[Koda Kumi] The 158th Thread - 「Color The Cover」 (2.27)

[Utena]

anyone here ordered the CD+DVD regular? I'm still wondering if I should get the booklet one or not..

[taskinillusion]

Sometimes I wish I wasn't a mod so I could say what I really thought.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and have the ability to express their opinion as long as you're not artist-bashing or fan-bashing. Some of what has been said could have been said differently so it didn't look like a non-Kuu fan was just here to put down the fans who liked something that someone else didn't.

[emi♡]

Originally Posted by Chibi-Chan

I think you guys not even try to understand what I say. It's not the genre of the songs I'm criticising, I'm a Britney fan and to say it's just not my genre and I just don't like dance pop doesn't make any sense.
For example, I really like "Scream & Shout", 'cos it works as a club song, but it is just trash like "Color The Cover". The arrangements ARE trashy and cheap, if you like them nonethless that's ok, but it doesn't safe the songs from being what they are. Normally I woudn't care about Kuu releasing trashy and cheap sounding songs, but she turned really great songs carelessly into something that could be considered an insult towards the original songs.

Edit: About the original artists decided to give the songs to Kuu. I'm sceptical to which extent hide agreed to her "Pink Spider" cover. And in generel most of the time the label of the artists decides about things like that, the original artists often don't have anything to say when it comes to things like this.

Well, first off, hide is dead so I don't think he has very much to say about it.

I guess we can all just agree to disagree on the word "trashy".


@whoever posted the book~

I had no idea there were going to be so many pages! I saw the photos on peeproom, but damn

[happiholic★]

You can't definitively call something trashy. That is totally subjective. Going back to Courtney Stodden, I for sure think she's trash. But, I'm sure she feels differently. I'm sure she thinks she's hot and "vivacious" or something.

I don't even like the album and I don't think its trashy. Just boring. But, again, that's my opinion

[kakumei]

Originally Posted by Klauser_Bateson

I missed my CDJ package today... >_< Sometimes I wish FedEx would just leave my stuff at the door and walk away like UPS does...

FedEx will leave your package, you just have to leave a note on your door (with a signature) asking them to do so. I do it all the time, b/c I am not usually home when they drop by that early in the morning.

[pommy48]

Originally Posted by Heavenly

Are they going to release a TW / HK version of this album ?
I really like the packaging of the Limited Edition, but the price is quite high in JP version...

TW press comes out early March in CD+DVD version and CD+DVD+photobook version

[happiholic★]

Originally Posted by kakumei

FedEx will leave your package, you just have to leave a note on your door (with a signature) asking them to do so. I do it all the time, b/c I am not usually home when they drop by that early in the morning.

...This would have saved me so much headache if I had known sooner. I hear there is a barcode you can stick on your door for the drop off guy to scan. Its good, so your neighbors don't get funny ideas about stealing your signature.

[inspire_rmx]

i'm so in love with this album. love 情熱 and 今宵月のように

[gothicayu]

[QUOTE=emi♡;2980093]Well, first off, hide is dead so I don't think he has very much to say about it./QUOTE]

---> thats a nice way to put it ..... poor hide

indeed he is not here with us anymore , but his family own the rights to his songs (there was a lot of fuss when yoshiki used hide image during x japan latest tour, Headwax a company own by hide's brother did sue him because he didnt ask the right to use hide's image) , so his family or at least Headwax had to agree with avex in order for kuu to cover it .

that being said . i have to agree i didnt like those covers either ( maybe because i knew all the originals to start with/or maybe because i fallow kuu since her debut and her style have changed a lot) and couldnt stand her voice being manipulated so much or the electro sound on pink spider .

im not saying i didnt like the covers because they don't sound exactly like the original, i didnt like the covers because i would have like some different arrangement than the ones done for this album.

kuu does usually wonderfull & classy covers during music fair/or during her Eternity: Love & Songs tour but the ones in this album are just not reflecting the full potential of her voice and the music arrangement weren't the best .

dont get me wrong i still like kuu , but for me this album wasnt what i was expecting from kuu

again everybody have different taste i respect it.those are only my personal opinions.im just adding my 2 cents for this album review . please also respect the people with a different opinion .

now for those who are interrested here re all the promotional pics and inside preview from her album https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...4137694&type=3

here are the photos for the namba fashion event https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...4137694&type=1

[kaled kalil]

Oh God no, this package.... I hate those things more than digipak.

I think people are getting afraid of saying their opinions about the album right now lol it's not that people here can't accept other opinions, but how things are said. Its like going to Ayu's thread and start talking SHE'S SUCH A **** ON PARTY QUEEN COVER, WHAT A B****, you know?

Btw, I don't think that making a cover more appealing is something bad at all, I think that catching a new audience with the covers, even young girls and boys that wasn't born at the time of the original tracks, is something great. I always tend to go look for the original version to see how much the artist changed it.

And I know how hide's family is with his things and memories, so I'm pretty sure that someone of them is happy with the cover, and if it wasn't they won't let her release this song at all.

[Minttulatte]

I think some people should learn to say their opinions here in a way it doesn't hurt anyone because that's how messages are easily misunderstood and drama will occur. :p

And I love that back cover for Color the Cover. It's awesome!

[Gustavopc]

Color the Cover debuted at #5 on Oricon (#3 sold 16k copies)

[Minttulatte]

Maybe those sales will rise soon. :3

[thinkingoutloud89]

strange how people are stating the autotune as one of the bad things and it is only present in two songs, of which one is an electropop song (at least now). I think they did a wonderful job with the arrangements and made those classy songs fitting for her rather then using the original arrangements. That way she does not have to live up to those and can do it in her style. This album reflects every aspect of Kuu-chan from her last few albums and like always, they will be even better live.

[AyuHamasaki01]

Does anyone have HQ textless covers of Color the Cover?

[Klauser_Bateson]

Quick question about Dou ni mo Tomaranai. Around the 1:45 mark, the song stops for like a quick second, then continues. Is that supposed to happen?

Also, wow is the song HELLA SHORT. Still like it though.

I find the cover album pretty decent. Aside from Lovely and Alone, I like all the songs she covered.

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

I much prefer her soulful renditions of the songs from Eternity.

All of the songs on that album are Kuu, but they're done in a much better way imo.

However, there was also a much better song selection. I don't really like any of the original songs from CTC, and so Kuu's versions didn't really excite me to begin with.

But, that's just me. These versions are still Kuu, just... a different side of her. I prefer the other side, I guess.

[happiholic★]

Reading the comments, I've come to wonder, do people think that because the genre of the song is electro that automatically makes it soulless crap? And that only rock can have meaning?

[Mimichild]

Color the Cover is a good album but I still think the PV's are cheap. Pink Spider is like the hybrid of DDD + Because of you while Shake Hip! is showgirls + Inside Fishbowl x (ECSTASY)-Love Me Back. -__-

[emi♡]

Originally Posted by happiholic★

Reading the comments, I've come to wonder, do people think that because the genre of the song is electro that automatically makes it soulless crap? And that only rock can have meaning?

I actually defriended a girl everywhere for making comments like this.

ugh I just couldn't stand her anymore.


Anyway, I wonder if anyone has seen the complete version of Pink Spider (that we know of lol)