SUMMER TRIP PVs have been uploaded

LALALALA



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWueWKREVEk

TOUCH DOWN



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WWTOgSlamg

Hoo boy at TOUCH DOWN after all these years :tipsy

7 years and I'm still not over IS THIS TRAP not getting a video lol

Yeah, that was not cool at all, Kaled. Someone on her staff must have seen it at peeproom or something, because the official cover was WAY too similar to yours.

TOUCH DOWN really grew on me with time. It's a very good track, and it's unfortunate she decided to focus so much on the rather bland LALALALA during that time.

IS THIS TRAP was absolutely wasted as a song. I'm still trying to figure out how it never really got the big push it deserved.

Touch down is so hot!! and I really like lalalala tho i don't play it as much! the pv is great.

Very interesting!!! at least it's a good design!! I love that cover!

avex ain’t shit—i knew they jacked Ayu’s sixxxxxx cover from some fanart on twitter but had no idea this happened to you :( I’m so sorry! That’s wildly fucked up.

There were also some logos ayu's team used based on fanart iirc but last time they acknowledged it. Unfortunately seems to be a recurrent thing for avex, a pity. If at least they were like HYNA who approached Kaled and asked permission to use his work...

They actually link the global FC for the campaign on her official site, but no, nothing up yet. :/

Here are the chorus lyrics they shared:

【Lucky Star歌詞】
心のパレットを
カラフルに混ぜて
愛を 愛を 愛を 君に!!
自分の指で描こう 虹を描こう
この愛を 愛を 愛を 君に!!
<Give me a smile> Give me a smile
<Give me your love> Give me your love
この愛を。。。君に!!!
<Give me a smile> Give me a smile
<Give me your love> Give me your love
<Give me a smile>
この愛を。。。君に!!!

*they actually wrote smail instead of smile, but as I can't share it like that I corrected, lol

And the song is more like a mix of Put Your Hands Up! and Love Technique, the part of one verse they included in the shared part is rapped like that.
So, yeah, it's not the full song for those who wondered.
But it sounds really nice so far, just the pretty heavy autotune again is bothering me a bit.

If it's not going to be up on the global FC over the weekend I gonna post here...

At first I also thought one of the two new songs is going to be for..., but now I believe they gonna put Lucky Star and the tour theme song they teased in the tour trailer on the new release.

Thanks for sharing, Corvina! You also mentioned Love Technique which I LOVE TO DEATH, can't wait for this!

I think for... has some chances of being released on AI's discography rather than Kumi's, since she's also celebrating her 20th but through what seems to be a series of themed mini albums, so I wouldnt be surprised if she has a collab EP coming up. Either way, I can't wait to hear them together!

Its no secret that Avex is trash but this is a Supreme level garbage. Im bitter for you. Who knows how many other artists have had their intellectual property blatantly stolen by them.

Kuu is going to be on the TBS variety show モニタリング in one of the next episodes.
Not much info given yet apart from a short preview at the end of the last episode today.
Looks like they visited a Kuu fan.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/FXJfSf.png

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/y78zle.png

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/ZCoYp1.png

I'm in love with the snippet of lucky star, it's her type of happy, uplifting songs like Love Technique without being too cutesy! and it's danceable!!

^This! xD The autotune sounds bad for me cause I heard it on a crappy preview, but at this point i dun mind, she's going to use it in very random ways xD

Kuu is doing an Insta live 9 pm JST today.
Announced by the official account of her loveil lenses.

EDIT:
Alright, they informed again that her daily schedule changed, so it won't happen.
They gonna give notice when a new date is set.

EDIT 2:
Kuu now confirmed the Insta live for tomorrow 9 pm JST.
She's going to talk about loveil.

Thanks guys! :) That wasn't cool at all. And yes, as Gustavo said, HYNA was quite the sweetheart DM'ing me on twitter to use my freak me out cover. Sadly her career didn't take off, poor TARATIKA. It was on her website even with my awful watermark.



--

Someone posted Lucky Star on instagram, it's not my favorite but it does have the same vibe of Put your hands up!! and Whatchu Waitin' On. Hope the rest of the song is cool.

Just heard it on Global Koda Gumi and indeed it's very similar to Put Your Hands Up!!!, but the rapping part sounds like it'll be even better. A pity you can barely hear it. I think I'll love the full song!!

The preview on Insta is missing the part of the verse they included.
There she's rapping like in Love Technique.
I can try to rip it when I'm back at home.

I read once that it was because she was too embarassed to do the dance on stage. Which is a shame cause it's such an iconic song of hers and I still love it now. I think the only times I've seen her perform it was a remixed version on the JAPONESQUE tour like you said and for the Dirty Ballroom live on the Trick album. :(

I don't think that's the case, SHAKE IT is way more "raunchy" and she did just fine, nobody expects for her to do the original choreo anyway. I personally don't care that much to see a performance right now, I would like to see the a-nation because that was the time where the song was new and the festival fits the vibe of the song. Her a-nation performances compiled in one DVD/BD would be one of the things I would really love to have, and I would even pay good money for it, but I don't hold my breath for it. With Beach Mix they thought that they were doing something with "never released" performances of a-nation and rhythm nation, and it was just the songs we saw on TV anyway.

She didn't perform the song during the Dirty Ballroom tho.

Whatchu Waitin' On? PV has been uploaded



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-BJjkqOogY

:yes:yes:yes:yes:luv2

There's still a bit more from the 20th anniv shooting to come out, a lockscreen calendar has just been uploaded on Global FC and in the pics they used Kumi's hair is in a ponytail and her hand is highly "dirty" with bigger dark nails, like claws. So far my favorite from this shooting!

The monthly video is up as well, I wish she talked about the FC album on it but she just talked about the tour and teased a towel from the goodies.