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203rd Thread - Still celebrating her 20th year
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New thread since last one was locked.
What you guys think it would be a cool trend or style of music that Kumi could dip into for the next release? With the comeback of disco inspired tracks, I think it would be a nice style for her. I'm a little over the trap style so it would be a nice change. |
Thanks for making the new thread, Kaled!
I'd also looove Kumi to go retro for a release, ever since f(x)'s 4 Walls and Wonder Girls' I Feel You, buuuut I don't know, it doesn't sound like what she's into lately. It doesn't seem like these songs are hits in Japan as well, which could influence her. Maybe Gaga will make Kuu want to do a song or two in a dance-disco-ish style but I wouldn't have much faith on that :( |
Kuu is working in the studio now, while always keeping social distance.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/RdEhh0.png From her manager's Insta Back-On did a live streaming of a no-audience concert this weekend. Tohoshinki did one not too long ago as well even with dancers. Maybe this might be a way to do something for her 20th anniversary, also having experience with it now in the family. |
Kuu do livestream concerts is 1 alternate possibility of her celebrating her 20th anniversary this year
It depends if she wants fans to pay for it or not FLOWER FLOWER did their 1st livestream concert just last night which fans had to pay 3,000 Yen to watch the concert via e+ While last month , Kiyoharu did 2 back to back livestream concerts which fans had to pay either 7,000 Yen or 12,500 Yen to access the content online via ZAIKO That's costly & it's as good as though you're attending a concert in Japan physically but the upside is that ZAIKO's video quality is probably the best out of all the streaming sites I've seen ZAIKO's video quality is extremely good ie. Blu-ray which somewhat justifies the price and it doesn't lag unlike Nico Nico Nama & let alone SHOWROOM -_- And I'm not surprised Kiyoharu is doing another round of livestream concerts via ZAIKO this coming Thurs & Fri and fans have to pay either 7,500 Yen or 13,000 Yen to access the content :dead2 |
I still wonder if the December dates actually happen. AAA are still going ahead with their November and December dome shows.
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^ Think it depends on the artiste & their management ?
I know LDH cancel their entire LDH PERFECT YEAR 2020 worth of 168 performances until Boxing Day and LDH postponed everything til next March https://natalie.mu/music/news/382691 |
Kuu is going to do a Pilates Insta Live tomorrow morning.
We're also getting something on June 26, but no hint so far what it might be. Fans are wondering if it might be a new song. |
LDH seems to have made an arrangement with Abema for some online live shows.
Da-iCE are doing a special online digital live to make up their cancelled hall tour. I could see Kumi doing something similar if she feels uncomfortable with doing the December shows. |
Kumi could use the mu-mo live system again, it worked pretty well the last three times. The price wasn't that expensive for one concert (2,700 yens). Or even use niconico as she did last time.
At this point I believe the best thing is just to postpone the arena concert to next year or something like this. |
On another note, today I shared the results for that best songs poll, it turned out... interesting lol
https://twitter.com/DoingKoda/status...99363060150275 I mean top 5 is really predictable but some older gems ranked lower than I expected while SHOW ME YOUR HOLLA made it to top 10 |
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Wth is that song doing in there? The TOP 10 is banger after banger. Winner & show girl would actually sound cute together for a concert. UNIVERSE not being in the top 10 is homophobic. UNIVERSE>POP DIVA. |
I didn't vote, but BRIDGET SONG is amazing.
The rest is very predictable for Western fans. Except for Winner Girl, don't know what that is doing there. |
Her Pilates video is up on her IGTV https://www.instagram.com/tv/CBenVBWD1Mr/
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I guess BRIDGET SONG is a lowkey favorite to many people so it ended up getting many votes. Also it seems to me her fanbase on twitter got to know her later than most of us from AHS or other jpop boards, so songs like real Emotion, Cutie Honey, Selfish and SHAKE IT ranked lower cause it might sound outdated to them.
I was a bit sad no song from re(CORD) made it to the top 50 but okay lol |
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avex will hold its 1st a-nation online live concert(s) in place of a-nation 2020
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eaw0hVaU...jpg&name=small Details such as the date(s) , performance artists , ticket cost information & etc for a-nation online 2020 will be announced soon https://twitter.com/anation_navi/sta...50549187244032 https://twitter.com/anation_navi/sta...51122263379968 For now , a-nation 2020 will be held end of Aug https://natalie.mu/music/news/383785 |
It will be interesting to see if Kumi will be part of it. By being an online festival, I imagine that they won't broadcast on TV this time, since they might want the audience to pay to see it. Since they had a deal with dTV last year, it might happen this year again.
I won't get my hopes up anyway, it might be for an app with region restriction, like dTV. God knows how much pain in the ass was to record her BPM appearance on abema a couple of years ago. lol |
The info says something about being worldwide starting with Asia, so it's likely we'll get a non-restricted broadcast.
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There's going to be another live broadcast limited to her FCs as well as another aftertalk session for FC winners on June 26!
Contents will be the FC campaigns for her 20th anniversary as well as updates for the other activities (planned) this year and also the new songs she's making at home. |
That's great to know, Corvina, tks for the heads up! An update sounds really interesting, she must be so full of plans lol
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Curious to see what's coming, it's right next friday, so we don't have to wait that long for more news. :)
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Does anyone have this performance and could share it pls? Thought I had it but couldn't find it :(
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^ Here it is, not the best quality tho: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_-K...ew?usp=sharing
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^Talk about a blast from the past! I hadn't seen that performance in ages. The secret period of her career remains a true highlight for me. You can just see the talent and the HUNGER during that time leading up to First Things.
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Thanks a lot!! I love her scream when she almost falls from that chair lmao
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Yeah, the performances from the Secret era were good, she was full of energy and giving her all during all the performances basically.
It would be nice if the whole things was broadcast by MTV, which I believe it wasn't, because she performed Break it down as well, and the choreo was described as "intense". It was probably different from the Black Cherry Tour one. ①キューテイーハニー ②Hot Stuff（Donna Summerカヴァー） ③Break it down ④Selfish (http://sheppy723.web.fc2.com/aiwauchi54.html) - Keeping the ball rolling, does any of you guys have these files and could upload it? I had 'em all except for WIND and the Ai no Uta MS Sp, but I lost with my old corrupted HDD... They were all available on baidu, almost 10 years ago: Spoiler:
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Kuu is going to take part in the TV Tokyo Music Festival again.
Going to air June 24, starting 5:55 pm JST. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/U2xi6D.png Theme is "the 100 strongest hit songs we wanna hear again". It's going to be a VTR performance. And Butterfly was uploaded. |
The don’t make jpop like that anymore :heart
This image of her is still so strongly imprinted in my head haha. |
We are going to get a new song June 26!
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It's the 1st 20th Anniversary single! From what they say we will probably get a how-to-video with it even though they don't directly mention it. |
Yeeessss!! Sounds like a real fun song, hope it's somewhat similar to Put Your Hands Up! We need a cool pop Kumi song for Summer!!
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Dragon Quests infamous "puff puff"-scenes come to mind.
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/8xBIpJ.jpg From the avex link site for downloading/streaming: https://avex.lnk.to/KODAKUMI_puff |
I like the cover, and I'm so glad it's a different pic lol
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I like the photo but I don't see how will fit with the song according with its description lol
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So it fits the 20th anniversary theme/project and forms one consistent unit. |
^ and saves some $$$
Excited for this! Hope they are finished already with the damn crazy auto tune that ruined reCord |
excited for puff! I like the cover.
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OMg it's a song about... the... the drugs! :(:(:(:(:dead2:D
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It comes from running out of breath :P like panting
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Looks like she's using her son's voice for the song?
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBwvSe9D...=1vh73i9baykgo We should be getting a proper preview soon. :) Maiko made the choreography for the song: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBwxvBVA...=1phicq3u3fc3f |
Another short preview uploaded:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBzWYHfD...d=hmdwtcsgursi And she's wearing a puff t-shirt! Guess that's going to be part of the new 20th anniversary goods. Maybe we're getting shirts of all new singles? |
Koda Kumi announces first single to commemorate 20th anniversary
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Btw guys anyone keeping record on ku's insta follower count? I never notice that she's at 400k which is great I think the last time I noticed her followers she was in the 30k? maybe?
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Proper 45 sec. preview is up on her FCs.
Pre-chorus is so strong! Description fits pretty well. I bet Kenji wrote the song. And with her son's vocals in it it would mean it's a perfect made-at-home song. :laugh Btw. I'm at work when the live stream is happening on Friday and as it's only going to be up ont he FC some days later to rewatch, I hope somebody else can summarize what it's about. |
Just heard it, I looooove it!! The chorus is sooooo good. Please keep on doing music at home Kumi :laugh
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The credits for the song:
Gionata Caracciolo and Sara Cruz Ayaka Ichinose, Carlyle Fernandes Gabesco Publishing https://66.media.tumblr.com/b5488cf8...7e50464912.jpg |
The song is out now.
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She'll be in next week's MUSIC FAIR singing puff and 夢で逢えたら, with Kiyoshi Hikawa and Suzuki Airi. https://bltweb.jp/2020/06/25/suzukia...200625_news/2/ |
I like the song! It's like a cutesy version of LIT. Fun!
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^ I feel you, it's like LIT and Namie's Mint had a baby, and k, was the godmother hahahahah I looooove it. Great she's gonna perform it also! Thought it'd be just a loose release but yeah get that promo kuu!
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The song is fun!
No passionate love (:P ), but I was also neutral about k, at first and now I love it (loved the PV from the start). But so awesome she gonna perform it! Also great she's doing another collab and it's another Masayuki Suzuki song. Btw. Kuu is having a lot of meetings recently, just another 2 the last few days at avex headquarters again and not via video call anymore. |
The song is very Shake Hip + LIT. I like it (#justiceforshakehip), it's very summery. It would be nice if it was part of a 3/4 a-side summer single.
--- Mezamashi TV listed her name for something tomorrow. https://twitter.com/cx_mezamashi/sta...75118293213185 Also, the producer of the song said that the PV will be out tomorrow. I guess it's going to be the How To Dance. https://www.instagram.com/p/CB2zgbBIBjf/ |
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The full thing will probably be premiered at the FC live stream tomorrow and later uploaded on youtube.
Her first PV intially uploaded on her own youtube channel then. :) |
So it's a vertical video. I wonder if she did a regular one, like for On an On, or she's waiting to do later in the studio.
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Think it's quite smart that they're going with a social media angle for this. Quite keen to see. It's kinda similar to the Be One PV they did.
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PV will be out tomorrow on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LttwOtkcerw 9PM in Japan time.
It seems they are going to make the acapella available as well, something like the #ayumix2020, with the hashtag #MADE93, and also the image with chroma key. 6月26日（金）、倖田來未が新曲「puff」をリリース！ この楽曲はデビュー20周年イヤーの記念すべき第1弾シングルで、思わず体を動かしたくなる、軽快かつポッ プ・キュートなダンスチューンに仕上がっている。 コロナ禍により外出もままならない中、「在宅で楽しく体を動かしてもらいたい」という想いのもとスタートし たYoutube企画「倖田來未―How to Dance」のエクササイズにインスピレーションを受けて制作にあたった本作。息切れを意味する「puff 」はエクササイズに励む人々はもちろん、目標に向かって努力している全ての人に向けたファイトソングに仕上 がっている。 「puff」のMVでは自粛期間中に倖田來未、そしてダンサー全員が各々個人宅で撮影した映像をつなげた、 フルリモートMVとなった。たとえ離れていてもSNSでつながっているというメッセージを込めた本作では、 カラフルな架空のSNSによって広がるキュートな世界観と、エアロビ風のポップダンスが印象的 な作品に。 さらにMV解禁と合わせて、「puff」のアカペラ音源とブルーバックMVを無料公開し、 倖田來未クリエイター企画、『＃MADE93』がスタート！依然収束を見せないコロナ禍で、できる限りの在 宅が推奨される中打ち出された本企画では、全国のクリエイターによるpuffの新たなアレンジを大募集して いる。素材のダウンロードについては特設サイトからチェックしてほしい。 「puff」のリリースを皮切りに、倖田來未デビュー20周年イヤーの活動が本格的に始動した本日。豊富な コンテンツとともに、記念すべき20周年ビジュアルも公開され、ファンからは喜びの声が多数寄せられている 。ぜひ、オールマイティーな活動をみせる倖田來未の今を追って欲しい。 It also has an 20th Anniversary Special Website, but it's locked with login and password. https://pre.rhythmzone.net/koda/20th/ EDIT They removed all the info about the #MADE93. lol Also, the name of the video is puff Youtube Version now, it was just puff Music Video before. |
yes yes can't wait!
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Fans who purchased puff via Recochoku will stand a chance to win 1 autographed puff T-shirt
Application period will close on 9th July https://twitter.com/KODAKUMINET/stat...72060650930176 |
They also give out presents to 7 fans on Line Music, picking those 7 among everyone streaming puff 100 times or more till July 15.
https://note.linemusic.jp/n/n3802bc1f8ba2 https://mobile.twitter.com/LINEMUSIC...49465595543552 PV preview is up on her FCs. It's cool to watch it on smartphone, cause the image fits the screen in full mode and it does look like your scrolling yourself. |
Regarding Wed's Tere to Ongakusai 2020 4 hours live broadcast , brief Ai no Uta & Cutie Honey performances were aired , VTR wise
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV12t4y197Rt https://genkimorizou.com/tv-tokyo-music-festival-2020/ |
The quality of the recording annoys me a bit tbqh
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puff ~Youtube ver.~ (Official Music Video）
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LttwOtkcerw Twitter profile picture has been changed https://i.postimg.cc/0Nt08G2t/vc5-Zt-Kcf.jpg puff is fun although I can't help but wonder , how can a device's battery go from 93% to 30% within a minute , that's just o_O xD puff / 倖田來未クリエイター企画 #MADE93 参考動画 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFWj8h1F8vo |
The 20th Anniversary website is up, and now the #MADE93 content is available.
https://rhythmzone.net/koda/20th/ The chroma key video is actually cute. Gotta do something with it for sure. EDIT The YouTube version is now private.... Why tho? Thank goodness I downloaded it. |
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I'm in love with puff, love the song vibe. Wishing for a proper MV tho. ♥ |
It took a bit longer than I expected for her to start her 20th anniv projects (and I can totally understand why), but at last I am LOVING everything we got today. puff a great summer song, the video has such a smart concept and so well edited, finally some homemade stuff with high quality unlike other artists tried to do earlier this year. And this #MADE93 project is also so exciting, so happy to see that.
Can't wait to see what she's planning next!! |
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Luckily I downloaded both the DVD & Blu-ray qualities of the clip earlier on |
It had around 7k to 10k views.... They reuploaded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lV2SofAaMA The comments are off, but it's not part of Youtube Kids, thank god. I wonder why both acapella and the chroma key PV are only short version... Why not the full song? |
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According to kinot @ twitter, this year's tour is called "Koda Kumi 20th ANNIVERSARY TOUR 2020 -my name is...-"
Interesting name, unexpected to me. At first it made me remember how I find WALK OF MY LIFE an odd title lol |
I really loved puff. The video is amazing! Simple, cheap and super fun!
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They removed it because it wasn't optimised for vertical viewing on YouTube like On And On for example. So when you click on full screen, it goes to horizontal mode. So they reuploaded it to fix that. Really fun.
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FREAKY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ9BSSzaxwc Run For Your Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7E1Tn2RxHs |
The song is not my cup of tea but it’s fun. They did a great job with the video. Queen of making opportunities out of crisis.
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Skipped through the live stream (thanks Diane <3 ) - she showed the two puff shirts and mostly talked about the 20th anniversary FC campaigns so far apart from the puff release.
kaled shared only the playroom one here, but Koda Gumi also had a campaign in May which was basically about cosplaying Kuu. She showed big printouts of some of them! Apart from that there apparently wasn't anything important about the tour or anything. ------------------ The puff shirt is available in black and white and in all sizes - s size is available this time as well, yes! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/KbuWe0.png https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/TYcEX9.png First available for FCs June 27, then for everybody June 29. puff is doing not too bad. In the top 30 on iTunes and part of the A playlist, also on Line Music (on #20 right now) and fans love it. Quote:
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Oh I see, thanks for clarifying. That makes me even more curious now about the tour now lol
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Kuu's outfit that she wore for next week's MUSIC FAIR when she performs puff
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ebbl8sxU...jpg&name=small Next week's MUSIC FAIR will be a celebratory episode for the artistes that will be featured on the show aside from Kuu 40th anniversary - Suzuki Masayuki 20th anniversary - Kuu & Hikawa Kiyoshi Kuu wore a different outfit when she sung alongside with Hikawa Kiyoshi + Suzuki Masayuki https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ebblzs0U...jpg&name=small https://www.fujitv.co.jp/MUSICFAIR/ https://twitter.com/MUSICFAIR_Fuji/s...09999675650050 |
First remix I see for puff, it's a rock version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdkr6Q859dc It's cool. :) |
It reminds me a bit of a POP DIVA rock remix that was out for a while some years ago lol Nice take on the song, even tho the way she sings doesn't match it. Hope she sees this and gets inspired :P
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The puff shirt was made available for sale to the public today and is dominating the daily chart on mu-mo for today!
https://shop.mu-mo.net/avx/sv/rank1?jsiteid=mumo https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/8EozjM.png All sizes are even on the first 8 places for the goods category. The new FC magazine is out now and there are several pics of the 20th anniversary shooting as well as a report about the shooting. It has several stylings/cuts, not only the one we saw so far and she looks absolutely gorgeous. Aaaaand they speak about how Covid made events, concerts and such difficult worldwide since the 20th anniversary started and ask us waiting fans to keep an eye out cause they nevertheless continue to make preparations to show the wonderful works they're working on! |
Hope they upload it to Global FC soon, can't wait to see the pictures. Also great she's working on stuff even with the isolation, we love a passionate dedicated queen.
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So apparently the new song with Atsushi recorded last year will finally make an appearance. Atsushi is releasing an album in November, and that song is included in the tracklisting. His Instagram post definitely made a point to mention Kumi.
I'm curious if the song will pop up on Kumi's release too and if they actually promote the song together. https://www.instagram.com/p/CCCcAdVA...d=9nes4jk25uzl |
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Should be up in the next few days, with that they've always been on time. Here are some preview pics from Japanese fans: Spoiler:
Forgot to mention that they note that this is a homage to the 15th anni visuals, at least parts of it, the full body shots (that's where it's noted). So assuming the dirty close-ups might be referring to the 10th anni visuals from Fantasia might be right. ----------------------- One interesting thing about the new collabo song is that Atsushi is officially calling it オーサカトーキョー (so in Katakana) in his post as well as on listings of the album in online shops while Kuu and the live broadcast on WOWOW called it OSAKA TOKYO. Wonder if they simply changed and finalized it for the official release or if we're getting different versions if Kuu is releasing it, too. |
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Can you order the FC magazine from the Global FC? Or is it only available in Japan? :) EDIT: I also just noticed that Kuu's UNIVERSE tour is only 4k views off 1 million on Youtube! :D |
Wow, the album is coming out in November only? That's almost a year after their performance lol But then Kuu also performed Cupcake back in 2015 and it only came out in 2017, and there's even BRING IT ON. So, on the bright side, there's a date and it's coming out still this year :P
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^ so happy, UNIVERSE Tour deserves a lot of love!
btw How To Dance megumi no hito has surpassed 600k views already, oh my |
I was (still) looking fro pictures from the universe tour (like official ones) and came across this design company that has work with ku for a lot of projects and they have lots of images of her discs and orther promotional things from different eras, check it out!
The art woek of her CDs it's really spectacular (unlike other "artists" who make theirs with paint brush :P, I not talking About anYone in particUlar) |
Megumi no Hito how-to-dance is almost at 700k already actually.
Considering this was her last viral hit due to the dance not surprising. The current views for how-to-dance: 01. Megumi no Hito - 675k 02. BE MY BABY - 310k 03. Wicked Girls - 213k 04. DO ME - 94k 05. Ecstasy 2 - 92k 06. Ecstasy 1 - 70k 07. HUSH - 49k The PV for puff is at 62k. After 6 days and surprisingly the greenscreen ones are at 18k and 15k, too. |
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^ Driving Hit's 6. A documentary and some of the performances, like Ai no Uta.
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Oh yeah, I didn't make myself clear, there was that but the whole concert was not included, was it? iirc we were even speculating there could be a FC release later that year, but the full thing never got to see the light of the day.
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It wasn't release, the only official footage is from the DHits 6. It was pretty much the JAPONESQUE Tour with a different ballad section and missing the dance one (VIP, etc.). I guess they thought it was enough just the documentary.
The 0ji Mae no Tsunderella performance was... something. To me it felt like she was on top of a robot vacuum cleaner with that spinning chair nonsense. |
Surprise, suprise, Kuu and Masayuki Suzuki also performed Megumi no Hito together at Music Fair today!
All three performances were nice, great ad libs for puff. |
Get the puff look:
Shorts https://www.msgm.it/en/woman/shorts/...ticoli_ID=2483 Sweatshirt (the orange color is not available anymore) https://www.msgm.it/en/woman/sweatsh...ticoli_ID=2558 Both performances were good. I was hoping for some VTR of old performances but nope. |
Some links to watch.
puff on Baidu https://tieba.baidu.com/p/6790566499...&is_jingpost=0 梦で逢えたら on Baidu https://tieba.baidu.com/p/6790573755...&is_jingpost=0 And this music site on Twitter has all three. Here's Megumi https://mobile.twitter.com/ongaku_tv...41809450139649 The how-to-dance of Megumi is now breaking 700k on youtube, yay. |
Yesterday's MUSIC FAIR
Hikawa Kiyoshi + Suzuki Masayuki joint performance https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1wz...00423210239462 puff performance https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1wz411v7og?p=3 |
From MUSIC FAIR's website
With Hikawa Kiyoshi + Suzuki Masayuki https://i.postimg.cc/CKRjmFvG/bn-20200704-ph02.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/gJR3bgbr/bn-20200704-ph06.jpg puff performance https://i.postimg.cc/bwCxxGRY/bn-20200704-ph01.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/BvR2zdyd/bn-20200704-ph08.jpg https://www.fujitv.co.jp/MUSICFAIR/b...ber/index.html Kuu looks so cute after she finished performing puff |
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