise, Go to the top :D Her outfits for upbeat songs on Kouhaku have been flawless so far, so I'm expecting something MUCH better than that mess for the past TV lives

That Trick Tour hair... omg. Never again Kuu. NEVER AGAIN.

Yay for Go To The Top! And Go For It from Kana. Kana and Kuu are gonna have the crowd pumped!

Alone sounds beautiful!

Alone is totally a left over from ETERNITY, like she did with Brave on TRICK era...
It sounds okay imo, nothing really special.

Awww, this is lovely! But I have this horrible fear it's going to just blend together into one big ballad-mess like most of her stuff does. Which is so weird because I think they're GORGEOUS, but they don't stick out. ;w; Clearly the one remedy for this is to listen to more Kuu.

I adore Go to the top, awesome that she's gonna perform it. Kumi can never go wrong with anime/games theme songs: real Emotion, Crazy 4 U, No Regret, Hey Baby!

Alone sounds gorgeous. As for Ai no Uta I never cared much about it, especially caus eit came out after Yume no Uta. When I read that she announced another Uta I was expecting something same strong... but it was something different.

Her magazine photoshoots are stunning!

That 360 photo she took at the concert is AMAZING!!!! That's such an awesome idea!

I've given 恋しくて a few listens and you know... it's so lovely! It's starting to stand out to me, too. I think it's because it reminds me of someone I like ;_; What confuses me, though is... why she has the same title for two different songs. O_o IIRC 恋しくて = darling? And the b-side of "Go to the top" WAS "darling." It's like alan having a song called ひとつ on her first album, and then a song called "one" on the second -- it's the same damn word XD

eta: okay i also see it translated as "i miss you" which makes no ******* sense but okay lol

^She does have "Hana" and "Flower". Unless by "Hana" she meant the other Japanese translation, nose :P

Apparently Koishikute means "I miss you" or "homesick" or something that means "longing as in missing"

yay for Go to the top @ Kouhaku. also can't wait for her to slay FNS Kayousai. I wonder if she's doing Music Station Super Live this year, last year she was ahmazing performing Ai wo tomenaide + Cutie Honey (damn that hair <33)

kuu's Alone sounds like it's gonna be better than the original, which always happen with whatever she covers tbh

whoever changed the thread title, thank you ^^

@ Fukushima
http://i.imgur.com/FMXsy.png
credits: ilovekuu, facebook

omg that, too! i don't get it XD

I love this Hana x flower titles lol I wouldnt be surprised if someday she comes up with a song called "Love song" :laugh

She looks amazing here :) Love the pic

lol oh man, and she's got more of them!

feel x feel me
one x one night romance
shake it x shake it up
stay x stay with me
sweet kiss x sweet love...
trust you x trust your love
your love x your only one x your song x your sunshine (jfc)

and let's not get into all those "ai no..." songs. this just reminds me how i still have to familiarise myself with her discography. i know ayu's to the point of memorising lyrics, but i'm not as proficient in kuu's yet. i consider this an oversight that must be corrected.

and 恋しくて is still my jam. i've fallen head over heels in love with it.

^ "one" is a big deal for Kuu, there was "Your only one", "one", "One night romance" and "To be one" ALL of them in the "grow into one" album :laugh

There's also:
Get Out The Way X GO WAY!!
Rain x Saigo no ame
TABOO x TATTOO [Yeah, it is a cover, but still funny]
Black Cherry x Black Candy

And probably others :P

LOL HOW DID I MISS THAT? derp.

watch, for her next cover album she'll do alan's "one" and add another "one" song to her list :3 (and tbh i think kuu would do a great job with alan's "one." her voice is so warm and suited for those kinds of mid-temp ballads).