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From Koda Kumi Italian FC
Our friend Tony James attended the 15th Anniversary LIVE: The Artist and we are happy to share his thoughts on the experience:
"I just saw Koda Kumi's 15th anniversary show: The Artist, in Osaka. I wanted to share a few highlights from the concert with you.
Before the concert they had the camera going around the stands and they would instruct the fans to do funny things. If you were the best you would get a Christmas present. Eventually they were having couples give each other kisses. They shined the camera on two guys and told them to kiss and they ended up doing it. So they won and got their Christmas present, which was front row seats!
The concert started out with Koda Kumi singing her new ballad. It was really beautiful. After a few introduction songs the concert was broken up into 3 sections of what makes Koda Kumi the artist she is. The three sections were: the voice, the dancer, and the entertainer. They would show a video and interview with Kumi before each section. The Voice section was really beautiful and Koda Kumi came out in an extremely long white dress that they projected beautiful lights, stars, and flowers on. She also performed another one of her new songs On and On.
The dance section was my favorite. She performed a new song, which I think she called Cupcake (she said Buttercup a lot in the song too, there was a really good rap part from a guy.)
Then for the entertainment section (this was the encore) she did a mix of a few songs and rode around on a cart.
She showed a few seconds of a new music video. I can't remember which song it was for but I believe she said there would be two versions, one for the phone and one normal size. The video was koda kumi taking selfies and scrolling through instagram.
My favorite part was that she said she will keep singing, maybe even go to a 30 year anniversary. She joked and had a lot of fun with the audience which was really cool to see.
They're really strict about pictures and videos at the concert but there are a few on my instagram @toeknee1018 from before the concert. I'll be attending the concert in Tokyo too so hope to have some more. Hope this information is helpful"
And they uploaded 45s of NO ME WITHOUT YOU. Very beautiful piano ballad
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