Can We Go Back to Koda Kumi's 98th Thread?
 

★Upcoming Releases
46th Single 「Can We Go Back」2010.1.20 Release

New single release from Kumi Koda featuring hard rock tune "Can We Go Back" and love song "Good Day." Limited edition includes bonus DVD featuring music video for "Can We Go Back" and making-of. *Unless otherwise indicated, DVDs are region-2 encoded (Japan, Europe, and Middle East), and carry no subtitles.

【CD】
1. Can We Go Back
2. Good☆day
3. Can We Go Back (Instrumental)
4. Good☆day (Instrumental)

【DVD】
1. Can We Go Back (Music Video)
2. Can We Go Back (Making Video)

【Covers】
http://i49.tinypic.com/11abjif.jpg
CD Only

http://i46.tinypic.com/fji9n5.jpg
CD+DVD

http://rhythmzone.net/koda/info/release100120.html

CDJapan Order Links
CD+DVD: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=RZCD-46454
CD Only: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=RZCD-46455

YesAsia Order Links
CD+DVD: http://www.yesasia.com/us/1021616098-0-0-0-en/info.html
CD Only: http://www.yesasia.com/us/1021616107-0-0-0-en/info.html

☆Magazine Appearances
11.21 ViVi


★TV Appearances
11.26 Best Hits Kayousai

12.02 FNS Kayousai

12.30 51st Nihon Record Taisho
12.31 Kouhaku Uta Gassen
xx.xx MUSIC JAPAN

LMAO nice first post :lech

woohoo for 98th thread :yatta guess we can forget the 100th thread before 2010 huh :( thats sad

it's still possible! there hasn't been much news since October which is why the threads have gone so slowly... but with the single coming up, we'll get more information soon. covers, previews, the PV... then we have more TV appearances to look forward to, like Kouhaku. she'll probably be on MSSL too.

i hope we'll get a preview soon!! like ,, this week or something :P

she sounded SO good singing that oldies song! that hair is like ayu's sunrise hair without bangs though, i'm not feeling it.. especially with the dress. that was a really good performance though :yes

Oh wow "ii hi tabidachi" was really good!?
And what's with her hair color!?
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii105/Gubsi/kuuu.jpg
Is it now strawberry blonde!? (don't know how you call this color in your country)!
I love this haircolor!
It would be something new, cause she hasn't real strawberry blonde hair, only for wigs!
And combined with long hair it would look awesome!
I think this hair color worked really well with her TRICK Tour show girl outfit/Black Cherry Tour Mermaid Outfit!
BUT it reminds me of Lightning from FINAL FANTASY XIII!

in my croset should leak like, rite nao.

She looks like... Gwen Stefani.

^ yeah she does! I think it's the hair!

Her hair looks strange and cute at the same time in the screencap:yes

Hopefully there will soon be previews of the new single~

Wow, almost to 100 threads :O

She looks really cute in all her performances! Still don't like Lick Me though.

Haha, Kuu looks like an alien.

the FNS performance was great. i love that new arrangement for Lick me. kuu was so cute! :love

FNS performance was very nice :yes.

OMG SHE WAS SAYING COME ON IN LICK ME? I always thought she was saying Carmel XD

Lick Me performance is so cute!! :D
The other song made her look old.. :lech

I hadn't really payed much attention to Lick me; I've heard it a couple times but I still liked Ecstasy and Hashire a lot more but now listening to it more (seeing as its nominated for song of the year I must be overlooking something) and I really like it~ But really, 3 Splash can hardly be called a success (sales and downloads wise) so I'm wondering why they chose it.

Then again Butterfly sold only 1/4x more (despite being released, what, 4 years ago?) than 3 Splash and was released at her prime and it won song of the year; maybe Lick me has a chance ( :yes )!

Whoa, that screencap of her with that blonde updo is... strange-looking on her for some reason. She doesn't really look like herself to me, but maybe that's just because I haven't watched the video yet.

OH MY EFFIN' GAWD, Kuu singing Ii Hi Tabidachi, Nishi e!!!!!!!!!!~ :thud :thud :thud I haven't been that exciting to hear something not-new in forreevverr!! Why, not too long ago, I was listening to Chihiro Onitsuka's version and thinking, "Kumi would be perfect for this song..." And, voila!!!!! :luv2
....Sorry, totally had to spaz over that, lol. She sang it beautifully. :yes

Oh, and ":no" to the blonde. :\

Ii Hi was okay. I'm pretty partial to Onitsuka Chihiro's cover of that song with her smooth, relaxing vocals, so I don't really care for Koda Kumi's rendition. Her hair was very umm... "interesting".

Aw, the Lick me performance has been removed. :( I wanted to see it... Oh well.

I think the Ii Hi Tabidachi performance was really pretty! I've never heard this song before, but Kuu sounded great in my opinion. I actually really like her hair, the color is really cute!

her neck is very thick

Why does she keep singing "Lick me"? She should sing "Alive".

^ noooooo XD

i know. even if it's boring it's so much better than lick me. i hope she doesn't try to make it the next "girls" or something :tired i actually like "girls"

She wants everyone to lick her. Title says it all.

...probably because it's the song that has had the best reception...sadly enough...

Okay AHS is going down in Ayu flames so let me ask this quick!

You were... put me in the ULTIMATE Christmas mood and I was wonder if there were any Kumi songs that are considered Christmas-y.... So far I have:

1 - you
2 - yume no uta
3 - ai no uta
4 - Moon crying
5 - Stay with me
6 - winter bell

Are there any others you all would suggest?

^ Maybe faraway and Futari de...?

[edit]

I don't know how that got posted twice... but yeah I forgot about faraway somehow... :O

Thank you!

^click on edit at the right bottom of your post and then delete!

i wouldn't count Ai no Uta and Moon Crying really as Christmas Songs!

Futari de... maybe

i think [Candle Light],
cause when i listen to the song i have this picture in my head from someone who stand alone in the dark, it snows and the candle goes out!

Yeah I deleted one of them hahaha. Thank you <3

I'm not sure I have futari de!! D:

But I know I have candle light.

^if you want i can upload it for you if you want!
I mean if you don't have the song!

Do you want to make a J-Pop XMAS CD!?

jbrat, I'd say Unmei too :yes though Moon Crying has never made me think of Christmas XD

She looked nice in the FNS performances, yay for long hair! Weird colour though for the 2nd one. I really want her to go either bleach blonde or black.

The Lick me performance looked a little lifeless to me, I prefer the Best hits one though live arrangement sounded good.

Yes please! :) And yeah I'm trying to make a playlist! But it's pretty much going to just be Ayu and Kuu since I have majority of their songs and I don't feel like going on a scavenger hunt for others lol.
For Ayu I have:
1 - No way to say
2 - SCAR (somehow I imagine her singing in snow to this song...)
3 - HEAVEN
4 - Close to you
5 - JEWEL
6 - Momentum
7 - Together When...
8 - fated (orchestra version)
9 - Days
10 - You were...
11 - CAROLS

I want to mix both Ayu and Kuu together based on how the songs flow~

I was listening to Unmei and considering it. :yes

And yeah Moon crying isn't really Christmas-y but I kind of like that song and needed an excuse to put it on a mix CD since I don't have TRICK. :laugh

Really? I get a pirate vibe from this song! Like she's on a commanding a ship late at night through the Pacific and she starts to sing SCAR with all her other pirates!

Question.
If her is actually blond, I will be ecstatic Is it?

since last year i made my own christmas j-pop compilation every year but with more artists than ayu & kuu

@jbrat: i send you a PM with Futari de...
and i made tracklist plan for you, hope it flows:

01. Close to you
02. Winter Bell (Kuu)
03. Days
04. You were...
05. JEWEL
06. Yume no Uta
07. Unmei
08. CAROLS
09. Moon Crying
10. Candle Light
11. HEAVEN
12. no way to say
13. Together when...
14. momentum
15. POWDER SNOW
16. fated (Orchestra Version)
17. SCAR
18. Futari de...

SCAR feels a little bit wrong placed through all the winterish songs! xD

umm where's stay with me?

replace scar with stay with me, it's better anyway

OMG! xDDDDDDDDDDD
How can i forget that!? LoL

Yeah left SCAR and put stay with me between POWDER SNOW and fated (Orchestra Version)

this made me lol irl. i like stay with me at the moment though :yes it's on my winter playlist too

you also forgot Black cherry! it's on my christmas playlist Because of the name. before my mom died she made Christmas cookies with black cherries in them! i miss her :(

that isn't wintery. i am sorry for your loss :( black cherries are disgusting though

Thank you so much! You're so sweet :D And thanks for adding POWDER SNOW. How on earth did I forget that?!

LOL. Nah, SCAR stays with me ;)

Why are there so many tags for this thread? o_o

LOL

don't look at me , I wasn't the one who did that :innocent

Can someone translate this for me? I want to know what is said about Kumi and what Kumi says at 2:54. Much appreciated!
EDIT: Uh I just want to know if she won anything at all. 0_o Oh and what was the song she was singing?

Aw, if anyone makes a JPOP Christmas compilation, can you put it up for download? :)

Ii Hi Tabidachi, Nishi e... WHAT A PERFECT PERFOMANCE KUUCHAN :luv2

I'm watching this over and over again <3

Dear Family (B-side of LAST ANGEL single)

my favorite for xmas :)

Ai no Uta?
Always?
Dear Family?
Taisetsu na Kimi e?

She won the 2nd place
The guy asked her, if it was her tears of happiness.
Then asked about her feeling right now.
I think she said that she was worried, but she's very happy

Flash (November 2009)

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http://i48.tinypic.com/2mowhw6.jpg

http://i50.tinypic.com/fva55l.jpg

Credits: YAJ and IloveKuu

^ cool photos, thanks!

Newest FC Update
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Google Translation
i guess her hair is red now? interesting... i hope she won't be styling it like that, though! lol

another red head in jpop? :P if she can have long red hair, then i'm fine with it. just not short, please :P

LMFAO ugh horrible hair cut after a couple of months of gorgeous long hair!

o_o; Seriously, what's wrong with Kumi's hair? It's not that bad! :laugh

that pic of her new hair reminds me of CL (fire days), i dont like it XDD the glasses are coolio though!

It looks a little weird in that picture, but I'm sure it looks fierce in professional photoshoots. :yes

Thanks for the scans, she looks great :D

Thanks for the scans! I love the glow in the last pic!

:cry it looks so so bad
i thought it was looking really good in those PT lives etc..
ughhhh. why is it so hard for her to have good hairstyles that flatter her face? :headache

i hope it's just a wig :laugh
don't make me cry Kuu~!!

oh wow... I hope its a wig too... that's uh... well... uh... just... wow... :confused

It has to be a wig, homegirl ain't that crazy! :laugh

^ If it's Kumi.. anything possible :roflmao

^ I guess we should prepare ourselves for the worst hahaha. But that hair and that jacket look like a costume!

I think she looks cool :cool

THAT HAIR!!!

http://i34.tinypic.com/2w68ldx.jpg

OMG! Freaking Emo covers!

Looks great! I think its a Rock Ballad Genre!

OMG OMG OMG the covers are amazing!!! :thud

X______________X at the Can We Go Back covers

omg I think the PV's going to be a dirty & gritty one , song wise too :laugh

OMG OMG OMG!!
nasty & dirty!! :heart
:luv2 both covers!!!

i don't really like that photo on the CD only, but the CD+DVD one looks decent enough.

i reallllly hope the song is good.

wow...its like NEVER EVER x Talkin' 2 myself...but it looks pretty cool. Kinda too much eye makeup though. cd+dvd is the better cover out of the two.

CD+DVD is amazing. CD only she looks like craz girl

There goes my dream of a precious winter ballad...oh well. She looks like she just got raped at some night club and then thrown out onto the street on the CD Only cover :( The CD+DVD is ok I guess...I can come to terms with it. It looks like the song will be very energetic. I wonder.

LOL Bryan

Can We Go Back is a hard rock tune so yeah D:

if the covers are winter inspired , then someone in avex's really o_O up there

^Oh I must have missed that piece of news (this thread moves crazy fast!)....hmmm....i dont know why...even though i dont like the covers at all...I feel like I'm going to like the song 0_o. Maybe cause her rock-ish pieces are always great....

OMGGG..the covers are really cool. I like the tone of it especially. I think we know what to expect from the song

Covers are great!
They also remind me of t2m PV, but that's just a good thing here. :laugh

the covers are disgusting o_o
CD-only is better though

The covers are quite edgy, I love them! :heart

OMG THE COVERSSSS!!!!!!! i loveloveloveleovlevoeveloev them :thud

OMG Kumi...
Can we get married and become a really happy family!?
I LOVE LOVE LOVE THE COVERS!
Especially the CD+DVD one, in the CD only she looks so much like Ayu! LoL
But i get both anyways! xD

EDIT:
Look behind the covers!
You can see a pic of the PV were Kuu stands behind a link fence!? (don't remember the right word for that)

yeah I wouldn't blame you because her thread do move real fast here D:

^yeah and somehow it also reminds me of juicy!!

Fierce: A word to describe Koda Kumi. ex: Koda Kumi's "Can We Go Back" covers are Fierce

The remind me of the Buttefly covers :P Bu they're awesome :D

The covers are cool, my fav is CD+DVD :)

AWESOMNESS <3 I want the song NOW

AMEN


can't wait to see the PV cause i think the covers are taking from her PV!
Hope we get previews soon!

EDIT:
hope this song will be something like the Rock Version of real Emotion from Black Cherry Tour!

oh god, I don't think I like the covers, atfirst i thought i saw a clown, no joke. in the right picture, white face, blueish eye shadow, redish blotch on side of face. (it's all mud though)
then I thought. wow she looks really sad/akward/weird in these.

:(

They look amazing, sexy, dirty and Kumi.

They remind me a lot of Butterfly and HOT STUFF's covers

I want a sexy & naughty PV.. (I want Juicy :lech)

Bigger covers!

CD only
http://i50.tinypic.com/wch9gy.jpg

CD+DVD
http://i49.tinypic.com/2sbmscm.jpg

And buyers get a B2 poster with every order, different ones for every edition (one for CD only, another for CD+DVD).
FC members get a clear file.

I want both posters, so I gonna order both editions now! Damn Avex... :dead2

Thanks to Negi for the pics and infos!

Danke Rika!
CD+DVD fierce!! :heart