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The album has some gems, but overall I think it's quite bland, same with the singles and the tour. Also don't think that's going to change. White as main colour actually quite fits... The inkbox collabo was restocked last night!
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^ Haha! I still think JAPONESQUE is her best overall album project, but musically Bon Voyage is a stronger album in terms of the music in some ways. The videography for the Bon Voyage album is very underrated.
I agree the album artwork was oddly lacking considering Kazuyoshi did the photographs. They usually have great creative chemistry, but not that time. |
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Idk, it probably didn't help that Bon Voyage was coming after JAPONESQUE and her pregnancy.
Because of that the whole era dragged out way too much - the first single Got to the top, as comeback single after her pregnancy, came out fall 2012 and the actual album then just followed late February 2014 with another half year for the tour after it. In between in 2013 she toured JAPONESQUE, which I also attended as my first Kuu live ever, so Bon Voyage didn't have any advantage. Though it also didn't feel that bad back in 2013 because of that. And while I like Go to the top and Dreaming Now!, Koishikute is the most bland ballad she ever put out as a single (together with stay with me) and the best song from Summer Trip she didn't even put on the album (and LALALALALA imo is her most annoying rock track ever probably). I love the covers and overall shooting of Summer Trip, but as a whole it felt like a weaker 3 SPLASH (3 SPLASH with the covers of Summer Trip would be the perfect summer single for me). Also SHOW ME YOUR HOLLA is nice, but also goes pretty much nowhere with its energy. The PV is great though and I agree that the others were nice as well.
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Last edited by Corvina; 25th July 2019 at 08:39 AM. |
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I agree the project dragged on a bit. I almost wish they had just released the album in 2013 with just GO TO THE TOP and Koishikute as the singles. I'm funny with Summer Trip to a certain degree. TOUCH DOWN was great and Is This Trap too. Yes, LALALALALA isn't all that good, but later came Dreaming now! which remains a great bop.
Koishikute is an odd one. I love the vocal arrangements and certain aspects of the production, but compared to her previous ballads it was a bit "flat". Last edited by lovethatkuu&ayu; 25th July 2019 at 09:08 AM. |
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Well, you know, in a sense Bon Voyage was like making a blank page for Kuu, which is why I also understand her choice of the travel theme and the colour white. It's also what she talked about in interviews back then, she said goodbye to her old life and started a reorientation where she wanna go with her career as well. Then she started to experiment more, leaving sappy love ballads, her overly cute image and her typical release schedule behind.
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l ~**My HQ-MV CAP COLLECTION THRAD**~ l ~**My HQ-Audio Live Rip COLLECTION THRAD**~ |
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^still prefer to give artists coins via streams. If no one would stream those songs cause of "reasons", they will be taking down for sure. And you can still keep the original files on your computer.
+ you can still change the tags and covers via Apple Music. Spotify has been pretty shitty with that, that’s why I’ll never go back to that. sure it takes time, but tbh it’s not THAT much... Namie took about 30 minutes so that’s not really an argument.
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So, if nobody is against spoiler.
UG is back! Wonder if he's only choreographing or also dancing? He was one of her dancers for both tours back then. She simply says here that it's been a while.
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l ~**My HQ-MV CAP COLLECTION THRAD**~ l ~**My HQ-Audio Live Rip COLLECTION THRAD**~ |
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First of all Livin’ La Vida Loca made my month. I used to be obsessed with the song when it first came out & now my all time favourite artist covered it. That’s beyond awesome. I played the MV on YouTube at least 30 times. It’s too bad they didn’t release it as a digital single. I’m very confused by their marketing strategy when it comes to this.
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I also have similar feelings about UNIVERSE as an album as about Bon Voyage. Singles & the title track were awesome yet the album itself felt like a watered down version of TRICK. Also, ballads on UNIVERSE felt too different and didn’t have as much impact on me as ballads from TRICK.
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The difference in tastes is always amazing!
The guy in the Livin' La Vida Loca PV btw. is Filippo Citerni, an Italian model based in Tokyo. He posted about the job here: https://www.instagram.com/p/B0OCO9bn...d=qu6tcdvy1cbz (thanks to mright on JPC for pointing him out) And thinking about setlists of re(LIVE) I can see her replacing all the old cover songs from back then with new ones from a new cover album for JAPONESQUE.
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the cover songs is just great! but i'm not sure about the PV,
that driving-but-not driving car scene looks very silly. and having that attractive italian model just for mocking poses but in the end doing the final dance scene with a random (regular look) japanese dancer it makes no sense to me |
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The club and the car scene are separated tho, it's not a story line. I do agree that the scene with them driving the car is very silly, but that's a small problem.
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The PV is also a nod to the original video by Ricky Martin.
And the woman she portrays fits the lyrics.
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The video now is a little over 100k views.
The description has been edit with info for the re(CORD) album: 1999年に郷ひろみが日本語カバーした、リッキー・マーティンの大ヒット曲「Livin' La Vida Loca」を倖田來未が大胆カバー! 9月14日からは「KODA KUMI LIVE TOUR 2019 ~re(LIVE)」(川崎・福岡・大阪・仙台)を開催。 今秋にはオリジナルアルバム「re(CORD)」をリリース予定。 詳細は倖田來未オフィシャルサイトをチェック!
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The ASEAN music festival is tomorrow!
According to her stories, Kuu just arrived in Vietnam not too long ago. Last time she was there was in 2011. As VTV is a public channel there's a live stream available: https://vtv.vn/truyen-hinh-truc-tuyen/vtv1.htm The festival starts 8 pm Vietnamese time (from Kuu's official site). But Idk if they're going to live broadcast or at a later time/date. The current information just says it's going to be broadcasted (before the site stated live broadcast). EDIT: Ok, the official facebook page of the event says it starts 7:30 pm. And goes till 10:30 pm. Guess that's the correct information. The festival is fully booked. As I understand it is free, but you had to apply beforehand and when you were drawn you got an inviation (a ticket) for the show, for Japanese visitors as well as Vietnamese.
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Last edited by Corvina; 27th July 2019 at 09:51 AM. |
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Someone from Vietnam who follows me on Twitter had no idea about ASEAN-Japan Music Festival 2019 in VIETNAM -prayer for peace- until I told her about it
The Vietnam Twitter user said that ASEAN-Japan Music Festival 2019 in VIETNAM -prayer for peace- will take place tomorrow in Hanoi , which's the capital of Vietnam Not sure if she'll be watching ASEAN-Japan Music Festival 2019 in VIETNAM -prayer for peace- at home cos she resides in Ho Chi Minh City and if she were to attend she has to take a domestic flight to Hanoi Somemore I don't know if she supports any of the Japanese artistes who will be performing at the even tomorrow x)
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ASEAN-Japan Music Festival 2019 in VIETNAM won't be broadcast live, only next month:
The music festival will be aired by VTV at 20:10 on August 11. https://english.vov.vn/culture/asean...nam-400733.vov --- Edit: It seems like she performed already: https://twitter.com/Haru277/status/1155472579055853568 Two more pics from the performance: https://baomoi.com/dai-nhac-hoi-asea...c/31631489.epi It looks like a ballad + Eh Yo. So I guess it was Ai no Uta + Eh Yo.
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Last edited by kaled kalil; 28th July 2019 at 04:45 PM. |
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