[Koda Kumi] The 170th Thread - New Summer Single「HOTEL」2014.08.06 On Sale!

[ayumisrael]

I heard that BLENDA's publication's coming to an end or something like that?

[Corvina]

Yeah, that's sadly true. Blenda and some other Gyaru mags are abandoning production.
Means we won't have any more Kuu columns from there.

Here's the full HOTEL PV:
http://v.yinyuetai.com/video/2101460?qq-pf-to=pcqq.c2c

Thanks to Baidu and the uploader

But it's region blocked. You have to use a proxy or wait for someone to download.

EDIT:
And here's already a facebook link:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=493940100740600

[Lee^ChaN]

Yahoo~

Just got back from the venue.
So here's my quick review (excuse my grammar)

Spoiler:

No opening movie.. Starting with the sound of ship horn, and then some dancers appeared from the entrance door, and walked to the stage.
There's Kuu's face, eyes spotted on the red curtain.

Opening Song: Let's show Tonight
The curtain was lifted up, and she was sitting on an anchor, hanging from the ceiling. This giddy giddy-up song sounds better live!
She wore the captain white outfit (just like someone posted before)

Winner Girls
The stage changed into head of a ship shape.
She quickly changed into another white sexy sailor-like costume (a photo posted before). The performance was meh, I don't really like the song. But I love the sea background showed on the screen.

Show Me your Holla
The performance was fun, but her voice sounded so pitchy and tired (sounds like she had cold) Not her best performance.

Rock Your Body
It was short, but it was okay. It's just not my favorite.
The stage changed into the inside of the ship (more to a Casino hall to me )

Everyday
She quickly changed into another outfit here, white top and red skirt.
Dancing with red polka-dot umbrella. Cutesy song... meh..

Butterfly
Different arrangement but sounded really good. It's like a musical performance.

Interlude movie
Yeah, everything was in French.. didn't even understand a word, and the Japanese translation was too fast.
What I could catch was that Captain Kuu is sailing place to place. At one place she meets an old lady (yeah, foreigner.. maybe a French?) and she invites her to go sailing with her. Then one night the old lady gives captain kuu a compass and says that the compass will take you to the place you want to go. When captain Kuu opens the compass, it shined and bubbles popped out...

Ai no Uta
She appeared on the stage sitting on a half bubble-shaped chair, moving to left and right, up.. and down. She wore the "King of the ocean" like outfit (photo posted before) LOL no.. the one like a mermaid with Liberty-statue crown. Not her best ballad performance. She sounded weak

Koishikute
I actually like this song, but it's a forgettable performance.

Imagine
Kinda boring.. but the background screen was pretty. Sea and sunset.

MC
Short MC and band-members introduction.
No backing vocals this time, but 2 trumpet guys and 1 sax guy instead.

Koi no Tsubomi
It was an okay performance.

Medley
Real Emotion -short version- (no singing, only dancing)
She changed into a green mini dress with green head-scarf. She looked so hawt!

LAST ANGEL -short version-
She sang and danced.. I think there were some dancing in the chair involved here

Go To The Top -not too short version-
I LOVE this performance. There's a different arrangement with the song, the background was mainly blue and red, with laser performance.

Crazy For You -short version- (no singing, only dancing)
Sexy silhouette dancing.

Gentle Words -reaaaallly a short version-
It's over like in only... 10 seconds? LOL

Anata dake ga -short.. really short.. chorus only?-
Same as mentioned above

Take Back -short version-
Stared slowly with piano instrument, and then with full band.

TABOO (I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE SHE DIDN'T SING THE SONG, ONLY DANCING)
But the silhouette dancing was great.. so I kinda forgive her. It involved legs..
The screen turned red, and some legs were dancing (just like synchronize swimmers)

Lady Go
This song is always fun to be performed at concert. YAY for lots of dancing!

Interlude Movie
(Again in French) I don't really remember the whole story, but at some point the ship arrived at one place, where Pirate Kuu was having fun with her gang. There was a sword-fighting scene between Captain Kuu and Pirate Kuu. Captain Kuu won...

Crank the Bass
Dayum! I love this one! Despite her "weird black outfit" (photo posted before), the performance waaaasss realllllyy great. OMG her abs *drool*

Touch Down
From the whole performance, she only sang less than a half of the song (maybe only 30% of it) Maybe because of the auto-tune from the playback song? But the performance was cool. Some of the staff? or dancers brought spotlight and aimed at Kuu.

LOL
Definitely my FAVE! I love how the audience sang the "Oh-Oh-Oh.. HaHaHa Laughing out loud" part. The dancers had like mini-tablets or mini i-pads on both hands while dancing. The image showed on the screen was also showed on the i-pads. It was genial!

MONEY in the Bag
THIS... THIS ONE... MUST HEAR & WATCH!!
It was fun like hell! I love this song!
The PV looks Beyonce-ish (I said it before someone say )
It was a simple PV, with dancing scene.. like in a club and also a night scene, a bridge...

XXX
MY FAVE!! The dancers picked 1 boy and 1 girl to the stage (This time, it's not "who's the lucky boy, lucky girl, but Who's the bad boy, and girl)
Definitely a Club banger song! A lot of dancing happening here!!

Is This Trap?
This one was also good! Towel dance involveeedd!!

Dreaming Now
Same as above.. It was great!

*I think the dance-show was somewhere here..*
Introduction ~Bon Voyage~, and then Interlude ~Bon Voyage~ (Kuu's part)

LOADED
LOVE this one too! There was barrels on the stage, and bottles of alcohol.
I love how she made us shout the" "A, B, C..." part and sing the down down down.. round round round.

Interlude Movie
I don't remember... hahaha too much singing and dancing
But seriously, it's not thaaatt important..

Encore
U Know
It was a fun song, just like Lady Go! Dancing with Kuma!
She wore a two piece navi-colored outfit.

LALALALA
This song only works for live performance. It's fun

Bring It On
Yeah!! She should just release the song already!!

MC
She talked about the tour.. that today was her 47th date.. blablabla..
Then about the meaning of Bon Voyage blablabla...

She sang Moon Crying chorus, because before the encore the audience sang it.

Walk
Like the usual

Ending Movie
The ship sails.. It mentioned something like.. let's have a great trip or something.. I don't remember

Today's Set list


Overall: You can just skip the first 2 section after the Opening song, IMO. Well, if that's too much.. just leave the ballads. Let's just go right to Real Emo~

Oh, advice for the goods if you want to buy any:
BUY the Pamphlet, it 's gorgeous!! Skip the Compass thing.. the production looks cheap. I was deceived..

[freedreamer]

The pitching of her voice..that nasality is really..>< in the verses
the chorus is growing on me after hearing it in the MTV video and that ballad before MONEY IN MY BAG is so beautifullll

MONEY IN MY BAG feels like BLING BLING BLING meets Candy HAHA

[Heavenly]

In the HOTEL MV, she definitely CAN'T lip-sync properly

[happiholic★]

^If you watched the Facebook one, I think the timing was off. Cause the dancing was off beat, her movements, etc.

PV was kinda boring. No plot or anything. I loved the dancing, at least. And she looked good. Thanks for posting, though.

[Corvina]

I quite like it. I actually expected it to be more boring, without a plot and without dancing.
So I'm alright - she looks gorgeous, I really like the black hip hop outfit and the dancing.
Kuu said something in the morning news making, that this switch is something about two sides of (human) character or something, like dark and bright - that's why there are two settings for the dancing. I didn't get all of it.
Probably after drinking.

Ah, and thanks, Flo honey!
So Butterfly has a new arrangment, great. Lots of dancing is also great.
Sounds like the second half of the concert is amazing.

[kaled kalil]

The audio of the video is out of sync. She looks gorgeous, but I'm not feeling the hip hop scene. I wasn't expecting a plot or something, just a looking good kind of video, like I'll be there, so it's good enough.

Thanks for the review, Lee-chan! I love all the songs of the first half so I'm pretty excited about it, and also the medley seems to be an eye candy! And yay, no more trying-to-be-funny interludes!

[happiholic★]

Originally Posted by Corvina

I quite like it. I actually expected it to be more boring, without a plot and without dancing.
So I'm alright - she looks gorgeous, I really like the black hip hop outfit and the dancing.
Kuu said something in the morning news making, that this switch is something about two sides of (human) character or something, like dark and bright - that's why there are two settings for the dancing. I didn't get all of it.
Probably after drinking.

Ah, and thanks, Flo honey!
So Butterfly has a new arrangment, great. Lots of dancing is also great.
Sounds like the second half of the concert is amazing.

:O Very interesting. I would love to know exactly what she said.

[Zeke.]

Yeah HOTEL sucks. The verses are horrible and I don't like the style she is using there for singing. Then the chorus is even worse. The melody sounds like something a child would come up with on a long car ride. Don't like this song at all. The award for the JPOP song of summer 2014 goes to Boa.

[Princess_Of_Roses]

I like hotel.. but the yellow dancing scenes do not go with it.. but overall I like.it!

[taskinillusion]

Originally Posted by tenshi no hane

I googled "using my anytime" 'cause I thought "maybe it's simply slang I've never heard of?" lol. I guess it's supposed to refer to Sky Anytime+ ?



Actually, Lollipop's lyrics made sense, somewhat. She simply pronounced them horribly I know we shouldn't take it too serious, but sometimes I can't help but cringe.

Anyway, enough whining. I'm looking forward to the other two songs <3

I don't even know what that is, but I just automatically assumed she meant "anytime minutes" on her cell phone.

The Lollipop lyrics do make sense, for the most part. But yes, I remember we had no idea what she was saying and then they had the lyrics on the bottom of the screen the first time she performed it on TV and we were like, "WHAT?! THAT'S what she's trying to say?!" Ahhhh... Booty booty...

[NintendoHTF1242]

Originally Posted by Zeke.

Yeah HOTEL sucks. The verses are horrible and I don't like the style she is using there for singing. Then the chorus is even worse. The melody sounds like something a child would come up with on a long car ride. Don't like this song at all. The award for the JPOP song of summer 2014 goes to Boa.

Who's that? She still makes music?

[emi♡]

boa has a new something? lol

damn rekt let me go see.

[Gustavopc]

The review of TABOO reminded me of Beyonce's partition, if it is sexy like that then it's great Thanks for the review, sounds promising

[orangeakira]

I like it. I want to love it, but it's not amazing enough for me to really remember it. For me, her summer stuff (lick me, hashire, lalalalala, Hotel, I'm sure I'm forgetting a few others) never seemed memorable enough for me to really enjoy them.

[marcoba]

Hotel's song is a hot mess :|

[Beauty4123]

I've just seen the "HOTEL" PV & it's absolutely the perfect PV to watch in the summertime!

To start off with, I think "HOTEL" is such a fantastic song! I love it. I find it to be pretty catchy, as well! Kumi looked so pretty & beautiful throughout the entire PV. I also enjoyed the dancing in the PV, it was fun to watch! The location of the PV is totally fitting for the summer, it was all looking so beautiful.

Overall, the "HOTEL" PV was an absolute pleasure to watch. I've totally enjoyed it! The song is actually stuck in my head right now, too! I just love it.

[abestfah]

First time i listen to Hotel, by the name, i imagine about
Kumi pretends to be like bell boy, cook, reception etc. for taking care her guest and then dance scene.

One thing i'm disappointed is no Plot but others such as song and dance are trapping me stickyly, i love this summer single behind only Gossip Candy.

I miss storyline PV, looking forward to winter single

[ALfromHELLSING]

The only thing I'm not digging in the MV is the split screen. Who came up with that idea. Dancing part was the best. Overall MV is fun.

Originally Posted by sitara

OMFG, whatbis that?
I'm sorry that my firsr thought was a gimp outfit XD arrgh...
I know why her mascot is a bear (because kuma is similar to kumi) but why a duck outfit? because... album theme?

That's what I'm assuming. There are at least 4 colours. I saw black, blue, red and white.