Tell me about it , if TABOO's given Gold status then that I can understand but Platinum ? it's eh for me

cannot be leh , if you check wiki , Promise / Star barely cross 250K or so :dead2

you see - http://translate.google.com/translat...-8&sl=ja&tl=en

where's AYU's A COMPLETE on that website? :S

the one that I posted on the Ayu News section it's http://www.riaj.com/data/others/gold/200809.html which was the previous month's update

the http://www.riaj.com/data/others/gold/200810.html , it's the latest update which's why you're unable to see A COMPLETE on there

Perhaps avex thought it would sell more and they shipped too much copies.
I mean out of those 250,000-280,000 they shipped, just 86,000 sold until now x_x.

I love winter kuu :love

The pv is decent but she seems to have used handphone for quite a few times eh? =/

The song is (very) generic...and her previous ballads like moon crying, yume no uta etc are better but i hope this ballad will grow on me in time to come.

The song is ok
I love her looks on the PV.. very pretty!!

Ouch D:

But the stores bought 250K - 280K copies from Avex right? So therefore Avex gets the profits for 250-280K while the stores get the profit for 86,000 copies sold... am I understand this right?

i just think that there's a storyline about this PV and moon crying :rolleyes

his BF died after a while :sdevil XDDDD just kidding!!!

and actually i'm kind of surprise that the upcoming album will have a 2 similiar theme PV 0___0

I hope Winter Bell is better than stay with me

^ I hope so too

I hope!!

Actually, I was wondering...does anyone have any idea how to re-direct this PV...as in totally change it or wadeva....
so that its not about the SAME plot

Usually the alternate versions are like 80%/95% the same as the original...
I think that alternate means like a version of the PV she didn't use even if it's almost the same.

I think so, I think that stores pay to have the copies but since the stores are multiple and a lot so they share it among them.
What I don't understand is how come all of the stores wanted the copies while it's already selling low? and why they don't buy a lot of copies from other singles like Moon Crying that sold more in stores copies but was certified gold (since it shipped less than 250,000).

I'm thinking it'll probably be like Ai no Uta and Anytime with album versions of the PV, so not much'll be different.

^

It's Kuu's birthday?

Wow happy birthday PRINCESS KUMI!!!

(Near Ayu's birthday :O)

amen!

i will play birthday eve to celebrate!

^ Me too! :D

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KUU ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Love you girl and always will!

HAPPY B-DAY, KUU!!!!!

Happy birthday Kuu-chan.

Talking of the PV, the sond is good, but what is this hairstyle, it looks so cheap, why is Ayu having great looking extension and Kuu not. Prefered her Taboo hairstyles...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KUUCHAAANNN!!!
*listens to Birthday Eve*

going to watch the pv now!!

HOLY CRAP!! Happy birthday, Kuu-chan!! :luv2

weee! happy birthday kuu-chan :heart

It's her birthday today? Well happy birthday to her

:heart:heart:heart Happy Birthday Kuu! :heart:heart:heart

Happy birthday kuu!!! ^____^

YAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY! :D

happy birthday koba!

it's still the 12th here, but happy birthday kuu-chan :P

Happy birthday to kuu!

YAY!! 26 のお誕生日 おめでとう くう-ちゃん!!

i hope to see her b'day party news soon!!

Happy Birthday Kumi :shughug :D


so Listened to the PV ! I love it ! although... yes it does have the same theme as you, Yume no Uta, etc. but still I really love it
and I love the song!!!!! Such a beautiful winter ballad !!!! I really really really love it :heart

Ahhh happy bday Kuu!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KUUU!!!!!! She's 26 right? XD

Happy birthday to Kuu!!

yep , 9 years to go before her baby fluid is rotten!

:roflmao

YAY happy birthday to Kuu :D

I just saw stay with me PV. I really loved it. It was beautiful and the song itself was better than I expected. At least it's better than Moon Crying anyway. Kumi's english was pretty good actually. I was able to understand that perfectly. Has she taken some kind of english classes? :D

And happy birthday part 2 for Queen Koda Kumi~ <3

maybe but I agree with you on that , her Eng command has improved & at least I can understand her dictation better this time round on stay with me

LOL happy official birthday to kuu! since it's now the 13th :P

Happy Birthday Kuu-chan!

......

She's said English in the PV other than "stay with meeee" and "never ennddd" in the PV? o_O

LOL she must be prouncing it very weirdly..

Like only after watching the karaoke PV of TABOO did I realize some parts were English.

^ i thought she said "neverland" :P

stay with me PV its really generic as the song but that make me sad ;_;'

@Beauty: LOL seriously? I guess that kinda answers her English still isnt that good. XD

The song is kinda growing on me, but only due to Kuu's emotional voice. XD

I just watched all winter PVs in a row and boi are they similar to eachother or what.





Does anyone have a HQ image of Ai no Uta covers? The cover is SO BEAUTIFUL. I just saw it when I received Come Over from a very kind kuu fan. ^^

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/9...nocdfv8.th.jpghttp://img134.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/6...odvdbh5.th.jpghttp://img134.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif

:)

so aweosome thx!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KUU!!!

Though i am not a big fan of this song, i can't wait to have info about the next album, Hope the cover will be awesome, and hopefully we will have the dirty ballroom concert on it...

Thanks so much!

God, another cry-me-a-river-love-story PV?

Koda needs to learn how to move on. If a guy dumped her, she would need to move on. She can just simply wear tight short pants and dance with beer bottles. I am sure guys love to hit that.

What does these guy have? A million for Koda ? God, they have nothing beside taller than Koda.....

Koda, if a guy dumps you, you still have nice body and money. Please move on.


----- So, back to this PV... (lol) stay with me is boring for me. It is like re-mark of "you" + her other love PVs.

If she has TABOO, stay with me, Moon crying in her next album, I am so not going to buy her next album coz only TABOO turns me on.

LOL

actually on stay with me I can understand what she's singing in Eng

for TABOO's case I had to go & read the lyrics sleeve on the single as I wasn't able to catch some of the words on there

i love how she says "i remember you with all your smile." isn't that so cute?!

I wouldn't say it's cute but it's really just aw <3

Just checked out the "stay with me" PV and my was I bored out of my brains! Ugh.

Stay with me...

The song: eh. Nothing special, still enjoyable. I like her voice better than moon crying, but I wasn't expecting anything else out of a winter ballad.

The PV: The coloring's pretty. But honestly? It was boring. Basically, what Kotora said. Maybe my experience with breaking up is very limited, but is it really that much to cry over? Also, she must have the best cold tolerance ever. And does she have some sort of contract with the cellphone company or something? because I swear, the cellphone got a lot of screen time.

come to think about it , since when she has an endorsement deal with au (the phone's brand that was used in stay with me)

lol yeah the phone was promoting au LISMO which is the tie-in for stay with me.
it's too early to judge what the album is gonna be like. the first two singles for Kingdom were BUT and FREAKY which were really aggressive songs and Kingdom ended up being nothing like that. it was mostly R&B.

eew I hope That Ain't Cool will NOT make the cut on her new album :no

it's an overhyped 'song' for nothing :eviltongu

lol her verse is the only input she's had for the whole song.
the rest was written by fergie, composed by fergie's people, etc.

fergie said she let kumi write her own words because "she didn't have time"

it's cute because it's borderline engrish. it's very sweet because of it's meaning!

i like almost all the lyrics that kumi writes, idk who wrote the lyrics for stay with me but it has a very kumish feel to it. she always adds cheesey english in them (run for your life, birthday eve, bounce)

haha :laugh

I only listened to it once & that's it for me

same for the video too :no

T_____T

if you listen during the chorus of TAC, fergie sings with kumi's backing track the first time, then kumi sings with fergie's backing track.

still, that ain't kuu is one of my least favorite kumi songs.

yeah because basically it's Fergie Feat Koda Kumi & not the other way round

mmm maybe but it would have been better if Run For Your Life was in both the CD & DVD of Kingdom :(

ya

that alongside with Boys Love Girls :dead2

Sounds harsh but I honestly have to agree with you.

I LOVE YOU! :love

Best Friend Of Mine was probably my least favourite, can't stand that song. :irked

TAC coulda been good, if Fergie Ferg didn't have to song all the song from our Kumi Kuu. :( The music is sooo catchy.

I seriously hope that That Ain't Cool won't be on the next Kuu album. I really hate that song. It's boring, music is boring and the lyrics are just plain stupid. And if that happens to get on the next Kuu album, I hope she rewrites it in japanese and sings it herself completely. :p Maybe then I can even like it a bit.

And I hope that next album will be a lot like secret was. That album is so lovely~ <3 And Kingdom is awesome. It's my favourite. :3

it seems like people treat kuu's music like a hit or miss, only looking for either the good in the song or only the bad. they loved taboo, they hate stay with me. they thought taboo was too sltty, they think stay with me is too boring.

i feel like i'm the only one who has been overall happy with where this album is headed.

:shrug

I really think her music is for the most part hit or miss. She has songs that I completely adore and songs that are absolutely boring and predictable. There's almost no middle ground for me. @_@ But it's usually her ballads that totally miss and her upbeat songs that hit.

But no, I don't think they "only look for either the good in the song or the bad". I don't think we're looking for a reason that we don't like stay with me, it's just a really generic song. :shrug

1/2 of MOON was bah , the whole TABOO single was fab

I'm waiting to see how will stay with me fare overall as a single

stay with me PV is actually so boring and cheap. you and yume no uta looks better... since ai no uta..i think her 'love ballad' pv looks bad, just like Moon Crying
all the stories are the same
well...ayu also have the same storyline of a couple who cant unite with each other, but then those are only in her live videos. then kuu chan, since you was so popular, she kept repeating the same storyline...waiting for this guy, wait and wait...and wait

Kuu's official site got updated since stay with me is her bramd new single. :yes No new pics tho.

http://www.rhythmzone.net/koda/index.html

^ thanks for that & now I understand why she was using the au phone in the PV as I suspect stay with me's used to promote au's latest line of handphones but I could be wrong about that

Probably is I bet. :yes

Also...the single is postponed til the 24th of December. :grumpy

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8828/kuuue7.jpg

Why would they postpone it? *cries in a lonely corner of her room*

I wonder why they postponed it. At least they're nice enough to postpone it waaay before its release rather than the day before like a certain company. :innocent

oh I didn't realise they postpone it til it was pointed out

I think might as well because avex probably doesn't want stay with me to go head on against Shuchishin on 10th since they're going to put out their single on that week :dead2 :innocent

that or it might be due to other 'hidden' reasons

I don't think Kuu singles ever get delayed too. :no

Also: index images from the website

http://www.imageurlhost.com/images/z...to4u_thumb.jpg

http://www.imageurlhost.com/images/c...sad4_thumb.jpg

Credit: ~RicH~ @ JPM

Postponed? Oh dear. Well I don't mind since I'm not all excited for this single xD

you mean this's the 1st time that her single has been pushed back ?

I believe the last time a single of hers got delayed was a few years ago.

O.O!!! whyyyyy..so it will be counted in the NETX YEAR instead?

they changed the b-side back to title to be determined... so maybe they scrapped Winter Bell and need more time for another b-side? i don't think it has to do with the position, since avex never really cared about kumi getting #1.

I really like her hair and makeup for this single. It's not overdone, but it's there and it's just right. :)

how odd...

Interesting....I would edit the first page...except, this threads gonna be over soon so...yeah lol

Man...I wanted to hear Winter Bell...what could they possibly do with the song? Change it to another one? Stay with me already sucks...

I don't see how it would make it any better?

wow, i was soo not expecting it to be pushed back. they aired the PV waay too early, then. :P i wonder what's gonna be put instead of winter bell.

It's been pushed back? Awwwww... :(

Wow. Delayed huh?! Avex is asking pratically telling people to just illegal download the song and not buy the single. Kuu's marketing company eff'd up this time.

yeah, this was most likely a mistake on their part. promotion for it is probably gonna start like, late november, early december. by the time isn't to be released, people will have heard the song so many times there won't be a point to buying it.

Kumiloves says there is an album called Truth coming in Jan. I think it's fake but trust Avex to come up with such a boring title.

Umm where does it say that Winter Bell has been changed? On her official website, the release date is changed but Winter Bell is still there.

Where do you see Winter Bell?... It's not listed on her official site anymore...

http://rhythmzone.net/koda/info/release081210.html