wow so I thought that "Okay" will be like "your love" or something ,but now I'm looking forward for it :lech

edit : i like Joyful too , it really makes me happy and in the mood :heart

I love Superstar, even though I hated the preview. The PV is so damn cute and Kuu looks gorgeous in it! Could be another guy, yes, but Kuu is still enough. :laugh

Joyful is just so-so for me. The verses are great, but the chorus (and the same beginning of the song) is just annoying. :(

I LOVE SUPERSTAR :heart

^me too ahhaha! it's not like WONDERLAND which i really dont feel like listening.

please make POP DIVA premiere tomrw!! its a monday..its 10 days before the single

I've never fully listened to Joyful; the intro was so bad that I immediately turned it off XD;;

the only type of songs that I dislike of Kumi is when she sings in English

I don't keep songs like Got To Be Real , Venus , A Whole New World (which was butchered horribly >_<) in my mp3player because listening to them makes me cringe , really bad :tired

Got To Be Real and Venus are amazing!
A Whole New World on the other hand is a absolute mess. Or It's a Small World, even though it's not fully in English.

@Lee^ChaN Me too, I really hope a song like that or a sad rockish ballad :love

Well, we can't judge Kumi's song by her names... Melting sounds like a hot and dance song but it's just a cute song. Maybe Okay could be a up-tempo or something like that. :innocent

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BTW Where is Black Candy preview? :(

judging from the title I think it could be a song like... idk, about a boy who doesn't see the girl that loves him. He just doesn't notice? but they're still in a relationship. "This is not a love song" was about an ex-boyfriend, right? it also sounds powerful with the "!??". well, I have totally noo idea. let's wait and see:laugh

joyful and wonderland are just horrible!! crappy voice, noisy instrumentation...
superstar is LOVE! good pop as itself, just with drums and guitar in well harmony. I love that song so much! and when she appears in the PV with the yellow jacket and the black glasses is just STUNNING!! :D

please avex, what are you doing to us? We want pop diva pv!!!!

she has too many disney songs. I also didn't like a whole new world.

I was searching something about the composer of Aitakute and I found his official website. He composed 'I wonder' of Sowelu and it's a pretty good song! Now I'm curious about Aitakute too! :yes

Site: http://www.k4.dion.ne.jp/~noritaka/
Ameblo: http://ameblo.jp/noritaka-izumi/

(If someone wants to hear the song)

the thing that bugs me about Joyful is the "Joyful GREE" she clearly says gree. without that part I would like it a lot more, it doesn't seem as annoying as some of her other cute songs.

same here. I don't like any of the English cover songs. if she's going to cover songs in English she should work on her accent, it's horrible. that reminds me, not too long ago my brother and I were talking about bad English, and he brought up Koda Kumi :laugh I guess he didn't know that I knew who she was.. he was like "there's this singer Koda Kumi, and she's really good at singing, but her English is terrible!" and I was like yeah.. I know. and made him listen to "a whole new world" and he was like "that's English?"

^ LOLOLOL :roflmao :roflmao

But i have to agree in this her english is terrible , but somehow i like her English songs for really unknown reasons maybe her best is Got to be Real :heart

I Love Got To Be Real :heart It's my ringtone right now

YES!!!!

I always stop after SO JOYFUL JOYFUL LALA LALA LAAAAAAAAA! I'm like, end of this nonsense! :dead2

yaay I preordered both versions of Dejavu from HMV , i hate hmv but i placed a huge order cost me more than yen26,000 :laugh , unlike CDJ for like yen33,000 :innocent

i'm so happy right now :thud

:thumbsup ^ Damn, you're dedicated.

that was my fav song from the single lol...adored it :heart

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anyway...this is all quite exciting. im sure it will be moreso whenever i catch up with everything *so much* songs dont sound bad atm

I wouldn't mind if Bambi was a song like To Be one; slightly cute but not too over the top. That song is a lot of fun.

Hiro is the guy that composed "Your Love" though, so "Okay" could be something like that or a dance track like the other songs he did for kuu.

I personally like Your Love, the melody is nice.

^ well.. i'm not sure of the song type but will i love all of his works so i can't wait :luv2

...seriously avex?

yeah Hiro's works... I love him!!
i know that Your Love is a bit bland and nothing special, BUT i really like it!

For "Okay" i have something relaxing (like "Once Again") or some dance pop crap (oh i love this stuff :heart ) in mind!

"Aitakute" should be some ballad or rnb ballad...

"Passing By" could be a rock song or another ballad (maybe thats why she put Megumi no Hito and BE MY BABY PV's on it!?)

"AT THE WEEK END" i wonder if it's like the demo or they did little changes with bass, etc.

"Bambi" seriously i cannot wait for this!
we can except some cutie song, so i hope it's something like "anytime" or some fresh surprise like "Puppy"!!

"I Don't Love You !??" i think rock song or ballad, BUT also reminds me @ This is not a love song!!
And i hope u all have the tag right for this song with the free space between You and !?? >>>"You !??"<<<

For "Interlude" let's see if we got vocals or not!?

For "Introduction" i hope it is some fierce sh11111t and has a full version in the future!!

Well in Lollipop she clearly says "I touch your booty booty, baby boy we gotta party." I listened to it like 6 times yesterday and no matter how hard I tried I could not hear "I dodge the bullet bullet baby boy we gotta pull it."

^nah she says it like "Boolit" and "pawl it"
sounds more like some bad slang for me! x'D

I wonder what sort of crazy stuff Kumi could get away with if she sang her Engrish lyrics in the US. :P

:roflmao

I agree with you . If Kumi wants to sing songs that's in full English , she should brush up on her accent if not dictation on the words :x

I still remember before the lyrics of Lollipop were officially released , I kept singing alongside with the song wrongly , in terms of the Eng lyrics you can find in the song

you can imagine the shock I had when I found out , what I heard on the CD , is so different from what it's being stated on the lyrics booklet of Gossip Candy :tired

Venus is fun to listen to. I'M YOUR BENUS, YOUR FIAH, YOUR DESIAH

I love Venus :heart and I dont mind her engrish actually, its fun :3

Ehh... Venus is OK, not her best cover.

I cant stand that song...

it's just so cheesy...I cant think of anything but the commercials...and I cant believe it's an actual song lol

^^Ikr! the gilette commercials LOL

Ahhh okay.

THANK YOU SO MUCH! :luv2

QFT. It kinda makes me sick haha.

I think Got To Be Real is a great song. She sounds good in it sand it's catchy as hell. It just makes you happy! WHAT U FIND... the live was incredible. She was so hot on that disco ball! Venus is fun, too. You can't take these songs too seriously.. GODDESS ON A MOUNTAIN TOP!

I honestly don't listen to Kumi covers outside of ETERNITY any more. I don't think I've ever really had an interest in them except maybe Physical Thing. I tend to stay away from the covers of songs that I hear where I live very often so that would definitely include Venus lol.

I don't think Physical thing is a great song, but I hate the fact that we heard Nosheen's DEMO version of it before the actual song that made people think it's a cover. Nosheen is just a singer/songwriter who has no career of her own and Physical thing was a SESSION DEMO. But because we heard her version, people think it's her original song. Can We Go Back is different though, since it was previously officially released, but Kumi herself said in an interview that she met with arrangers to create a more edgy rock sound than the demo. I don't even know if she knew Kelly's existed since it was a bonus track.

thank you for Life, Lee^chan! :heart

sneak peek.

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...er-BEST-01.jpg

coming soon... =)

I didn't know that about PT, but I knew CWGB was definitely a cover. I don't like the song at all though.

Stop playing!

oh my God.

:love:love:love

I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE LIKE BURNING JDSALKFJSDLK

^^Looking forward to it!

Can you please go work for Avex and make Ayu's covers?

omg :heart

double post!
I LOVE that cover. It's amazing.

I mean, I know this song, and I always liked it, but it wasn't until I heard who koda did with it, and especially with the different vocal layers she put in, that I really started to love it.

I think Koda's proved that, she's actually extremely great at doing covers lol

^ she definitely always adds her own magic to it!

This cover is made by my special friend Kaled, just for the sake of this project!

It was a ERO-KING X KALED corrobolation.

I'm glad you guys are excited!

^I screamed, flipped back in my chair and hit the floor because I thought it was real for a moment. I wish it was real.

I know I'm late, but wow, the photoshop is terrible for that one pop diva cover. Look at how her hair basically blocks out parts of the letters. Like the "I" in kumi and the P in "pop". I mean the I isn't even there basically. They did a terrible job cutting around the hair.

you literally are late. lmao

Avex has already acknowledged the photoshop fail and fixed it on newer images. it won't appear on the actual cover.

Very beautiful cover. :heart

Where was this B-Side Collection when I spent an entire afternoon downloading and relabeling all the ones I was missing??????

Otherwise, it the cover looks epic pretty.

the fake cover is so pretty. looks like a lot of time went into it. I wish she would actually have a cover like that. that pic has always been one of my favs, she looks so sweet in it.

I wish the b-side collection was real XD It's a very pretty cover

I would probably like Kuu's version if they hadn't played Cheryl Lynn's original version at my work like, 5 times a days, everyday, since last July. Now every time I hear "WHAT U FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIND..." and I immediately go to the mute button/volume knob as fast as possible. :headache

I'm glad you guys like the cover :love

I really love the preview of the PVs of BE MY BABY and Megumi no hito =w=

I almost screamed in hype mode when I saw that b-side collection cover. I thought it was real. :D So awesome <3 I love every bit of it. :)

seriously.... why no signs of pop diva pv?

btw, I love the fake-cover of the b-side collection! ^^ I'm looking for it!!

love it^^

I translated the interview about 'suki de 3x / anata dake ga' that was included in Koda Gumi Vol.11 => here

I loved this line: "The more we age, the more afraid of love we become. Knowing that if you love someone truly, it will hurt very much if you ever break up… You need a lot of courage to love someone, right?"

I've been wondering this for over a week.
It's not possible that it aired and nobody recorded it, is it?

It has not been aired yet.

I don't care about the POP DIVA PV, I'm more interested in the b-side of the single. I hope it leaks soon.

Wow, I identify with that so much right now... And based on that quote, I'm a coward! :roflmao

Addicted to No way lately.
<3345

thanks for the translation tenshi! I love reading her interviews :3

B2 size poster that comes with the POP DIVA single ::

http://rhythmzone.net/koda/informati...s/110104_l.jpg

:luv2 :luv2

^the hair messes up the "A" in Diva in that one too. lol Yay for being late! I'm catching up. lol

I kinda want the poster lol

Where is the Panasonic 3D Music Studio live? Ok that today wasn't a big deal, but tomorrow we'll have Bambi and Melting :(

TENSHI! That interview was really beautiful, it makes me love Suki de even more knowing where Kuu came from with the song.

I want to see Lollipop + Universe!

and of course tomorrow BAMBI!

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...er-BEST-01.jpg

http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2618488

So pretty... :heart Thank you for translating. I'm happy she said that, because she's right ;; and sometimes we need reminding, haha.

hmm i hope we still get Bambi & Melting tomorrow...
i mean where the hell is the Lollipop+UNIVERSE performance?

really thx so much, Kingdom!! :heart
not that i dl it (a kuu *** like U+ME own all the B-Sides!!)
BUT thx to give many people the chance to hear those pieces of awesomeness!!
and i lurve dah cover!! :love

excited!!

Same here. I've given up on the pv. :P Now I really want to know what Black Candy sounds like. :yes

And am I one out of few that actually loves her rendition of "Venus"? That song is my favorite track off the entire album. (Not trying to throw shade):P

I know <333333333

I might use the lyrics in a Valentine card (that or meaning of Love). I know it was probably posted a while back but does anyone know where I can find the English translations of Suki de?

Mine too, Trick was a great album though, but what really got me with Venus was the beat.

At Tenshi's journal, I think? If not -- http://www.jpopasia.com/lyrics/39197...e-suki-de.html

Adam Royce, one of the producers of Under, co-produced/wrote BLACK CANDY :love

has these few piece of info been posted before ? :O

1) Black Candy is officially confirmed to be the B-side in POP DIVA

1.POP DIVA　第一興商「LIVE DAM LIVE」CMソング
2.Black Candy
3.POP DIVA Inst
4.Black Candy(Instrumental)

2) POP DIVA's tracklist for the DVD

【DVD収録内容】
1.POP DIVA MUSIC VIDEO
2.POP DIVA MAIKING VIDEO

3) the B2 sized poster for POP DIVA as an external bonus item for both editions of the single

http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/1966/110104l.jpg

:luv2 :luv2 :luv2 :luv2 :luv2

http://rhythmzone.net/koda/information/101202.html

omg if it's another urban type awesome song, I will ***** myself.

I want the full single already!!

SAME :thud

I would love it to be urban, but I don't want it to be like Under...even though that song is like, 3 minutes it always feels like it's 5 minutes long. It's just a draggy song lol.

:yes

omg i lovelovelove under!!!!! :luv2 hopefully BC will be abit similar!

OMG PRAISE THE WORD!
TELL IT TO UR MOMS AND BEOTCHES OUT THERE!!

Can't wait for the leak on sunday!!
(i doubt the single will leak on saturday)

oooo, Under... *_* What a awesome, sexy, urban, creepy song <3 Now I'm even more impatient to hear BLACK CANDY if it's written by the writer of Under :D

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble but Royce only co-wrote the lyrics, not the music.

↓
Black Candy
作詞：Kumi Koda／作詞：Matthew Tishler／作詞：Liz Rodrigues／作詞：Erik Alcock／作詞：Adam Royce
作曲：Kumi Koda／作曲：Matthew Tishler／作曲：Liz Rodrigues／作曲：Erik Alcock
(作詞 = write lyrics)
(作曲 = compose)

On a happier note, Kuu-chan co-composed the song.

i see photoshop failed on her back part...the curve looks so weird...the cutting job is not smooth..

POP DIVA's PV will be aired tomorrow morning 7.30am - 8am Japan time on Spaceshower TV D:

1月26日（水）
VOICE from DVD「結成10周年、メジャーデビュー5周年記念!
Perfume LIVE @東京ドーム『1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11』」 / Perfume
It's My Life / YUI
BACK TO DECEMBER / TAYLOR SWIFT
POP DIVA / 倖田來未
カートニアゴ / FLiP
Home / THE SUZAN [it!]

http://www.spaceshowertv.com/program.../new_cuts.html

Finally :thud

Don't know if already mentioned this but look at the the A in DIVA, again bad photoshop:(!

Panasonic 3D Music Studio again in few minutes, and yesterday wasn't recorded, I guess. :(
Finally we'll see POP DIVA PV, I don't understand why took so much time.

Thank you! :)

Another Driving Hit's is coming ;)
http://multi-lemonia.com/bbs/view.ph...da_kumi&no=164

I'm happy, I liked two previous albums.

^is there even enough music for her to remix? Since the last driving hits released, we've had the cover album and dejavu. Maybe they could remix one or two songs from universe as well. Kind of cool though.

omg finally the PV for POP DIVA is airing

lol Dejavu will be released on 2nd March & KODA KUMI DRIVING HIT'S 3 , 3 weeks later ?! D:

Anyway I'm not affected by this since I'm not a remix person :p

^ They did that last year too. I don't know why they bother -- I mean maybe Kuu really likes the remixes and the idea of them, which is cute, but my impression of Driving Hits is kind of "meh." I also get the impression they're hoping to just slap her name on as many things a year as they can, which is silly, because they should have faith in her original/solo stuff.

Rant over. **** YEAH DEJAVU :heart