Ayumi Hamasaki Sekai - [Koda Kumi] Fans are getting SO much FEVER in The 171st Thread

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SO FEVER, kimi omoi, NEVER GIVE IT UP etc. are the usual clichés she'd have put out 10 years ago. I can definitely see why they didn't release them traditionally. Not to mention they're all demo quality at best. HOTEL is pretty middle-of-the-road for me, but aside from the ballad they at the very least aren't total clones of songs she's released before lol

Also i really am not "buying" all the sexy crap she does, it simply does nothing for me, i think one of the reasons i enjoyed Bon Voyage was that it wasn't anything of the sexy side but more like "cool" "quirky". I think it suits her. There's way too much sexy these days anyways lol

I think the quality of the Legend Live songs/videos suited what they were being used for. And I think So Fever was really good. I love Kuu's brand of sexy. I used to think it was gross and trying too hard, like every other Western act. Until I realized that she's actually quite unique in Japan, as her kind of sexy isn't really seen as sexy. She doesn't fit that lolicon look Japan has a hard on for. Rebel Kuu!

I also think there is a "demo-ish" sound on the LEGEND LIVE songs, like even tho I adore SO FEVER I also think it misses a bit of a bass or something more on the instrumental, it sounds pretty bland when she's not singing or moaning during some parts.

Also talking on LEGEND LIVE, do you guys know if there was a photobook alongside the promo CD+DVD they distributed during that event? Her shoots for the Pachinko machines are always amazing, but I've seen just two or three different pics of this edition and just one (which is in the first post of thread) in HQ...

No, there isn`t a photobook, just a big flyer.
Guess the exclusive songs and all those goodies (scarf, wine) were expensive enough. ;)

I don`t think, Kimi Omoi and NEVER GIVE IT UP sound like demos.
I actually think both are really well produced. I agree with SO FEVER though.
It`s nice to listen to, but there is something missing. Could be so much more addicting.

Oh my, I just love NEVER GIVE IT UP so much, song and PV! <3

I still find all three new PVs awesome. I got nothing bad to say about those. :p

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Originally Posted by kaled kalil (Post 3094886)

She'll be at the a-nation next week, I hope we get a good setlist, I can't deal with the festival setlist that she's doing lately (BE MY BABY / Bling Bling Bling / UNIVERSE).

lately? it's been like FOREVER since the last event she held. this summer felt incomplete without kuu promoting :weep as if japan didnt' exist for me

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Originally Posted by Beauty4123 (Post 3095085)

I absolutely loved each moment of the "Kimi Omoi" PV! It was so beautiful. :heart

Kuu looked gorgeous in the PV, from start to finish! :heart The song itself is such a lovely ballad & I positively love it. :) :heart

I KNOW RIGHT!?! I just cant stop listening(and watch) to this flawlessness

rough translation thanks to mishidabo:

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I'm waiting for her to do a best album of just her generic sounding ballads. kimi omoi can be the lead single.

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Originally Posted by kaled kalil (Post 3094886)

And about HOTEL's "freshness", Kuu doesn't have a song like that; midtempo, yes she does, but a midtempo that is half talking and half singing, not at all.
Btw I just can't see MONEY IN MY BAG being a Bling Bling Bling ~to the future~ as people are saying, it's a dance track and not trying-to-be-hip-hop-but-even-Kuu-knows-that-the-song-doesn't-have-a-defined-style-so-she-sings-a-rockish-version.

*high five*

I agree with the 'money is my bling' thing people are pulling together. Totally get where they're coming from with the comparison, but it doesn't really stand up all that well at the same time.

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Originally Posted by sora-kara (Post 3095281)

Honestly, I feel like the second that an artist who dabbles in many genres, such as Kuu, "recycles" a genre they all get compared and accused of being the "same old". Despite that there are many artists who only make one genre of music.

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Originally Posted by happiholic★ (Post 3095306)

Lol, what kind of genre would you even classify Bling Bling Bling and MONEY IN MY BAG as. For me, it's classified as?

MONEY IN MY BAG - Patty-cake trash can
Bling Bling Bling - ghetto-style clown music

Thank God for the DH remix of Bling though - that version is WICKED!

How about just calling them urban pop if you want to classify those songs? I just call them that and that's all. :p

MONEY IN MY BAG is kinda of urban electro-pop and Blingx3 is hip-pop imo.

I'm waiting for Kuu doing a song that is 100% electro-pop, like Namie's Ballerina.

But urban pop would be ima sugo hoshii, amai wana, candy, get it on, black cherry, etc.

Bling and MONEY are too obscure and horrible to just be classified as such.

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Originally Posted by Zeke. (Post 3095398)

But urban pop would be ima sugo hoshii, amai wana, candy, get it on, black cherry, etc.

Bling and MONEY are too obscure and horrible to just be classified as such.

Those are literally some of her best, need more of them

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Originally Posted by kaled kalil (Post 3095395)

I'm waiting for Kuu doing a song that is 100% electro-pop, like Namie's Ballerina.

Ballerina is a genre called "Complextro". Electropop is like Kyaripamyupamyu, capsule, and Perfume.

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Originally Posted by Zeke. (Post 3095398)

But urban pop would be ima sugo hoshii, amai wana, candy, get it on, black cherry, etc.

Bling and MONEY are too obscure and horrible to just be classified as such.

I don't view ima sugo hoshii as urban pop, but the rest I do.

(She needs more songs like this)

Since I don't think Hotel was ever shared here in 320kbps, I uploaded it to my SoundCloud to for those of you still waiting!

https://soundcloud.com/lovelipkisses/sets/hotel

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Originally Posted by Zahara (Post 3095428)

I don't view ima sugo hoshii as urban pop, but the rest I do.

(She needs more songs like this)

Ok r&b then for ima