[Koda Kumi] 126th Thread ～POP DIVA～

[Gubsi]

i love most of her PV's!
my fave era is Black Cherry!
恋のつぼみ
JUICY/With your smile/I'll be there/人魚姫
夢のうた/ふたりで•••
WON'T BE LONG
Cherry Girl/運命
Twinkle/Get Up & Move!!
i really love them all! (yeah even Twinkle with GAY Luo!! i mean i'm gay too, BUT i don't dance like this, oh god!)
+that awesome hair she had that time= epic win omg

i don't like the PV's for COLOR OF SOUL and So into you!
they are crap, pure crap!

oh god i notice something about KAMEN!
yesterday they played Careless Whisper from George Michael (u know the instrumental that sounds and used for porns) on the radio and my first thought was: OMG KAMEN is a porn ballad! D:
if u don't believe me, just watch some cheap soft porn on your favorite family channel at night on mute and listen to KAMEN or instrumental of it... seriously that works!

[NintendoHTF1242]

Originally Posted by Gubsi

oh god i notice something about KAMEN!
yesterday they played Careless Whisper from George Michael (u know the instrumental that sounds and used for porns) on the radio and my first thought was: OMG KAMEN is a porn ballad! D:
if u don't believe me, just watch some cheap soft porn on your favorite family channel at night on mute and listen to KAMEN or instrumental of it... seriously that works!

The first time I heard KAMEN I immediately thought of softcore porn music XD

[Gubsi]

^LoL yeah!
especially when u see the PV!!
i mean old man with young lady... hurrr

[Corvina]

Suki de³ sold 942 copies last week.

14th week: #76　*,942　倖田來未
Total: 83,805


13th week: #86 - 948
12th week: 1,085

She's still steady selling.

And both songs are also still charting in recochoku charts.

[love in music]

Originally Posted by NintendoHTF1242

^ Ugh I agree so much. That album was really drab and had such terrible flow (Sex song -> ballad -> dance track...um wat). 24 is one of her worst songs lol.

lol now if we judge every kuu album on its FLOW then they'd all be crap. I can never judge a kuu album on that. personally I just think the songs are a lot stronger on secret than a lot of her other albums..people can hate on the ballads on that album all they want but I still think they're great and the upbeat songs are fantastic too. Hot Stuff, Selfish, Chase, SHAKE IT

[Twinkle !]

aah come on.... I guess Secret isn't that bad IMO , I only hate some ballads , but i may agree with Corvina the first part of the album is great but some ballads are boring

tbh i still don't know which album is my favorite but obviously it's not her first four albums .

but i guess Secret or Black cherry has a lot of great PVs <3

[Minttulatte]

I like Melting preview. <3 It sounds so cute. ^-^ And nice to see how good Suki de, suki de, suki de / Anata dake ga is still selling. I hope it'll reach 90,000 copies soon. It would be so cool. *_*

[noisy_harmony]

well, at least for me secret is still a perfect album
...and maybe not all Kingdom PVs are cheap... but MORE is. such a mediocre video to such amazing song... story PVs were awesome, Himitsu and Koi no Mahou are and Wonderland was great as well! from singles BUT, Aishou and FREAKY were the best and LAST ANGEL the worst ()
PV-wise my favorite albums are definitely secret, BEST ~ss~ and TRICK. And probably new album will be too!
Her PVs are generally enjoyable and entertaining, I can't remember any mediocre ones except already mentioned from Kingdom and COS.

[♥ azurill]

Does anyone know where I can find scans of the affection booklet?

[jbrat2219]

I think the PVs were great for secret! Cutie Honey, Hot Stuff, Selfish, SHAKE IT, Trust you, Chase!!! All... My first Kumi Pvs xD; Yup, nostalgia LOL. Sans nostalgia I would say KINGDOM.

[NintendoHTF1242]

Originally Posted by identity

lol now if we judge every kuu album on its FLOW then they'd all be crap. I can never judge a kuu album on that.

oh god I know. Kuu is queen of terrible flow. Black Cherry anyone?

But secret was just a boring album overall lol. After Cutie Honey I fall asleep until SHAKE IT and then fall asleep again till the album is over.

[ren'ai]

am I the only one who does not give a hoot about flow? I can never understand people's need or insistence of it. To me, flow would = sounding quite similar or being similar genre to be consistent right? which would = boring to me. Why would I want to listen to a song on an album that sounds similar to the one before it? The album would also need interludes which reduces the amount of songs on it so again, no thanks.

Give me random song after song anyday on any album. That'll keep me interested and not have me wishing the whole ballad segment or w/e is over soon.

~Andd my favourite album based on PVs is BEST~second session~ <3 I love pretty much all of the PVs she has though, except the ones pre-secret

[love in music]

^I agree! I really DGAF about flow. I mean it's nice when things do flow but there are people who say they like songs on the album, but will say the album sucks because it doesn't flow and I'm like.. umm what? if the songs are all good that's all I need.. just because the album doesn't flow doesn't automatically make it suck or something. but just because things do flow doesn't really mean all the songs sound the same IE ayu's Love Songs that still kept the flow but each song still sounds different.

[Kingdom]

Originally Posted by Cherrim

am I the only one who does not give a hoot about flow? I can never understand people's need or insistence of it. To me, flow would = sounding quite similar or being similar genre to be consistent right? which would = boring to me. Why would I want to listen to a song on an album that sounds similar to the one before it? The album would also need interludes which reduces the amount of songs on it so again, no thanks.

this. I never understood why people hate albums because of their flow, that's why we have itunes and you can arrange the songs however you want. If the songs sound good, that's all I care about. It's hard to make an album that flows when you have diversity in your music like Kuu does.

[Lady~Deviance]

I don't know why but "Melting" sounds like your typical run of the mill kuu sugary pop joint. I still like the song though.

The song arrangement on an album never bothers me. That's why man invented itunes to solve that problem. But then again I'm not going to call out those who find fault with song arrangement. That's their business I guess. We all have little insignificant things that bother us. To each his or her own.

[emi♡]

I don't care about flow either, or cohesiveness.I want songs to be good. An album with flow and cohesiveness usually = a boring ass album for me.

And I'm not gonna get into the album that was just so cohesive and just released by another artist....but....yeah, the album was great, but, still really boring for me.


I need my diversity. Koda is perfect~

[TITANIC]

woow. Pop diva is so cool. I already in love with that song

[jbrat2219]

Originally Posted by NintendoHTF1242

But secret was just a boring album overall lol. After Cutie Honey I fall asleep until SHAKE IT and then fall asleep again till the album is over.

I love secret but I gotta admit that's funny!

I'm not too big on flow but sometimes, like with black cherry, it makes me laugh how random the song placements are lol. My thing is, when I hear an album one way for the first time that's the only order I can listen to the songs in in the future. For example, I got a radiohead album and heard it for the first time in alphabetical order instead of the actual track number order and from that day on I can only listen to it alphabetically lol. So even though Kumi has terrible flow, I can't imagine her albums being any other way.

[waterballoon]

the only flow I take interest in is if the album is that musically-cohesive that it's amazing to listen to.

but whatever, Kuu is Kuu. she's got songs from like almost every genre I bet none of us can come up with a better flow for her albums anyway... they'd all flow as smoothly as amniotic fluids from women aged 35 & above.

[maze]

Originally Posted by Corvina

Suki de³ sold 942 copies last week.

13th week: #76　*,942　倖田來未
Total: 82,720

12th week: #86 - 948

She's still steady selling.

And both songs are also still charting in recochoku charts.

it sold 948 on the 12th week; 1,085 on the 13th week; and 942 on the 14th ^^

total so far: 83,805