Hmm, I'm going to partially agree here...I think her voice is best suited for up-beat fun songs; it's too smoky/raspy/deep/easily breakable (to me at least) for ballads, with a few exceptions.

And about the ugly thing: I personally don't like her haircut right now. The girl can take a decent picture, and she isn't ugly, but sometimes she does things that offset her beauty, such as that haircut or being too tan (4 hot wave cover, anyone? yikes), etc.

Sometimes she can pull off sexy flawlessly and other times she just tries too hard. Overall I just think she should be herself, like I think she was pre-BEST albums success. "COLOR OF SOUL" and other older songs really show the best side of her IMO, and I miss that kind of work because it showed actual heart and variety other than being the constant token sexbomb-turned-kawaii-schoolgirl-because-that's-all-she-can-do. Sorry guys, but I'd like to see her doing other things for a change...it seems like she's wasting her potential on being sexy.

But yeah.

I'm looking forward to the new single.
I hope it's more like "Promise" or "hands" and NOT like "Yume no Uta/Futari de." I like the CD/DVD cover!! I just wish she still had long hair :(

ooo i'm lookin forward to it. i'm excited. i dun care if she's goin up or down in the industry. i just want more more more more more koda kumi music!!! XD

I agree with you about the ballads things.
Kuu can't sing ballads (I only like Unmei and Tsuki to Taiyou), she just hasn't got the voice to that...

Okay, Kuu may be ugly (without make-up) but everyone you've never seen without make-up is ugly... but I guess you're talking 'with make-up'. Nobody is perfect!
Maybe other ppl here think Kuu is ugly, but what it's really about is her voice! and if she is a good singer.

And Kuu's style just is sexy. It's her choice to be sexy.
About the FREAKY cover, I think she finally knows what good covers are, if you look at the covers from 2000 to 2005 (my opinion)

If you don't like Kuu; it's not we're gonna make you a slave and torture you and lock you up in a tower without food and water so that you starve to dead, for the rest of your life because you don't like Kuu or hate her :D

I'm not judging you because you hate Kuu, Just like you did, I give you my opinion...

^ ... did you just say that everyone without make-up is ugly? o__O That's not true.

And at v3lun420 - why wouldn't a fan get offended at what you said? You called her ugly, said she can't sing, her songs are boring, and that she looks like a **** on the cover of FREAKY (which... she didn't really).

Adding IMHO to a post like that doesn't automatically make it 'nice and unoffending'.

No, I didn't... what I meant is:

Everyone you have never seen without make-up is ugly...

How do I explane without getting attacked: what I mean is that: If you have only know somebody with make-up, and you see them without make-up for the first time, you might think something like: she's ugly

something like that...
DON'T ATTACK ME BECAUSE i SAID MY OPINION

Didn't she say in that infamous interview that rhythm zone "commands" her to be ero-kakkoii or something?

LOL, she just said that your opinion does not match with hers. And she did that in the nicest way possible. :/

Yeah, it kinda bothers me when she doesn't own up to her actions and such...it convinces me that she's not being herself. Sometimes she even acts embarrassed by her overly sexy image and yet doesn't do anything to change it. I was watching the Music Station 20th Anniversary special thing where they countdown the Top 100 songs and "Cutie Honey" was one of those songs...they played a clip of her performing it and being ~raunchy~ and her reaction was lame. She covered her face and acted all embarrassed at her antics and yet continues them. =\

I dunno. She can do whatever she wants, but she should do it confidently. If she's going to be sexy, okay, power to her. Just do in sincerely, y'know? Don't act as if someone forced you into doing it later.

Yo, everyone THINK PINK.

:laugh am i missing something? although, my favorite color is pink. :yes

/random

As a matter of fact, I did not even try to be nice at all. I just spoke out my opinion and I did say Please don't get offended, and if you DO offended, I said I am SORRY:yes

I realize I was incredibly offending her and I did not feel sorry at all:no

ROFLMAO at that. Don't worry... I got more 'unbelievable' words even too complicated to expose here when I offended Kuu at sointokoda forum.

Honestly, I dunno why I bother offending Kuu at every forum I am registered. I don't like her, that's for sure. But FYI, if she doesn't have something, that ordinary people don't have, in her, I am not gonna even bother to offend her. Means that, she IS something that some other people offend her in negative ways, like I did. That's all I wanna say

And Please don't HATE me for saying those bad things about Kuu

^ Ah, don't worry. I don't think anyone hates you. xD

I don't get it. If you really hate Kuu, stop ****ing talking about her :\ I don't get why every single thread about a new single of any artist has to include posts such as "*Insert Artist name here* sucks, she/he/it can't sing! she/he/it is also soooo ugly!"

LOL, your registered at a Kumi forum and you don't like her? There are so many things I could say to that, but the way the system works it would no doubt be me who gets into trouble for being offensive.

Agreed. If you don't like a particular artist, is it that hard to stay away from topics relating to that artist?

its kinda obvious how she doesn't want to have that sexy image...
she's said she doesn't liek it.. but she had to accept it cause its the recording company that made her do it..
back in the day her singles sold crap and everything, she could've been dropped..
you can tell she's got more control over her career now.. her image is more "KAWAII" and that's what she's like..

the recording companies can make you do anything.. they've got your career here..
If you want to challenge them, then you're putting your career at stake and any future careers too..
Look at Suzuki Ami, her career was tarnished because of the legal problems she had with Sony.. back in the day she was known as Ayu's rival..
now she's nowhere near such a title anymore.. her singles fail to chart and stuff...
same can be said with Ayu.. didn't she not want to release A BEST? but she was forced to??

^Even Toshiba-EMI was planning the release of Hikki's BEST without telling her about it.

Also..
there's a difference between bashing and stating your opinion...

stating your opinion can be done is a mature and unoffensive manner...

eg.
STATING OPINION
I don't like Koda Kumi and her image. Her suggestive actions and revealing clothes puts me off. I also don't think she's got that good a of a voice.. Her singing is overrated.

BASHING
I HATE KODA KUMI! She's S-L-U-T! She can't sing for shyt! her voice is completely C-R-A-P!! rant rant rant...


just because you add "Oh don't get offended by my opinion, if you do I'm sorry"... doesn't mean its not bashing an artist..
SORRY it doesn't work like that...

jeez if you despise her that much.. why not leave these threads alone...

I just don't understand why people don't like her. She's obviously a good singer if so many people are buying her music. Okay, so her image is a little more sex-symbol than Ayumi's but....what is the difference than the tendencies of other artists.

I realize her music doesn't suit everyone...so here's a suggestion to those people....don't ****ing listen to it. It's pretty simple unless you have the i.q. of a snail.

Kumi is far more successful than many artists that are out there right now and I believe she's just as respectable as such as any other artist is.

And as a side note...every artist is what their record label wants them to be. Her image has made her far richer/more successful than anyone who degrades her will ever be.

Sorry for the rant... it just pisses me off when people bash people as if they could do any better at what the person they're bashing is doing.

DOWN WITH RHYTHM ZONE!!!!! the weeds!


Really? I think it's stupid that Kuu can't choose her own image...
Lucky for her they didn't show SKAKE IT :P

LOL, my favorite color is also pink...
But still, it bothers me that Kuu didn't pick her own image :(


Are you becoming the new BabyUtada? lol.
If you don't like her, why post in a Koda Kumi thread?

Uh uh, if you look at Birthday Eve, Koi no Tsubomi (i think it's cute) and Run For Your Life ... :yes

that's true. If you don't do what they, they can just easily put you on the street.