some of those older pics are so unflattering lol. the photos of her in her underwear + black dress are soo sexy though <33

gorgeous cover, can't wait to see the rest of this shoot!

oh my god Koda Reki book. I'd love to have it. I know my jaw is going to be dropped while watching Billboard Live. why so beautiful Kumi Kuu?


anyone here who likes Just Go? this will always be one of my most favorites, song is full of awesome and I never get tired of it. and PV is also great although there doesn't happen much :roflmao I love her sexy look here.

^I love Just Go. when I first discovered its existence I had it on replay for the longest time. :P

just watched POP DIVA @ Happy Music and Music Station. I like the music station performance more, she should keep the diva dress, the other outfit on Happy Music was ugly. I really wish the part where she sings over the POP DIVA chorus in the lives was in the actual song, it makes the chorus soo much better.

Koda Reki looks awesome.

those koda reki pictures are so nice! especially those new pictures! :luv2

i love that Scawaii cover, too! :heart very simple & pretty!

btw, would anyone be willing to help me out? could someone try mirroring the MUSIC STATION & HAPPY MUSIC performances of POP DIVA, and then uploading it to youtube? i can't DL right now & if the video is mirrored, it's the only way it could stay uploaded for at least...one day. :laugh pretty please? :eyes i'd appreciate it so much!

Ok, that Happy Music performance of POP DIVA is HOT!! I really like that outfit a lot more than the dress she wore in the other performances. I'm still sooo in love with the POP DIVA single, and those koda reki look so good!!

Gosh, ever since the release of UNIVERSE kuu has been turning into my favorite artist! :heart

Koda Reki is just so awesome as I thought. :) I want HQ scans when it's possible. <3

And about Just Go. It's one of my favorite Kuu songs actually. It's just awesome. Every time I listen to it, I get addicted because I never get tired of it. I also love Kuu's voice in it. And I never knew there was a PV for the song. It was kinda boring, and Kuu wasn't as sexy as she usually was back in 2005 but I still loved it. I loved that hair <3

I love all the Pop Diva performances :heart

She's amazing.

thanks for the hd file zemus!!!
and the cover of S Cawaii is gorgeous

:thud :thud :thud
POP DIVA @Happy Music :heart

When Koda Reki is going to be released??

Ayu is like that too. Her Memorial Address era era onward she just grew more and more beautiful :)

Koda Reki = AMAZING :heart

YesAsia state that Koda Reki was released this Mon , Flo

http://www.yesasia.com/us/koda-kumi-...0-en/info.html

but it's temporary out of stock lol

yessss. They are the only two j-pop divas that I think look so stunning now. gorgeous pop divas !

me too bebe <3 I need this on my coffee table.

thank you so much!

from KODA REKI

dunno if it was mentioned before but..
remember the pink bunny from first things tour opening movies?
it was misono!! :3

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/3618/p1010598n.jpg

credits: hikkikun

+ 2 pics from yahoo jp auctions

http://img307.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/u...oo6xv32980.jpg

http://img307.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/u...eislk32980.jpg

back cover is :heart

is that graph saying Kuukuu weighs 45kg? that's 99 pounds, she's so little!

and I agree, the back cover is wonderful. She looks so adorable in that white dress.

she probably is only like 100 lbs, she's tiny! It always cracks me up how the other japanese artists and hostess' dwarf her.

Koda Reki is already out, some Japanese offer it on auctions already (see Tusbasas post).

Stream for Happy Music performance:

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjQxNjU2MzEy.html

:love

final tracklist for Dejavu
Credits: KumiBrasil

DISC1 – CD
01. Introduction
02. POP DIVA
03. Lollipop
04. Okay
05. 逢いたくて (Aitakute)
06. Passing By
07. AT THE WEEK END
08. Interlude
09. ちょい足しLife (Choi Tashi Life)
10. Melting
11. Hey baby!
12. あなただけが (Anata Dake Ga)
13. 好きで、好きで、好きで。 (Suki de, Suki de, Suki de)
14. Bambi
15. I Don’t Love You !??

DISC2 – DVD
01.POP DIVA (Album version)
02.Lollipop
03.め組のひと
04.BE MY BABY
05.Bambi
06.Passing By
07.好きで、好きで、好きで。
08.あなただけが
09.walk

^ Thanks :D

I made a mistake in the tracklist, sorry :( I changed the order when I posted at kumibrasil

The real CD tracklist:

DISC1 – CD
01. Introduction
02. POP DIVA
03. Lollipop
04. Okay
05. 逢いたくて (Aitakute)
06. Passing By
07. AT THE WEEK END
08. Interlude
09. Melting
10. Hey baby!
11. ちょい足しLife (Choi Tashi Life)
12. あなただけが (Anata Dake Ga)
13. 好きで、好きで、好きで。 (Suki de, Suki de, Suki de)
14. Bambi
15. I Don’t Love You !??

choi tashi life? what does it even mean?

I just noticed the fishbowl songs aren't in there at all *slow*... ah... seems like I have to add Gossip Candy to my list of things I want to buy in very far future:laugh can't wait for Dejavu to be released though:D thanks for the full tracklist.

From JPM.

Kuu in the talk part of Msta:

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/8...0500h21m32.png

Thanks to nemesisyume at JPM

:D

She was so cute with this outfit and the glasses :)

I made a little graphic with the new 'POP DIVA' photo:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5177/...f769765c_m.jpg
Click to see.

^ That looks epic.

She looked so cute <3

Hot. Love it!!

So many books... Brazil, Reki, and there is some sort of 10th Anniversary photobook too?? I want Reki though...

she performed POP DIVA @ CDTV with the LIVE DAM CM outfit :luv2

just watched the CDTV POP DIVA live - amazing! her red dress + red nails were hot! :heart I think with these lives kuu just proves even more how amazing a performer she is because even though her dancers are dressed up totally weird my eyes are still just drawn to her, it's like they don't even exist sometimes even though they're right up next to her.

That's hot, kaled!

:heart Excited!

So no album version of POP DIVA?

It said so in the fanclub tracklist but not on the official site.

I wonder what differences the album version of POP DIVA would have. are there any examples of kuu having "album versions" of single songs before with differences? I can't remember.

I think WON'T BE LONG was the only one that had an "album version"

^
^
Ai no Uta, Anytime and 'That Ain't Cool' have album version.
Ai no Uta changed a little... just new angles ( I guess, I not sure) and most part are black & white.
Anytime is diferent, new scenes (like she wearing a bunny costume :love).
That Ain't Cool too, new scenes and more sense at the history.

ohh I thought the "album version" was for just the POP DIVA song, like how ayu had an album version of RED LINE on the RnRC album that was slightly different from the single version of the song. was it just the POP DIVA PV that was going to have an album version then?

& TABOO & hands

@love in music: Yep, only the PV will be different.

TABOO have a another version in the single, not album version.

I wish the album version of the PV would include an extra verse, since the song seems to skip a second verse.

The "I hope you got it that I'm somebody I need nobody" part is my favorite. :heart

KODA GUMI changed it back to regular pop diva on the album :( No special album version.

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/ujhTRmX3uus/

POP DIVA at CDTV

Wait, are we talking about "album versions" for songs or PV's?

WON'T BE LONG I know had an album version ON the album
And I know anytime, That Ain't Cool and hands had album versions of their PV's

oh ok, thanks for clearing that up!

I was talking about songs. I was confused and thought POP DIVA would be getting an album version of the song. I forgot about WON'T BE LONG. I don't like any version of that song that exists, especially by other artists lol

omg bad news. I was hoping for them to include scenes with the coreography for the album version, it's so hot ;__;

anyway, POP DIVA at CDTV = Fierce. these performances are making me love the song even more.

I don't even remember differences between single and album versions of PV :laugh except anytime

CDTV performance was so mindblowing! Such a great amount of power and fierceness. And sexiness as well. As always. :innocent

Kind of random but I love when she points her finger down during Turn it up part :laugh suggestive. :innocent

Love love love the choreo for POP DIVA!!! And her expressions...FIERCE

DVD rip of POP DIVA PV + Making Offshot are now up for download here :)

I love how Kuu is waving her ponytail trouhg the whole CDTV performance! :laugh

I love the performance at CDTV <3

i was curious about the 0ji mae no cinderella, so i watched the PV with misono singing it.

OMG. i kinda puked by the 1st line... I am so blessed that Kuu covered that song & made it so much more emotional & amazing :heart

I'm on a Kuu spree these days... can't stop listening to POP DIVA single & the ETERNITY songs, alongside with faraway & Futari de... thx to B-side collection! :D

Preview of the inside pics from SCawaii:

http://i55.tinypic.com/2ev9mox.jpg

Found them on YAJ.

So beautiful!

^ second pic is so cute :heart looking forward to hq scans!

Nice performances of pop diva kumi <3

kuu is #8 today.

she kinda looks like Kana nishino in the 1st one

Love the inside picture preview. kuu is so sweet and pretty:heart
I know I am totaaaaally late on this but I listened to ETERNITY today for the first time and omg, this album is amazing. BE MY BABY, め組のひと, ０時前のツンデレラ and TATTOO are my favorites:heart

My favorite performance is still the Melodix one :)

My favorite is the Happy Music one. But would be perfect the Happy Music dress on the CDTV stage ♥
On the CDTV she was stepping the dress all the time. It's kinda annoying :(

her expression is really stupid in that first scawaii pic, but the smiling one is adorable.
the Music Station POP DIVA performance is my fav out of all the ones we got~

ikr? it's so awesome and her voice is amazing in most of the tracks. I was really impressed with that cover album!

does anyone know if Bambi will get heavy promotions? i really love that song because it's something different that we don't usually hear from her

^
It;s getting a PV on the album I think

:yes:yes:yes
I love it very much.

I watched the PV for misono's version of ０時前のツンデレラ and it is very sweet and creative, even though she's just sitting there. But voice-wise, I like kuu's version more. misono sings it great as well but kuu's voice is just deeper and powerful, I really like that :)

I hope it's just the angle of the photo xD second shot is beautiful.

watching POP DIVA performances non-stop. can't decide which one is my favorite. she's fierce and stunning in all of them x__x

The second photo looks awesome.

Second SCawaii pic reminds me of anytime covers. She's just as adorable as she was on those covers. <3

Kuu news!

10 more dates added to the tour!
Tickets seem to sell very well!




Previews for some album songs are up at the official site, but sadly no "new" album songs yet. Can't take long now til we get the others though.

http://rhythmzone.net/koda/information/110118.html


Capmpaign to promote the album will be watchable at Ustream!

『KODA KUMI×USTREAM』IS COMING BACK!!!
USTREAM will be broadcasting live of Ku-chan's upcoming events!
◆Feb.9th→Radio Recording
◆Feb.12th→Valentine Eve Eve,Girls Talk♥~can't wait till Valentine!~
◆Feb.12th→Campaign in Tokai!
◆Feb.23rd→Campaign in Kinki!
◆Feb.24th→Campaign in Hokkaidou!
◆Feb.28th→Campaign in Kyushu!
◆Beginning of March→Campaign in Kanto!

Source is her official site:
http://rhythmzone.net/koda/information/110207.html

I liked both "new names" Prologue to Dejavu & Interlude to Dejavu. I still don't get it why we'll have a interlude this time.
Hey Baby sounds so good! I can't wait to hear full.
And Bambi sounds so much better in studio version!

I'm glad the USTREAM will back ♥

lol @ Prologue to Dejavu & Interlude to Dejavu
the previews are so short :( I really like how Hey Baby & Melting sound in their previews though! I'm curious to how the other songs will sound, the site needs to update with more previews.

LOVE THE PREVIEWS! *-* It´s gonna be an awesome album!

^ LOL your set. first i saw kuu... then i saw ayu... and then i was like oh it's sifow!

looking at the tracklist, it seems they splitted the album between dance/strong songs -and- cute/fun songs & ballads, for the most part, because Aitakute is in the first half. that's just my impression though, let's see how it ends up

A lot of people say that! I've heard it said about Kana Nishino too. Its like if Ayu and Kuu had a babies they would be Shiho and Kana XD

Thanks Marika & it beats having just Introduction & Interlude being listed on the tracklist haha

I like it that both intro & interlude's titles are somewhat longer now LOL :P

Not really loving the previews. Sorry guys!

Melting kinda sounds annoying "LALALA MELTING" - Lady Go!! > Good*Day >>> Melting so far.

Bambi just isn't my style. Rather "meh" to me.

I'll wait for the full version of Hey Baby! to judge that one.

So far, UNIVERSE is better for me (but I loved that album so I already didn't expect this new one to surpass it). Work It Out! and SUPERSTAR and Lick Me and UNIVERSE are better than all of these clips.

I couldn't disagree more. none of those songs come even close to being as good as most of what we have heard on Dejavu so far imo (they're all better than Bambi but anything else.. :no).

Work It Out! was the best song on the album and such a great style for Kumi to go for! I loved it from the start. Favorite track from the album.

we're like opposites. it's my least favorite on the album besides SUPERSTAR. I really hope there's not another song like that on dejavu

I can't rate the album until I get all the tracks but so far it seems like the majority is digging Dejavu more than Universe. I think I'm going to be joining the majority, but I don't think Universe is bad at all.

Kumi's next single will be her 50th, I wonder what they'll do?

I want Driving Hits 3 already lol

I think we're opposites too lol

I thought Work It Out was interesting and different, but no where near the best track from the album.


I always have about 6 songs from the albums I really like, and then 6 I wouldn't listen to, but think are cool anyway...I don't expect this album to be any different...

I'd say for me the best track on UNIVERSE is ECSTASY. I finally come to appreciate the song and it's definitely better than the entire album. I don't even like the title track anymore. Another decent one is You are so beautiful. I like songs like that and JUST THE WAY YOU ARE from TRICK.

It's hard to pick a best track in any album for me because of the attention the singles get but I really loved No way and You're so beautiful in Universe.

Yes!! Me too.

I love Universe. I think its a good solid album with an amazing tour.

Form UNIVERSE i really enjoyed You're so Beautiful, UNIVERSE and Step Into My World....and from the singles i loved Alive and its PV

Damn, I can't believe so few love Work It Out!! I love the little chime sounds in it. I don't know how to describe it but it's like sounds Nami Tamaki would use in her music. It's very Nami Tamaki-like and very Gundam-themed (even though I hate the Gundam anime garbage they have had good music in the series). I loved it and I think it's just very powerful during the chorus. Like it kicks it up a notch. I think that's why I liked it so much is because you knew when the chorus was on and it felt right.

ECSTASY and Physical Thing grew on me more as well. But let's use Physical Thing to compare to Work It Out!! and why I love it so much. Physical Thing - during the chorus, it just sounds so unpowerful. So dissatisfying. With Work It Out!! it's like "HELL YEAH!" I just wanna shout along with her but I can't carry a tune for the life of me, especially one within range of a Japanese female popstar. Lol.

I feel UNIVERSE is a step down from TRICK & I deleted tracks like Stay , Work It Out from my mp3player as they sounded really lazy if not dated :x

then again for every Kumi album being released , there will be bound to be people who say that they like so & so while they dislike so & so

music's so subjective

Why are people already comparing UNIVERSE and Dejavu? o.O It's pretty unfair imo because UNIVERSE is a full album and Dejavu has only few singles + previews released (and I couldn't even listen to the previews) so I'd wait for the album at least to leak before I say anything or compare Dejavu to her previous albums. x)

Of course, I can say that I really love UNIVERSE, but I have to confess that out of its singles I only really loved Alive/Physical thing. That's the most played single from UNIVERSE to me I think. :D Other singles weren't so good to me, and even the album tracks sounded better than the singles to me for some reason (I realized this when I listened the album a while ago). I really seem to worship all the songs many other fans seem to hate (No Way, Stay, Work It Out!) and think those are probably the best songs on the album along with SUPERSTAR and You're So Beautiful. <3 I also believe she should've released You're So Beautiful with Alive since the former seems to be pretty popular among her fans. :)

I really loved Universe! I don't think it's an stunning album overall, but there are some songs on Universe that really become some of my favorites from kuu, like Universe, step into my world, no way, you're so beautiful, superstar, ecstasy and work it out!

I don't know what to think about Dejavu 'cause it's too soon, but even I loved all singles with no exception the true is that I feel tired of suki de/anata dake ga, and hey baby, melting & bambi sounds so similar to me (and so cuttie...) High expectations then on the Prologue, at the weekend, passing by and I don't love you ?!! Let's see :D

I usually prefer the single material of artists. But Kuu is one of the few artists of which the album tracks are some of my favorites (minus the obligatory cutesy songs). Like This is not a Love Song, No Way, Driving, UNIVERSE, Hurry Up, tsuki to taiyou etc. So I'm really forward to the new album tracks :heart

I want to set BAMBI my new ringtone :weep , but it's too short

it's kind of song that you want to jump and dance and bounce on it and everything you learned in your entire life :blove

I guess its because UNIVERSE was so well-received. the songs on it are really good without having too much elements to them. @all.night.raver Work It Out is really good to me :) I love the rock and urban taste of it. It's kinda cool. At times, her vocals are rough but Im fine. Actually, even Stay, which sounds like Kuu's midtempo love songs..are one of the better few of that lot. UNIVERSE set the bar rather high for having variety but completedness.

Dejavu has polar singles at the moment so I want to see how it plays out. I think my fav new track might be AT THE WEEK END haaha

edit: Hey Baby! sounds great from the preview :3

Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but CDJapan has added a "Dejavu" CD-cover-sized calendar as external bonus to both versions of Dejavu. Do you think YA will do this also?

^ I hope they do!!

@allnightraver - I love Work it Out! <3
UNIVERSE has become my favourite album by her but for me after every album release, I tend to like it more than the previous so I wonder if it'll happen with Dejavu. The only songs on UNIVERSE I don't like/hate are Alive (which is nice but boring), It's all Love! (hate), Lick me (don't like) and Stay which again, is nice and my favourite out of my least likes lol

Chart Update
POP DIVA
1st week - #4 - 32,702

It sold a bit more than Can We Go Back's debut week! I hope it can match it in the long run

I preordered the album from YA so I hope they add it too. I just sent them an email about it so whatever their reply is in regards to adding it is going to affect my decision on if I will ultimately purchase the album from them or not.

@all.night.raver dude ur not alone, Work It Out! is one of my fav Kuu songs on UNIVERSE too... I love most of her albums, so I will love Dejavu too!

I also love Work It Out!, it's so unique in her discography and I personally think that her voice fits it perfectly! :heart
But I love UNIVERSE as a whole, not a single song I really dislike. That never happened before, there always were one til three tracks I totally dislike on her albums. Even Stay is pleasant for me, even though I normally don't like this kind of songs.
That's the reason it became my favourite album by her!
I'm just missing Hashire! on it, such a great song! ;_;


Edit:

Top 20 Requested Karaoke Love Songs
1. Sakamoto Fuyumi – Mata Kimi ni Koishiteru
2. EXILE – Lovers Again
3. MONGOL800 – Chiisa na Koi no Uta
4. Koda Kumi – Ai no Uta
5. Shounan No Kaze – Junrenka
6. Ozaki Yutaka – I love you
7. GReeeN – Ai Uta
8. Koda Kumi – Suki de, suki de, suki de
9. Akimoto Junko – Ai no Mama de
10. Kato Miliyah & Shimizu Shota – Love Forever
11. Arashi – One Love
12. Arashi – Love so sweet
13. Superfly – Ai wo Komete Hanataba wo
14. Ishihara Yuujirou & Makimura Junko - Ginza no Koi no Monogatari
15. Kuwata Keisuke – Shiroi Koibitotachi
16. Fujitani Miwako & Ouchi Yoshiaki
17. Saito Kazuyoshi – Zutto Suki Datta
18. SPEED – White Love
19. DREAMS COME TRUE – Osaka LOVER
20. Matsuyama Chiharu – Koi

Source: Barks

Thanks to Angel_Angelic at JPM for posting.

I think the best song off UNIVERSE was You're so Beautiful, followed by Lick me, ECSTACY, Physical thing, and No way.

I really like how Hey Baby is sounding :).

I hope nobody minds, I've made a new thread:

http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showth...44#post2629044