Kuroki Meisa has got the ATTITUTE to work it in her 2nd thread
 

Welcome to the 2nd thread of Kuroki Meisa :D :heart

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...moPictureA.jpg

From YesAsia :

Actress/singer Kuroki Meisa's debut album hellcat climbed all the way to the #9 spot of the Oricon charts in April. Now the talented artist launches her first single, SHOCK -Unmei- , a dance number perfect for the hot summer season.

Kuroki's single release also features the side tracks Wasted and the Bachlogic Remix of Bad Girl.

Discography

Singles ::

1) SHOCK -Unmei- (-Fate-) (1st official single) (22.07.2009) #25 ; 1st week sales - 3,458 ; 2nd week - 1,992 ; 3rd week - 1,731 ; 4th week - 1,279 ; 5th week - 610 . Total sales so far - 9,070

Mini Albums ::

1) hellcat (08.04.2009) #9 ; 1st week sales - 11,048 ; 2nd week - 4,080 ; 3rd week - 2,336 ; 4th week ; 1,380 ; 5th & 6th weeks - 1,586 . Total sales so far - 20,430
2) ATTITUDE (01.01.2010) tbc

AHS's Official Kuroki Meisa Music Discography

PVs Ripped Straight From DVD's

Like This , Bad Girl & Criminal PVs (all ripped from the DVD) @ http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=88863

VOB file formats for all 3 PVs (use HJ spilt to join the files) :

Like This

Part 1 - http://www.mediafire.com/?5mizdczmgc5
Part 2 - http://www.mediafire.com/?jztnytyczzk
Part 3 - http://www.mediafire.com/?mknqt0xjiem

Bad Girl

Part 1 - http://www.mediafire.com/?nlndfzwxhqq
Part 2 - http://www.mediafire.com/?ue2hmwgdiig
Part 3 - http://www.mediafire.com/?ynnzgniktyc

Criminal

Part 1 - http://www.mediafire.com/?kdjc1ygtd5y
Part 2 - http://www.mediafire.com/?yhjljlmgnxy
Part 3 - http://www.mediafire.com/?jtmgzyooimr

credits - x-megumi-x

SHOCK -Unmei- (ripped from DVD) - http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=92635

credits - Utena

Discography & Mag Scans

http://ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=88927

Emporio Armani ads - http://calledinvain.livejournal.com/154910.html

an.an magazine (July 22nd '09) scans - http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showpo...5&postcount=96

LOVE MEISA photobook - http://community.livejournal.com/mei...18.html#cutid1

Rome pics from her LOVE MEISA photobook | ANS 25 and Bidan mag scans - http://community.livejournal.com/mei...oki/19776.html

Woofin Girl Oct 09 - http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=335

Performance Downloads

SHOCK -Unmei- @ MUSIC STATION (31.07.2009) - http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=92835

mirror - http://www.mediafire.com/?tw0d2mkz5jo

Official website - http://www.meisakuroki.com/

Follow Kuroki on Twitter - http://twitter.com/KurokiMeisa

Record Label - STUDIOSEVEN Recordings

Music Genre - R&B , Hip Hop



Brillant quote by Beauty4123 / Lisa xD xD

"that is what will happen if you don't come into this thread...meisa will shoot you!"

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/1875/97619098.gif

gif credits to FinalHikari @ JPM

:lmfao

love the title! :D yay for meisa's second thread!

yay!! thanks for the new thread!!

I got the album on Friday... and wow! xD I love the booklet! the pictures are quiet nice ^^

which edition of hellcat you bought ? I initally bought the CD only but then I mailed out my copy to someone instead as I decided to buy the HK press ; CD + DVD from HMV HK xD xD

I bought the CD+DVD HK version from Yesasia!! :D I didn't have enough to get the Japanese version U.U but I'm really happy with this one! shes soo pretty xD

yay a second thread for Kuroki!!!
It's so nice!!

yay! Thread 2~~ *runs in circles* Go Meisa!!

THAT'S IT????!!! WTF! :thud

the album sales are very very poor U__U oh well... xD at least she keeps on going ^^

actually guys for a mini album & the fact that it's her 1st release , it did even & waaay better than my exceptations

I was expecting that it might flop big time (like never charted & etc) but Kuroki really surprised me

so it will be interesting to see how SHOCK -Unmei- will fare

that is true! :yes

hopefully the single will do pretty good :D and even help hellcat's sales! :lech

Yeah! New thread! Thanks^^
Now, i hear the full version from SHOCK. I love, love, love, love it!!! GO MEISA!!

True. And her label didn't exactly promote it like they should have. Putting all these factors together, I think the sales make sense. Well, it's fine, as long as she maintains a big fanbase, which I think she already has due to her roles in multiple dramas.

Like others have said, considering factors like it's her debut and the lack of promotion, Meisa's sales are pretty darn good. I think the fact that she even debuted in the top 10 is quite an achievement - especially in Japan, which, I understand, is the 2nd largest music market in the world.

Also, I don't think Sony would've bothered putting out a follow-up single so soon if they considered the album a failure. It doesn't make sense to invest more money into an artist that you don't have confidence in.

And I also think it's pretty neat that the limited edition of hellcat is sold out at YesAsia, CDJapan, Tower Records JP, and Amazon.co.jp (HMV Japan still has it available though ;)). Doesn't sound like a flop to me at all. :)

And yay for Meisa's second thread! :tbiggrin

...here's hoping she's around to stay.

For some reason I only seem to care about rankings now... I don't think sales really determine how popular an artist is. It just states how much $$$ they make.

I don't recall seeing any form of live promo that Kuroki done to promote hellcat too , Alicia

I guess the acting side of her really helped hellcat's sales so much to a certain extent & hopefully the same thing will go for SHOCK -Unmei- since she's currently staring in a new drama called Ninkyo Helper which I hope it will be subbed soon

Plus it's just a mini album - that's pretty good imo. I'm excited for her first major single

the SHOCK covers are cool ._.

^ :yes I'm sad that the PV had nothing to do with covers. It was a good PV, but still.

yeah I really thought that the covers of SHOCK -Unmei- might have some association of sorts with the PV

guess not bummer . If not it will be something interesting to look out for

1st episode of Ninkyo Helper's already subbed & running - http://www.dramacrazy.net/v/japanese...ninkyo-helper/

omg 7 parts @_@ :dead2

honestly in today's current market for music, her debut mini album's sales were good. considering big shots are selling less and less these days~

I watched the 1st episode of Ninkyo Helper earlier on

Kuroki plays a Yazuka boss & from what she has acted so far , it's pretty good

at least she's not playing a nun anymore haha :laugh & she looked great in that business suit in the beg of the 1st episode :luv2

meisa will be on Music Station 7/31

WOW *____*

I thought she should appear next Fri instead of 2 Fri's later as by then it will be too late for her to promote SHOCK -Unmei- but oh what the heck :laugh

can't wait for that :smitten

Impossible :thud

It's the first time she'll perform one of her song on TV, right?

I think so

as far as I know she never went on TV to promote hellcat , not that I know of anyway so this will be really something to look out for

ahh i can't wait! i wonder how well meisa will sing live :P

Ooooh!

I'm not expecting much given how "produced" her vocals sound sometimes, but it's still exciting to look forward to!

I've rarely been lucky enough to begin following a musical artist at the beginning of their career so watching Meisa's progression will be a treat.

If she's horrible, she can only get better!

...hopefully. :P

I don't think someone could be more horrible in live than Chisa XD

oh please, she's not that bad. not everyone is perfect with live performances.

oh cool! i can't wait to see her live at Music Station.

i'm not going to expect much either. it is possibly her first live, so there might be nerves & other things going her way. but good luck to Meisa! :)

dammit wouldn't be long before SHOCK -Unmei-'s released next Wed :heart

I hope there will be an early leak for the single :P

I know but she should make an effort to stay concentrated when she is singing in live. The start is good but after it's a horrible. However I really hope that she'll be better in live.

when is this single going to leak!! gosh XD

7/22

NINKI Index For SHOCK -Unmei- :

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/4591/singlesv.jpg

real promising :yes

Wow, ALI PROJECT on 10th place.
Didn´t know that they are so popular.

So excited for the single!
I hope i get it so fast like the kumi single. Two days after shipping.

#7 is really good! I smell good sales comming in! :P

lol you mean #7 , Shadae , according to the NINKI Index

for me as long as SHOCK -Unmei- debut in the top 10 , it's good enough for me since I don't really have that much high exceptations of the single & somemore she will be up against EXILE next week T_T

here's hoping that SHOCK -Unmei- will do OK just like hellcat

I'm sure it will lol !

lol I mean leak not release xDDD but yea... will surely leak after the release but... crap! I want it noww XD

It should leak soon... Maybe sometime over the weekend.

yeah usually the earliest it will leak out , it will be during the weekend

it's not like when Suga Shikao's latest single Party People when it leaked out 2 weeks before its official release date this week on Wed :thud

HAHa! Yeah I think it's pretty rare to have a leak that early.

Maybe we'll have it before the 22nd July but nobody can tell it!

#7 is pretty decent. here's to hoping for a top 10 debut! :D

Well, Kuroki is, I suppose, a newer artist. And new artists' releases tend to leak a lot later. But anything's possible!!

Looks like YesAsia is getting the CD Only edition after all:

http://www.yesasia.com/us/shock-unme...0-en/info.html

I think they probably only listed the limited CD+DVD edition first because they wanted to gauge how much interest there was for it and submitted an order according to the number of preorders.

Either that or they wanted to make a certain amount of money before offering the normal edition. :P

for a moment I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me in that how come YesAsia didn't listed the CD only of SHOCK -Unmei- o_O

now I do :laugh

hopefully just like hellcat , the CD + DVD edition of her debut single will be sold out in major online shops :yes

I think it will be a good sign if it does. ;)

And since I'm technically not double-posting, YesAsia also has the cover of the LOVE MEISA photobook on their preorder page:

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/390/p1020538761.jpg

All I can say is ":mshock".

:dead2 :dead2

omg what the hell she's holding in that cover ? O_O

it looks like wet sponge to me :roflmao & omg Leslie Kee shot those photos of her 1st photobook ? DAMNNN

:heart for Lesile , power to another fellow S'porean !

It's flowers.

Two pert and perky flowers.

And here I thought she was going to go all girly and kawaii in her photobook and be wearing, like, a big straw hat with matching sundress or something. :P

LOL :laugh

guess she's keeping up with the whole Bad Girl image that she portrayed in hellcat

not that I'm complaining :innocent

sorry to double post but you can hear previews of Wasted & the Bad Girl remix via her official site in a section called JUKE BOX - http://www.meisakuroki.com/

just select the songs in the jukebox corner & you can hear the previews there

omg preview of Wasted sounds bad ass & great :luv2

whereas the Bad Girl remix , it's well OK to me . Kuroki's vocals sounded a bit more distorted than usual here

can't wait for the single to be leaked out soon :cool

Oo what? I don't like that cover. My intersest for the photobook goes down. I hope the pics inside will be better

hopefully someone can scan the photobook soon :yes

wua the photograph is leslie kee <3
It must me totally awesome! I'm tempted to order it lol

QUICK , someone on AHS order the photobook & scan everything up for the rest to look at ! :laugh

:roflmao

If only I was rich ;-;

:roflmao

man if the cover's that naughty , I can imagine the photos you can find inside it :lmfao

:thud wow, never knew it'd be that...exposed, lol. now i want scans :P

Leslie Kee also shot Kuu's "Maroc" photobook and I have that one. It's not that bad; it's about as racy as an issue of Maxim: bikini shots, suggestive poses, etc. You don't even see side-boob or anything.

But, yeah, I dunno, given the cover of Meisa's, maybe we will see side-boob or something. :eyebrow

haha, i kinda like that cover. :P

but oh! i didn't know Leslie Kee did the photographs (i loved Ayu's "Secret" booklet!). i'm sure there's some great photos in it! :D

:roflmao

I saw the Maroc photbook too & Leslie Kee did a great job for it

Leslie also shot alan's Voice of EARTH , Koda's Black Cherry among others , Eirynne

it's great that a fellow S'porean like him is making waves & his presence felt in these great photos he took

Ahahaha @ the covers!!! I was expecting something like that, it's good for sales :lmfao Go Kuroki!!!

Leslie is the best photographer ever, no matter what ppl say. he shot the best Ayu covers, he is my most fav photographer
earlier he also used to shot the best photobooks and magazine shots for Leah Dizon :)

too bad Leslie is too expensive for Ayu to keep working with him, I hate Shimoko so much :(

slightly bigger cover of Meisa Kuroki Photo Book "Love Meisa"

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/pictures/l/...NEOIPS-645.jpg

:dead2

OK so those are flowers & not wet sponges after all haha :laugh

I bet her bf's nose is bleeding right now! lol

:laugh

if she were to do that during IchiPon , she will be kicked outta the Church immediately lmao

^Lol! She's too racy to be a nun now! HAha! Good girl gone bad lol jk

:laugh

guess the thread title is very fitting after all :innocent

I can't wait for SHOCK -Unmei- to be out tomorrow & omg it hasn't leak out yet T_T

woot , SHOCK -Unmei- has leaked out yo :D

http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2030992

can't wait to listen to Wasted & the Bachlogic Remix of Bad Girl :heart :smitten

I dunno if this has been already posted, but I think she looks here very pretty and cool ;)
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/9220/kurokimeisa.jpg

EDIT: I heard the SHOCK single. The beginning of SHOCK seemed pretty interesting, more electro stuff, but the song turned out to be very boring and crappy. The same goes for the B-side, even her voice is bad.

I'm listening right now hellcat and it seems so much better.

thoughts on

Wasted - hot B-side song :luv2 . I love the preview that was uploaded on her official site & it's a nice one & the chorus's cool

*I don't care , I don't care , I don't care yeah ! :laugh

Bad Girl (Bachlogic Remix) - surprisingly it's slightly more mellower than the original but oh what the hell , with a song like Bad Girl , you can't go wrong with it isn't it ?

I like the slight clapping beats going on in here too

both songs are more electro inclined than her usual stuff you can find in hellcat but the single's still solid overall :heart

I'm not a big fan of the remix for Bad Girl but 'Wasted' was just so fun! I love it probably more than 'SHOCK'. I won't be able to purchase this single anytime soon though since I have financial issues, buuut I'll be sure to pick it up whenever that may be lol

wasted is pretty good! but it's so short...:weep i'm listening to the bad girl remix, and i like it. but the original is better :yes but overall, the single was great! i hope it'll be in the top 10 tomorrow.

SHOCK was sorta strange, like, I couldn't tell if I liked it or I didn't. Wasted was alright though, I couldn't really listen to the remix though.

solid single, not as good as hellcat, but solid

oh i love shock <3 i've been repeating it since i downloaded it~ though i kinda forgot how deep her voice is~

and the covers are gorgeous, was she really upside down? or her hair just got teased up really high?

lmao yeah it looks a bit freaky to me @_@

I wish I know the answer to that Jasmine :(

maybe yes , maybe no ?

I hope SHOCK -Unmei- will fare OK today since it's officially released today

Besides being an exciting debut single for Meisa, SHOCK -Unmei- has also turned out to be a very solid summer single. :D

"SHOCK -Unmei-" is an addictive R&B/pop song that sticks in your head the more you listen to it. The double-timed beats are particularly awesome and Meisa's vocals suit the song pretty well. She doesn't reach beyond her abilities yet at the same time she puts enough energy into her performance to keep it interesting. If she's able to maintain that level of confidence and control in her vocals, I think she'll be an excellent performer.

"Wasted" is a pretty impressive b-side and I wouldn't be surprised if it makes it onto Meisa's sophomore album. A poppy, punky song isn't something that I would've have expected her to do since hellcat was so R&B heavy but I think she pulled it off pretty well. The drum beat is awesome! My only complaint with the song is that the ending is too abrupt. I'd rather it was extended an extra 30 seconds or so and ended with a fade-out or something...

"Bad Girl [Bachlogic Remix]" isn't the greatest but it could also be worse. I think with more work it could've been awesome in it's own way (the beats are pretty good), but as it stands now, it sounds unpolished. It sounds like a demo that someone already had kicking around the studio and when they were asked to remix Meisa they just re-sequenced and rearranged the music and shoehorned her vocals onto the track. :P

Mediocre remix aside, I'm glad I ordered the single, but I just wish they had included an instrumental for "Wasted" since it'd be neat to hear remixes of that one. :(

dude your review on SHOCK -Unmei- is good , I like it & it's not biased :yes

which edition of the single you ordered ? the CD + DVD ? :shrug

I was at Kinokuniya earlier on during my break before I went for my last tutorial of Human Resources Management & I took these photos with my camera phone

Kuroki's on the cover of the latest July 22nd an.an mag

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...20709cover.jpg

I was going :dead2 when I saw that & it was the only copy left in the magazine racks

I'm surprised that they didn't put a 'unsuitable for the young' sticker in the front of an.an , LMAO

back :

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...g/DSC01131.jpg

nice to see her promoting COLA SHOCK in there even though the front cover's just :dead2 :love :luv2

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SHOCK -Unmei- debuted at #16 on the 1st day :weep :weep :weep

T_T T_T T_T T_T

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/d/more/2/

actually I was kinda expecting this since it's a single we're talking about & not an album but still ugh can't help but feel depressed about this

I'm not really surprised that Shock~Unmei~debuted at #16. For a single like that I think it's good. Above all kuroki is not really famous as a singer.

I listened to wasted, I really love the arrangement of the song but the vocal part is a bit common. It's not her best song.

the single is alright, after listening twice to all the songs I got bored.

sorry meisa :(

if anyone else's watching Ninkyo Helper (since Kuroki plays a Yazuka boss in here) , episode 2 of the drama has been subbed :D - http://www.dramacrazy.net/japanese-d...lper-episode-2

and you guys thought #9 for hellcat was bad, lol. #16 isn't totally horrible, but it deserves to be in the top 10, at least. :P

Aw, thank you. I did try to be fair and consider her limitations when I was considering what to say about each track.

And I ordered the CD+DVD edition. :tbiggrin

...because it's limited. :P

#16?! D: aww, i hope it rises!

i'll give some thoughts on the single later...when i actually DL the thing. LOL.

i don't really like the new single as much as i was hoping. the remix is OK, shock is good, and wasted is so so bad for me.

i am happy she managed the top 20, i hope she comes back with more hell cat-esque songs

For someone like her, #16 is not bad at all. :)

:D

are you able to scan the single & upload the PV in due time ? that will be awesome if you're able to do it

^Yeah, I can do this. :) I have a scanner and I've also ripped DVDs before.

The only thing is that I ordered from YesAsia and my package only got mailed today and is also being sent via their standard service so I probably won't get it till the middle of next week.

If no one scans the single or rips the DVD before then, I can do it. ;)

I think shock is her best song.. But I'm the only one, or? XD The Bad Girl remix was nice.. wasted sounds so .. "unlike Meisa"? Dunno how to say

that will be great & no worries , everyone will be able to wait for the scans & the DVD rip of SHOCK

I will credit you in due time when you get both items up & running :yes

I think the majority all feel that SHOCK is not her best work to date & it's like a step down or 2 from hellcat

I have to admit that it took me a few listens before SHOCK sticks in my head

but since it's her 1st official single , I guess I can cut her some slack on that

anan scans :)

http://img06.imagefra.me/img/img06/2...0m_ca00638.jpg http://img06.imagefra.me/img/img06/2...1m_df435cf.jpg http://img06.imagefra.me/img/img06/2...2m_f607856.jpg http://img35.imagefra.me/img/img35/2...3m_8a713f3.jpg
http://img06.imagefra.me/img/img06/2...4m_f1599ed.jpghttp://img15.imagefra.me/img/img15/2...5m_0cbcb67.jpg http://img06.imagefra.me/img/img06/2...0m_8a450fc.jpg

thanks Aurelie

omg at those scans @_@ :dead2

are you sure it's OK to post them on AHS ? :laugh XD

I love Kuroki in that blue dress :luv2

I agree the blue dress pic is the best one!

SHOCK -Unmei-

x->16->19

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/d/more/2/

At leats it didn't go down too far.

It's today that there is the TV performance of Kuroki. I'm so excited to watch it^^