Kuu's vocal range is awesome. The best voice from Japan imo~ :heart

She's sitting in the PV and it's done with CG?
They did both, song and PV, in April.

Thanks for her vocal register!
I love her lower and her head register both so much!

Edit:
Preordered Beach Mix right now at mu-mo and the poster is for Koda Gumi members as well.
And it's a "clear poster". Didn't know what it was yesterday, but just read in the description from mu-mo that it's made of polypropylene, partly transparent.
It's a poster you can take with you at the beach! :laugh

me too lol :)

thanks for this. maybe it should be put into the first thread post?

I'm usually pretty pissed with people telling Kuu can't sing or doesnt have any voice. like, really?:grumpy

Thanks for posting this video! I feel so proud of Kuu now hahahaha <3

The covers are very cute... but who would wear sunglasses in the bath?

^it's not a bath! she's wearing swimwear so it's a summer party. haven't anyone attended them? I do, every summer

^O_o

Disappointing to see all the notes below C3 are harmonized or octave unison(both things which tell us practically nothing as it's incredibly easy to tamper with that using effects, octave unison often is created by taking the higher version and just transposing it digitally for example and since it's in the background you can't tell if that was done or it was actually sang in that octave). Very nice belts from C5 to E5 though! I love her power in her belting range, it's nothing spectacular but she has great control over it. And her highest falsetto notes are really nice, too. She's better than I thought. Even if her "realistic" chestvoice range seems to be more along the lines of C3(or B2)-E5(which is still above average).

+1

LOL @ the beach poster. Though, it is a cool idea. Less damage will come to it over time. Kinda like how Canada now has plastic money that is hard to rip.

Also, who is putting soap suds into the pool at summer parties? Not cool, man. Not cool. Unless they are trying to conserve water by skinny dipping and bathing at the same time or something. But, that's still weird.

I still wanna know the exact contents on the DVD before I buy my copy!!!

Well it could be like a foam party. They are tacky though - it's like a cheap version/cheap outtakes from the FREAKY release. She looked hot as Hell in those though and that shoot was of high quality. Even the picture of her eating off that spoon looked great and felt very "Summer"ish.

So much praise for the album cover! lol I think its just tacky and horrible, like the Dejavu album cover (i still think she stole Ayu's rock'n'roll circus swag and it failed)
On a bright side, i DID order Dejavu... but only because CDJapan had it on sale for %50 off lol

I think the cover isn't like a party or something, it's just her sitting on a chair (we can't see the chair, but that's how they took the picture) with a lot of foam, and that's it. XD

The poster idea is so cool, I love it.

People are overreacting about everything... Driving Hits have a cover worse than that (imo of course, her hair is so gross there) and the tracklist isn't over yet, and even if it's done isn't that bad.

Tacky like Dejavu?

:roflmao

I think the covers are just like Gossip Candy :shrug Except they decided to throw all kinds of bubbles in there lol

I think these ARE tacky...but idk I have a soft spot for them cause, like I said, they remind me of the 90s.

Bubble party on the summer, lol

I was inspired to watch the concert on the Love Me Back single. It was so amazing!!!! If there are similar performances on Beach Mix it will be worth the money. Just don't include that performance, avex!!

EDIT: Oh, since I've seen the vocal ranger both here and in the Ayu forums, has it been done for others singers, like Kana or Miliyah? And who has the biggest range?

Well, tacky isn't really the word I was looking for lol...
The covers are, well, just look at all those floating objects that look like a Photoshop nightmare. They're not Sunset/Sunrise nightmare bad, just badly done. At least the Dejavu cover can't give you nightmares..
You know what reminds me of the 90s? Shake It Up.... Nostalgia mode, activated.

I hope Koda Kumi pulls an angela aki on us, and becomes even better after her pregnancy. I need moar ballads like Yume no Uta. Koda has a hot voice, she just has to use it properly. Imagine a jazz song... oh yeahhh

those weren't any better though :laugh
at least Dejavu covers had a concept on them, but I do agree that the photoshop was pretty bad.

I still think her worst cover to date is flower. lol
can't get the hate for the COME WITH ME cover. I think it's just... simple.

I don't think the Dejavu covers are that bad at all, in fact i quite like them. The floating objects were obviously supposed to look that unrealistic. It reminds me of Alice In Wonderland in some way. At least some effort was put into them, even if they did pretty much jack the RNRC covers.

I still think the Out Works/Collaboration Best cover is one of her worst in terms of artwork, those photos were horrid.

I didn't think they did at all though :/

I don't think people realise how huge the union jack was in Japan during that time last year :shrug

and kuu's covers aren't even about that...she's just wearing super trendy clothes lol

I don't really know what the people who are criticizing the album covers expected. I mean, this is a collaboration of (somewhat) summer-y songs released while Kuu is on hiatus, of course the covers aren't going to blow you away. I personally expected much less so I really like them. :)

Thank you for this.

I cant believe people compare Dejavu to RnRC covers.. She 'jacked' it? Really? The whole concept of Dejavu photoshoot was Alice in Wonderland, an English book. I doubt her and her team used the union jack for anything other than referencing the origin of the concept and like emi said, using clothes that were popular at the time.

Kumi wore underwear for JAPONESQUE covers, did Ayu steal that cover for Party Queen?

Sorry to be all defensive but I've read the 'copying' theory so many times and had to say something. All that said, I do agree about the amateurish photoshop

The next single by AKB48 they will get naked so they won't be compared with Kuu :laugh , Guys you're such a fun :roflmao

havent they already been naked? lol


But I think technically everyone just stole their lingerie considering I hardly see them in anything else...

so, I was wondering how the PV is going to be like

really hope it's more like Poppin' love coktail than Inside Fishbowl x__x

The Beach Mix covers are inspired by the foam parties in Ibiza. That's mentioned in one of the descriptions.
They are tacky and simple done, but she had worse than that. They fit great to the theme of the album. And to her. :laugh

Same for me. I too expected way way way less and these covers are so colourful and summery that I simply can't resist getting happy.

you can go to the youtube channel of this person who did the Kuu video, he has Ayu, Kuu & more, like Yuna Ito etc. check it out

I don't get the problem with the foam party thing in the cover. foam parties are really great and funny, imo :mischief

Exactly. I can understand that when people see Dejavu covers they think of RnRC covers, but to say that Kumi "jacked" the style is completely wrong. Its not as if Kumi looked at the cover of RnRC and said "I want to copy that!". England is big everywhere, what with the Royal Wedding and all.

Just saw the covers now and loling at the font.. I mean really? really?

The pictures aren't bad though, kinda cute, and the colors are fun. Hope the new song is fun & worth putting on repeat!

edit: wait a minute.. are those.. photoshopped clouds I'm just now noticing on the covers too? Oh kuu.. :no
edit2 nvm looks like bubbles.. still doesn't make it any better lol

Hahahahaha , are they ? :roflmao

Looks like I need to catch up with AKB48 , Don't take me wrong , I mean I'm Kumusexual :laugh

The more I glance at the covers, the less tacky they appear. They're not THAT bad. I've seen less appealing album covers before so I'm not overly disappointed. ;)

The song is admissible but not praise worthy. I can't wait to hear the full version though. :yes

Its foam, as we I guess have established.

Just read the Twinkle lyrics while singing them. They brought a tear to my eye. They are so Kuu.

I have to say I don't think she took Ayu's covers at all. Kuu has been known to do British themes in the past, like with Kingdom, and she wears a lot of British clothes and clothes with the Union Jack on them. The Dejavu covers were British 'Alice in Wonderland' inspired, not punk like 'Rock 'n' Roll Circus'. If you look at the Dejavu booklet, you can see the concept, and that's the reason there are floating objects on the cover. People were having this argument when Dejavu came out, I just hate that just because two big artists have done a British theme, people think they HAVE to copying each other. They both did British themes but completely different concepts. Like someone said, British and American fashion is very well liked in Japan, especially among Gyaru's.

I still like the covers, not the best summer covers she has done but she is pregnant, so she can't really do a full body shoot, like FREAKY. I still like the energy she shows in the covers though! It would probably look less tacky without the wig, but the wig also gives it s funky look. :D

EDIT: Also, I've never seen this before this video before:



It's of a girl called 'Mei Mei' doing a dance cover of Kuu's 'Show Girl' and 'Juicy'. From watching a few vids, I think it's a popular Chinese show where young dancers (I think mei mei is one of the main dancers) do covers of popular JPOP & KPOP songs. :) She's also done 2NE1, 4minute, BoA, SHINee etc. They're quite fun to watch!

Matthew Tishler: Love me Back, Lay Down, Black Candy...

The new song is not by HIRO, so there's a new song by him to be release some day.

Maybe a Alive/Physical Thing type single in November.

Niiiiiice. Those songs are hot :heart Hope he did a great job with this one too.

Nope, never. And I've never personally seen bubbles/foam in a pool, so thinking its a bath is logical... :shrug

foam parties are not about bubbles/foam in the pool!:)I don't know, but the ones I go to are club parties when they pour foam on people. there's that device that generates foam up and from there they pour the foam. crazy, yeah, but they are really fun in summer

The only place I've seen those foam parties are at clubs or new years things, but otherwise I would never have seen them xP its not really an Australian thing to do so it is logical to have thought it was a bath. :)

I wouldve liked the covers if the cd+dvd one had a better shot, I think the angle is terrible but I love the colours a lot. I dont mind the font so much but after a while it starts to look tacky.

^Haha, exactly, in Australia we have BBQ's in summer! I've seen those foam things at places like the Royal Show, but other than that, nowhere else. ^_^

I've seen a lot of foam parties at clubs, at other peoples houses it's pool parties and BBQ's.

They do foam parties in clubs where I am in Cardiff, but I haven't been to on yet. I need to go to one. :D

yeah, people. the despription in her official site says (as corvina mentioned) the covers are inspired by the foam parties in Ibiza. so this is what we're talking about:


no wonder why I loved the preview of Whatchu Waitin' On?
Love Me Back, Lay Down and Black Candy are some of my jamss :3

Thanks for the info, kaled.

http://i48.tinypic.com/14nmsur.png

Lol.

AHHH

a travesty. I'd die if that was my hair.

anyways, probably for the best...her tips dont look that great...

NOOOOOOO OH LORD WHYYYY :thud:no

awww.... foam parties are a blast... we have those like every Thursday at the local club... but its soooo unclean, lol.
And her hair... she cut it. :*(

She had to cut it. It looks ratty at the end :\

^ i guess... lol... I just hate that, lol
I love my girls with LONG hair... (but not too long of course!)

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OMGGGGGG LOLLLLLLLLL
That face KILLS me DEAD!
Oh Koda Kumi, you're just awesome!

Oh yeah, about the Dejavu cover and other covers: no cover comes close to the Sunrise/Sunset ～LOVE is ALL～ covers in terms of just being bad XD. And I do agree that the RnRCircus covers weren't that much better than the Dejavu covers. Ayu looked like a lifeless doll, but not a photoshop nightmare :P

Haircut again...?

^You've never cut your hair before huh?

"^ i guess... lol... I just hate that, lol
I love my girls with LONG hair... (but not too long of course!) "

I hate cutting my hair too lol, but it's got to get done so it can grow healthier! ( I recently cut 4 inches off, so my hair is back to my waist.)

SO TRUE. S-O. T-R-U-E.

Did you guys venture into the bad cover thread? LOL. Some truly heinous covers in there. Oh, man.

oh dear
plumpy Kuu :)

hey, guys does anyone have life (the one from Kiseki single) lyrics translation? Can't find it anywhere.

And this is seriously one of her BEST songs/MV ever. Album version is just cuteness overdose. :luv2 no surprise they love it in Japan so much.

^Hated her hair so much in that PV. Weird length, bad shade of blonde.

^lol it's almost like you're describing Ayu's hair for the past 2 years.

I've only got these that I did a long time ago, hope they're ok



I really love this song ♥ lots of random Engrish tho lol

^ Random Engrish like the "Oh just a fart" from "love across the ocean"?

That is Koda Kumi's best Engrish to date. Still doesn't top any NamieEngrish.

The "crap your hands" in Twinkle is still the greatest Engrish blunder of all time, for me.

No, nothing beats "that I am not a gnome" on real Emotion (Engrish Version). Btw there used to be a subbed video of it in YT, it was just beyond epicness :laugh

^I remember that. I giggled at it while my best friend gave me funny looks.

The lyrics to life seems like it could be a graduation song. I don't think the engrish in the song are random at all.

Have u seen this ??
Koda Kumi in Brazil
42 min !!!

Kumi is so funny haha love her

LOL Kumi flopped cuz she didn't know where brazil was!
OMG i love her.

What was she saying about Jamacia at the beginning of the video? Did she not know it was either?

Also, look at her fighting!!!

Hahahaha the old man and his zip right at the beginning.

Kuu, I love you for that.

I always thought Namie's English was very good in her songs? :)

Thanks for the link! I haven't seen the last half of it yet. :D

Wait guys, so Whatchu Waitin' On? is a new song? O_O

^ Yes, and also a new PV.

Guess Avex is gonna start doing playbuttons more often now. Do we know what kind of song Whatchu Waitin' On is? I want it to be a booty-bumper like JUICY, Shake it, BUT, or TABOO. <3

For some songs, yes. More than half the time, I understand Koda better. The beginning of Only You was horrendous: I thought she was saying something about limes.

But at least Koda's Engrish is cute funny. Namie's is more like wtf. People keep saying that she says 'love like you can't breathe' in YEAH-OH. I listened to that song over 200 times (that part) and I never heard 'breathe'.

Here is the preview someone posted a few pages back in this thread. :)

http://video.sina.com.cn/v/b/79285007-1735099142.html

^^Thanks for that!

It's a tad more clubby than I'd like, but I'm glad it's upbeat and NOT too bubblegum. yay!

I said this before and I'll say this again I never liked Kumi with short hair. I love everything about her, but not short hair.
She had long hair for 6 years (since the moment I became her fan) and then suddenly she cut her hair and dyed it blond. I was like OH MAH GAWD, is this an April prank or... no it's not her. I just got used to it, but I still don't like it.

Ayu's case is different. Her hair was long, short, long, short, long, long, short, short.

And thanks for the lyrics translation ren'ai! I'm loving this song.

Speaking of Kuu's English 'sukirusu', for the longest time I didn't know that feel's chorus was entirely in English. The only part I understand was "dancing inside me" and I only think that's what she was saying.

Same here. And there are many songs like that.
Crazy 4 U subbed intro from Gilgamesh: it's all game. actually -> it's love game.
One night romance "and I'm going to make you see." okay...
ECSTASY laid back -> remake.
Under dadada - Under-der-der or Unda-da-da ?? / tactics understanding?
Lay Down damage on the wall -> I'll lay down the law
etc... but yeah, her Engrish is always cute.

Namie's English was amazing in WILD, work da middle middle like, look at me. lips, checks, freaks, shorts, freeze.

btw thanks for that video in Brazil! She's simply hilarious, love my girls Kuu.:luv2

She's saying laid back????? Wow. Just, wow. Reminds me of the epic mixup in Lollipop. "I touch your booty/Dodge the bullet".

I never had problems understanding laid back in ECSTASY. It's pretty clear for me, I always wondered how you can hear something different, lol.
Though I have the same problems with Under, Lay Down and Lollipop. :laugh
For me Kuu is often really good with her English and sometimes pretty bad, a hit or miss.

Namie's Engrish is the worst for me as well.
WILD is just horrendous...
From her new songs Only You is partly really bad as well.
But it's pretty good in In the Spotlight (Tokyo)!
She gets better and that's great! :yes

saw this on last.fm o_o

original source: baidu

^Really??Kuu never stops working o_____o Such an amazing woman...

Oh, Kuu will rock this year! :D Best Hit Summer and new single in October+Premium Live Tour in November/December? This is too awesome~ :luv2 It's starting to feel like she's not on hiatus at all haha. <3

As someone said, a single like Alive / Physical thing would be amazing around that date (: Really hope it's true

It's on her offical site, but without a date:
http://rhythmzone.net/koda/live/loveandsongs.html

FC poster for Beach Mix:
http://i45.tinypic.com/idwu28.jpg

From Koda Gumi

^^Don't like her hair at all! lol

She says tacit (pronounced ta-sit) understanding, not tactics, right before she says Unda-da-da or whatever it is haha. Other than that, I agree completely. :yes

:yes I agree with you.

Omg, that fanclub poster is sick. Lol. What the Hell is she thinking with that hair? Must be using the same hair-stylist Ayu had been seeing since FIVE.

loool uuurgh that wig ruins the whole picture but OMG NEW SINGLE :D :D

I don't like that wig straight on. Its not so bad on the covers because she has her head turned. I wonder what kind of single we are getting. We have the fun party song on Beach Mix, so...

EDIT: I just thought, after looking at the July 1st thread in the Ayu forums, wouldn't it be funny if Kuu's baby was born that day? They would have a song to play on their birthday.

lol that hair.. and that expression.. come on.. her FC deserves better than that :S
yay for a new single :D

+1

THE QUEEN will rock this year ~ :love
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^ awesome! with her BluRay sales, Dejavu tour sold 40,440 total!

I THINK I know why Dejavu was 50% off on CDJapan: The cd is a cheap piece of ****. Scratches WAY too easy. It has new scratches randomly and i just take it out of the case to play it! Ugh...

Do you think that maybe you're just playing it too much? :laugh

Must be a good album?

^ I got it today....

I've already played my copy sometimes and it still looks like new, unlucky you \:

The quality of the CD isn't exclusive to just Dejavu. All CDs in Japan are manufactured similarly, I would assume. My guess as to why its 50% off is because they have an abundance of stock.