[Koda Kumi] The 209th Thread

[Negi92]

New album is useless, terrible. I cannot believe this is the same singer I used to stan to be honest, there is not one single song that got my attention from that album.

[KarenPang]

Taken last night at Fukuoka



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[minkAYuko]

I'm so happy how this album turn out! I love this new era of ku! all the promotion! the visuals! Maybe the album is messy by having everything trown in one but like I said in another forum She blessed us with 20+ songs split into themed albums and fans didn't care enough this is the end result!! hahaha

Anyway I love the album I listen to the whole thing everytime!

[Corvina]

The setlist for the tour is really nice.
Love how she ends the main part with Vroom - always dig when she ends on a high note and I love the song!
And she's performing Ai wo tomenaide!
As well as new live arrangements and Change my future!
It does sound like a lot of fun.

As for the album - my fave is her jazz rendition of UFO!
A core sound for her. Vroom comes in 2nd.
Also like We are FIGHTERS, but I usually like the songs done by TSK (OMG, IS THIS TRAP?, XXX e.g.). That break!
Too bad she's not performing it at the tour.
TOKIO and her solo version of Trust Last are fun as well, Silence is a nice little ballad (so soundtracky).
Don't care for the rest, but I'm fine with about half of the album.

The portions of Trust・Last where Kuu sung over Shonan no Kaze sounded odd to me

Where did she sing over the Shonan no Kaze parts?
She recorded the whole song a second time with her own vocals.

EDIT:
Reading some spoilerfree toughts of fans, who went yesterday, they especially love the concept and the outfit(s) of the first act of the concert.
I do hope we'll get a live stream for this one.

[KLJames]

her english pronunciation in "Heaven's Kitchen" sound so good,
but the music arrangement for the whole song... just so dead.

"TOKIO" actually is a nice choice for the album,
coz the melody so famous in asia (thx to leslie),
but again, the bgm just repeat and repeat, so dead.

[KarenPang]

Originally Posted by Corvina

Where did she sing over the Shonan no Kaze parts?
She recorded the whole song a second time with her own vocals.

If you did not indicate that , I thought the Shonen no Kaze parts on Kuu sung over Trust・Last -TYPE K- sounded like copy & paste

I find UNICORN underwhelming & for Kuu not to include BLACK WINGS and Dangerously in it , I don't understand why

The same thing goes for Change my future too

[Corvina]

I guess, I don't really understand what you mean.
She talked about it in one of the many interviews she did though, recording it new.
And maybe it also helps you understand the album better, going throug one of the interviews, Idk.

But with tie-in songs it sometimes isn't easy to include them in own releases. No Kame Rider song was ever released outside of Kame Rider related releases. Kuu's is the first. Maybe because her husband wrote the song and they haven't given away all of the rights for it.