yes!

If Maki insists on keeping shorter hair she should go back to how it was during the Red Cliff premier.
http://i41.tinypic.com/973bso.jpg
i love her expression this pic. "***** i will RUIN you" :yes



and random video i found...her engrish is so cute :luv2


If you can't understand she says "Hello Taiwan, I'm Goto Maki. You are watching JK pop".

Bleck, her hair doesn't look very good at all. Her "Fly away" hair is pretty nice though..when she had it.

:thud :thud :thud

She's stunning. That's all I can say.

awww her engrish is so cute!! and i understood everything :O

had a feeling it was :D

omg, that was my favourite look from her :heart She really needs to go back to that hear :yes

and I loooooooove her engrish, she sounds so high pitched there :heart

Yeah, her hair at the Red Cliff premiere was nice! :D

Oh... one day that hair style will be MINE >:3

^ lol! I want that hair too! She's one of the artist I love with short hair more than long!!

New pics! Thanks so much Kaito from JPM for finding them.

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/9931/gm08.png


http://www.world-kyoto.com/report/20...517/index.html





the first picture...LOL It's nice to know that Gocchin still has her wota (aka crazy male fans) from her H!P days and lol @ that poor girl covering her head :lmfao

Ughh I want one of those house nation poster things at the back. Now all they need to do is upload a video of her performing and I will be satisfied for a bit.

Oh thanks for the pics! She looks great!

So funny to see all those wota fans! I recently found out what a "wota" was lol.

Thanks for the pics! :luv2

It's kinda funny to see Maki performing at such a small venue after seeing her perform in huge concert halls for such a long time :laugh. Come on avex, give her an album and a tour soon!!!

Is there any form of tracklist out yet? :O *Curious to see if she performed old songs*

No setlist yet but since this club tour is just for house nation she probably just performed the house nation remix of Fly away. She might of performed Golden LUV also since it fits the club atmosphere perfectly.

ohh no maki fix your hair :(

album please!

I'm seeing a lot of phones. Hopefully some of them caught some footage and want to share.

Good news everyone. Maki's mixi was updated saying that the 4th installment of SWEET BLACK will be released soon. No release date has been given or how it will be released...but it will probably be digital again. I hope this is the final sweet black single, then they release a sweet black album/mini album and get her solo career started :thud

That's awesome!! I bet it'll be something fun and summery. It's been almost 2 years since the Maki in avex rumours started, she really needs to have a proper physical release SOON, jeez XD

I'm happy and sad about this at the same time! Yay, new Maki song. Boo, no Maki album lol.

^ Hmm, I wonder if that means Sweet-Rise isn't true?

:weep

The SWEET BLACK songs have all been good so I deal with Maki not having her career started yet. I do agree Mr. Goto, this better be the last single.

Well, I am looking forward to a new song at least!

Not really news, but I found this really cute video of Yurina (from Berryz) performing Maki's Ai no Bakayarou :innocent

ohhh new SWEET BLACK song??!! yay :yatta i think (hope) she's going to make a SWEET BLACK feat. MAKI GOTO album, because of all the songs.. eh well see :P

i bet the album will be digital too

^ i hope not :OOO i want some new maki pictures :lech like photoshoot-pictures, not blog-pictures ._____.

Maybe someone will be kind enough to download off iTunes Japan and upload the pics that way *if an album happens*

Btw, Mr. Goto, it just occurred to me (actually it occurred to me a while ago I just kept forgetting to mention it :laugh), would that concert tracklist (the one with SI*NA and w/e) really be conclusive as to who has the rights to her songs? They performed Happy Material and Bouken Deshou Deshou and all these songs that H!P definitely doesn't have rights to... :laugh So Glass no Pumps could just be another one of those.

^ ohhh that is true. So maybe she will perform some of her oldies at upcoming concerts. I'd love to see her re-sing some of her old songs with new arrangements and vocals.


NOOOOOOOOO if the album turns out to be digital avex can suck my **** :gnash :gnash :gun and that is assuming we even are getting an album after this next digital single :mad Debuting her with an mini album would be a really smart move I think cause more people would be willing to buy an album compared to a single. It would be the perfect way to introduce Gocchin to Japan again.

^ I agree. :yes As much as I want a physical single, I think that can wait. 4 Digital singles are enough to give people a taste of Maki, so they should release a mini-album as her first phystical release, promote it well, and start the era of avex!Gocchin. :yes

As for her performing old songs... as much as I want that, I guess technically she can't release those performances on DVD, can she? Kind of like how she performed Hips Don't Lie at her HtuS 07 tour but they weren't allowed to publish it? Ahh, H!P, just sell avex the rights to her songs! T_T

^ I'm still not sure about the DVD part. I know of other artists who switched record labels/companies and when they release a new DVD they include their old songs on it but I dunno about Maki's situation. Maki might want to stay clear from her old "idol" image though and choose not to sing the songs. I'm sure she will eventually sing at least one song from her H!P days but for her first tour and whatnot I can easily see her choosing not to sing any of them.

Sooooo it's been one year (June 1st is when the news broke) since Maki joined avex. It seems like just yesterday when I was anticipating her a-nation performance :thud

the new song still isnt out? :( ive been listening to that crappy version of hear me alot lately!! its so hot :luv2 i really hope theres going to be a studio version someday!!

she didn't keep the kuu-like cut for long...

http://i41.tinypic.com/2dbqfxy.jpg

Now it's evolution-ish! Haha.

^ :roflmao
i dont really like this one :( i liked kuuhair better

she needs to stop cutting her hair. :(


it keeps getting worse and worse!

Exactly what I thought! :D

But yeah, Maki needs to pick one style and stick with it.

LMAO MAKI.

Put down the scissors, woman.

why maki WHYYYY :puke

thankfully she will get rid of this one soon, unless she decides to stick with the ugly hair :dead2

How hard is it to stay with one hair style?

but what if she goes shorter and cuts her hair like mango girl :tired

:faint :no:dead2:tired:tipsy:headache:o:irked

plz no she actually almost had mango girl hair at one point in early 2004. it was like this nasty mushroom mullet hybrid idk..it was just ugly :eviltongu


gocchin come back 2 me :weep
http://i43.tinypic.com/ozjnp.jpg

Ew I hated her 2004 Hair sooo much! :tired Maybe Maki should be borrowing some of Kuu's cheap wigs... :laugh

ew! how could someone think that hairstyle is pretty?

i love her hair in these pics <3

^ oohhh i want my hair to be like that :luv2

Everything about Maki in those pics = hot. Why did she have to cut it off?! :weep

http://ameblo.jp/starbase/entry-10279153393.html
they are looking for backup dancers for maki she will be at a-nation OMG OMG :spazzed :):):):):):):spinning:thud:love

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/7...0197138169.jpg
clear pic of her new hair. she looks cute but i want her to change it :eviltongu

OMG IM SO HAPPEH SHES GONNA BE ON A-NATION!! i wonder what she'll perform, maybe a new song again :luv2

and her hair doesnt look as awful on this pic, i actually kinda like it

Yes! I'm so excited for her a-nation performance :)

Hopefully we'll get more than a 2 minute vid this time. What a rip!

Woot, a-nation!!! :D

Maki is appearing at some event called SPLASH!
http://ft-r.net/system/topics/index/id/793/
i'm pretty sure it's televised (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE). i was hoping we would get a performance from her house nation club tour by now so i'm desperate for anything :(


oh and i randomly found this video on youtube this morning. good to know that maki has a very creative and imaginative bunch of fans...:confused

LOL! Let's all remind ourselves that she used to be a part of H!P. XD

OMG :roflmao

Can't say Maki fans don't have a sense of humour xD

http://i39.tinypic.com/2mrxfkn.jpg

FINALLY HAIR HAIR HAIR


anytime now we should be getting news on the 4th sweet black song too :spazzed last night i was watching Fly away again and it is so good ksnflaksag. the choreography is amazing i want to see it live so badly. a shame it doesn't have as many hits on youtube compared to Lady Rise, from the looks of things with... will pass it also.

:roflmao FINALLYYY she looks so cute! i hope she'll leave her hair like this for the PV!

Maki - please, please, please keep this hairstyle for a few weeks at least, okay?

she looks great! but i don't see it lasting long tbh :(

Someone needs to send Maki a message begging her to keep her hair the way she has it.

her hair is nice :D reminds me of best second session.

she looks soooo cute

Small update on Maki

CM for SPLASH! the festival thing she's performing at.


pics from the June 26th house nation show @ Yokohama



announce something new plz :(

So far she still has the long hair. Until the extensions come out. :weep

Anyway, it almost looks like loose dreadlocks in some of the pictures.

They look more like really tight curls to me. She looks great either way lol.

She looks great in the performance photos! :D

DJ MAYUMI new single, "PARADISE / CRAZY IN LOVE" 7/29
01. DJ MAYUMI feat. AK-69, BIG RON & JAY’ED / PARADISE
02. DJ MAYUMI feat. MAKI GOTO with FALCO&SHINO / CRAZY IN LOVE

http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/4228200/


Yay! but srsly when is she going to get her own release. enough of all this feat. MAKI GOTO :gnash

they might just put out a "maki collab best" before she even gets a debut album under avex

crazy in love is a cute title :yes

Yes, I agree! It's been a while now that she has been signed under avex and still no physical release...

OMG. DEBUT ALREADY.

Her new hair is GORGEOUS! Hope she keeps it for a while!

Glad she gets to perform at a-nation and hopefully it will be for longer than two minutes! :yes

I know that she's been featuring a lot lately, but she's the main vocalist in all of them so it's almost like she's not. I just file them all under Maki Goto in my mp3 player.

Yeah, when is Maki going to actually debut? O.o

My thoughts exactly, :irked.

That's a weird way to debut someone, but whatever just come out with an album already :headache

dj mayumi has done some good songs so i'm looking forward to it!

great news!

i like the tirle CRAZY IN LOVE, sounds cute :love

and ayu_ready?, I LOVE YOUR SIG!!!!!!!

^ thank you so much, honey!!! :luv2

HOUSE NATION - Aquamarine
2009.8.5 in stores!! ハウスネイション - アクアマリン

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/494...0209068098.jpg
01. Under The Sun (Herve's Ain't No Sunshine Mix) / Kidda
02. When Lovers Takes Over (HOUSE NATION Electro Mix) / Rivendell
03. I Love Rock 'N' Roll (Extended Mix) / Alex Gaudino & Jason Rooney
04. Needin' U [I Needed U] (HOUSE NATION Mix) / DJ OMKT
05. Garden (CLASSIC HOUSE ANTHEM) / May J. × DAISHI DANCE
06. Jump (Formentera's Cool Summer Mix) / Sunset In Ibiza
07. Plastic Lover (Club Mix) / SWEET BLACK feat. MAKI GOTO
08. Leave The World Behind (Original Mix) / Axwell, Ingrosso, Angello, Laidback Luke feat. Deborah Cox
09. Magick Lantern Cycle (SUGIURUMN Extended Vocal) / Tomomi Ukumori x SUGIURUMN
10. Show Me Love (Extended Mix) / Steve Angello & Laidback Luke feat. Robin S
11. V.I.P.P. (Very Important Party People) feat. TRF & VERBAL(m-flo) / ravex
12. Piano Mano (Original Mix) / The Drill feat. Firetruck & Antartica
13. Lala Song (Tocadisco Remix) / Bob Sinclar & Sugarhill Gang
14. Kids (Soulwax　Remix) / MGMT
15. Must Be The Music (Nicola Fasano Remix) / Joey Negro
16. Once Upon A Time　/ neroDoll feat. Alisa
17. Kiss Kiss Kiss (Extended Version) / Ami Suzuki
18. Love Crazy (Triple D Remix) / Warren Clarke & Tara McDonald
19. Avalanche (DAISHI DANCE Remix) / Marie Digby
20. One More Time (MITOMI TOKOTO Big Summer Remix) / Sunset In Ibiza
21. Music Matters feat. Cass Fox (Axwell Remix) / Faithless


NEW AMI AND MAKI OADSJFJADSKNLAFSKN458U9IJOHDNJDFSHNJDSNDSNSDN;DSNJ JNDAGSJN

Plastic Lover?? Can't wait to hear the lyrics to that one!!

The thoughts that come with reading the new song title :laugh

i was hoping i'd come here and find a new single in the works...but i guess not :( haha. i wish she'd just release a single. i don't understand the marketing stradegy, if this is one.... lol

Oh dear... :rolleyes

Ok now that I have processed all this info we should be getting the regular version of Plastic Lover -really- soon...it would be odd for them to release a remixed version prior to the original. So I guess it's safe to say Maki will debut with an album...:confused

1) Hear me (?)
2) Fly away
3) GOLDEN luv
4) Lady Rise
5) with...
6) CRAZY IN LOVE
7) Plastic Lover

Golden luv and crazy in love might not be there cause they aren't under her name but five songs is more than enough anyway.

Also two new pics from her house nation lives

Did avex just sign Maki for her to do collaborations x_x? Or are they experimenting with her to see what they want her career to do?

Has this ever happened before? Where an artist signs with a new label, and does no officially their songs for an incredibly long time?

^ I've never heard of it! It's annoying though! :irked

http://i31.tinypic.com/35mpp3c.jpg
Thanks god, there is no bald in here. Wait... a white guy fan of Maki?

^lol I totally missed it, but he so sticks out huh XD

The only time I've ever seen this happen is in S Korea. Before they officially debut, some of them are featured in songs. Maybe that's what they are doing. Giving people a chance to know her thru someone else.

Taking myself for example, this marketing strategy is working. Maki was in H!P and while popular I was put off by her being in H!P. Just mention that an artist was from H!P and I would shut off. I wouldn't be a fan of Maki's if I hadn't heard Fly Away.

^ Same! I heard of her through Fly high :) My favorite song and video by her.

I'm not too upset - Maki's still making lots of songs and isn't really "feat" on any of them. So, as long as she keeps making music, I'll be happy =D

EVERYONE MAKI IS RELEASING A SWEET BLACK MINI ALBUM ON SEPT 16TH **** OMG HOLY **** FINALLY FINALLY

http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B002FLIKEU/

:spazzed:spazzed:spazzed

about time :yes

my gawd finally!!! Now I can watch Lady-Rise on the big screen XD I wonder if Hear me will be on it though.

YEAH!! Hold on, how many songs are usually in a mini album? Hear me isn't a Sweet Black song. It's just Maki right? SO that means, Fly Away, Lady Rise, and with... oh and Plastic Lover. Crazy in Love isn't a Sweet Black production either. So that's 4 songs. So maybe 4 more songs.

^ :yes
The CD+DVD also comes with a deluxe booklet and some mini drama. Probably talking about her ~journey~ with avex so far. Ahh I hope avex does good promo for this, I can't wait to see her perform on tv again :bshake

Does anyone want to make the new thread? The names I keep thinking of are lame :weep

Woot! New Maki material.

FINALLY! It's been a year since she signed with avex, about time she released something physical.

FINALLY A REAL CD OMIGOD.

I'm probably going to get this <3

I AM DEFINITELY GETTING THIS. :tbiggrin

...and it's about time. I wonder if this means that the SWEET BLACK campaign is over?

Edit: Or, wait... the artist is given as "SWEET BLACK feat. MAKI GOTO" so that could mean that she'll continue releasing stuff as part of SWEET BLACK? :tconfused