The 164th Thread – 56th Single 「Dreaming Now!」
 

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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.


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Credits: FinalFayth, Kingdom, Corvina, do it again, Cherrim, George, maze.

haven commented on the cover haha. the ball is so random. but kuu looks amazing :D

She seems really like balls.

Thinking of it this way makes me like the covers a lot more, since I love Volleyball:luv2

That makes sense!

Cant photoshop away DA MUSCLES :heart

She always looks so good. I like the ball thing.

Koda kumi arrived to taiwan for the concert!

http://ent.appledaily.com.tw/realtim...131009/272158/
http://www.chinatimes.com/realtimene...9004583-260416
http://showbiz.chinatimes.com/2009Ct...900600,00.html

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Omg wtf is she wearing, I love it!!

She looks good as always♥ I can't wait for the Taiwan Live. I bet it's epic as hell~ ♥

This style suits her so much: it's so messy and on her it looks so hot. Adorable.
And I have to say I appreciate more the covers now that the ball presence has some kind of sense!

Ew, her hair.

Actually the ball represents the Earth and she's showing us she's a goddess who has us on the palm of her hands

I like her outfit but her hair is kinda like pieces_of_seven said "ew"

it looks like she went swimming for too long and the chlorine turned her hair.

she needs to go back to the black and blonde.

I like this theory best. Mostly because its true.

No lies detected.

Her hair looks pretty gross tbh. I do like her outfit though.

Her hair looks faded, I hope she'll fix the color soon...

Here you go guys

Kuu holding the world...

very simple cover single, but so sexy~

Now I think the cover would've been awesome if it was like that :D

love this hair color so much!

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+2121267767557

Official Koda Kumi newsletter for international fans

When you register and open your messages, there'll be a video of Kuu speaking and it's subbed in English

That leather breastplate looks cool! I've never seen something alike.
And it's me, or she looks a bit thinner?

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That's pretty nifty and cool

Ah, I finally have internet again, now I can post here again :D ITS BEEN SO LONG.

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Kumis beat me to the punch but, Kuu has released a new E-MAIL MAGAZINE which in done entirely in English (or you can select other asian languages) for asian and international fans. You can register you're email to receive the newest updates from kuu and her staff and also receive messages from Kuu! Once you register here: https://ssl.avexnet.or.jp/mailmag/koda/en/

You'll get an english subbed video of Kuu thanking you for registering, where she says that the new E-MAIL MAGAZINE is not just for her japanese fans but to reach over the world to her international fans too, e-mailing you recent updates by her staff with what they're doing and Kuu will also be sending messages through it herself!

What a cool idea!

thats so amazing! I love her even more now :weep

and yay for her facebook page hitting the 115000 likes

WTF? Instead of North-South America it's "North-south United States"... USA is not the whole America, Japan! :no


Anyway, the video you receive when you subscribe is adorable :)

gorgeous pic from taiwan live:

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Wahhhhh, thank you so much for this!!!
Ok. This is, like, supercool, and she's the sweetest, and IT WAS AMAZING. I love this. I FRIGGING LOVE HER. ...I'm not gonna calm down for a while, lol.

66 pics
http://slide.ent.sina.com.cn/y/jp/sl...704_67314.html

And according to reports she sang 20 songs including Ai No Uta (Chinese version), Bling Bling Bling, LALALALALA, So Nice or Ai Wo Tomenaide!

There's a video at this link (So Nice, D.D.D, KO SO KO SO):
http://twent.chinayes.com/Content/20...i5k8zscw.shtml

Taiwan Live setlist:

01. So Nice
02. D.D.D
03. Jounetsu (情熱)
04. Ai Wo Tomenaide (愛を止めないで)
05. KO-SO-KO-SO
06. Hands
07. 0-ji Mae no Tsunderella (0時前のツンデレラ)
08. Ai no Uta (Chinese Ver.)
09. Ai no Kotoba (愛のことば)
10. Is This Trap?
11. ESCALATE
12. Boom Boom Boys
13. Bling Bling Bling ～ Cutie Honey (キューティーハニー)
14. Medley: Outside Fishbowl～FREAKY～Selfish～Love Me Back
15. BE MY BABY
16. Poppin' love cocktail

★Encore
17. LALALALALA
18. Bring It On
19. Walk

★Double Encore
20. Moon Crying

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News video:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x15...v-report_music

Thanks to Sukowe @ JPC

^ my goodness, she just looks absolutley beautiful. I love the set and the dress. Very very beautiful.

I have the Japonesque Tour (WOWOW version) as mp3, I don't see it in the download section, anyone wants? :D

^ I do!!!

I love Kuu so much! :luv2 She was so excited in the video, haha. Looking forward to getting a bit of Kuu in my inbox every now and then, especially if it's more videos.

She looks beautiful, can't wait to see the live!

oh my god awesome :D World wide!

ugh. My Koda :heart

Im kinda surprised with havent gotten an album or anything yet...
hmmm.

I seriously hate that brunette wig >.<

But she looks gorgeous with the long dress :heart

What is with Kuu and her serious love of wigs? I swear other artists don't wear as many wigs during their concerts as she does.

thats cool the koda kumi mail magazine i registered and the video was very adorable :luv2

This made me smile so much. I also registered at once because this is such a awesome idea. And I get a new reason to check out my email more often too! 8D

I'm so excited for this, hopefully it's not a limited fan club release like the previous Taiwan Live was.

That setlist is so good! :D She looks beautiful in that ballad section dress.

Oh, I should come here a lot more often lol. XD

maybe she opts wearing wigs to protect her natural hair? otherwise all the styling might make it dry/something lol

her dancers are so hot. UGH. male dancers. UGH Kuu GIVE ONE TO ME

I'm so pumped to hear Bring it On in full and in good quality!
As she's singing it at the Taiwan Live, again. I do hope she brings an album soon. X-Mas would be great, but honestly they probably take January-March again, so she will be back at her old release schedule...
Though Kuu is really busy till December by all means.

Eagerly waiting for JAPONESQUE Tour release as well.
What are they planning with it that it takes so long?

I don't know if I would really care about getting a Taiwan Live DVD. It looks to me like its got parts of JAPOTOUR in it, and I hate it when she does that. However, all the outfits looked amazing.

Ansious for the ballad section and BRING IT ON, the rest is the same of what we've got already for a long time

The new costumes are great btw :yes

Maybe they'll do a double concert DVD with the Taiwan Live :innocent

^ I doubt so, the concerts are too similar to be sold both together... My guess is they're holding it to be released with the next album, like ayu usually does with her CDL+album releases

It seems the Dreaming Now PV may have been shown at the Taiwan live? It would be nice if anyone knew any more info about this

^ iirc there was a pic of Kuu with her dancers shooting Dreaming Now! PV before she went to Taiwan, and she didn't spend much of a time in Taiwan, so I guess that there won't be anything shot there on the PV... The IS THIS TRAP? Live Music Video tho could be from there

I've been wondering why it takes so long to announce a release date for JAPONESQUE TOUR. I thought they would had announced it by now. I bet they're just busy with other things~

As for Taiwan Live, well, I want it released. I don't care if it's a mix of her other concerts, I just love everything. XD

You know when Xmas is approaching and everywhere there are albums of resung, old xmas songs? I just want Kuu to do it. Both because her voice is perfect for ballads (so let's give her good vintage ones) and because of her engrish. I want Kuu to adorably destroy Santa Baby and All I Want For Christmas Is You lyrics! <3
And I can't wait for new single.

Oh now I'm imagining Kuu singing Itsuka no Merry Christmas! :laugh

Kuu would make a perfect cover of Itsuka no Merry Christmas! I would die if I heard that with some nice Aitakute-ish R&B tunes... *_*

Not even one new section or even the whole JAPONESQUE Tour live... I kinda don't care for a DVD of this show actually. At least the new outfit is gorgeous.

That is exactly how I feel, lol. Or, if one is made, I won't be watching it. It just doesn't interest me.

Kuu keeps on saying that "Taiwan is like my second homeland"

So she better keep on pumping out those lives :luv2

^I wonder if that was a factor in her falling for Kenji?

read the sentence one more time haha it says "shown" not "shot"

I want the 2013 taiwan live to be released on blu-ray because of the BRING IT ON performance, that's it. she was probably pretty busy with the new single (which I guess is already finished) to make a new segment for the concert.

^ omg rofl I didn't even notice :laugh Sorry for that

Well, then idk I haven't seen this info nowhere else |:

And I agree she probably didn't add new sections cause she has been busy. Adding ballads is not a problem, she's performing them in a very simple way in the last years, but upbeat songs always ask for a choreo and new things :P She could have sung Dreaming Now!, but maybe she still ain't confident enough to perform it live? Probably she's waiting for a proper time to sing it

I keep forgetting BRING IT ON was performed too. Damn, I wanna hear it soon in HQ! It sounded so awesome in that Girls Award thingy that I'm now praying it's a part of her next album. :D

Hmm, somehow I get a feeling that Kuu has a gangsta theme for her next album. She has been wearing clothes that are very hip hop inspired. I don't want to get my hopes too high so I won't be disappointed (which is actually very unlikely since I never feel disappointed when it comes to Kuu) but I hope she would release a real kick ass hip hop inspired album. That would be awesome. *_*

Dreaming Now! radio rip
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/ez0B5ItYHaw/

Dreaming Now! (radio rip) on SoundCloud as well (for those like me whose internet connection won't load tudou pages properly >.<): https://soundcloud.com/sukowe-gal-re...oda-kumi-radio

I really like it!! :D :D :D

It's like a more polished version of IS THIS TRAP? for me. The song itself is good, amazing break. It doesn't sound like a single-track for me tho, hoping for an amazing PV

I think Dreaming Now! is so much better than IS THIS TRAP?, I find IS THIS TRAP?'s verses to be kind of boring, but I really liked Dreaming Now! as a whole :heart

I don't see any resemblance, is this trap? is so much better imo, this is a bit boring. The chorus and the 2.40 is nice but I don't feel like listening to it again, while is this trap? has been my addiction for quite a while :)

omg another upbeat hot song to run and work out to!!

She already performed Dreaming Now! for Music Fair, so she knows all the lyric and the choreography (if there's any).

And I don't know, I just thing that she could, at least, do all the JAPONESQUE Live there, without Pink Spider because of the props. It was probably a blast for the people who was there anyway! :)

@drdolce: It would be funny having an album with "a gangsta theme" and the tour like a Fairytale (if this is the theme of the next concert, with all those bubbles...) lol

The sond is good but isn't amazing. Probably the HQ will make it better.

^Yeah, that would be a weird move from Kuu. XD Oh well, I can dream of that gangsta themed album though.

As for Dreaming Now!... well, it's AWESOME♥

If she's putting out a gangsta-hip-pop album, gurl betta sample some Gwen Stefani songs and feature a proper rapper for her songs this time

Besides this, does anyone know where I can find an English translation of Kuu's Ashita e...?

Dreaming Now! is nice, especially the break, but I do much prefer IS THIS TRAP? :P
I'm more hyped up for XXX tbh, her b-sides always blow me away

Haha definitely!
But looks like she has really fallen in love with Taiwan :)
She said she loves the shopping and the food there

She said that hopefully Taiwanese fans won't have to wait 4 years for her next live there like they did since the Taiwan Live

I'd love an album from kuu with hip-hop and r&b as the main sound. Miss those.

Listening to Dreaming Now! Its good, but I still prefer Is This Trap? I don't see myself blasting Dreaming Now! Funny, both of them have punctuation in their titles :P

EDIT: How do you guys think that Kuu's brand of contact lenses is pronounced? Its written as Loveil, so is it Love-ILL or Love-EEL?

^I always say "Love-ale." I bet I'm dead wrong though.

I pronounce it as "low-veil"

Well, in Finland we can just pronounce it as it's written. :)

Here:

I saved this translation on my laptop a long time ago so I'm not sure who actually translated it, but I was glad that I found this because back then it was quite hard to find translations of Kuu's songs for some reason. I love Ashita e... so much that I just had to save it. After that I saved every other translation of her songs. XD

Dreaming Now! is better than I thought it'd be. I just really don't like the "oh-oh-oh-oh-oh" part of the chorus. It kinda ruins the momentum of the song, imo. I was hoping for something a little less generic EDM-y... but I have a feeling this'll grow on me :) Can't wait for XXX now!

Did anyone see the 4 new covershots for the Dreaming Now! single on the KUFC facebook site?

They are much better then the one we know.

Just saw them on Peeproom, can't say i like them. What in hell did her stylist do with her hair? It looks like it's about to catch fire, jesus.
I'm really happy with the first cover we got, it was really classy and dignified.

To make it easier for people to see, took this from tumblr:

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The CD+DVD and CD FC Version are hot, the other covers are a mess

Oh, and thanks for the translation, drdolce :D Funny thing is I could find it easily in Portuguese on Google, but an English translation was nowhere to be seen lol Thanks again! :heart those lyrics are amazing

I like the new covers a lot.

Can anyone tell me how I can buy the Fanclub versions if I already am a fanclub meber via Celga?

I am new to all of this since this spring....

FC Covers are G.O.R.G.E.O.U.S esp the CD cover

and the pants on the CD cover are super HOT

CD only fanclub cover is my fav

You have to buy from the mu-mo FC shop.
Here: http://shop.mu-mo.net/st/fc/KKS.html
Send Celga the link of the FC version(s) and your FC info (member no. and your birthday is enough) to log in. That's all.^^


CD only cover for FC is amazing! My favourite as well!
The rest is pretty avantgarde, props for that.

Thanks a lot.
You're awesome ♥:luv2:love:thud:yes

I love the CD and special edition covers the most:luv2

Dreaming Now! is pretty good!
I LOVE the other covers! :heart That's what I expect from Kuu: something edgy, messy and with a lot of character!

The Fanclub CD only and the CD+DVD we already knew are gorgeous, but I really don't like the others, the outfit and her hair are all wrong imo :no

those covers are flawless. I want them all :(

The hair is kinda iffy on the covers, but I see what they were going for...

Well the last CD and CD+DVD versions in that pic set are amazingly beautiful! I like "Dreaming Now!"

I pronounced her contacts brand as "LOVE-VEIL" because that's what I like the best lol.

Bottom right is giving me life :heart

Dreaming Now is actually better than i expected from the preview, the bridge takes it to another level of hotness. It's still a tad too generic for my taste, but definitely one of the better A-Sides this era.

I did a cover for the song if anyone's interested, i love the official but i wanted something more colorful and club ready!

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Niiiice! <3

^ Love it!! :luv2