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Originally Posted by Demure_Dusk
Well.. it's an okay album and probably above average from most of the stuff other artists released. However personally I felt it brought nothing groundbreaking or new to Koda Kumi. It has the same formula as BC, a mixture of urban and cutesy poppy songs, so I couldn't help get the feeling that this was Black Cherry Part 2. That was a bit of a disappointment.
Furthermore the lack of continuity made this album sound a bit messy. This album has this polished album cover and a proclamation of something superior with the "Kingdom" title but the content doesn't seem to hold up its' name. It was as if they threw the songs haphazardly in the album. A couple of interludes wouldn't have hurt to make this album sound more polished and professional.
I guess the genre selection was to make happy all her fans but I'm kinda sick of her cutesy pop songs. I'd prefer her mature songs and her urban tracks so I was left with few new tracks that I really liked. I really liked Under and Amai Wana though. Amai Wana was a really great track, they managed to recreate her Arabian genre without making it sound like the rest of her Arabian songs. I was kinda disappointed at how anticlimatic Black Cherry was though.. the interlude promised a lot but it was quite flat imo.
The album did seem kind of rushed in several ways, kinda like Ayu's albums. avex seems just happy to pack their artists albums with lackluster pvs just so that they can mention that x artist has x pvs in her album.
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I agree with you in a lot of ways, and I forgot to mention the bolded area in my post. I think it didn't flow as well as it could've and the procession the tracks followed each other was a little random. And the other issue, is that Avex always pulls this on us where they try to hurry up and release new material like there's no tomorrow (which can be good and bad). But, either way it is obvious and I don't know about you guys but it kind of sounds like funny business to me
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So it was a lot like Black Cherry in some ways but I personally enjoyed the music more. Black Cherry WAS good though so don't get me wrong. I do feel in some ways that this album does show a stronger j-urban (or hip-hop) sound infused in her music but ya know, I've only been a fan of Kumi for about a year and I haven't listened to every single song from her like I have for Ayu and Hika (Utada Hikaru).
But anyways, well-said
Demure_Dusk.