OMG stay with me's PV airs today!

^OMG. yay!! i'm so excited

Oh cool! How soon can we get it?

omg yay I can't wait to see the stay with me PV real soon

Well I'm not looking forward to the Pv because I don't think it'll be really that amazing, but I may be wrong :p

so..it should be up really soon right? within the next hour?

;p

not sure

all I know's that it will be up after I log onto AHS tomorrow :laugh

i'd give it an hour or 2 hours, at least. :yes for me, when doobie gets PVs that air pretty early, i always see it uploaded in the afternoon, lol. and it's only 10:55AM for me. :tipsy so hopefully it won't be too long.

The PV is up at JPS, somebody download it plz... :P

I WANT IT NOW OMG.

I'm trying to download it now, not too good with torrents though. :no

Oh my god! The PV aired?!
I'm sooooo excited! I really hope someone uploads soon on AHS :yes

awesome! it's downloading now :D

0,5 % :weep

Wow! She still has a month left before the release and her pv has already leaked. DDD: The single might leak a week or two from now then huh.

I hope the song and pv is touching. The preview didn't do justice for me. :no

downloading now :D i'll be uploading soon, hopefully. it's kinda slow atm, lol.

^I hope the same as you Shanny.
I really hope the PV is new and fresh. :yes

I hope I'll see it today...

i'm at 61% :P

^Yay! :heart

*prays that it's a not a cry-that-boyfriend-doesn't-luv-me-anymore-so-I-fall-asleep-at-the-end-of-the-video type of video*

DONE :mischief uploading now!

why? I'm only at 10 % :irked

the pv was aired on television, so i don't really think this means that the single might leak soon.

i'm only at 20% :(

Me too!I hope she freezes at the end of the video,because her lover doesn't like her anymore.I love those kinds of PV's.

Wow. So mine finished downloading, and I started to watch it, and only 30 seconds in it already looks like a wintery clone of Moon Crying's PV.

Edit: OMG! I love the guy who plays her lover. I forgot his name but he's so entertaining.

it's a nice PV, kumi's so pretty in it :love

please comment if you download :) http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=82380

^OMG! I LOVE YOU LISA!
Thank you so very much!

she looks gorgeous! but storyline is crappy.

and the song is just as good as expected

the pv is pretty boring to me, but she looks adorable. i love her hair when it's in the braided pigtails. i actually really like the song. :yes

finished uploading to Dailymotion :
http://www.dailymotion.com/kumonoito...-with-me_music

i like it besides her bangs. the room and outfits were so pretty
i like the song too

@Lee: ^^

Hmm, PV is boring... Kuu looks beautiful (though why is she wearing that weird sleeve-less outfit in the winter? >_> kind of breaks illusion of it being cold, especially as she has no goosebumps). And why always that type of Asian guys? Not attractive..imo. I wish she wouldn't find him at the end, but if her love PVs had some artistic or creative spin. Like the Yume no Uta death plot-twist was pretty good.

4:09-4:11 is very nicely acted! Better than Ayu's crying! (Don't shoot me.) And Ayu even had acting lessons lol.

The song is so-so. I like you, Moon Crying, Yume no Uta and Ai no Uta better. :/ The verses are very unimaginative and sound like you+Yume no Uta.

kumi looks pretty :)

The PV was boring. It was like Moon Crying part 2 only the guy didn't die. .... :bounce

Is that Masao from Hana Kimi who plays her boyfriend? :O

I don't know what to think of the PV yet... except it seems like her typical ballad PV...

i like this video a lot more than her other ballads because this one has a happy ending :)
i also like the "game" she's playing, taking pictures of places she is and send to him so he will find her. and then she thinks she sees him and she doesn't so she gets :-( but then at the end she really sees him and she gets really :-)!!!

i also really like this song!!! i wonder what the alternate version will be like.

I just watched the PV and canceled my torrent. Boring~ WHY IS IT THAT PHONE AGAIN!? That phone should totally be destroyed already.

And the song for now for me is just around average, but I think it will grow on me soon, but her other ballads are better than this imo. The preview had my hopes high =\ Oh well.

Better than the Moon Crying one for sure, the song isn't so bad as well.

I liked the video a lot, the song wasn't the greatest, but it's not as bad as I thought it was. I really thought the verses where better than the chours because of the obnoxious back vocals in the chorus.

Of course it's boring. All of Kuu's ballad PVs are boring. To me anyway. Just a lot of Kumi looking very depressed.
I like the song better than Moon Crying. But this song doesn't have a climax like her other ballads used to have. I thought it was going to be a Koi No Tsubomi type song. But it's more like Promise or something like that. But I like that it reminds of hands which is my favorite Kumi ballad of all time.

koi no tsubomi? really? winter love ballad? koi no tsubomi? REALLY?

Well.. it's nice. The pv is really really pretty but the acting seemed a bit overdone and the theme is a bit cheesy. The song's ok but kinda generic.

What he said.

The song was described as a winter love ballad when the single was announced. :yes

random, but the phone is there for advertising purposes. AU by KDDI :P

I love the song. It's so pretty sounding lol As for the PV, nothing spectacular. She looked great though!

Yea, exactly.

The problem for me with the song is that it's nothing special. IMO not even single quality, winter ballads just sell good.

It could be any female singer's song and any winter ballad (except that the twinkling sounds in the beginning from also Koi no Tsubomi and you are pretty Kuu-trademark).

It's just so...generic. It's not even really easy to distinguish chorus from verse if it wasn't for the choir.

PV rip: http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=82385

Just got done watching the PV, and the song is actually pretty decent. The PV was exactly what I thought it would be so no surprise there. At least Kuu looked pretty even though I didn't like her chopped off bangs :(

The song reminds me of some of her earlier works. Does anyone else get that feeling or is it just me?

The song disappointed me a bit. Well not really cause it was slightly better than I thought of the preview.
Kuu's strength is R&B~

Yea, for the PV, it's very similar to yume no uta except that she didn't get hit by a car.

I prefer more conceptual PVs :P

Nonetheless, I like it.

that's the guy who played as oscar in hana kimi...XD...anyways...the pv was beautiful but boring. The waiting, cell phone, and looking sad's been done before in her other ballad pvs. She looks pretty but the hair reminds me of ayu's...>.> As for the song, I don't like it. Still can't beat yume no uta. Well atleast the cd covers looks pretty~

uh these types of kuu songs really aren't my thing...so yeah. I wish they would have timed it better so it wasn't all silent at the end...

uh at least it was a happy song?

I hope no one minds, I put links to all the download threads and such in the first post.

:)

Of course not, I don't mind at all. :yes

I hate it :( Kumi's hairstyle was terrible in the PV as well with those straight edge bangs on each side of her forehead. The verses are nice but the chorus is just not good. It almost seems gospel-y. Lol. I actually like the ai no uta (Urban Kiss Version) better than this (actually, I love that version). So for me, I don't think this song will be on my JPOP for the HOLIDAYS! playlist this year.

Yume no Uta > ai no uta (Urban Kiss Version) >>>> you >>>>>>>>> Stay with me

the more i listen to the song the more i love it. her voice is so pretty!
i can't wait to hear winter bell

she looks sooo pretty in this video, and the song is growing on me thankfully. I thought it was a bit bland, like Kiseki. But it's getting better!! Has a christmassy feel to it.

are there kanji lyrics available anywhere?

omg, she looks adorable and gorgeous and her voice is so nice. and what's this, brief crying?!

i like the song now, and the pv is just what i expected. simple but cute. can't wait for winter bell!

I'm sorry but what's the purpose of having on a coat when it has no sleeves and it's snowing outside? :lmfao What's even funnier is that Kuu has a freak'n dress on bare-legged. And oh gawd! The acting! Couldn't get any faker than Ayu's crying. :laugh And sorry but that guy was not cute enough to stand out in freezing cold for.

This video was full of lulz. The director made the video seem like a total fail. IMO tho, It was okay. He should make sure that next time his actors are cutier and the singers are wearing proper attire during the right season.

As for the song, Ai no Uta much? This song just seem like it was created for Kuu to over react in the video. I have to agree with some of you that said that the chorus doesn't really fit the song. Either way, it's worthy of going my ipod. :bchuck

Ohh...now I'm not so excited about seeing the PV. :?

^Well, imo, winter pvs/songs aren't suppose to be really "exciting" but more a calm/simple atmosphere. I mean, when you read the description of the song and heard the previews, what did you some of expect? An ass shaking, how low can ya go, touch all over my breast type of pv? DDD: Let's kinda be reasonable about the song and pv okay.

^I wish that's what it was... :(

thanks!!

@Luv: LOL yea the missing sleeves I said that too XD

Hmm it was released in May? Why would it be a winter ballad?

BTW what are these 3 songs at JP iTunes:

- Single medley (Shake It Up-BUT~and a few more)? o_O
- Simple & Lovely? o_O Never heard of this song.
- Your Sunshine..?

And OMSGH there's a version of WON'T BE LONG with EXILE?!

Why isn't the Koda Kumi download thread working?!

*frustration*!

Well she didn't say the PV was supposed to be exciting, she said she wasn't excited to see the PV. :P

Why are Japanese songs pretty much always 5 minutes long?! It's not bloody neccessary. :/

The song is ****** and generic. Welcome back, Kuu!

^

Yea, I agree. The length does annoy me sometimes. Moon Crying is WAAY too long, but at least the chorus melody is nice.

E.g. Sweetbox's versions of some Ayu songs are much shorter, so I prefer to listen to Sweetbox's mostly. After 3 minutes or so I've heard Ladies Night already, but it goes to 4:30 which is a turn down to me for an otherwise awesome song. Not to mention tracks like is this LOVE?, criminal, Replace and HONEY. Those tracks just don't benefit from a long time.

The only song I can think of that directly benefits from a long length is CAROLS.

It's true, I don't know why they make long songs. Sometimes they just drag it on and makes me want to shoot my screen :rifle

The song is alright but not memorable. I was hoping for a You or Yume no Uta ballad which I didn't recieve

^

They make verses so horribly long lol~

Maybe longer songs look better than shorter ones? for like sales and stuff? Maybe like a "more for your munny" type thing...

But yeah...I get sick of a lot of songs after about 3 minutes in.

Oh I'm the total opposite. I love longer songs. Like 4:30-5:00 is perfect. I hate it here in America they are all 3 minutes and that isn't enough. Lol.

I love the stay with me PV and song, Kuu made a great one this time. <3

since I'm so lazy to read the past few pages on what you guys were talking about reg stay with me , here's the 320kpbs rip of the song that I did just now - http://www.mediafire.com/?2bhdtwgghmc

ok I'm off to the hospital now T_T

thanks for the rip!

I pretty much have been conditioned to the length of Japanese songs since the 4th grade, so anything shorter than 4 minutes is so awkward to me... perfect example, Dir en grey's Vinushka is 9 minutes, MERRY's Gekisei is 15 minutes and I swear when I listen to them, I never notice how long they are xD;... of course they are out-of-the-norm long xD;.....

I dunno what I think about this song because I can't remember it! That's not good! All I can remember is wondering why Oscar was so serious... I'm use to seeing him acting like a goofball xD; lmao And the sleeveless jacket was pretty stupid D:

I thought Koda looked really good in the pv, her hair was great and her overall appearance was just gorgeous... I expected a little more to happen but nothing really did. It was yet another pv where she sang about a guy and was crying....The song itself is great, the chorus really helped pick it up for me. I will be gettin just the cd (and at least there is a poster for that version as well)

- Single medley has been performed live several times, like on kingdom tour
- Simple & Lovely is her 'm-flo loves' song. really cute check it out!
- Your sunshine is the 2nd song out of 3 on the butterfly single


thanks and come back to us darling!

The song is really nice...the PV is okay hahha...at least its not SOO sad...and her looks just redeem it..She looked so pretty!

and her smile at the end actually made me smile too hahaha

kuu looks cute and I loooooove that phone.

i actually think this pv is better than her recent ballad PVs...her acting is actually pretty convincing...when she smiles, it's so sweet and it actually looks genuine.

I love the song too :) so much better than Moon Crying..that song just got old quick.

hi guys i m trying to upload all the koda kumi scans. if you are interrested check here

http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=82401

if you have scans i didnt post pm me your scan and i will add them to the post with your name .

Yeah was wondering that too. The outfit was cute but looked kinda impractical because the set had a snowing scene :P

WOW, was that ever the typical Kuu ballad PV or WHAT?! I totally called it as it happened. She and her guy text back and forth, she gets sad, sings with her hands, goes outside in the snow to wait around for him, thinks he shows up but he's not really there, cries, boohoo. The only things that were different was that she didn't die and WOW, he actually showed up for reals! :O

She'll get hit by the train. :lmfao

I do like the song and the PV though. Calming and wintery-like. Just kinda boring.

I actually liked the song! I thought I would hate it, I'll probably love it once I read the lyrics. Sometimes I think some of you guys shouldn't judge the song just because of how the rhyme goes, I mean it is a ballad.

I thought the PV was okay, I was really hoping for a you PV but oh welll. She looked really pretty in the PV [=

HEY! Thats not nice :no LOL XD



EDIT - I just realized, the cellphone in kumi's PV is the latest sony ericcson phone (well one of them), i want one.

Thanks. Hope you feel better :)

:roflmao

it was a nice pv, but I honestly think she could have done better with changing the scenes a bit rather than just standing around waiting for your love to appear...

it was directed by the same guy who directed TABOO, and i felt both videos could have been just BETTER. it leaves something to be desired, but it's in no way bad.

i'm really happy this one had a happy ending at least! and kumi looked great.

thanks for the concern guys , I'm better now :)

aw :(

hopefully Winter Bell & the alternate version of stay with me will redeem the single ?

& er does Koda ever gets a say in choosing the guys to be in her PVs or not ??

The guy in stay with me's not even cute to begin with ;p

^yea, I see what you are saying. but I liked TABOO pv, but stay with me seem to have something left out, but hey the happy endings do count :)

*nods*

at least someone didn't died or something unlike in Yume no Uta or Moon Crying

hmm, I thought he was quite handsome XD

i think stay with me is her best ballad in a LONG TIME.
i don't find myself listening to ballads often at all, but this one has me hooked.

i really can't wait for Winter Bell! if the alternate stay with me will have a similar effect like what the URBAN KISS version of ai no uta did it will be great! even greater!

heh :roflmao

it has been a long time that she has put out a ballad that goes BANG if you ask me

I do hope that the B-side & the alternate version of stay with me will sound good

:yes stay with me is indeed a great ballad. it reminds of those nostalgic ballads of like Magic, Hana, Hands, and 24 :heart

wow this's something

Both TABOO & Promise / Star been certified Platinum by RIAJ for shipment of 250K copies - http://www.riaj.com/data/others/gold/200810.html

I'm surprised for Promise / Star :O since it was released 3 years ago & it's only now that RIAJ recongised it for shipment of 250K copies

but it's kinda strange for both singles to get Platinum status , if it's Gold then that I can understand but Plantinum ? hmm

it's a bit eh imo

PLATINUM FOR TABOO? That's weirder than Ai Otsuka getting Gold for Rocket Sneaker / One x Time xD

^

For me that's a bad thing. XD Her only old-style ballad I like is flower. (& WIND/Someday if those are ballads)

250k for TABOO sounds fake and ridiculous lol