[Corvina]

Ok, looks like I have some time, so I try to summarize what she says about every song.

01. DO ME

Spoiler:

Conveys the most important message for her, the starting point.
Back in the day she was unsure about herself, reluctant even, but if she's willing to give herself up, who will respect her?
It's about being herself and not to try to be someone else, establishing herself like that earlier in her career.

02. GET NAKED

Spoiler:

A song she provisional recorded 3 years ago for W FACE, but just completed now.
There's a line in her debut song TAKE BACK - 素顔をとり戻せるのはあなただけ (The one who can take back my honest face
is you alone) - she wants to refer to with GET NAKED. Therefore GET NAKED means showing your real face - "you're always free to dress you up, but it's also up to you to take it off (again)".

03. STRIP

Spoiler:

She completed the song before it was picked up as a tie-in song for the Rika drama.
There's no deeper meaning to the lyrics, it's in line with songs as HOT HOT or KO-SO-KO-SO, her sexy side lived out.

04. k,

Spoiler:

A type of song she really likes.
A cute and playful number to spice up the album making process.
She shot the PV pretty much last minute while having the Kanagawa shows of re(LIVE) tour.
DO ME and GET NAKED are conveying the feeling of women living free and uncontrolled, but here they also express the side of women who want to be loved.
The PV is like a gumball gacha machine, she uses balloons in her hair and dances with exercise balls.

05. Rich & Famous feat. Sean Paul

Spoiler:

CHANCES ALL from her DNA album last year was a popular song among her fanbase. There are a lot of popular songs actually, but she likes this song herself, so she wanted to challenge herself to "recover" the song for this album.
Without this song, the album probably wouldn't exist like it is.
She thinks Sean Paul's lyrics are very nice, they convey the message of "no night without dawn" (明けない夜はない in Japanese).
It was hard for her to match Sean Paul's level of rap, but as a result it turned into a nice song with a reggea beat.

06. again

Spoiler:

A song that might only be born because of this album.
again has the same meaning as the "re" in the title and is supposed to be like a summary of her "royal ballads".
The PV has motifs of Ai no Uta and you.
It was a difficult song for Kuu, cause she thinks she is a "strong type" while singing and is not good with softer forms.

07. Merry Go Round

Spoiler:

This song is very popular among her staff.
One of the songs completed early in the recording process.
They observed at her lives that even when fans were coming alone, they said they had a great time.
Even if you're alone, you're not lonely, cause everyone is with you, they said.
That is her ideal. She also says, that might feel exaggerated, but world peace is like that for her as well.
So it's a song she wrote in hope to make everyone happy, a "loop of smiling faces".

08. Eh Yo

Spoiler:

Eh Yo was written to support rugby from Osaka.
Eh Yo means ええよ (yes, right).
It's a collaboration song with Akira Takasaki, guitarist from the rock band LOUDNESS from Osaka (she wanted to collaborate with someone from Osaka for it).
In the album version there's an additional guitar part with him added.

09. GOLDFINGER 2019

Spoiler:

It was a challenge to cover Hiromi Go's version with a Koda Kumi flavour.
The song itself also has its 20th anniversary.
It's a kind of cover song to be a starting or turning point for Koda Kumi.
Just as Cutie Honey and just recently Megumi no Hito were.
There was the plan to initally make this album a cover album.
So this is a key song.

10. プチョヘンザッ!!!

Spoiler:

This might be a familiar (close) song with a feeling of distance.
While having the feeling she has to change as Koda Kumi, she also felt that she shouldn't change in certain aspects.
It's about enjoying it live.
As fans from younger generations have recently started to come to her lives (again), she wanted to make a song that everyone can sing and dance live, which is also why it has a dance also taught by Kloop on the screen live.
It might be kind of childish, but it's one of the things as Koda Kumi that shouldn't change.

11. Summer Time

Spoiler:

She wanted to sing a mid-tempo song during a-nation in summer.
It has a feel-good-melody and a catchy hook.
A song in the veins of Lady Go!.
She jokes, she's born in winter, but herself likes summer best.

12. OMG

Spoiler:

OMG was the last song to be completed.
A light and intimate number like プチョヘンザッ!!!.
A bit nostalgic.
She's proud it's a song being addictive for fans.
Which is an image which fits to the finale of a tour.
T-SK (the producer who wrote the song with/for her) was particular about adding excitement to the last part in the arrangement for the live performances.
She says they exchanged a lot of thoughts about the sound of this song.

13. SHUTOUT

Spoiler:

A song that's important for the order of the album.
She was worried about how to close this album, cause she wanted to value the world she opened with DO ME.
The album gradually becomes fun and lighthearted through its course, but she wanted to go back to the "Koda Kumi" one more time. She in particular was careful with the composition of the song.

14. Livin' La Vida Loca

Spoiler:

It's a latin cover song, which is very trendy right now.
She actually didn't want to go with the trend, but she was surprised about it when she sang it, it lifted her mood!
As a result she covered both versions of the song, the English original and the Japanese one.
And made 2 PVs for each version as well.
She wanted those to be linked, with a trick to ask yourself which one to watch.
The English version has the signs in Katakana, the Japanese version has the signs in romaji, in English.
The PVs are flipped on purpose.

@Karen
Yeah, her dancers are cute, some of them (like Achi and Marina) also posted messages on their Insta, aw.
Kuu is also thanking everybody for all the messages she already received in her Insta stories.