The 155th Thread – New Single 「恋しくて」 (12.26)
 

Koda Kumi
The 155th Thread

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Stage Name: Koda Kumi / 倖田來未
Real Name: Kouda Kumiko / 神田來未子
Birthdate: 13 November 1982 (Showa 57)
Blood Type: A
Hometown: Kyoto

Hobbies: Shopping, Goods.
Favorite Sport: Squash
Favorite Type of Music: Hip Hop
Favorite Dish to Cook: Niku Jaga (Beef and Potatoes)
Favorite Saying: Ikkai ichi e (Once in a lifetime chance)
Favorite Colors: Purple and green
Favorite Season: Summer
Favorite DVD: Haneru no tobira
Favorite Brands: D&G and H・A・K
Favorite Food: Okonomiyaki, 100% Fruit Juice, Perrier
Favorite Japanese Artists: Toshinori Yonekura, Sukima Switch
Favorite Western Artists: Christina Aguilera, Nelly, Pink, Pharrell Williams
Something She Can't Be Without: Love
Favorite Part of Her Own Body: The "kori kori" of her waist.
Something Often Unexpected: 'No smoking & no alcohol'
Something Unacceptable: Lies and deception
Special Ability: To be able to talk until her voice goes hoarse.


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Credits: FinalFayth, Kingdom, Corvina, do it again, Cherrim, George.

from previous thread :

Yinyuetai isn't working for me today it seems. It just kept loading and loading but nothing happened. :< I wonder why it happens to me all the time. Why doesn't that site work properly with me? ;_;

lol this is amusing to me

The video aint working here as well :(

But there is this KODA KUMI X FANCAM link they posted on her facebook:
http://fancam.com/music/kumikoda/20121113/

^ yeah~ it took time for the cameraman to take the 360 degrees panorama..
and yeah.. i can see ME there XD XD so happy!

the dance songs part was the best.. The intro, POP DIVA remix, TABOO remix were awesome :heart

^ Stop making me envy you :laugh btw which TABOO remix did they play, the Beach Mix or the single one?

It was pain in my butt to download that site but it was worth it. Awesome, HQ panorama omg♥ I was wondering what the stage looks in close view and now I saw it. It's a lot bigger than I thought. I also noticed a live band there, which is great. I think this stage looks the best out of the ones J-Pop singers has been using. Kuu's stage doesn't look so high, and there's more space too. I love that so much♥

That is so awesome! She looks awesome btw.

here is another link if you want:

https://vimeo.com/53494535
password: ilovekuu

ah, I can enter the link now. it is AWESOME! hope they do that for her next tours too. lucky ppl

http://i.imgur.com/cb5oM.png

http://i.imgur.com/eS0Hl.png

took forever to load, but that is an amazing photo~

Damn, this is the best Go to the top performance for sure. She performed all songs w/band too. And her Koishikute vocals were amazing. I need this on Blu-ray. Now.

Does anyone know how do I download that video BTW. I switched to Chrome form FireFox and no longer can download streamed vids.

THat is AMAZING! the picture is amazing!!!

When she was singing Koishikute I swear I thought she was singing another of her songs. I just find this song too generic. I can't get into it.

for those who are interrested im uploading all the scans of the magazines where she appeared here http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=116047

ballad sounds cute, but a little generic. she looks like a doll in the PV though.

Got my order from CD Japan today, w/ Go to the top [Total Eclipse Edition]. Length of the video on DVD. Approximately 1 minute. What a waste of money. No really. One minute.

That's cool, thanks. Can you possibly create torrent file like someone did w/Ayu's magazines? Or upload them in .rar.

One minute on the DVD?? Wtf! lol

Cool thread I'm lovin' the pic you made for the header

I remember it was beach mix version.. but somehow it was waaaay cooler when she performed it on stage.. plus all those lights and effects.. just like being in the dance club!!

Oh, that's amazing, I can almost imagine it :tipsy Thanks for this info, I like that remix (:

I wonder if the POP DIVA remix was from Beach Mix or DH3... It sounds like it could be the DJ VIRMAN remix but I'm not sure because it's been a while since I listened to DH3 last time. XD

Thank you for this link. Vimeo always works the best for me omg~ ♥ I really loved this video. She sounds great here. And if she's going to use live band for the whole live, then it's gonna be the most epic thing ever made because Kuu with a live band is always the best haha. :D

And listening to a mp3 version of Black Cherry Tour is so amazing. I also remember what every performance looks like though I've only seen this concert just once in 2008. I seriously need to watch this again. ._.

ahh she looks so cute :)

POP DIVA sounds like the first remix of DH3 :)

Do you guys think that, if the new Arena Tour is the JAPONESQUE one, she'll sing all the 20 songs from that era, plus WWO? / Go to the top / darling / Koishikute / Alone?
I can't really imagine a setlist for this tour, it's a lot of material going on XD

I hope she doesn't do a ton of medleys to fit every song

off Japonesque, I could live without seeing Everyday,Slow and In the Air live

and WWO too

but I am also excited to see the set list, her last two tours were quite ballad heavy so I hope this one has less

As long as So Nice, Escalate and Lay Down are in the setlist as full songs I'm a happt stan :D

I'm just so happy that the Tokyo dates are in March already, so no problems to go for me and my friends, yay!!
Flo, finally! :heart

From the FC blog:

http://i49.tinypic.com/2m6ojya.jpg

http://i46.tinypic.com/tahueu.jpg

http://i50.tinypic.com/eja1x3.jpg

The little girl was one of the fans waiting for Kuu outside.
Cute! :)

^Aw the little girl is so cute! Love that picture :heart

I wonder if we get a calendar for next year?
I want one!

^ the first 9 months will be one of every month of pregnancy, then the last 3 will be nude mom/baby/husband photos. :)

^:laugh Please, let this be true.

YAAAAY JAPONESQUE TOUR! :D

:laugh

Decolog Paper inside pics!

http://imageshack.us/a/img838/9344/deco6u.jpghttp://imageshack.us/a/img594/138/deco5.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img690/1623/deco4.jpghttp://imageshack.us/a/img651/2070/deco3.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img855/8048/deco2y.jpghttp://imageshack.us/a/img59/4664/decop.jpg

Big thanks to LiDaYu @ JPC

Oh, the last pic is superb :heart Cant wait for the scans

HOT DIGGITY DAMN :love

WANT SCANS OMGAWD...SHE'S AMAZING IN THOSE

i really love the first 2 and the last 2 xD she looks awesome!

the third, fourth, and fifth pictures are absolutely gorgeous! :heart

She looks amazing :heart

her fashion is so superb lately I just can't~ :luv2

and the pics are so sexy, pure greatness :)

forever biased against contact lenses

but the first one is my favourite, overall love them~

^Do you mean that as in you love them or hate them? :D

Koishikute Make-up tutorial:

hate :no

but her poses make up for it, I really dislike contacts that make your eyes look bigger like circle lenses

only person I love with contacts is Mika Nakashima because she does it very well beside her especially Ayu do not like:tired

Well, I was bored today and decided to do a BEST album with only dance and hot songs, and that's what it came out:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8201/8...5aa86c77_m.jpg

Koda Kumi new BEST album: BRING THE ACTION
Release date: 11.14.2012

Tracklist:
CD 1
1. INTRODUCTION to ~BRING THE ACTION~ [sample: will.i.am's Scream & Shout]
2. TABOO
3. BE MY BABY
4. ECSTASY
5. Cherry Girl
6. ESCALATE
7. Crazy 4 U
8. Get Up & Move!!
9. Love Me Back
10. Lollipop
11. BUT
12. AT THE WEEKEND
13. Lay Down
14. Step Into My World
15. Black Cherry
16. Physical thing
17. V.I.P.
18. POP DIVA
19. UNIVERSE

CD 2
20. Make It Bump (Far East Movement feat Koda Kumi)
21. Trust you
22. Under
23. SHAKE IT
24. Amai wana
25. Get it On
26. So Nice feat. Mr. Blistah
27. Candy feat. Mr. Blistah
28. KO-SO-KO-SO
29. Break it down
30. D.D.D. feat.SOULHEAD
31. JUICY
32. Rock your body
33. NO TRICKS
34. Bounce
35. Driving
36. Stands Up (Clench & Blistah feat. Koda Kumi)

Hope you guys like it! :D

that cover is so damn gorgeous *___*

I love the face and I do like the introduction~

well done~

^^ OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG :thud U SCARED THE HELL OUTTAA MEEE :thud *scared to death* I WAS LIKE NO NO NO KUU FOR GODS SAKE USING OLD PHOTOS FOR YOUR BEST . lol :laugh but i realized you made that up . the cover is so mysterious and amazing i love it :luv2 ITS GENIUS WHENEVER I LOOK AT IT :heart . The tracklist are nice also <3

My thoughts exactly (maybe except Slow)

I'm a fan of Kumi but I didn't like JAPONESQUE a lot, and I'm afraid of seeing her performing the songs I liked. I mean, I REALLY LOVE Hey baby! but the perf on Dejavu Tour was soooooooooooo terrible.

And I also think Kumi shouldn't do medleys. She doesn't know how to do them. The only decent medley she has ever done was the one present in Dream Music Park. That was SUPERB!

Anyways, waiting for a Love Technique perf ♥

That's fair enough :D I love contacts but that's just cause I personally really like how they look, and I'm really into dolly gyaru style. :) But I can completely understand why someone would dislike them. I wore Candy King Size Brown for Halloween and I creeped my friends out because my eyes were so big. :laugh

kaled---> ove your cover ,wish she used it .its so gorgeous

for those who are interrested i m uploading all her lives and event pics included some of her old (and rare ? ) ones http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=116158

^Thank you, Gothicayu! :D

Amazing cover and tracklist, kaled, a pitty i cant hear the intro now ):

LOL for a moment...i tot that was real XD

Once again you did an awesome job! ^-^you should work in her team! hahaha love the intro and the cover!

Avex should definitely hire kaled into their graphic team. He's work is so awesome I can't even... It's just so wow. :D

Btw, I also thought the best was real. :thud

And thanks for gothicayu of those live photos. There's so many pics that I haven't even seen before♥

That cover is amazing Kaled! love the use of difference, gives a really mysterious feel.

the cover is superb :)

I'm not a fan of contacts like these geo circle lenses or smth, but the ones that look natural and are just for the change of colour - they are usually good.

and yes, I guess Mika is the best example of how to use lenses appropriately.

I love/hate lens on the Kuu. she needs to promote her new product, like Ayu did for a while, but they both do not look that good in them, but more like - weird

I used to be a big fan of contact lenses and used them for years. Then one day I was like "My eyes are better". But, I guess that's because my eyes are so brown they are black, and my eyes are pretty big, so I look like I'm kinda already wearing them. But, once I stopped liking contacts on myself I stopped liking them on other people, too. Ayu looks scary, Kuu looks odd.

EDIT: Holy nails! Has anyone else taken a look at her talons in this photoshoot?

Wish Kumi would use her natural eye color & natural hair color... Looks the best on her!

*cries* kuu y u so superb

I saw the cover for the new Nail Venus today but now I can't find it asides from here (thanks to Outside Fishbowl on Tumblr...That's you, Kaled, right?):

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md...eokpo4_250.jpg

Beautiful. :love I love it.

S&M theme? Haha She looks hot. I must say I like this hair from time to time. Like in Koishikute PV (Generasia states that it means Darling in Japanese) she looks so stunning in that white dress, so even hair looks amazing.

2000 more copies and Go to the top will reach 70 000. 4 TIMES was four a-side single and sold 74 000 and Got to the top is one a-side single. From what I know anime isn't that popular either, unlike Tales of Xillia 2 for example. Means people liked the song or really wanted to see her back on the stage. Tho why should anyone be surprised. Kumi is da Queen.

love love lovee this encore outfit. hope she keeps it until the last date which will be filmed for the DVD/Blu-ray I guess
amazing magazine shots! :luv2

Koishikute FC bonuses:

KodaGumi clearfile
http://i.imgur.com/MQ9dq.jpg

KodaGumi/playroom photocard set
http://i.imgur.com/7KPQD.jpg

credits: official site, ilovekuu

:heart She looks so amazing. Really beautiful!

I love that encore outfit too. also, Kuu sold more with a-side single than Ayu with her mini-album, maybe it means that yeah, people missed her a bit. or maybe her fanbase did well that time

that and there was actual promotion...just see the number of lives and magazines. kuu put herself out there so that helped too

Kuu is the Queen of everything I can think of♥

Gorgeous! :love

Yeap, it's me XD

The original cover:

http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/w...lvenus0113.jpg

Pretty cover, love her hair :love

Oh, the first pic is pretty, I hope we get it bigger later :D

lol i just realized that kuu and i have the exact same hairstyle -- the shaved on the side part, anyway. always knew the girl had style ;)

wow that top picture is gorgeous indeed. wish it was one of the covers.

btw does anyone have MP4 versions of Got to the top & Koishikute PV? I need them on my phone and I won't be buying CD+DVD versions anytime soon, to convert them myself. Domo.

Premium Night~Love & Songs~CDTV

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDc2NTUxMzky.html


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sob, wish I was that girl being sung to by Kumi

love when she does that and Nail Venus cover is awesome

awwwwww ;_______________;

http://imageftw.com/uploads/20121119/3crykumi.gif

this show looked like it was awesomeness overload! wish it was the one filmed for the dvd

vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/53778076
password: ilovekuu

Oooohhh, her face when she saw the giant cake hahahahaha :heart So adorable

The outfits look better in the video, mainly the mermaid dress, HER HAIR IS OUT OF THIS WORLD AND HER CURVES DAAAMMMNNN

Please release it as the second DVD on her next album so I wont have to buy it separately :innocent

^Agree so much with that last sentence!

I NEED the DAMN DVD in my life like, N-O-W! :love

I love the whole thing even though I've just seen some previews. Same happened with Black Cherry Tour, too! 8D

that Kuuteness :)

^YES! I really hope it's the second DVD on the new album, too.
And her face was so cute when she saw that cake! She looked so nervous going up like "What's going on!? 0_0" hahahaha so cute for her staff to do that <3

NAL VENUS bigger cover!

http://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...35784016_n.jpg

Looks even more gorgeous in big :love

:thud

Kenji is the luckiest guy in the world

I feel like her hair is a bit too soft for the edgy look she's going for in that picture, so I think that kind of keeps me from loving the picture, but I think the rest of the look is great. (it also looks kind of...mature) And her nails look really cool! especially the spiral design.

Oh god, this is so awesome in bigger size♥

She don't look like her on this picture even if she is beautiful !

No preview for Alone yet? I'm curious on the arrangement of it...

She's slaying with them magazine covers right now. Her look this era has been amazing so far.

this is one of the random things i love about kuu: she's an "ugly" crier. to me that makes it more authentic -- she's not trying to hide any emotion, or beautify herself up constantly.

mte

Dejavu had the best deal, hopefully her next one is like that too

also same video safe a few changes from ZIP

Yeah, when it was announced I pre-orded it just cause of Dream music park, I was not that much into the singles and everything else [except for Suki de <3] but in the end I enjoyed the whole album :laugh

Two TV reports on Premium Night already... I wonder if the show for the DVD was recorded on her birthday? I'd love if so :)

^That would be awesome if it was! It seems like final DVD footage is what they are showing. It would be perfect since her comeback live was started around her birthday deliberately, and I want to see her reaction on DVD from that cake again, hahaha. :D

oh I love that actually.

For me...it's something that fits together. But that's just, my personality lol

Has the PV for the new song aired yet?

^yes, it has. download it in HD and you will faint of flawlessness. XD

by kaled:
http://i.imgur.com/GSGOX.gif
http://i.imgur.com/80Tnp.gif

japonesque theme?
was it photoshopped or is it really how the show ended...
IDK, watched it 1 time since I'm planning on buying it later

^YES getting it now! :)

Didn't this woman have a kid? How the heck does she look so flawless?

She looks fantastic in the PV, but I can't seem to get into the song. damn, I was hoping to like a ballad of hers again!

Kingdom is such a flawless album :luv2

Ooh, that certainly looks JAPONESQUE like :D I am so excited to see her JAPONESQUE show, it's going to be flawless!

guys new decolog paper scans previews are up at peeproom!
go & take a look!

Awww, someone posted a sweet message about peeproom being a big family and thanking the staff and kuu for making it, so fans from all over can communicate, and Kuu liked it. so cute <3

for me it is love and hate :P

I love love love some of the album tracks like Aishou and BUT but despise others like FREAKY and Last Angel

lmao, all around it is like middle of the road album for me

for Kuu it is early albums great (Affection ,Grow into One ,Feel My Mind , Secret) ~ middle albums not so great bordeline don't like (Black Cherry, Kingdom ,Trick, Universe)~ later albums amazing (Dejavu, Japonesque)

but my mind always changes, Best Second Session remains the Queen tho, her best album that isn't an album but is an album

like is it officially a BEST album, anyway