E N V Y. dang i was hoping she'd perform UNIVERSE or some other songs with high 'energy'. But she's gonna own it. Kuu's one of the rare singers that can sing, dance, AND command stage presence. Will be tuning in to the live telecast later TvT

Ah, Koda Kumi looked really pretty on the red carpet. ^^;;.

POOR POOR KUMI DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO OMG , BUT SHE WAS SO AMAZING AND GORGEOUS !! :heart :heart

Can't really blame the hosts for rambling on and on in Korean, but SO annoyed at the organizers for failing to assign a translator for kuu!!! And SG host Michelle ending up holding mic for the stars since she can't speak Korean. Sighs.

And yes kuu looks stunning with her pretty black dress showing her asset <3

That youtube channel doesn't work for me. It just says "video not avaible". Annoying.

Try Mnet's youtube channel. The stream is working there. Hmm. Unless they're linked to the same feed.

Try here it works!

http://www.dkpopnews.net/2011/11/str...rpet-live.html

She's performing now~

damn, that BLING BLING BLING dance was hot... but VIP... <3

LoL, some parts of her performance were kinda soft. The comments were funny. Too old, ugly, ****, boring, vulgar, fat. Lmao.

her outfit for ai no uta was nice.

Damn hater comments XD

I hope somethings up on the internet when I'm done with work today^^

She looked gorgeous, but her voice wasn't really good during VIP imo

I didn't like her outfit for VIP and BBB. The dress for Ai no Uta was nice though.

Her black outfit was horrible loool but very great perf'!!!!

Kuu received an Award "HOTTEST ASIAN ARTIST"

I almost burst into tears when she start singing ai no uta!!! I could still not believe I just saw kuu AGAIN live, and in my home country

That was such a great performance!!!!! She totally brought her energy and fun and ero hahahah!

OMG THAT WAS THE HOTTEST PERFORMANCE !!!

GOOD JOB KUU I'M SO PROUD OF YOU :heart SHE'S ON THE WORDWIDE TT !! :luv2

It makes me feel sad that only kuu came to singapore even if it's a event for the Korean music industry.

some pictures from mama show (talking to the media)!

http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/2011/mama08.th.jpg http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/4646/mama07.th.jpg http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/1714/mama06.th.jpg http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/5755/mama05.th.jpg http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/7782/mama04.th.jpg http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/149/73822210.th.jpg http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/1844/mama02.th.jpg http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/4474/mama01.th.jpg http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/2261/mamasi.th.jpg

Still so happy shes here...not sure of she is gonna stay >.<

She is so beautiful I would die to see her in person *-*

I wonder, is she still in the stadium? If she is near town area I might rush out of my house now!! lol...

I wonder is there any Download links for her perf? x)

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmnnnnnnnn!!! wanna see her performance so bad!!!
hope someone recorded it!!! :scry

Ai no Uta
V.I.P
Bling Bling Bling Remix

what a surprise the last two HAHAHA

I uploaded the performances:



She was on fire OMG and the Hottest Asian Artist award, awesome.
The red dress is gorgeous but I don't like a lot the black outfit.

OMG thank you Kaled!! going to watch it now!!
*throw books away*

edit: err well... it's good.. not her best performance
I thought she's gonna do more dance routines
she should sing Be My Baby instead of BBB
*pick books from the floor*

i was quite shocked for Bling Bling Bling..LOL...i wished she sang BE MY BABY :P
(would be quite funny since WG is having the same title)

i was wathcing with friends and when Kuu did the crotch grab on the guy..i was laughing but they were stunned HAHAHAHHA

She was amazing, though I wished she sang "hotter" songs. I hope this one-time exposure to SEA means we'd have her concert in SG in time to come!! :D

Oh my dear heaven Kuu totally slayed the stage. <3 Korea also loved her. \o/ And she won the Hottest Asian Artist award too. I'm so proud of my awesome queen of live/j-pop <3

By the way, was that Minzy who got all hyped up during Kuu's performance? :D I only recognized Bommie when they shot 2NE1 for a minute.

^ Yeah they were enjoying sing Ai No Uta :heart

am i the only one who is so happy with the setline and find this life is fierce

Kuu definately slayed the stage!!! :heart I was really excited about the V.I.P performance (Cause It's the first time she's sung it live) but also nervous. I think PLC would have been a better choice because I think she sings PLC on stage with so much fire and energy, it can't be beat. <3 Blingx3 definitely was amazing though, such a good performance! :heart Also, am I the only one who likes the black outfit? LOL. I think it's damn sexeh. And her hair is perfect.

I love how Happy Minzy looked, and Taeyeon was jamming her head away there, too! :D

And well done Kuu for Hottest Asian Act award! Amazing! <3 So many people loved it, Kuu really is the queen.

Thank you for uploading the video, Kaled. Is it being aired again? I was in Uni so I couldn't watch it live.

Go back to the part right after Kuu feels her male dancer up and you will see Minzy enjoying the show. ^^

I thought Kuu did really well. Ai no Uta was great as always. V.I.P. she did good but it's not my cup of tea from her songs.
I really didn't enjoy BBB live at all. She barely sings in it. I mean Kuu sounds soooo great live so why not pick a song that shows that instead? The few moments she sang sounded just breathy (well yes, she moved alot but...). I kind of wish she would have skipped to sing BBB completely and just danced cuz OMG how good wasn't that?

Yea Minzy and Bom were singing to Ai no Uta awww...that was such a great scene.
Eunhyuk bobbing to V.I.P (i think this song totally has a unique and slightly k-oriented style to it)
Bling Bling Bling was probably added to get the crowd going..and it was easy to chant. and probably in lines of MAMA's hip-hop kind of style? I mean, MAMA has this rap tribute kinda performance every year so i feel like they take RAP/HIP-HOP as a serious thing. seeing Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, will.i.am etc..just kinda shows how much attention they place on hip-hop so that's why guess on why Bling Bling Bling was suited for the event.

Kuu totally owned the stage as usual, lol. I just wish she performed something else instead of Bling Bling Bling. That song is a mess.

I really liked her black outfit, too.

Oh wow, nice performance!
Ai no Uta was damn beautiful, I love her voice there!
That change and her pose to V.I.P. - amazing!
Would have prefered something else than Bling Bling Bling as well, but she wanted to sing just her own songs I guess - so BE MY BABY couldn't be a choice.
And there was probably too little time to learn another choreography, I mean they announced Kuu being there so late!
I adore her hair, it looks so perfect! And the dance break still is totally fierce.
Her charisma was stage filling as always,lol.
I'm happy! :heart

@Ayu_Love I don't think so, but someone will upload the whole award (as always).

And I'm happy with the setlist too because she sang the Ai no Uta 2009 style, and the Bling Bling Bling break is so hot. ♥
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Kumi will sing Love Me Back at CDTV http://www.tbs.co.jp/cdtv/guest/#guest1

And she's going to sing LMB at Music Station this Friday, the first time!
Can't wait!

Kuu on the red carpet:

http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/5594/kodacarpet.jpg
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/9595/kodacarpet2.jpg
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/5229/kodacarpet3.jpg

From yule.sohu.com and kumi-flash

Video:
http://tv.sohu.com/20111129/n327293172.shtml

Poor Kuu, those hosts were just asking her in Korean and she didn't really know what to do, so she just answered anything in Japanese, haha.
Why didn't they give her a translator? I mean, they invited her! Badly organized, lol.


It seems "Koda Kumi" is now trending on Twitter - worldwide.
Don't know, cause I don't use it, just read it.

And I love some of those comments under her performance on youtube, like:

"I know nothing about jpop, so i am not going to pretend.
All i can is that this lady knows how to rock the stage.
Nuff Said."

"The acoustics (sound system) of Mnet seemed horrible as usual. People here in Korea say only a few artists including Ms. Koda survived dreadful acoustics with their vocal abilities.
I personally think this performance was the best of the night."

You don't know how happy I am about all that!
She deserves it.

I feel so proud of Kuu <3 She rocked that stage and also got that award, it's just incredible. I kinda feel she was nervous during VIP, but it was a great perfomance, her hair and her outfit were pretty gorgeous, just like the red dress.
These pics on the red carpet reminds me of the first things era, when she covered almost nothing with her "dresses", but this covers a bit more of skin than those hahahaha

Awesome performance at the MAMA.

I know I'm late but I love Love Me Back, awesome song!

Kuu owned the MaMa stage... so proud of her! And hottest artist indeed. I'm glad Korea loves her!

She is so perfect!

what an amazing performance! :heart kuu looked stunning as always, too. :D

Is there a photo archive of her red carpet dresses? I never thought about paying attention until now.

to be honest, I was expecting a worst performance! I thought she could be nervous for beeing the only japanese artist there, but damn, she owned the stage!!!
I only think that the whole performance could had been better if she performed Universe and love me back than v.i.p and BBB (just because the both first are not as strident as the second ones..) but on the other hand, she did an excellent work with BBB with the dance and interacting with the audience! :)

congrats kuu!! now asia really knows how talented you are!
and congrats too for her "20 minutes" world trending topic on twitter hahaha!
of course, congrats also for that MAMA award, even I wish it was a music recognition and not only an "image award".. anyway, you did it, better that what I was expecting. you own the stage and didn't miss the opportunity of show em all how to rock the stage ;)

Lord, take me now cuz I'm dead :dead2

Honestly, I thought Kuu could've done better. The red dress was gorgeous but the black outfit was a HOT MESS. She still delivered, lots of energy.

I was disappointed in the hair and makeup stylist... sometimes they make her look SUPER OLD. I mean come on... -_____-

I wish she'll come back to Singapore again one day. TT.TT was this her first time here?

I want her performance in HD!!! she indeed owned the stage :heart

since day 1 <3

I wonder if we'll be getting an album announcement next month. After the MAMA awards I'm even more pumped for the new album.

EDIT: Kumi is confirmed for Kouhaku Utagassen 2011 as expected!

Kuu totally rocked the stage for MAMA!!! AHHH can't believe I WASN'T at Singapore when she's right at my hometown *curses*

I think this makes sense why she's NOT in the NTV Best Artist: she was in Singapore for MAMA!

so guys i think we get an album announcement sometime during the mini-live on dec 14th...

-she said during a concert the album will have 7-8 new songs...
-she finished them
-after that (1 or 2 weeks) she mentioned in the FC blog she recorded another song
-she has 6 PV's finished
(Boom Boom Boys, Cutie Pop Song, ??? something they've done ery fast, feat. Omarion, dance choreo & another PV BUT no info bout it)

so i think 6 A-Sides+7 Songs+1 Intro = 14 Songs as usual!
i think maybe 1 or 2 Bonus Tracks like live version/studio of the live version of "You are not alone"
So i believe this will be a normal 15 tracks album as always!!

i'm sure the mini-live will be the 2nd DVD for the CD+2DVD first press limited macaroni holy moly edition...
and i think this will be a good event to announce it and some hours after it we get an official announcement on her site!
maybe we get some info (release date/album title) from multi-lemonia a week before it...

expect the album to be released on feb 15th or feb 22nd...
hope for 15th release, cause she can do a special valentines day release concert the day before!!

Edit: and with so many vids maybe a limited single with the Dejavu Live DVD in january...

I was thinking about it being released on the end of March cuz that's affection 10th anniversary, but the valentines day also sounds like a good ideia. About Dejavu Tour, I think it'll be like Kingdom+Black Cherry Tour, we'll get a trailer on the album and one month/one month and a half after we get the live.

6 NEW PVs?! omg...we're gonna get a Kingdom-esque release again?! with Black Cherry Quality material??? that will be to die for

@3:38 Wow, this is a really good angle to see that. lol
And you can see she taking off the dress.

I'm so proud to be a Kuu fan~ :D

Still wondering.. has she ever broken her leg(s)??
how come she can dance in 4 inch stiletto.. *amazed*

I wonder if anybody here think Kuu-chan should learn some basic English conversation at least like ayu? (not trying to compare) because she seem to be very international nowadays. I mean wouldn't it be nice if she can at least have a little conversation in English with hosts or fans?

^I agree with that, it would be great, also because she uses English in her songs, I think she needs to learn a bit of pronunciation so we can avoid the issues like when first Lollipop came out, and everybody thought she was saying 'I touch your booty, booty. Come on boy we gotta party', until the official lyrics were released. LOL

I apologize if this has already been posted, it's the press conference before the MAMA's with English subtitles!:


Aww, she still keeps in touch with Minzy. :heart

And I've been reading all the comments on YT of her performance and everybody loves her! Everybody's saying how Kuu slayed the show, even people who have never heard of her and KPOP fans. It's so awesome to see. <3 And I didn't know about the worldwide Twitter thing, awesome!

So proud of Kuu!

Preview of Kuu in Gekkan zaterebijon 2011:

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g3...rith/7056d.jpg
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g3...80x3601322.jpg
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g3...ith/7057zn.jpg

She looks GORGEOUS. :heart

And some more playroom pics, she seems to be taking a lot recently!

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g3...ith/381614.jpg
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g3...1328895371.jpg
Bare-faced Kuu! :heart
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g3...1051274195.jpg
So cute! <3
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g3...e-16367431.jpg
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g3.../kodagumi2.jpg

Credit: Thanks to Kumi-Flash!

Thanks for the translation video.
She's so beautiful and I love the classy style she has.:heart I need to watch the MAMA performance!

^^there's usual 1-2 pics per post in the fc...
Sometimes even more!
The pic with the dog was backstage during a PV shoot, the cake pic was a week ago...
And the yellow dress was her and the dancers enjoying Singapore after the MAMA's...

And ARENA TOUR FC Lottery soon! <3

Would anyone be able to kindly give me the romaji lyrics to 'Love Me Back' please? ): I tried searching on Google and looked at like, 20 different lyric sites that all had these lyrics for Love Me Back:

Anata ni todoku you ni
Sora ni inotteita
Jiyuu yo iu tsubasa hirogetewa
Ima sugu ai ni iku
taenu omoi sasage ni
mata hitotsubu
namida koboresou
kotoba nakutemo sou
kanjiaeta hazudatta
I wanna come back for you
zutto soba de waratteteyo
Tsunaida sono te wo
hanasu yuuki ga to love
Oh baby give me one more chance
I wanna come back for you
hazusenai yubiwa ga ima mo
watashi no kokoro wo hikitomeruno
eien ni itoshii
Yozora ni chirabatta
mugen no hosikuzu wo
hitotsu hitotsu hiroi atsumete wa
ima mo kokoro no naka
omoi tsuzukete iruyo
anohi no mama
soba de kagayaite
Kioku mitsumete mo
namida de nijinde shimau
I wanna come back for you
sukoshi toumawari datta kedo
Deatte sokokara
hajimatte tano to love
Oh baby give me one more chance
I wanna come back for you
okubyou na watashi wo itsumo
sasaete kureta anata ga ita
eien ni itoshii
(repeat)

I'm not sure where they've all got these lyrics from. :/ The sites have the right cover posted and the right video with the track, but not the lyrics. xD

^ This is the lyric of Come Back, isnt? xD

she's so beautiful!!!!!!!
and aww...BFFs with MINZY hahaha

Just watched the performance and I give it a grade of a [B] overall. She sang "Ai no Uta" very well and I was pleased. The other two songs she performed were ok. That black outfit she wore was FIERCE!!!!!

Now I'm just waiting for a album announcement so I can pre-order it immediately. :yes

love me back debuts at #5, as usually as she recently does.
#3 is with 55k, so maybe the sales are not bad :)

I don't know if those numbers are real, but isn't that bad. At least is selling better than Ai wo Tomenaide.

nice sales

KATY preview 2012.01
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...kalil/katy.jpg

She looks gorgeous ♥

cute & sexy!!!

@Kaled: Yeah, it is! xD No idea why they all have the Come Back lyrics instead of the actual lyrics, sillies. Thank you for posting the lyrics for me. <3

Thanks for the magazine shots, she looks gorgeous! <3 And the sales aren't bad, so far! Hopefully they'll go up even more once she begins some proper promotion, such as the lives she has planned. I hope she does a lot of lives of Love Me Back and Say Her Name. :D
I think 4 TIMES suffered because apart from the lives on PLC, there wasn't much promotion for it.

I love her hair on the right pic :heart I was already missing those magazine shoots, hope they're preparing many for the album promotion. And they must give her a ViVi cover, they never fail with Kuu.

It's just amazing what make-up can do for a woman.

I think she's sick, the Music Station performance wasn't good. I hope she'll get well soon :(
Even the chorus she wasn't trying to sing, but she looks gorgeous and I like the "new outfit".

Our Kuu is a woman now~ Koda always shining so bright for her fans :love:love

Love Me Back (Music Station) stream:
www.tudou.com/programs/view/iBVGxsHQhB0/

Omggg she looked so gorgeously hot on MSta! She sounded really good to me, just a shame she was lazy during the chorus'. Her dancing <3

as always, tudou don't load the video for me. what a shame

Generally speaking I don't expect much from Kuu when it comes to performing her faster songs live... She rarely sings the chorus anymore. But aside from that she was beautiful. :) Though I liked the song before I actually knew the lyrics. They're pretty cheesy haha. Still, the melody is catchy.

Kuu was hot on that MS performance~ :heart

loved the performance! i love kuu's outfit, lol. stunning! :heart

also, i just watched the PV, and i loved it! the whole police/nurse theme was great, and i love the dancing. it was an amazing PV! :D

and i really like "Say Her Name", too. :)

She looked hot, but I didn't like the live like I was expecting I would...

Her voice really jumped up and down. She looked great though <3

While I think they changed her outfit to be a tad more appropriate for TV, I do love those kinds of stripped pantyhose, and the full body one was really sexy!

outfit was hot!!
and i think for being sick, the performance was quite good...
today she's doing another PV (7th PV) for a ballad this time!
hope it won't be a problem while being sick...

^Kuu's sick? Well, that might be a reason if her voice wasn't the best on live this time. I hope she doesn't have fever though because that wouldn't be cool. She's so brave though if she's gonna shoot another PV. <3

From the FC pic, the set for the PV looks really nice - like in autumn with trees and clocks on the walls and some mist. <3

LMB on Music Station was quite nice. Love her hair, I prefer the PV version of the outfit though. Her voice was actually pretty normal for me, except she wasn't singing some parts, hope she gets well quickly.

Scans of CD only and CD+DVD version of LMB:

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1361/lmb2005.th.jpghttp://img526.imageshack.us/img526/5522/lmb2006.th.jpg

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/1781/lmb2007.th.jpghttp://img831.imageshack.us/img831/619/lmb2009.th.jpg

Scanned by me.

Sanspo pics of MAMA performance:

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/7712/sanspomama5.jpghttp://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2420/sanspomama2.jpg
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/3186/sanspomama3.jpghttp://img69.imageshack.us/img69/138/sanspomama4.jpg
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/5959/sanspomama1.jpg


Credits:
Sanspo and Lidayu

the tudou link doesn't work anymore...?

Here it is again on youtube:



OK, watching it here again with a better quality - now I can hear that's she's ill.
She sounds off from the beginning or better especially in the beginning.

I want this new album NOW. I've held back on listening to all the singles since Dejavu almost completely because I didn't want to be tempted to buy them, and figured it'd be better to just love the songs with the rest of the album. Is it really being called 93? I saw that on generasia.

There isn't an official announcement of the album yet. The album being called 93 is just a rumor till now.
But it should be announced pretty soon, probably around her special live on 12/16.
Most sites have the album listed for January.

^ Sweet, thanks! I hope it ends up coming out in January, but that seems a bit soon, no? And where exactly did people get "93" from anyway? It seems so random. It's not like she was born in 1993 or has sold 93 million albums or anything like that.

I really think she did a good job with LMB performance!
this song appears to be musically simple, but the key is pretty high to sing, quite hard I think.

And I have to say kuu is absolutely gorgeous nowadays... stunning, sexy and mature. better than ever!

Wow another pv! I'm really happy with this album production, it seems to be something good.
Today she's on CDTV, probably will be better since the show isnt live.

Am I the only one thinking that, this year, we have a real mature Koda Kumi? I mean, last year she was mature but something more classy, even POP DIVA she was dancing with a dress. And now she's like the same sexy Koda Kumi from 2006, but more mature and stunning.

@bondingo: 93 means Kumi.

Thanks for the scans, Corvina!