lol God knows what she was thinking while writing Grab Bag :laugh

Well, perhaps she knows that she is talking nonsense, but doesn't care because she is in Japan?

In any case, her pronunciation was very very good in True Colors! I wish I knew how to make audio rips so I could listen to it too... There are some websites that you upload a video and they'll rip it for you, but it turn out being pretty MQ.

Really? You think her pronunciation in Grab Bag is fine? I couldn't understand a word of what she said the first few times I listened to it ...

Guess we have to agree to disagree then : P

I can understand her fine, even if it makes no sense. I had the opening lines right before I even read the lyrics, lol. I can see how other people couldn't, though.

Perhaps after some time Engrish actually becomes an actual, understandable language to some :P

Well, it makes sense that Grab Bag is random like that. You guys KNOW what a grab bag IS, right? :) It's just a bunch of random stuff put together. You never really know what you're gonna get. :yes

That is true. But the English is... extremely random. I still love it though.

I think it does, actually. After years of listening to Kuu and other artists I feel like I can pick out most stuff...


Anyway, does anyone like Kana's song BRAVE HEART that she's featured on? I rarely see anyone talk about it here, and it's really good!

^ I was thinking that the other day! BRAVE HEART is such a good song. Sono omoi wo kanji te ru, futari issho nara tsuyoku nareru~

I love BRAVE HESRT but I never knew where I could go to download it... : /

I will upload it for you if you want. :yes

that would be awesome ero :heart

http://www.mediafire.com/?74z3z7hbdz03wt5

Enjoy :heart

omg thank you so much :luv2!!!

Yeah, BRAVE HEART is really good :heart It's one of my favorite songs of her

Is it bad that I'm already anticipating a new single? xD

YAY my friend ! I'm not alone anymore !

I bet that there will be one in Nov/Dec or something

BRAVE HEART is an amazing song. Like wow it's amazing. I fell in love with it but totally forgot all about it till now LOL. Whoops.

Yeah, an answer song (or something like that) would be so great !

Does she say "I'm like a knife" in Grab Bag?

Yep.

LOL Just making sure I wasn't mishearing anything.

Me too, probably a ballad for december :yes

No it's too far ! I'd love a single project, like alan did. 4 singles in 4 months for example. Well, just wanted to say it XD But I guess it's not too bad if the single is around December, 'cause if people see her too much, they'd be pissed off. So it's ok I guess.

now all I want from her is LIVE DVD in September / October

oh my God. I need to go look up the lyrics for Grab Bag now.

And I hope she gets to rest.. she looks incredibly tired most of the time... so yeah. Maybe a few months of break after her concert in September and comeback with a bang in 2011 xD

At least it actually sounds like knife. I was watching this TV show where they went around the streets of Shibuya asking people how to pronounce words in English. One poor manba gyaru (who was most likely a high school dropout) got the word 'knife'. She was pronouncing it KIN-fé. So hilarious.

LOL i saw that too!

A december single would be nice, something christmasy~

Is it sad that the fact that you saw it too makes me really happy? :P

I want an Autumn single :P

It was the show where they went around with those cards with english on them right?

The kin-fe was the only one I remember though.

New blog post. Not much special.

the scenery is breathtaking *__* thank u tenshi for translating~

10 Nishino Kana to LOVE 14,120

Total Reported Sales: 563,841*

OMG totally forgot about it, I was focused on "if" XD Thanks !

she's about 6k short to surpass PAST < FUTURE amirite? it looks bleak to get #1 album of 2010 since ARASHI is.. yeah.: /

Anyone get the yearly albums Top 10/Top 50 please ?

I don't have the full list with me, but I remember that

#1 ARASHI's new album last week
#2 Funky Monkey Beat's best of album
#3 Namie's PAST < FUTURE
#4 to LOVE

Ok thanks ! I think it's amazin' for her to sell 14k for the 7th week !

yeah she's still selling really steadily... hope it will do super well! :D

It's Babys, lol!

Sucks that she's not getting a yearly. I had such high hopes.

Yeah! Same, I only remember the gyaru part, but that was the only part I actually cared about :P

I think Kana has a good chance of over taking Namie. She is still selling pretty well.

If Arashi releases something, no chance to get the 1

They already did and it sold more than to LOVE has sold until now in one week.

:dead No chance anymore. Top 5 yearly is still excellent.

Why the japanese people love FMB album?
Kana can be the no.2

Yeah that's why we need the yearly top 10 sales, can't find on JPS, dunno where it is... This way we would be able to check it out.

I love her hair in the first one. The 3rd one is kinda creepy though (imo) XD

She doesn't look like herself on the 3rd one.

the 3rd scan is beyond hideous. what's with her eyes O___O

photoshop much :/

a bit of off topic here, waterballoon, are you watching the YOG opening ceremony? :x

^ I'm not, but I heard it's horrible :laugh

people are criticising it too much. I thought it was still not bad :/

xDD I usually have 0 expectations for such things so I wouldn't get a rude shock lol

and oh btw, for Singaporean fans reading this, the Japan press of "if" is available at HMV, going for $24.95... it's the first time they're bringing in any Kana stuff, so I'm reli proud :D

thanks for scans.
omg I agree for the 3rd pic. O.o

2010 Yearly Chart Ranking ～08/16

Top 10 Albums

*1 *,730,851 730,851 僕の見ている風景 / 嵐 10/08/04
*2 *,574,540 **3,649 ファンキーモンキーベイビーズBEST / FUNKY MONKEY BABYS 10/02/10
*3 *,571,839 ***,704 PAST<FUTURE / 安室奈美恵 09/12/16
*4 *,563,841 *14,120 to LOVE / 西野カナ 10/06/23
*5 *,559,319 ***,749 BEST SELECTION 2010 / 東方神起 10/02/17
*6 *,545,659 **1,972 ハジマリノウタ / いきものがかり 09/12/23
*7 *,460,097 ***,778 5years / 木村カエラ 10/02/03
*8 *,441,790 **4,491 FANTASY / EXILE 10/06/09
*9 *,400,737 **1,908 神曲たち / AKB48 10/04/07
10 *,384,576 ***,728 愛すべき未来へ / EXILE 09/12/02 累計1,281,671

Hmm...Kana has chance of beating Funky Monkey Babys :D

kana reminds me a bit of kumi in that photoshoot. maybe it's the hair color and facial expression :P

^ she certainly has... hope she does!!

Of course she will <3

well, mit seems that their fanbase are more from guys and mans... my boss(he's 41 years old) and likes FMB, and i think his friends too....then THESE are the people who tend to buy the cd, which add to the physical sales.

finally??? (>_<) they are sooo late~~~~~~~

the kana fandom should have been spread earlier!

Oh well, i had already told my boss to help me buy the single(along with Alan's kaze ni mukau hana), since he just went back to Tokyo for meeting last week~~~ now i'm waiting for him to call me and tell me to go to the office to get it from him. (*^_^*)

2, 3, 4, 5 are pretty neck and neck! She certainly does have a chance at #2 (so far).

"if" is #7 today, and "to LOVE" is #8. I think "to LOVE" is gonna sell 10k for the week and pass over Namie <3

what to LOVE is still in the Top 10? omfgggg

So are we thinking that by the end of this week she will over take Namie?

It sold ANOTHER 15k this week. She just keeps on going, lol!

she has outsold Namie anyway and will outsell FMB next week

*1 856,038 125,187 嵐 僕の見ている風景
*2 579,839 **5,299 FUNKY MONKEY BABYS ﾌｧﾝｷｰﾓﾝｷｰﾍﾞｲﾋﾞｰｽﾞBEST
*3 579,764 *15,923 西野カナ to LOVE
*4 572,651 ***,812 安室奈美恵 PAST<FUTURE

omfg you go gurl! Show 'em how it's done!

I am pretty sure that It wont stop selling so she will have strong 2nd postion ;D

poor she wont be #1 yearly

if it wasnt for arashi, she would've got first this year :)

I'm soooo happy for her!! :D thanks for the info

Before Utada made her announcement, I would've confidently said that she'd at least have no. 1 yearly for female soloists, but that seems to be out of the question as well.

At least no. 1 female soloist studio album? XD. (Let's hope Superfly doesn't release an album that is even more succesful than her last one...)

I hope utada's single collection album flop so she'll be #1 for soloist.. hahaha

I'm sure Utada Hikaru SINGLE COLLECTION VOL.2 will sell like hotcakes, ngl. But yeah at least Kana will have #1 selling female studio album lol.

Haha, never going to happen though.

most likely yeah. ha. dunno why Japanese like best compilation album.

utada + best of album = $$$

omg lol she's selling so so well!!!! :D

And bleh, whatever about Utada.. at least she's gonna be #1 female solo original studio album <3

Congrats to her. I liked her one song more than Namie's entire album. No need to worry about Utada either. It takes her about 2 years to announce something....x-amount of months to delay it....and probably another year to actually release it :rolleyes but i still love her

she deserved to outsell Namie :) i'm so freakin' happy! she is truly the queen and ayumi hamasaki, koda kumi, and namie amuros' careers are slipping further and further. hahaha. they've been in the business for a long time and kana is just starting and shredding them to pieces! love it

Haha, yeah, it's always nice to see other artist failing! Because Kana's second album outselling their albums totally means she's shredding them to pieces!

I love her, but she isn't the queen by a long shot. First I'd like her to get a no. 1 single and her next album to do just as well if not better. THEN we can talk queen.

You are sooooo cool. :rolleyes

yay @ outselling namie *_*!!

Great, bye bye Monkey faces !!!!!!
I hope she can get a No.1 single soon

this girl is dope, I cant stop listenin' to LOVE in my mp3 player while goin' out or sleepin' lol. My top 5 of her tracks would be:

1. 遠くても feat. WISE (this will always be my fav track by her, its EPIC)
2. Best Friend
3. 会いたくて 会いたくて
4. love & smile
5. WRONG

I usually hate songs like WRONG but its epic when kana is singing

遠くても feat. WISE will always be special to me, it was the first Kana song I ever heard, ever. Heard on the J1FMTOP40, an online radio station. I've gotten into a lot of different artists from there actually, including UVERworld, jasmine, BINECKS, the HIATUS and probably a few others.

my fav jam from her now is Aitakute Aitakute, WRONG, MAKE UP & Beautiful :heart

Kimi ni Aitaku Naru Kara was my first song, so that'll always be my all-time favorite <3 I also really like candy, Dear..., Grab Bag, and Stamp.

Kimi ni Aitaku Naru Kara and glowly days <3! There'll never be a day I'll get sick of them.
Konya wa PARTY, Tookute mo, and Motto... are damn awesome as well.

Here's more scans ^^

Anecan December 2009
http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/9245/361g.th.jpg

Ray September 2010
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/7884/107bib.th.jpghttp://img31.imageshack.us/img31/6870/108ma.th.jpghttp://img651.imageshack.us/img651/4057/109ju.th.jpghttp://img256.imageshack.us/img256/1875/110pl.th.jpghttp://img710.imageshack.us/img710/663/111ne.th.jpghttp://img34.imageshack.us/img34/2614/112rm.th.jpghttp://img685.imageshack.us/img685/9285/113hn.th.jpghttp://img828.imageshack.us/img828/4011/114wk.th.jpg

Ray August 2010
http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/4808/046yxk.th.jpghttp://img535.imageshack.us/img535/5967/047qe.th.jpghttp://img443.imageshack.us/img443/5619/217fq.th.jpg

CUTiE July 2010
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/2043/052vn.th.jpghttp://img805.imageshack.us/img805/1639/053cq.th.jpg

Thank you for the scans! I love them!

Oh wow, those are a lot of scans! They're very nice! Thank you for posting them!

thanks yum for the scans! Wow I kinda miss her older hair lol

A couple of those scans are cute but I dislike her expression in a lot of them.
My favorite Kana song is still Best Friend :yes Just everything about that song is perfection to me. Beautiful is my second favorite.

^ yup ia the dead doll look is not my fav expression.. Ayu does a lot too & it's ugh frustrating to even look at :laugh

True. It's not really a good look on anyone most of the time but I mean there's doing it in moderation and then there's doing it in the majority of your pictures to the point where it's annoying and that's what I think Kana is doing. I'd prefer her to smile more.

Well yeah but I guess Kana is going for the gyaru look which is... this dead doll face (I think)? It's unflattering imo, but I doubt she'd stop doing it until she has an image change or something lol

Oh btw, does anyone know what's the shade of her hair color in the Aitakute Aitakute/to LOVE covers? I think I'm gonna dye my hair to that color or a similar shade :yes

Thanks for the scans~

For a while we were booming with news and now it's pretty quiet. Impatience, and unnecessary impatience since Kana's released 3 singles and an album in just the past half year. xD

I love Come On Yes Yes On Yeah!! like.... an unhealthy amount. The beginning is just to damn funny/catchy/cool. And the rest of it is just perfection. Def my fav Kana song.