why this new cover couldnt be the my name is cover?

^ I know, right?

Okay, now listening the song with headphones on it does slaps.

I do find strange some of the lyrics: https://www.lyrical-nonsense.com/lyrics/kumi-koda/xxkk/

Yummy cake yummy cake
I like this
Need a Pretty PONY
意外かしら？ haha

It has such a weird meaning if I'm understanding this correctly, specially with the Urban Dictionary definition for pretty pony lol. Does she like a**?

Also, what's up with "Beliebers" in the lyrics? Not sure if it is a typo or she's just angry at Justin Bieber's fans. haha

The PV is out at the FC, SHE LOOKS SO F CKING AWESOME in it

https://scontent-qro1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...b2&oe=5F765BB1

:luv2

Pls, go to see it :heart

I'TS HERE!!!! GO AND GIVE IT SOME LOVE!!!

QUEEN !!!

Kuu looks amazing in XXKK PV , HOT DAMN

I'm not really liking the song but wow the PV is epic

Love all the looks she spots in the PV :luv2

I just noticed looking at the cover that she kinda resembles a lion? the bi, big hair and the eyes (or eye in this case) like she's about to attack her prey.

It is what you think.
The line after she asks if this is suprising.
Sexual independence always was part of her image. ;)

I also absolutely love this part of the lyrics:

弱みは
見せない主義で
泣きたい
夜もあった
今こそ
立ち上がるわ
MY NAME IS
XXKK 祝って今夜 Cheers

It's the rule not to show any weakness
But there were also nights I wanted to cry
I'll stand up now
My name is...
XX KK
Let's celebrate tonight, cheers
(or also: celebrate XX KK tonight, cheers)

The PV is great!
I'd love a shot with her doing the dance with some of her dancers and not only alone, but that might have been intentional.
Interesting is that the mud/war paint shots are only linked to the black Kumi, the white queen is untouched throughout the whole video.

SHE LOOKS STUNNING IN THE MV! I love the whole thing, and how she used the duality thing again, it’s definitely something she loves to explore.

I’m just hoping we don’t get another MV reusing the “dark part” for another song, like they did with HAIRCUT/CHANCES ALL/WATCH OUT. Please Avex, give this girl some budget in her 20th anniversary.

Well, CHANCES ALL wasn't planned to get a PV.
They shot the scenes with all those different styled Kumis for the tour, that's both confirmed.
And then they probably thought why not make an additional PV out of it, it's an important song for Kuu and the fans (the album at the time).

I don't think we'll get another PV with it as we already have all new songs.
We probably will see the same theme used at the tour tho, with additional scenes and meanings as a fleshed out concept.
It is the tour theme song after all.
I do expect her to open the tour with it.

You can already guess this song is the opening of the concert and the silver outfit must be the opening outfit (or something similar). The crown is quite nice designed!

The song is cool and so is the PV. Pleased with it :)

The PV is a dry but dirty version of W FACE. Not complaining, I enjoy both. It would be nice if it had more scenes, it does feel a little empty even the set, but due the circumstances the PV is as good as it can get.

I like the white dress, she looks gooooood in it.

Omggggggggggg this SONG!!!!!!!!

For once she releases a WELL executed/produced track. Yes there is a lot of autotune but it fifs 100% with the song and really adds contrast to it especially when you hear the pre chorus which is GORGEOUS omg !!!!

Kumi would literally MURDER people in the Kpop game I swear if their produceurs could get it that would be the shit!!!

The attitude in this song, i really LOVE it and havent felt this way about a Kumi track in a long time. I can actually recognize her style AND it is 2020-ish. The instrumental literally kills me.

Music video is really simple but ok. It could definitely have been way worse lmao.

Kaled : this is exactly some kind of W Face part 2!

^I like the song and all but it is exactly that: sounds like a W FACE leftover (and exactly like a second part to W FACE; but that may as well be intended).
I did not find it all thaaaaat exciting for that matter.

I just looove XXKK, song and video. She looked so gorgeous and fierce all the way through. And yeah, it totally gave me a W FACE part 2 vibe, only this time it was a bit more queen and war-themed rather than the cyberpunk vibe from the tour. This song makes me really excited for the tour!

And omg her vocals in the pre-chorus bridge? Those send me to heaven everytime omg

She looks amazing and the PV is really cool but... why is her voice always so edited and full of effects on the upbeat/fierce songs lately? It feels like I haven't heard her raw voice in a long time.

I guess it depends the vibe she's trying to give. Nowadays she is doing a lot of vocal overlay, like SHUTOUT, GET NAKED, PIN DROP, Summer Time, etc., but they are not overly produced like DO ME, Put your hands up!!! and XXKK. She does have clean vocals in some songs, like STRIP and IT'S MY LIFE.

I'm not a huge fan, it really depends if the song ask for something like this. I do believe that it fits the vibe of XXKK, but at the same time I think it went a little overboard with Lucky Star, it's almost reaching the Yasutaka Nakata territory. It is enjoyable, but it is something that might bother people.

As a casual fan, this PV blew me away!

Her styling, the nails, the dresses, the nails, and just her overall demeanor!

The song didn't do anything for me, but seeing the PV made me like it a lot more!

I like this a lot more than Aiyo, I mean Lucky Star

I'm in absolute love with the PV. She is so pretty it's unreal.
I love the parts with the dirt/paint on her face/hands the most. FIERCE QUEEN.
I am someone who is not very bothered by the autotune. I know she can sing and I think it just fits the style of the songs when she uses it

+1

Was kind of expected she'd use another duality/identity concept like in the last 5 years.
To wrap it up so to say or to get to the point.
It's going to be interesting what she's going to do afterwards.

Imo the XXKK PV has two possible interpretations.
The black Kumi is symbolizing the inner war she's fighting with herself and behind the scenes nobody else sees.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/lun5gz.jpghttps://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/KubUtF.jpg

Or it symbolizes the way she builts up her attitude inside to face the obstacles she's encountering outside/in daily life.
That's why only the black Kumi is painting on her war paint (of course the triangle, her logo for the past 5 years) and why there are those two scenes with the black Kumi to begin with, clean and dirty.
W FACE is about her two different sides, which stay in contrast to each other; in the course of the tour those two sides later become one.
In XXKK it's not two sides, it's already one character - that's why they use those vanishing effects, cause they're interchangable. And why the black Kumi has one claw hand and one normal.
And the ending points to that as well imo, though I'm not quite sure what that actually is at the end after the loop.

We will see with the tour how exacly it's gonna play out I guess.
Though with the other dirty versions of the 10th and 15th anniversary pics it points to the dirty side behind everything we/the public sees in the end and what made her to what she is today (the dirty/clean Kuu from the FC magazine preview).