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Well, I wouldn't say that it's "obvious" since the line is "G for Gin and Tonic" (https://mojim.com/jpy102528x70x3.htm and the actual booklet), but for all the performances when she says the line, which clearly she says H for gin [...], they show a big H on the screen.
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Eh Yo debut positions:
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On iTunes it cracked the top 20 (highest yesterday #13, right now #19). Those are all the sites counted by Oricon for its digital charts. Doing better than all her songs digitally in recent years. Best was HUSH, I think, but it e.g. barely broke into the top 40 on iTunes. For streaming it's harder to tell. On Line Music it's at #29 for yesterday on the daily ranking, at #23 right now in the real time ranking. Spoiler:
Spotify is not out yet, but Spotify is not counted by Oricon or Billboard anyway. On AWA Kuu's artist plan is available for free right now and they added setlist playlists for Black Cherry and Japonesque tour, both to celebrate the new single (campaign goes till October 25, till re(LIVE) is over): https://news.awa.fm/jpn/2019/7/3/kodakumi-artistplan Let's wait for the weekly charts on Oricon. Quote:
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The new MV is coming soon according to Kuu's Insta.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/tUyUYy.png https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/UEbpLE.png https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/KYPZnN.png https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/tY0Dkl.png https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/reBixG.png That bandana mask is from the small Shibuya streetwear brand Dog. https://www.instagram.com/doghjk/ https://doghjk.thebase.in/ https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/VCvd8B.png https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/moCjsq.png https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/XPU7jP.png The big dress is Versace. |
^would be weird for Eh-Yo without the drums she used for the live. Hmm.....
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a-nation (summer2019) goods list of Kuu has been released today
This year's a-nation (summer2019) goods incorporates NINETY THREE TIL INFINITY text inside them Online preorders of the goods will start next Fri afternoon onwards https://rhythmzone.net/koda/news/detail.php?id=1074388 https://shop.mu-mo.net/avx/sv/list1/?categ_id=201703082 |
Kuu yesterday attended EXILE SHOICHI's 1st solo tour EXILE SHOKICHI LIVE TOUR 2019 UNDERDOGG at Saitama Super Arena
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The goods are interesting :laugh I am forever wanting to buy a sports towel, I think I should finally let myself have one. I like that this new one is black and white.
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9 = kyu (kuu) + 3= san but can also be read as (mi, 三)
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I don't like any of the a-nation goodies, but that's just cause they're not my cup of tea. Hoping I'll enjoy the reLIVE ones. It'd be such a great time to release photobooks/pamphlets again :heart
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IMO these goods are so fxxkin‘ ugly and boring... sorry :irked
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My problem with the goodies is that pretty much everything is black and white, which is not very summery.
Last year the design was way better. https://66.media.tumblr.com/8fbeba7b...okco1_1280.jpg |
Well you can always accessorize! you don't have to put everything at once! haha
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I don't think there's any place where you can see all of them. You can see some of them in here, which is the company who does basically all of her stuff (CD jacket, DVD, goodies and so on) since LOVE & HONEY - http://www.united-lounge.com/?page_id=16 (a-nation'11, UNIVERSE, Dejavu, Bon Voyage, JAPONESQUE, WOML Tours and Let's Party Vol 2)
I guess it's hard to track down all of them, since she usually does two for a-nation, and around 3 for each tour (two originals and one for the FC members). Also, for BSC and W FACE tour she had different design colors for different places, so yeap... Also, for those who are very disappointed with the designs, well, it could be worse: https://i.imgur.com/KglW73n.jpg A-nation'07 was pretty weird. |
Thank you for the link!
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Or only a-nation? I've collected the pics of her goods over the years, gonna add the towels at the end of this post as far as I have them. And I also tried to get my hands on all towels and shirts at some point. While shirts is not a problem, towels are - but honestly more because I don't have space to store that many at home, with enough time you can collect everything. :laugh So I gonna add photos from mine for the ones I don't have digitally. Should still some missing, but's as good as it gets I suppose. If anybody has missing ones, feel free to add! a-nation Spoiler:
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The Black Cherry goods were so ugly imo (except the FC shirt and pamphlet), but thankfully taste is nothing you can argue about as we say here in Germany and there were a lot of fans loving them. :laugh I thought about sharing all that info on a site or something, but I honestly have no time and skill for that. Maybe I can share it with somebody who has? Idk. |
I still want that Best ss one so bad!
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Oh i love the a-nation 15 one and from BSC the regular edition :luv2
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Kuu will appear on next Sat's MUSIC FAIR , alongside Tendo Yoshimi & Yamazaki Ikusaburo
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-IcUreVUAAMtqw.jpg:small https://twitter.com/MUSICFAIR_Fuji/s...37530322821120 Backshot of Kuu's hair https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-Ic1joUYAAdcoP.jpg:small https://twitter.com/MUSICFAIR_Fuji/s...12482994651141 @ Corvina - maybe you want to ask LiDaYu or others to help you ? I know how time consuming it's to consolidate years of info in a website I'm sure others will be willing to chip in to help you in anyway possible |
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2015 and 2016 had the best bunch of towels and many other goodies imo. I'm so glad i bought that giant WOML pamphlet ugh it's beyond perfect and should have been used as the album booklet as well.
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That's a monumental task for you to undertake & that's almost 2 decades worth of Kuu info you have to consolidate x_x I do hope others will step in to help you cos this wouldn't be an easy thing for you to do it alone |
Can somebody tell me the ticket on 29 Sep for both Black Cherry and Japonesque (day and night), are they available at Lawson now?
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^ Hopefully you worked things out with LiDaYu cos different people updates artistes' fansites differently & that goes for myself
And I know what you meant when you say you have so much info on Kuu scattered all over the place , especially when it never dawned on you to consolidate everything on a website until now At least it's better to be late than never to get this done & down the road , it will benefit you + others like myself in the long run Then you wouldn't need to worry what info on Kuu is from where & vice versa , you just need to click on the correct tags or entries then you already found the answer(s) to what you were looking for |
Kuu made new posts about the new MV(s), this time a different set.
She's not saying much with it, only that the style is new for her and she never tried such a ponytail before. Ah and she added a comment, that she's always wearing 20 cm heels, cause she's only 1,54 m small. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/HMNwN5.png https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/Lu6L1N.png https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/jX4RYj.png https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/23iqpb.png https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/XHNtVd.png https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/ngJVzy.png https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/t3cvtR.png https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/SFHVZI.png https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/mLPVjC.png @Karen With enough time this won't be a problem, I think. :) |
Petite Ku <3
I'm loving her instagram era. She looks so good in each picture, she looks grandiose, like a true artist! I love her. |
jpop diva on instagram its the better era q
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New digital single announced!
2nd of a series, this time a summer single called Summer Time. To be released 07/10, in 2 days! Quote:
That's probably the song the new MV is for? Btw. that release series is probably going to be 8 or 9 digital singles in total, cause there are 8 different paths inthe HTML code of the re(live) website they created. I hope they properly announce and promote this series to catch attention. |
Wow that's REALLY soon, it gives me a messy feeling rather than making me excited tbh :( Hope they manage this series properly and we have better covers for the next installments.
And tbh I can't imagine those scenes from the MV being used for a song called Summer Time, the scenarios are not that sunny and summery to me but well who knows. |
If we're getting a new single every week now, then the MV could also be for the next one. Or the one after. :laugh
They are pretty quiet about that plan, I wonder why. |
The other day I was reminiscing about the 12 singles project and how epic it was...we’ll see how this one pans out!
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Interesting to see that she's doing a new singles project. With the streaming age going on right now it's easier to do this, like Kim Petras did for her Clarity album releasing a digital single each week with the album at the end.
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Kumi and Inkbox Japan have announced a special collection/collaboration. Campaign kicks off on 7/9.
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They call Summer Time a calypso-like tune - a calypso is a routine-heavy dance/ music style with a rumba rhythm, mainly found in the Caribbean (or a traditional way of singing in West India, but I don't think that's meant here).
Excited for tomorrow! Cause of Japan being 7 hours ahead in time we will have it tomorrow (evening) already, yay! @wednesday You're welcome! <3 Hope it helps others, too. |
For Brazilian people a Calypso-like song means something so much different lmaaoooo
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^ I know, right? I was like, for a second, YAS QWEEN give us "the moon betrayed me". lol
I'm even more interested in the song now! She's finally doing a song with latin vibes. |
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I really wanted her to give us disco and I was getting that vibe with those pictures, but oh well |
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^Haha! Maybe we'll get a surprise.
Well we still have that CM she shot in June to look forward to. I'm guessing it will drop around the time the Rugby Cup starts. |
Kuu is going to perform at the big Hanabi festival at the Meiji Shinto shrine in Tokyo on August 10!
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The 10th Aug fireworks display event will take place at the Meiji Jingu Stadium , not the Meiji Shrine that's located in Tokyo's Shibuya :s
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Summer Time preview sounds amazing, it took Eh Yo a few plays to grow on me but Summer Time is instant love. ♥️ I really hope she performs Summer Time at a-nation.
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These are literally the worst covers she’s done since Come With Me.
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And yeah Eh Yo & Summer Time covers are bad :x Doesn't mean the songs are released digitally means the covers should be compromised :s |
To be fair, the covers for LIT, HUSH, and NEVER ENOUGH were far from something special.
I hadn't realized it had been 11 years since Kumi performed at the Hanabi Festival. Looking forward to seeing her set list there. |
^but at least they had some thought into it and were designed to look decent. It does not have to be special, but it could at least look good. The worst is the font in both tho.
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Knowing the top 10 covers and COME WITH ME being there, I guess they think they are doing good. I just don't care about the covers for digital releases, so keep the music coming.
I remember the last Hanabi Festival back in 2008, we had only a low quality fancam of Moon Crying's performance and it sounded so good. So nice that she's performing there again 10 years later. |
Horrible and lazy cover aside, I actually really like how the preview is sounding.
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Yeah the font used in both Eh Yo & Summer Time digital covers are terrible
It's a shame cos the photos they used of Kuu in both covers are very pretty but ah well Summer Time is already available digitally https://music.apple.com/jp/album/sum...gle/1470045610 While Eh Yo is available digitally via iTunes USA https://music.apple.com/us/album/eh-...gle/1469236291 |
Yeah, the font basically is what kills the covers... I'm afraid the next one will feature Comic Sans or Papyrus lol
But it's worth noticing this cover also had "re(CORD)" on it~ |
The re(CORD) thing has to be a hint of some kind. There is definitely something connecting the tour and these songs in regard to her next album project.
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Single is up on JPS. The song is awesome! Love it ♥ ♥ Summer summer summer summer ti--ime.
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The cover actually looks good like that:
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/SQrrfO.png Gonna use that. They could have used another pic of this shooting, though at least there is a theme. It's only digital covers anyway and as soon as the album comes out nobody will use those anymore, so I'm fine with it. Probably their thought as well. |
Queen of summer. The preview sounds quite good
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Man, the song is awesome!
Laid back, smooth and very summery! Her vocals are killing me! :heart |
Summer time is pretty! <3
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My goodness! She is serving vocals on this track. Great vibe and very smooth like Corvina mentioned.
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Just uploaded the single in iTunes Plus if anyone is interested. :D
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showth...65#post3303165 |
For the Global FC they have both previews lined as a tracklist for an album:
https://global-fc.net/kodagumi/sp/etc/eh-yo/ It has a banner with the promo picture with re(CORD) written on it. |
Reading some comments and there are some people who hear her singing 'sanma' instead of summer - sanma is the Japanese word for the mackerel pike! :laugh
Maybe there's some fish selling company out there taking this chance. :P And just out for a day and two of the temporary tattoo designs are already sold out. |
The new singles project sounds exciting! The 12 singles project was such a good time to be a fan! Looking forward to the PVs too. I haven't found her recent PVs that great (the last ones I really enjoyed were from Walk of my Life) so hoping I like these more.
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I think it's worth mentioning that the code for the 9 tracks that were in the reLIVE website was removed, and now it's just for the two new tracks. I guess it was a mistake anyway with the code being there.
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Does OTOTOY count towards Oricon? I bought both singles there, as they accept PayPal and songs are available there earlier. I encourage all the fans to buy the new songs & support the Kueen, each is only $0.99, she really needs all the support from her fanbase she can get nowadays.
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Summer Time is AMAZING!! ♥
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Summer Time is like LIT toned down a bit and mixed with HOTEL lol I like it, it probably will grow a lot on me.
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I got my copy of the FFX2 soundtrack today - I wasn't sure if YesAsia would have it in stock or if it was still in print. Looks like they have continued to reprint it as the little Kuu section has a picture of the Dreaming Now cover.
Looking forward to listening to the orchestra version of 1000 Worlds again - not heard it in years. |
Summer summer summer summmer timeeeeee *dance*
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Kuu will be performing at Ongaku no Hi 2019
Just like previous years , this year's live broadcast of Ongaku no Hi 2019 will be hosted by ex SMAP's Nakai & TBS's announcer Azumi Shinichiro 2019年7月13日（土）14:00～7月14日（日）5:00 ＜出演者＞ AI / 嵐 / E-girls / 石川さゆり / 伊原六花 / ウルフルズ / AKB48 / A.B.C-Z / エレファントカシマシ / 尾崎裕哉 / KAT-TUN / 岸谷香 / Kis-My-Ft2 / 木村カエラ / KinKi Kids / King & Prince / 倉木麻衣 / GLAY / 欅坂46 / 椎名林檎 / GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE / 島津亜矢 / ジャニーズWEST / Superfly / 鈴木雅之 / Sexy Zone / DA PUMP / TUBE / NEWS / 乃木坂46 / Perfume / 氷川きよし / ファンキー加藤 / V6 / Hey! Say! JUMP / 三浦大知 / Little Glee Monster / 渡辺美里 / WANIMA / IZ*ONE / 藍井エイル / Aqours / 足立佳奈 / アリス / 家入レオ / 内田雄馬 / HY / STU48 / エドガー・サリヴァン / Only this time / 甲斐バンド / KREVA / CHEMISTRY / 倖田來未 / ゴールデンボンバー / ゴスペラーズ / Saucy Dog / ザ・コインロッカーズ / The Super Ball / THE RAMPAGE from EXILE TRIBE / サンプラザ中野くん / SEAMO / SHISHAMO / s**t kingz / スカイピース / 鈴木愛理 / 世良公則 / Chuning Candy / D-51 / 徳永ゆうき / DRUM TAO / 中川翔子 / 西川貴教 / nobodyknows＋ / HOWL BE QUIET / BALLISTIK BOYZ from EXILE TRIBE / HAN-KUN / 日向坂46 / フェアリーズ / BLUE ENCOUNT / BREAKERZ / フレンズ / FLOW / ふわふわ / MAX / 眉村ちあき / 三浦祐太朗 / 水樹奈々 / 宮本浩次 / milet / miwa / モーニング娘。'19 / 山本彩 / UNIONE / よよか / 緑黄色社会 / wacci 司会：中居正広 / 安住紳一郎（TBSアナウンサー） 合唱企画・指揮：ビートたけし https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_LH4MrUYAAKM6p.jpg https://twitter.com/TBS_awards/statu...21937572302848 https://natalie.mu/music/news/339339 Kuu will perform Cutie Honey at Ongaku no Hi 2019 |
The theme of this Ongaku no Hi this year is 'sweat' and Kuu is going to be part of the 'scorching heat' medley, starting this medley with Cutie Honey.
I guess there is a possibility though that she will have more than one performance, it's live after all. But that means she will appear in two different programmes on two different channels on the same day. That's almost like back on her peak. :P Her inkbox collection is almost completely sold out now, only a few copies left of two of the designs. |
That's possible cos her website didn't mention will she be performing at Ongaku no Hi just the 1st or 2nd parts if not both
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