[Koda Kumi] The 190th Thread - W FACE Tour 2017

[melissalove]

The crowd was dead tbh.

[Corvina]

Originally Posted by melissalove

The crowd was dead tbh.

Well, it was a Hip Hop crowd and mostly male.
So kind of expected to be different than usually.

[jiarongisme]

YouTube link for those who have trouble with the Baidu player (minus LIT). Courtesy of Koda Kumi Italian Fan Club.

LIT

[salina]

thanks for posting can anybody upload the live please?

[Corvina]

I'm back from the concert.
Most important thing first.

She announced the 61st single today.
It's called 'HUSH' and comes in the same vinyl edition like LIT.
The back cover is a continuation of the first.
All three singles together form a full pic.
The cover is similar to LIT - face close-up and instead of flowers on the left side there's a lip mark.

Concert was amazing as ever.
I was the first time close enough to the stage to catch confetti myself! ❤
Do you guys want me to say something more?
There's quite a bunch I wanna tell at least.

[jiarongisme]

^ Yes please!!

[kaled kalil]

@Corvina You can tell all in details! Love reading reviews from the concert before seeing.

This is HUSH's cover:



It'll be out on 10/04.

[Darkifrit]

From the title, it sounds like it will be an Outside-like song. I hope the December single will be a ballad.
Did not like LIT, I loved Outside but I want drama cellphone queen back for one single.

[Corvina]

I don't recall. Did we get a full review from anybody?
I think not, just overall summaries.
So I'm doing one now - beware, it's going to be long for Kaled and jiarongisme.

A short remark - there are no real interlude movies. It's more about the W Face theme and the atmosphere. It felt really compact like that. Not much time to rest and to sit down for a while, probably also because the ballad part is more of a midtempo sing along part. Everything felt fast. Length was the usual though.

Full review in spoiler:

Spoiler:

M1 Ultraviolet
A short projection at the beginning. Then Kuu appears in the middle of the triangle, doing a dance with the screen behind her. Then she goes down, dancers appear and Ultraviolet is performed with the dance routine from the PV. Seriously the bass in the hall was impressive!
Triangle screen showed the Kuu from the PV singing and dancing to certain parts. Energy is high in the hall.

M2 POP DIVA
POP DIVA right behind. Here, I guess, she's already stripped from the first outfit, revealing a black bodysuit. A short one this time, so yes, you could see her butt in a later song (Bassline), rofl. Usual dance and first time the audience goes insane.

M3 (Medley)Wicked Girls〜HURRICANE〜MONEY IN MY BAG
This medley was nice. It's done from the ground level and up on the triangle. Screen showed parts from the PVs.

M4 Insane
The song starts and a net appears in the middle, which Kuu hops into. It's basically her tissue dance for this tour.
The first thing she did was a full split in midair! And all the spins and swirls towards the end! And of course singing in between. Gosh, I have so much respect for her.
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M5 Bassline
Two male dancers with those big hats and mic stands appear. Then Kuu as well with both. First singing on the ground level, later up at the triangle. First song her voice really shined. Her voice was strong the whole evening though. You could already suspect the good shape of her voice right now two days ago at the KTCC Fes.

M6 Damn real
Kuu vanished at the end of Bassline and projection screen covering the whole stage came down. A blue projections starts. Kuu reappears behind it (it's see through). She's in a construct to 'fly' over the stage and interacting with the blue projection. It's beautiful, but as I had a good seat this time I was pretty close to the stage and I guess the full magic of that performance unfolds from farer away.

W FACE PV
The projection screen keeps being down. W FACE PV starts on it. But now that I've seen it, the concept of the PV without her dancing makes sense. It's actually double projected - sometimes at the front, some other parts on the triangle screen. I don't even know, how this is supposed to work on TV and DVD.

M7 Promise you
I'm happy about Promise you, as I love the song so much. Wouldn't have been mad about Yorokobi no Kakera as well, though. Kuu reappeared in a two piece white dress with bare belly (being so close the whole time - man, she's so fit!). Good vocals and just awesome to sing along to. From here on till the end is the band playing live.

M8 愛のうた
Luckily just the short version. Not that I don't like it, but I've seen it three times live now...

MC
The first MC of the night. Actually the better one, as it was one big interaction with the fans.
Today she asked about the age of everyone.
A bunch of kids, most people were in their 20's, also quite a bunch of 30's, about the same small amount for 40's and 50's, little of 60's. And you wouldn't believe it, but there was a sweet lady in her 70's there as well! She was so happy jumping a bit up and down in her Kuu shirt, so that everyone could see her on the screen!
Left next to me were a pair of older ladies in their 50's and 60's respectively. Fellow Kuu fans - one had the lightstick from UNIVERSE tour and they went last year as well.
Kuu also asked about first time goers. Just 2 or 3. The guy right in front of me e.g.. You could tell, he was probably dragged along by his girlfriend next to him, rofl.
Kuu already introduced the band here as well. Same as last year.

M9 TATTOO〜SWEET MEMORIES〜小さな恋のうた
Kuu standing in the middle singing first and then walking up and down. Lyrics on the screens behind her. Chiisana Koi no Uta is so awesome. And everybody knows the lyrics and is singing along and in duet with Kuu at the end. Aw!

M10 Heartless
Kuu speaks shortly about the song, introduces her solo piano player and then performs. Lyrics are shown at the screen. She vanishes at the end.

M11 好きでして
The fan interaction song. One female and one male dancer went into the audience to pick one fan. It was a big scream moment, when the female dancer appeared on the third level! She picked one from there, love them for that! Meanwhile her staff is building the tea cup on stage. Fans are led to the stage and Kuu appears, sitting down next to them. She's wearing the beige glittery dress with bare shoulders and back. Really pretty.
Tea cup moves on stage, dancers dance first and then making photos. Usual aw moment.

M12 BRIDGET SONG
Ah, such a great live song! The audience can sing and clap along at the latter part. So much fun! The screen shows the sitting Kuu from the PV. But she's pointing at the audience and waving at the right moments, so not only PV footage.

M13 Stand by you
My least favourite song from both albums. So I was a bit...indifferent. But nice vocals. Kuu vanished at the end.

A interlude projection was shown after that whith first two female dancers dancing in front if it, later also two male (all in lace and bunny masks). It leads to a dark and bright clothed Kuu in the projection becoming one and it leads into...

M14 HOTEL
Kuu and all her dancers from here on. Kuu in that two piece sports ensemble (don't know how to call it) with all those long braided strands in purpel and brown. Usual dance with fan interaction.

M15 TABOO
Another insane audience song. Usual dance, but the energy was so high!

M16 XXX
From all the audience reactions, this song seems to be a small fan favourite. Right in the midlle Kuu goes up the triangle and DJed the rest of the song.

M17 Be My Baby
Usual dance down on ground level again. Also fan interaction with the 'yeas' and dancing.

M18 LOADED feat. Sean Paul
Here the same as well, but man singing certain parts with the whole hall and Kuu together (like counting down to 1 and the alphabet and the round, round, rounds) IS SO MUCH FUN. Sorry, but I do hope, you guys can experience that yourself one time.

M19 Bring It On
Usual again, but again a fan interaction song.

M20 What's Up
Aaaand the towel dance. I was a bit lost here as I don't know the new dance for it yet. But I caught some confetti, yay!
Kuu and her dancers are thanking everybody at the end and vanish.

Before the show some fans from her FC announced, that we would sing Megumi no Hito for Kuu while waiting dor the Encore. I was like "Whyyy? Whyyy?" I know so many lyrics, but of course not those, lol. Tried to remember them before the show started, but failed of course. But I wasn't the only one! Just one part of the hall was singing the chorus and the other half was improvising by adding a loud yeah everytime they ended one round. That was great!

EN1 Poppin' love cocktail feat. TEEDA
The Encore started with the fans chosing the first song from the inside or outside part. It was Is This Trap? vs. Popping' love cocktail. I tried my best to be as loud as possible foe ITT?, but the winner was clear from the start. Another towel song it was, but I love it as wellb so nevermind. Kuu is wearing jeans and the black Tweety shirt as a crop top.

EN2 Butterfly
Kuu went into the first rows of the audience! Pretty nice. Especially to the kids sitting there.^^
Yeah, yeahs in between for the audience.
Rest as usual.

EN3 Comes Up
I know, the lyrics are great and Kuu always gets emtional cause of the meaning, but it's just not my song. But there's a fan interaction part as well I didn't catch before, where everybody is holding their lighsticks up.

Second MC now.
Usual length. I am happy I'm finally, finally understanding parts of it, but Kuu honey is still speaking much too fast sometimes. People from her FC could hand in questions before the show and she picked three of them to answer.
One was pretty funny. The girl said, she really likes Insane from outside, but it's so hard to sing at Karaoke, especially the Insaaa-aaa-aaaaa-ne part in the chorus. And she asked about Kuu's feelings towards that. And Kuu was all like "yeah, I so wanted to make it, cause it so easy to sing" or something similar self-sarcastic. And mimicking that chorus part. So funny.
She also made fun of the audience from KTCC from Thursday. Just too cool to wave or sing for Kuu, haha. She was also puzzled, that they didn't sell any lightsticks.
Then after that Kuu showed her next single HUSH. No release date yet, but as we already know it's coming next month. She showed us both LIT and HUSH editions on stage.
Sadly she didn't preview the actual song. But it's not long anyway.
So after that of course...

EN4 LIT
Knowing the dance from the PV, it was pretty easy to adapt to the hall dancing the part of the chorus with the hands up. Really happy to saw it live. Fun song, fun choreo and I just love it when she uses her lower register like in this song.

EN5 walk
The usual ending. At the end Kuu walks into the triangle.
To be continued.

So, it was a really fan interactive show, when you know Kuu concerts and her songs well. More than usual. The boyfriend in front of me was totally lost. But come on guy, at least for some parts it's easy enough to pick something up!

Officially it wasn't sold out today.
Guess some seats on 3rd level maybe, cause the rest was full as far as I could see.

Show started 6 pm and ended 8:40 pm.
Even for me the second MC was too long. Somebody not understanding Japanese at all could probably take a nap.

Her staff filmed the audience before the show started. Don't know what for.

Alright, if you read everything and STILL have questions - jst ask.

[Corvina]

Originally Posted by kaled kalil

@Corvina You can tell all in details! Love reading reviews from the concert before seeing.

This is HUSH's cover:



It'll be out on 10/04.

Oh yeah, sorry for double post, but it's already up on her FC and her website.

61st Limited Single「HUSH」
2017.10.4 on sale
[ライブ会場・mu-moショップ限定] RZC1-86398 ￥1,000 (tax out)
豪華アナログサイズ(12インチ)ジャケット仕様
【CD】
01: HUSH
02: HUSH -Instrumental

No DVD this time.
Song is a medium autumny dance tune, filled with different vocal expressions.

[himawariii6]

According to a fanpage on facebook, "Hush" will be a dance and midtempo song.

[Gustavopc]

I can't believe there are gonna be three of those weird covers
This aside the description of the song is promising, let's wait and see

At least it's a cheap single, I think I'll get it with DH7.

[KuuXAyu-fan]

"filled with different vocal expressions" - I hope this doesn't mean duck voice lol.

Wonder if we'll get a PV this time.

[thinkingoutloud89]

^LIT got a PV, if you mean the single itself then : "no DVD this time"

[ShiniTakashi]

I hope this song is better than "LIT". Since it's getting released in the fall, I'm kinda hoping for something along the lines of "TABOO" or "Physical thing" at the very least.

[KuuXAyu-fan]

Originally Posted by thinkingoutloud89

^LIT got a PV, if you mean the single itself then : "no DVD this time"

I know but it doesn't mean we'll get one for this and the next single. Hopefully.

[pedronekoi]

Oh my God... when I thought LIT art was the worst we got this new cover... The picture is beautiful but this lip...

[Darkifrit]

We can bet on the next cover, what element will be in it? I bet for a cellphone!

[Corvina]

Originally Posted by KuuXAyu-fan

"filled with different vocal expressions" - I hope this doesn't mean duck voice lol.

Idk, but with this description I expect something like Bassline.
Medium dance song, fits autumn, has different kinds of vocals (also a rap, which is mentioned as example) and sensual lyrics (the lip mark on the cover).
And Kuu herself likes the song very much.
So I wouldn't be surprised with something similar.

[Gustavopc]

^ I hope that's the vibe of the song, Bassline is sooooo great