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The 163rd Thread - 55th Single "Summer Trip"
http://i.imgur.com/rUsHNkD.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/c6yryIg.png Stage Name: Koda Kumi / 倖田來未 Real Name: Kouda Kumiko / 神田來未子 Birthdate: 13 November 1982 (Showa 57) Blood Type: A Hometown: Kyoto Hobbies: Shopping, Goods. Favorite Sport: Squash Favorite Type of Music: Hip Hop Favorite Dish to Cook: Niku Jaga (Beef and Potatoes) Favorite Saying: Ikkai ichi e (Once in a lifetime chance) Favorite Colors: Purple and green Favorite Season: Summer Favorite DVD: Haneru no tobira Favorite Brands: D&G and H・A・K Favorite Food: Okonomiyaki, 100% Fruit Juice, Perrier Favorite Japanese Artists: Toshinori Yonekura, Sukima Switch Favorite Western Artists: Christina Aguilera, Nelly, Pink, Pharrell Williams Something She Can't Be Without: Love Favorite Part of Her Own Body: The "kori kori" of her waist. Something Often Unexpected: 'No smoking & no alcohol' Something Unacceptable: Lies and deception Special Ability: To be able to talk until her voice goes hoarse. http://i.imgur.com/UlMc78H.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/CQJr82S.png Spoiler:
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http://i.imgur.com/pEERElV.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/v5hGoLp.png Spoiler:
Credits: FinalFayth, Kingdom, Corvina, do it again, Cherrim, George, maze. |
Beautiful first post :love
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I really dig her look in the LAx5 PV. And I love Summer Trip, every song is so good... I say it every year, but summer is the best with a Kuu single, and it's incomplete if she never releases one haha
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That pic of Kuu with SeungRi on the old thread just makes me think one thing: collab collab collab collab collab
Kuu x BIGBANG would be epicness overload |
^I couldn't handle Tae Yang and Kuu in one frame. I would explode.
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Not gonna lie, I would not like to see a Big Bang/Koda Kumi collaboration. Not much of a fan of Big Bang, plus their crazy ass fangirls would eat Kuu alive. :dead2
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BB's popularity could really help up Kuu since their concerts sell hugely and their fandom in Japan is even crazier than in Korea, lol
the making of Summer Trip is so cute, I really'd like to see more Kuu-sama :) |
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agreed. and i dont give a f* about what their crazy girlfans would think about her. |
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I love Kuu's Line account so much, they're posting so many great pics!
Today at a-nation island: http://i41.tinypic.com/eqcdix.jpg From the Summer Trip release event: http://i43.tinypic.com/2qs55x5.jpg |
I love so much that hairstyle from the Summer Trip release event! :heart
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wth is she wearing though lol ..
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Am I the only person who doesn't care for LALALA? I found it kinda suckish.
I thought IS THIS TRAP? should have been the A-side or even TOUCH DOWN; that would have been different. |
Setlist for a-nation island today:
1. IS THIS TRAP? 2. Boom Boom Boys 3. Bling Bling Bling 4. キューティーハニー ~ Butterfly 5. 爱のうた 6. Twinkle feat. SHOW 7. LALALALALA 8. BE MY BABY 9. Poppin' love cocktail reports opening ceremony: JIJIPRESS Oricon Thanks to Koda Gumi Thailand |
Well, half of the setlist is a-nation-typical, but I'm happy for IS THIS TRAP? and BBBoys there. A shame there's no TOUCH DOWN tho
Backstage pic from French Fans Page @ FB Spoiler:
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idk, XD |
God why in every picture does Kenji have to make a weird looking face??
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I was like "wtf, there's Kenji?", cause I didn't notice him first! :laugh
He is and he's wearing Kuu's a-nation shirt! How cute! :heart |
Weird faces may be an asian thing. Show Luo was also like that in his pics with Kuu :laugh Talking about him btw I think they should collab again, they're always re-performing Twinkle lol
And yes, I'm a collab-need guy. She should make a collab album with 12 new tracks. With Show Luo, Clench & Blistah, Maki Goto, Kana Nishino, BACK-ON, Aya Kamiki and more :love |
omg her dress is transparent XD
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TOUCH DOWN is my jam. *dances*
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She looks great but her voice sounds kinda weak. :( waiting for the full thing ntl |
^ Maybe she sounds kind of weak 'cause she's jumping all over the place!:D But for me her voice was just good enough anyway.
And I love Lalalalala fiercely. It's that type of song that I agree is nothing new, nor something amazing, but I still care deeply about. Kuu certainly did better with rockish tracks before, but still, Lalalalala is supernice: it's my cute, little baby, making me happy and giving me energy. But I want her to perform TOUCHDOWN! Quote:
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The backtracking is too loud! >_<
And they cut th audience, you can't hear even the smallest thing. Though it's great from avex to upload some footage themselves. I love the way she performs IS THIS TRAP?. A choreo and some interaction, that's amazing! Especially being there for sure! :laugh |
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I think she looks absolutely firece & grogeous this summer, I love her vivi make-up and baseball/beach looks :)
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a-nation is becoming indoor event????
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^ That's just the a-nation island performance. It's kinda like a carnival concept with several activities and events around the Yoyogi region (if I'm not wrong). It serves as the prelude for the a-nation stadium fes, the main event.
Kuu's being all kinds of awesome during her entrance for IS THIS TRAP?. I'm loving it! She looks great in the dress at the beginning of the video too. |
Kuu with Daesung from BIGBANG, taken from French Fans Page @ FB
https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.n...52320088_n.jpg gurl is teasing me for a collab with BB |
I think that's a swimsuit inside the dress LOL
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she looks great in that pictures and i loved her performances!!
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Omg, Kuu is SO stunning this summer... (also, boobs.)
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And OMG that pic. A damn bombshell :thud |
Kuu is really sexy,and what an amazing body!Omg!
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anyone know where I can get the merchandise of fun in the sun 2013? I want the t-shirt
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Please Please Please NO Maki Goto, BIGBANG or Kana Nishino collabs with Kuu.
Btw are Kuu's a-nation stuff on YA for sale yet? I want the towel n couple others. :heart |
summer trip scans are out and full of hotness, check tumblr guys :)
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And I checked last night but no sign yet :( I want the shirt and maybe the see through bag :D |
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Aaaahhh I am LOVING the look and sound of the A-Nation & Summer Trip event performances! Can't wait to see them in full! :D And i'm loving the single, one of her best summer singles for me yet ^^ Kuu is doing fiercely this summer.
Apologies if this was posted before, JIJIPRESS preview & interview of Summer Trip live event! EDIT: Also, I ADORE the waves kuu has on her Summer Trip cover, I know they are called a particular type of curl/waves, but I cant remember, is it finger waves? Does anyone know? http://31.media.tumblr.com/e495fc418...yuyo1_1280.jpg |
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I'd love to see Kuu collabing with Maki cause could sing whichever genre they wanted to. They both rock dance, sexy, rnb, ballad, rockish, summerish, cute songs and everything :heart
I kinda of ship them actually hahahaha :roflmao |
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Kuu could make a perfect collab with Miliyah Kato, Namie Amuro or BENI IMO ;) |
^ I can see BENI x Kuu happening actually. But I do think a collab with Kana is also suitable. It'd be the maximum winter ballad. Gyarus would tattoo the song lyrics on their foreheads and melt over Kuu and Kana crying over their cellphones on the PV
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@Ayusakifan thank you! I stay tunned to yesasia
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Okay, I haven't been here for few days because I was so obsessed with FFXIII (I still am but decided to wait until Friday) and there's 3 pages in the new thread. God, you guys are fast. XD |
JPDDL has Kuu's FNS performances, CDTV LAx5 and the Cutie Honey & LAx5 lives on their site in HD .ts format. ^^
The only live I haven't seen yet is LAx5 on Music japan. I would say i'm surprised she hasn't done more TV lives, but she has been doing A-Nation Island and the Summer Trip Live Event, so gotta give the woman a break. Actually, I'm kinda surprised she sung Cutie Honey instead of TOUCH DOWN in the live event, considering it was to promote the single? I hope she performs TOUCH DOWN at least once, cause that song is awesome. :) |
^Or maybe TOUCH DOWN will be left for the Fanclub Tour as a special treat or something? :D She loves to spoil her fans anyway so I wouldn't surprised. x3
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6 - ● Summer Trip(LALALALALA/IS THIS TRAP?/TOUCH D OWN) 19,003 19,003 13/7/31 RZN
幸田来未 6 1 this is sad D: |
From tumblr! (sorry if it was posted before)
http://31.media.tumblr.com/9c0179121...29w0o1_500.jpg http://24.media.tumblr.com/5686475ff...a206o1_500.jpg http://31.media.tumblr.com/d667d15ea...fkwvo1_500.jpg http://24.media.tumblr.com/6185a0cce...zm0uo1_500.jpg http://31.media.tumblr.com/a70f07758...zm0uo1_500.jpg http://31.media.tumblr.com/c8bf00fbf...a206o1_500.jpg |
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Seems like the weekly numbers. A bit more than Koishikute, yeah? \=
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Well,they aren't that bad...some artists don't reach this amount even with albums
Hope it can reach 30k!! |
It's a bad time for most of phisical releases in general... At least it's not less than Koishikute... I wouldn't have been able to bear it otherwise. Ugh, this single is so nice and perfect for summer, why!
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Im more interested in digital sales as thats really her market with the age of her fans. And shes still in the top 10, soo nothing to worry about. ^^
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This is obviously not my favourite single, but the sales are low, i mean, this is a maxi single.
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Is she going to have a concert in Taiwan this year?
http://rhythmzone.net/koda/event/201...live-2013.html Wow!! |
The sales are terrible :thud I can't even... How???
Is it Kuu? Or the single? Or Japan? The sales are bad. So bad. Her flop one track singles used to sell +30k in first week, but a summer single sells 19k? Yeah that's shocking. I really didnt expect it at all. GTTT sold +20k in first day so this is depressing.... |
Well, at least her Top 10 singles' streak isn't broken. :)
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^Exactly. :D
I think through the years as digital has progressed (and due to the earthquake) the amount of physical sales that is considered for 'gold' or 'platinum' (and sales in general) has gone down, hasn't it? I think the number is lower than before. I mean, 19k for first week of a single a few years ago would mean you were out of the top 10, let alone #6. If you think about it, JAPONESQUE was still a #1 album despite being her lowest physical selling album since Affection! 'Feel My Mind' sold just more than JAPONESQUE at 154k and so did 'Grow Into One' with 200k, yet they were only #7 & #8 on the charts back then. I think its because nowadays people use digital means to buy music much more than back then, especially through Itunes. However because Oricon's sales has always been the deciding factor on how well a single or album is doing, people still look to Oricon for that, even though digital is now just as big of a factor (if not maybe more) of sales nowadays. I'm not sure if Oricon includes digital sales, but I'd be interested to see how well kuu does with itunes sales, to be honest. And despite Japan, South Korean sales are even lower physically, 4minute being a perfect example. With their newest album, 'Name is 4Minute', their album was at #2 with less than 15k of physical sales, YET their digital single of 'What's your name?' which was the title track for the album, sold 1.6 million! Which is an insane comparison. Even that is much lower than their first single 'Hot Issue' at 4 million, but despite selling more was only #3 at the time, and 'Whats your name?' selling less than half of that is at #1 now. It's no wonder Korean artists tend to sell more digital singles these days, cause they do 10x better. Not long after that, 4minute released another digital single 'Is It Poppin?' which made 1.5 million. When I first saw it, I thought "Another single so soon? Why didn't they just put it on the album?". Now I know why. xD That's my theory, anyway. xD |
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You're absolutely right. And let's not forget more often than not people don't buy digitally, they just download for free. I should know, since I'm the first one doing it, lol, even if I try to purchase as much cds as I can. But I'm not very wealthy, and download it's too easy to resist. It's not only an asian situation, it's a worldwide one. Everyone selling is going downhill, some more than others, but still. |
And just to give the digital sales theory a boost, taken from Frech Fans Page @ FB:
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Kuu is #1 at Recochoku (07/31 ~ 08/06) :D |
^Awesome :D Glad to see Namie doing well on there, too!
I wish there was a way to see the overall digital sales number like with Oricon? It's a shame that Oricon is the only one that assigns singles & albums a chart & sales number...there should be a digital Oricon, too, considering the amount of music that is bought digitally now, and downloaded. Unless there is one I don't know about? |
Again from FFP@FB, another pic of SeungRi with Kuu, a bit different now tho
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I still havent even listened to the full single yet. :laugh
I really dont know why I keep putting it off either. Lately I've been addicted to Namie's FEEL album and just everything from Crystal Kay, so its like I don't wanna leave this little music theme park I'm stuck in. lol Also about ST, Kuu's honestly been making her singles less appealing lately. Not so much in the new songs, but more so in bonus content. Like sukide didnt even have instrumental tracks... ST only has those interludes n theres no bonus of any kind unless ur a playroom member n get the poster. However its true physical sales in general have gone down a lot due to the change in the times, economy AND DEFINITELY TECHNOLOGY. We're all using ipods, mp3 players etc for music these days. I think this is also the reason (bit off topic) that Ayu's stopped releasing physical singles as well. |
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Are the producers for each song out already?
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I love that photo of Seungri :laugh He know where the sexy at.
I honestly think they've stopped Ayu releasing singles so it doesn't break her career long #1 singes record (isn't she the highest holder of #1 singles in Japan or something?) as shes in danger of not getting a #1 single the next time she releases one. Which is why they seem to be releasing mini albums with only 3 actual new songs and just made into mini albums by using a load of remixes and the instrumentals of the 3 songs to bring it to 12 tracks or whatever. xD But yeah, that's off topic. xD I'm actually excited for kuu's next ballad. As long as its not another Ai so tomato or koishitithinkwe'veheardthisalready. Although, I did really like the CDTV live of Koshikute with just the soft piano, and her voice was amazing and husky. |
^ omfg the titles :laugh
I wish the next ballad could be an rnb one. Something like Anata dake ga or hands would be so refreshing |
I want the ballads from Feel My Mind. Those are my favorite songs in all of Kuu's discography (and I generally hate ballads). The lyrics to Hana are amazing. Some of her best and most touching because it could be applied to so many situations. And people think Kuu isn't deep.
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Is that "Summer Single Collection" official or just a fans compilation?
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lyrics: Koda Kumi music: Figge Bostrom, Anna Engh IS THIS TRAP? lyrics: Koda Kumi music: T-SK, Henrik Nordenback, Christian Fast TOUCH DOWN lyrics: Koda Kumi, Toby Gad, Joanna Levesque music: Toby Gad, Joanna Levesque Quote:
it was a Perfume x Kuu+AI talk... there were letters for them from their moms, it was so cute both of them cried http://i.imgur.com/iRNPN0p.jpg physical sales are pretty bad but I'm glad it's #1 digitally :) |
^She looks so pretty!
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I love her lenses +____+ I Wish we could buy them...
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Ah, I was listening to Ai wo tomenaide a moment ago and now I want a song like that. I love those kind of ballads. Simple and emotional. Perfect♥
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You guys are thinking way too much on the sales... What she sold is fine, here it is the numbers of Kana Nishino and Kyary Pamyu² latest singles, both of them are "it girl" right now:
Believe 1st week: 22,986 Invader Invader 1st week: 16,460 The sales for female solo are bad, to almost all of them. |
^ Yup, even Namie got terrible numbers with BBC/Beautiful :(
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Gosh, she has released Summer Trip a week ago and I'm already wondering about the next one :laugh |
^it's okay, im doing the same :laugh i feel like a spoilt child.
Awww, i really want to see that talk. Which program was it? |
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The artist JoJo wrote touch down??? I recognize that as her real name. I used to listen to her music when I was younger, have her first two albums, still love them. Great vocalist. No wonder touch down is my fav from this single lol I don't think sales are so bad |
^ Yup. She even recorded the demo for the song
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I really need some new good ballad, but not the one like Koishikute, but smth r&b :)
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I want a video of this omg
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Listening to the single again makes me realize that Whatchu waitin on is probably one of her best summer songs for me. Juicy's still no1.
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Start at 10 minutes |
Do any of you awesome kuu fan's have a link (or can upload) BEST second session in 320 kbps? Mediafire is preferred but anything is fine deally.
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Ok, **** rnb ballads, I want a ballad like you [Floor on the Intelligence Remix], from DH2
That remix is a gem. And it sounds even better in HQ. |
^That dude :laugh
I wouldn't mind a trancy ballad. Like Britney Spears "And Then We Kiss". Love that song. Why wasn't it released? |
Something like IN THE AIR would be nice too. I love the catchy tune♥
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