lol it reminds me of this
http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/8...pierrotok5.jpg

^ omg :roflmao:roflmao

^lmao omg the memories
maybe that's where the concept came from

Lmao xD;;;;;;;; I love it <3

If that's where the concept came from, I'm totally in love with Kumi <3

I loved this covers. They're so creative and beautiful.
Kumi have really suprised me at this time ♥

bigger photos guys from YA!



look at the detail on those nails :heart
I'm loving CD+2DVD more than ever!

the nails are really cool but i don't really like much else! her eye is really creepy... and the hair... and the skin... and the clothing...

ew ew ew ew cd+2dvd in HQ
it should be banned from being in HQ

CD looks good tho!

If she got rid of the purple eye make up and the freaking carpet around her neck, I'd really like the CD+2DVD ;_;

Yes, her nails in the CD+2DVD version are really beautiful!

Thank you for the bigger covers *o*

I hope there's a promo shot where's she standing or at least in the same position so we can see her in full for Cd+2dvd...

I hope the CD+2DVD comes in a slipcase like Kingdom...cause then hopefully the actual CD cover is prettier. Maybe a modified version of the CD only cover like what Kingdom did.

she could be portrayed as a sexy magician, hence TRICK perhaps :yes


it is possible it could come in the same format as Kingdom :yes

nice. im really digging the cd+2dvd one.
but the bigger versions just make the cd only one look cheaper

i think the concept of both of them are good, just the execution is poor. the biggest problem i have with the cd-only is the way the picture was taken... too much flash! looks really amateur.

I guessing on the CD+2DVD, she is portrayed as a magician
and on the CD, she seems to be a magician's assistant or a trick's bait
--lol
so maybe it's like different roles she's trying to portray

maybe I'm just thinking too hard :headache
--


recap of covers, btw

I thought the cd version was her looking normal and then she does a trick/spell and she turns into another person and another place, which is the cd/2dvd.

Thank you for the larger versions. They look better larger. I want a poster of that.

Oh the CD/2DVD picture reminded me of Dementio in Paper Mario Wii.

^lmao the colors contrast well with kuu's...

Artistically speaking, I like the CD+DVD better. But unfortunately, clowns scare the crud out of me no matter how well made the concept (which is why although the Alterna PV is amazing, it's one of my least watched PV ever). But I don't really like the color pallet she used for the CD+DVD cover.

The CD had potential to be an awesome cover AKA Taboo covers, but the sequin and glitter makes it look really cheap. Which is a shame, because it could have been an awesome picture had she picked solid colors.

Maybe I'm just big on solid colors...LOL

Hopefully the previews come out by the end of the month before i decide even pre-ordering...
i noe its not right to judge by previews still...
but well...sometimes if the chorus isn't right, its hard to get into the song

i agree.
it really just looks like a cheap version of this cover:

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...in-u_small.png

now, kuu couldve done pretty much what she did, with a bit of tweaking, and it could look as hot as this melody. cover.

Something I just noticed. Is Kuu the clown crying?? Or is that diamond there for effect?

the CD+DVD cover reminds me of the promotional photos jay chou did for his capricorn album. also i hate how the CD and CD+DVD doesn't have similarities. like it would be better if she took the album cover in the same place but just with different clothes or something.


trying to milk our money by having the CD+DVD the bestlooking one >=T

Wow those covers are hot! I love it. I was beginning to get a little bored with her covers.

kumi is the only clown i dont find scary XD

Damn, they should have used this for the CD+2DVD cover... :grumpy

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/n...ick/081203.jpg

Credit: HMV

^ Eh? Now where did that clown face come from :laugh That's cute.

^thats nice!...the new logo..haha replacing the Kingdom logo and the colour fits...though it could be hard to see

Oh yeah the pic is from here:

http://www.hmv.co.jp/news/article/811260014

I think it's just a promo pic...

I'm really not feeling either of these covers tbh.

=/

I LOVE the covers xD Specially the clown one <3

Is she crying? o_o

BTW does someone please please have the tour dates for the Black Cherry tour? ><

it can be perceived as both, which creates more contradiction and symbolism behind the meaning of the cover...
kuu could be a Joker instead of a Clown for all we know :shrug
--
for example, kuu did a trick but instead the trick was on her the whole time, hence maybe why there's the diamond tear, creating sadness because something she created has been used against her...just something to think about... =D

or maybe it just looked kinda neat....


whatever...

I dunno.... I love how they're not similar! I'm sick of similar covers with a bit of tweeking so you can barely tell the difference hahaha. With these two you can CLEARLY tell the difference!

^true, but i think it wouldve been nice if there was SOMETHING directly telling you it was the same album. aside from the title of course.

maybe even just similar colours or crappiness or something.

Oh my, covers so fast!

I like CD only, but I absolutely love CD+2DVD! :luv2
I'm so glad I've already preordered this version.
This cover is unecpected, fresh and new from Kuu.
I wanna have a poster of it! ;_;
I like how Kuu tries new things from time to time.

The covers are.. well not bad but not great either. I guess they have created an impact Kumi was looking for.

ugh, i don't like the live.. her dress was too much :dead

I'll be honest. The new covers are awful. The CD version is ok (still without any creativity) but the other cover is just WTF?! I couldn't recognize her o.O

the clown kuu is growing on me! atleast i really didnt like it, but it's only because it wasn't expected from kumi (for me)

i am so used to her doing a lot the same boring stuff!

This live?

yeah. :no the dress is really tacky lol

Even though I'm not fond with the cover I just pre-ordered kumi's TRICK CD+2DVD Limited edition on CDJapan XD.

Anyone knows if it will come with a poster and slipcase like Kingdom did? ^^

^

Dunno, I've asked a lot before but no one seems to know (or doesnt answer :P).

The dress is too M-ish.

I don't think that Ayumi holds the patent on wedding dresses. That being said I really don't like that dress. It's too plain and a bit shapeless.

That isn't a wedding dress...it's a tablecloth :puke.

Kuu prz fire your stylist...or if that was your decision hire one <_<

Who said she did.....?

The dress is a bit shapeless, but it wouldn't be so bad if she didn't have that veil. I have no idea what kind of effect was she trying to do here.

wow! her vocals are beautiful, especially paired with the violin.

the veil is bad though. the dress would be so much better without it.

http://www.freeegg.com/contents/movi...entsIdx=330332

was this one posted? she's pretty cute in it. dress is better too

the performance was pretty nice. kumi really did look beautiful in that dress, though :yes the guy playing the instruments really made moon crying sound special, lol.

WAHHHH...MOON CRYING again??? and THAT outfit?...gohshh

Wow... what is she doing in a wedding dress? lol

Pretending to be misono lol =P

only she looks alot better than misono in that dress. to me at least, lol. :P misono looks too cute to dress mature-ish.

wow thanks girlfran! i didn't see this one. she looks so gorgeous and her dress is cute! i like her much better with long hair again!

she has been dressing like she used to during her first things / butterfly era. i love it

She makes a wonderful..clown? Leave it to Kuu to make even that look sexy.

idk if this has been posted before but previews for Driving, show girl, and joyful are up on her site.
http://rhythmzone.net/koda/info/release090128.html

Previews usually give me bad impressions..so I'll skip these ones

omfg. i love all of the previews. Driving especially. it seems like this will be an even better album than kingdom!

Driving sounded pretty good... trance from koda!

The rest are rather 'old-school' pop to me..

klnfasklfas so I caved and listened :weep

Driving LOVE ITTT
show girl this kinda sounds like Bounce, I like it though. can't wait to see the pv.
joyful don't really like this one, kinda typical.

I love all the new previews. 'Joyful' kinda reminds me of WIND.

omg!

show girl sounds awesome, driving is my favorite, and joyful is like a whole new cutie song. i like them a lot!

"Joyful" does sound like "WIND!" :yes

I'm reeeally liking "Driving!"

"Show girl" sounds interesting...

Bigger covers hell yeah! I'm loving the CD+DVD EVEN MORE now! XD

omg :heart

Driving = sounds quite good!
show girl = pure awesomeness! :heart
joyful = sounds like WIND ,but good!

in all, I love the previews...
I really wanna hear bling bling bling...

I really wish I understood why preview clips from avex using Windows Media Player never work for me.. : (

No fair!

Yeah it does! I was expecting show girl to sound like Cherry Girl but with more FLARE.... oh well :(

Boy did my interest in this album dropped. None of the previews did it for me. But then again, a lot of previews for kuu's songs are deceiving at first until the full version is released.

i really like the previews for show girl and driving. joyful sounds alright, but i'm not exactly excited for it.

I can't listen to the previews :cry

EDIT: Yay I can now.

I LOVE DRIVING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG. Now that's something cool :yes

Ok I can't listen to the other previews now.

For the upcoming HEYx3 SP Kuu and misono will go on a double date with the hosts. They are going to do things like purikura, play games etc.
http://zasshi.news.yahoo.co.jp/artic...001-the_tv-ent

this will be hilarious :laugh

^Scroll down until you see the tracklisting. Next to the songs is this windows media player icon. Press that.

These previews sound nice. I like all three actually. So far none of the songs have that ultra cute sound.

Driving: Hmmm..Its very different from what I heard before from her...quite good but the repitition is quite irritating sometimes
show girl: ehh..pop song...Its not bad too...so far...but quite pop though :S
Joyful: Joyful is...so WIND...

hmm the previews are just somewhat promising...whats with the gospel-like echos behind though...

and now I can listen to the previews xD

Didn't expect show girl to sound like that and Joyful is really very WIND-esque. I like all 3 tracks though, Driving's the best preview of the 3 <3

I listened to the previews and I really got my expections high on this new album from Kuu. I loved Driving, Joyful and show girl a lot. I loved Driving most, because it's so tranceish. :3 Like TABOO. <3

And those combined with the singles I have heard from Kuu... I think I'm gonna love this album even if that crappy That Ain't Cool is featured on the album. :3

And btw, I really adore the CD+2DVD cover. I think it's pretty artistic and not as boring as Kingdom covers were. I like. :3

omg my thoughts exactly

love the previews too

Driving: http://www.avexnet.or.jp/avexdb/koda/asx/trick_001.asx
show girl: http://www.avexnet.or.jp/avexdb/koda/asx/trick_002.asx
Joyful: http://www.avexnet.or.jp/avexdb/koda/asx/trick_003.asx

Driving sounds like a good up beat dance song! (I don't think it's trancish btw, more electro and dance).
show girl sounds like a potential good pop song.
Joyful - A Cute song, saw that coming... =P

Hopefully at least 3-4 of the new songs are urbanish. Bling Bling Bling feat. AK-69 most likely is urbanish because that's the style of AK-69.
I hope JUST THE WAY YOU ARE and Hurry Up! at least are urban songs too XD.

here are the previews on youtube

joyful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEZ_f_IIxXg
SHOW GIRL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6KhMLfOWbA
driving: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WodX6uqzAs

i really like joyful and driving! show girl... idk yet, i loved it atfirst now i will need to hear the full song.

:roflmao

All previews are just "meh" to me. I don't really like what I heard so far, but maybe the full versions will bring me on other thoughts :D
I wish SHOW GIRL was a cooler song.

:laugh That is gonna be awesome, I can't wait.

Driving is effing awesome.

It sounds very night city-ish.

omg i love those people from HEYx3 :laugh

cant wait to hear the full version of Driving :luv2 it reminds me abit of TABOO
Joyful sounds like WIND, and i love tat song so i'm sure this will be awesome too~

the previews sound pretty alright

but holey moley does she ever sound like her sister on joyful o_o

I loved all the 3 new songs, but Driving is a better one for my personal taste XD

@sora-kara: What sister? o_o

misono!! XDDD

OMG the previews are LOVE~

Driving sounds AMAZING. Reminds me of Lady Go!! I cannot wait for this.

Show Girl sounds fun and I like this one a lot too!

Joyful... isn't good at all. Lol. It's not anything as good as her other 'cute' songs like WIND and definitely not Koi no Tsubomi or With your smile.

none of the previews really sounded that good to me.

they all kinda have a cutesy feel ..

:(

^ Well I'm happy it's better than Kingdom. I don't ever even listen to anything from that album. I'm still listening to Yume no Uta, Get Up & Move!!, With your smile, and Koi no Tsubomi from Black Cherry. Lol.

See i think even Kingdom was better, (judging by previews, here) and I think that album was a train wreck imho.

well, we'll see when the full tracks come out. ^^

Driving is by far the best of the previews <3 It sort of reminds me of the TABOO preview, so hopefully, the full will be as good as TABOO. I totally didn't see pop coming with Show Girl, and idk if I like it or not. But it sounds like it'll be easy to loop, so maybe it'll be good.

Joyful's the only one I don't really care for, it's the same thing she's done time and time again with the cute songs

joyful is very nice! :yes
SHOW GIRL is AMAZING :smitten
driving is really cool :D

yup, this album is 120x better than kingdom already! i should really preorder it!