The new FC magazine is up on the global FC.
Some Japanese fan I follow already said it's partly more like a photobook this time and she was absolutely right. And such gorgeous pics they saved for it!
Anyway, there's the result of 20th anniversary survey for the middle part of her career (from BUT single to Love Me Back single) published.
Q.1: A song that makes you feel good?
01.Comes Up
02. You're So Beautiful
03. Lady Go!
04. Joyful
05. POP DIVA
06. UNIVERSE
07. Poppin' love cocktail feat. TEEDA
08. 空
09. You are not alone
10. FREAKY
Q.2: A song you wanna listen to when in love?
01. Always
02. 好きで、好きで、好きで。
03. anytime
04. Stay
05. Moon Crying
06. 愛のうた
07. IN THE AIR
07. 恋の魔法
09. 愛のことば
10. Bambi
10. あなただけが
Q.3: A song you wanna listen to at concerts?
01. UNIVERSE
02. POP DIVA
03. TABOO
04. 愛のことば
05. BE MY BABY
06. Moon Crying
07. Lady Go!
07. Poppin' love cocktail feat. TEEDA
09. Comes Up
10. 空
Q.4: The best song for karaoke?
01. 愛のうた
02. Moon Crying
03. め組ひと
04. 好きで、好きで、好きで。
05. 小さな恋のうた
06. TABOO
07. Comes Up
08. BE MY BABY
08. あなただけが
10. 愛を止めないで
Q.5: A song you'd recommend somebody who doesn't know Koda Kumi?
01. 愛のうた
02. POP DIVA
03. Moon Crying
04. Comes Up
05. UNIVERSE
06. You're So Beautiful
07. め組のひと
08. TABOO
09. あなただけが
10. 好きで、好きで、好きで。
Q.6: Favourite music video?
01. Moon Crying
02. KO-SO-KO-SO
03. Love Me Back
04. anytime
05. 愛証
06. 好きで、好きで、好きで。
07. TABOO
08. V.I.P.
09. Lollipop
10. show girl
Q.7: Favourite cover?
01. Kingdom
02. Best ~third universe~ & UNIVERSE
03. Dejavu
04. TRICK
05. 4 TIMES
06. 好きで、好きで、好きで。/ あなただけが
07. anytime
08. MOON
09. TABOO
10. 愛を止めないで
Would love to see 空 performed again!
The only underperformed song in the list.
Also hope she gives 好きで、好きで、好きで。, あなただけが, 愛を止めないで and 愛証 some more love now,
4 of her best ballads and she barely acknowledges them (on the other hand I can do without 愛のことば, hahaha).
They've also included an interview with Kuu, "towards the 20th anniversary".
Skipping through it, she confirms that she's the first artist who was allowed to cover Hiromi Go's Goldfinger - he had a lot of offers from artists in the past, but even his staff said it has to be her.
Doing re(CORD) took a lot of time, like people could follow on Instagram.
She mentions in regards to her FC that she has fans that follow her for 2 decades already, but the amount of young people increases, too.
Regarding her plans for this year she says (at the point of the interview at the end of last year) that the tour has just finished and the details are not decided yet.
She wants to express her gratitude and thankfulness, is wondering how she can do that, and wanna continue doing things she hasn't done or tried before.
In her free time she loves sitting on her couch, watching series and shows and sleeping in between. Her husband even made her a projector as present.
She watches a lof of different shows from Netflix, Hulu, amazon, Disney, Fox, WOWOW and youtube. Apart from that she also loves Lego and doing puzzles.
Last question is what she wanna do in her FC in the future and she answers she wants to go to karaoke with her fans and wants to directly ask what songs they like, inlcuding everything in the FC magazine. And at the end she is like "let's make a surprise - oops, I told you!".
I actually believe the question wasn't even meant that literal.
