Okay I think it's not that much better.
I think both are okay but nothing special...

it's much better than the first driving hits :heart

i need to see the tracklist even i think it's worth to buy it

OHMA********GOD!
SHE LOOKS SO GORGE!
*preordered it already*

GORGEOUS COVER. :heart

aah it's kuu after all i'll order it in Saturday from cdjapan :heart

Starting today 2/17, cell phone users will be able to carry various avex trax artistes every where with them. Users will be able to purchase a kisekae kit with for “kisekae♪mu-mo.”

Kisekae are theme’s for your cell phones.

So from today on you can get the following artistes on your phone

- Photo’s from TOHOSHINKI's first BEST SELECTION 2010 album will be used in the kisekae. The kit includes “Special Shots” of the group taken for the album.

- AAA, Koda Kumi and EXILE are also part of the kisekae and users will be able to see photo’s from the artists newest albums. Ayumi Hamasaki’s kit includes photo’s from her “Calendar 2010 Special Shot.”

posted/translated by kirari@LJ

http://suitestaboo.files.wordpress.c...koda100203.jpg

was this posted before ? I don't think so right o.o

Love it, Kuu-chan, love it!

am i the only one who thinks her eyebrows are weird? like... they are too fixed

but overall, nice cover

Love LOVE the cover <33 Can't wait to see the tracklist!

I think the Driving Hit's 2 cover looks really nice! I agree that it's better than the previous one, even though it was pretty nice as well. The only thing that bothers me is her huge eyelashes... Anyways, I really like it. :)

I ****ing love the cover!!! :luv2:luv2:luv2

I think it was posted before.

I love the Driving Hits II Cover, looks so beautiful!
But the CD itself, I still think it is not worth buying (for me).

DH2 cover is a way better than the first one! Even these weird false eyelashes are interesting :luv2

it's ok because I'm also not going to get it

I didn't get the 1st Driving Hits album so yeah

not even OUT WORKS too D:

I love the cover of Jelly and DH2! Both are so gorgeous! :heart
(and of course DH2 cover is better than the first one; the colours are great)

It looks good! :yes only problem with it is the giant 2..:irked

I think the 2 is the thing that makes the picture vivid and more fitting to the album^^

at least the 2 is colorful... gay pride ftw! :roflmao

Like the cover but I would have loved it if her hand wasn't in the shot or placed somewhere else.

The DHII cover is amazing, sooo much better than the first one :heart

omfg the driving hits 2 cover is too pretty. :thud

i think i have to get this...

stunning cover! :heart

Kuu is really making me happy this year...well, ignoring the CWGB cover. :laugh

The cover..for Driving Hits 2..OMG.

It IS better than the first one, that's for sure :).

Very nice, I'm glad she kept it similar to the first one. :)

the cover is gorgeous!
but I still think it's not a good idea releasing a BDH2...

That might have to do with Ayu's club roots. She's giving back. :laugh

I definitely don't think it's too much, I LOVE LOVE LOVE Japanese remix albums. But I still need to hear the first driving hit's! The only song I heard was the BUT remix and that's because it's my ringtone for when my Kuu fanatic friend calls lol.

I don't think two remix albums is too much at all. (As a matter of fact, I wouldn't mind if there were a few more..) It's just that, this is already her SECOND compilation album this year, and she'll probably have at least one more... I know it's a huge landmark year for her career and everything, but this would only be cool if she weren't already the Compilation Album Queen, lol. :\ Also, Driving Hits wasn't very good, and not just 'cause a lot of the remixes were [in my opinion] pretty bleh, but also because a lot of them weren't new, either, and two weren't remixes at all. And for me, I also think a few of the tracks were horrible choices--dunno if anybody feels the same, but yeah....
That's why people aren't fully accepting this right now.

I also don't think that 2 remix albums is too much.
But honestly, she released Out Works and Driving Hits not too long ago
she just released her 3rd best and now she releases a new driving hits!
All that in one year. I just think she should have wait. That's all...

This kind of makes me wonder what else she'll release this year... BEST album, Driving Hit's... DVDs possibly, but what else? Just singles? :shrug

Maybe a 10th anniversary single :luv2

ahh I wished she would do like the 12 singles, but instead she would do 10 for her 10th anniversary ^^
and that time I would be able to buy them :P XD (when I discovered kumi it was just after her 12 singles...lol it was too late to buy them)

I dont mind her release whoring.

Dont buy it if you think it's ridiculous lol

The cover is fantastic :heart I cant wait for the booklet!! man...its just like...everything i liked about the first one, like the colors and concept, but without the ugly crappiness of the first one lol

:thud omg thank you. Finally someone who understands. (btw, I loove your avi & sig emi)

I love the DH2 cover :heart It looks better than the 1st but still with the same concept which is awesome. She's so beautiful :luv2

^lol thanks...im in such a simple photoshop phase atm.


i just...i mean we have this discussion every time she releases a compilation album...and i mean, like i just thought to myself now, like...her sales are still high compared to other artists, if avex can get away with it, which they obviously are, they certainly arent losing munny over the releases...then i mean, more power to them right? lol

we get more pictures :yes

^ simple & lovely ;)

& yep avex are definately going to take the opportunity to milk everything they can from her fans this year, this year they have an excuse for it atleast lol.

As a reply to your previous post, she released Driving Hit's I exactly a year before DH2 is going to be out so it's not that short of a while ago, she has normal album releases every year doesn't she?

But I find it interesting if you think that's too much but would like a 12 singles project XD I personally hope she doesn't do that. She should do something more original and different than her old single cycles.

Maybe the the concern is the quality of the release? and I say this having bought Driving hits liking of 4 out of the 17 remixes .

awesome cover :D


i dont think im gonna buy DH2 :(

but i already purchased her 3 best ofs xD which is kinda cool :P cant wait to get them!!


thanks for the info :)

^^^LMAO that is so true.
1 remix album = way too much.
10 singles in 10 weeks = not way too much.

is there something im missing?? o_0

lol yeah Sabrina (emiko xD) made a good point about what she said

avex's not pointing a gun at your head saying that you die die have to buy the remix album xD

I make a choice not to get OUT WORKS & the 1st Driving Hit's album & I'm going to do the same for DHII too cos I don't see it as a must to get it

OMG!...already remix albums?? Its look kuuchan try to get her Golden era....XD~
i just love 1 remix from koda kumi, koi no tsubomi with jazzy bossa mix....

I guess the quality could be an issue...

i never thought about it i guess lol I'm not really a remix person...unless it's like...so good it could be the original song, and that rarely happens...most remixes for me just get bypassed...

I dont know, cause like, it's a remix album right, not like an album album, her team doesnt have to do much, so it's not like they're being spread too thin...i think lol i dont know :laugh


someone said they were releasing it exactly a year later? Man, time flies...I was thinking it had just come out like 6 months ago or something lol

First, I said I wished. I never said she would do it. I think her 12 singles was a nice project.
Second, if you release 10 singles (1 per week) you don't release something else just after it.
Personally, I would prefer having new songs than having remixes. That's my opinion, I don't really like her remixes.
I never bought OW & DH and I don't plan on buying DH2
I already said it, to me, one year after that's not that long (it's not really short, neither really long)
but again that's my opinion and everyone has its own

Slightly Bigger Cover:

http://www.rhythmzone.net/koda/infor...RZCD-46533.jpg

^her upper lip looks awkward but i think it's so friggin sexy!!

Previews of April issue of Jelly:

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/n...202010/711.jpghttp://i302.photobucket.com/albums/n...202010/712.jpghttp://i302.photobucket.com/albums/n...202010/713.jpg

^HAWWT!!!
thanks for that!

:heart love kuu's shoes in Jelly issue..thanks!

damn... idk if i'm allowed to say this, but kumi really arouses me. :tipsy

welcome to the club :P

her shoots are owning...I think I'm gonna love that one in the red plaid...and I really hate plaid lol

:luv2 :luv2 :luv2 :luv2

she's on fire in that black outfit *____*

:roflmao

Mitomi Tokoto remixed for Koda Kumi Driving Hit's 2:

"CUTIE HONEY" -MITOMI TOKOTO BIG ROOM REMIX-

Source: http://twitter.com/mitomitokoto/status/9284333558

I loved his BUT remix... :luv2

:roflmao :shughug


OMG!! i want that Jelly's scans!!!
Her white black outfit :heart!! HOT! HOT!

phew, i thought i was gonna be scolded for saying that. xDD (i did sugar-coat my words though.)

and CUTIE HONEY? hmm... well, i'm happy we're getting a new remix at least, but i hope they remix more DIFFERENT songs this time.

The BUT remix on DH was one of the best and I'm happy there will be one for DH2 and Cutie Honey ^^

Cover of KODA KUMI 2009 TAIWAN LIVE:

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/4874/241381.jpg

Credit: LiDaYu_Ran @ JPM

^ ....

I like the wordings but not the background X___X

eh...:no not my thing at all...

I think the art department that worked on dirty ballroom is responsible for this lol

@jeanbaptiste: you have to lol last time I talked about some of my friends being...uh...in a state of arousal after watching juicy...i think it was trashed...worse could happen i guess lol

Damn..
...hmm.

That's too contrasted, yuck!

ermmm..no comments over the cover. I swear Ive seen that font somewhere...was it on a BoA cover?
and omg, the "TITLE-ENCOMPASSING-ALL" cover style strikes back

it's on a....anna tsuchiya cover?

it's on someone's cover lol not anna's...nevermind...i dont know.


I guess they were going for the disco look but uh...well they succeeded at least lol

so DHII cover continues the concept of DHI as much as new best follows BEST 2
this cover is also shot by Kazu, then, but it's great
I luv her make and fake eyelashes :)

I personally love remix albums. but now I think there's a lack of quality in remixing, and remixes are boring or lame

hope this new album works. I didn't really like DHI :)

Eww the pic is so... weird o_O

I Make A Bigger Cover Of Driving Hit's 2



it's look creepy but better than nothing :P

I think it's okay for a fan-club only DVD.
remember Let's Party Vol. 1 DVD it was very colorful and bright,too.
I actually even like the cover a little bit.

say NO to the cover!! :dead2

omg i think the cover is fine :rolleyes the font maybe is overused by the other artist, but i think koda looks fine there

I know you said you wished/would like it to be, I didn't say she is doing it :shrug Even though I liked the 12 singles project, to do something similar again is just.. unoriginal and to me, 10 singles in 10 weeks is a lot and you know she would release a BEST~4th w/e~ compilation of them straight afterwards.
I don't like remixes either. I guess for me, 1 year is enough time for her to release a second remix album seeing as she only has 1.

Someone said there may be concern with the quality... I think judging the quality of something is really subjective and I'd say you should first hear the new material before deciding whether it's worth buying or not. That's what I do anyway, not just for Kumi but all other artists that I buy the cds of. If you hear it and don't like it, again, just don't buy it and pretend it doesn't exist lol

and lol @ the Taiwan live cover. Kuu looks nice though. The font.. no

I cannot wait for KKDHII to leak!

I think the 2009 Taiwan Live cover looks ok. I actually like the picture they used, it looks like Kuu's having a lot of fun. :) I'm not a too big an of the font, though. They also used way too much contrast. Overall the cover isn't that bad.

the Taiwan DVD cover omg :no

JELLY previews are hot. moar HQ moar!!

I don't know... I may be alone in this but I kind of like it! It's very bright and eye catching and it looks like fun.

Awesome! :heart
The one in the red plaid looks the best right now. Can't wait for scans.

Taiwan Live cover is ok. I like the font and the pic they used, but the contrast is indeed a bit high.
I'm kinda neutral about it, cause I'm so excited about the concert. XD

Haha, did you guys notice the little "k" on her earring? Great. :laugh

even though the cover is kinda crazy, i still like it. :tipsy

The cover is not that bad... Font reminds me of BoA's MIT Tour DVD.

Break it down? °_°

that's a freaking long medley LOL

yeah the first half of the Taiwan live is an exact recreation of her Black Cherry Tour. :yes

I think the cover is nice, to a certain point lol
like the picture is nice, but it's too light
and the JELLY scans look awesome!

I understand what you mean, but if she decided to do this project again I personally would like it, you don't and that's okay! :] everyone has its own opinion
she wouldn't need to do another compilation (what I mean is that it could be a "special" release)
anyway we'll see what she decides to do for her 10th anniversary~ :)

i hope she sings a lot of oldies on the new tour.
singers usually tend to sing their new songs (of course), staple songs (x_x), and throw in 1 or 2 oldies.

I don't think she will sing that much "old songs" in the new tour, cause it's titled "UNIVERSE" tour. It's a tour for the new album.
I don't know, maybe she will do a long nation wide 10th anniversary tour at the end of 2010? Maybe it'll start at 6th December? Or it will be in the new year, 2011?
It's just speculation though, we have to wait and see.

^hmm... thats true i guess.
or maybe instead of a whole new tour she'll just do a one night show in a HUGE arena or dome or something.
i just hope she does something intresting with OLDIES SONGS!!! xDD

Yeah, I hope that , too, you're not alone! XD
I love so much old and new songs and it would be so great to hear them live in one concert!

^yes!! i agree. :yes

^ yeah! something like FEVER LIVE IN HALL was good I think (except much longer!), it had a mix of new and old songs which I loved :heart

Yeah I see :yes

Correction: anyway we'll see what she avex decides to do for her 10th anniversary~

the new issue of jelly looks amazing but im not sure how i feel about the taiwan live dvd. it's okay.

i really like the tracklist though! tsuki to taiyou <3

Yes, or Dirty Ballroom! :heart

oh thanks!
I didn't know that Kumi has a song called Break It Down
Is it an old song?

^yup. Break It Down is found on Feel My Mind album, and its the first track...around 2004, so I guess you can say kinda old :)
the DVD cover looks really eyecatching! I can't wait for it...

The cover isn't so bad :). AZU has the same font on one of her singles :).

^THAT'S where I've seen it before! thanks XD

@Corvina, omg yes. Dirty Ballroom had an amazing setlist. Hana :heart

Hmmmmm......

http://wiki.jpopstop.com/images/1/10...820%29_reg.jpg

...hmmmm....

OMG, I know it's "just a font" but that's kind of Tacky to reuse it on the same product but different artist. Lol.