The Kimura Kaela Thread
 

There hasn't been one created for this lovely girl yet, so here I am to do her some justice! Time for all of you Kaela fans to show yourselves, and feel free to talk about anything Kaela! :yatta

So to kick things off, how do you find Kaela? I think she's utterly insane in a very adorable way! I love how she does silly things that surprises us again and again.

That's girl's the epitome of style.

I first checked out 'RIRURA RIRUHA', because she reminded me of Shiina Ringo just from the cover. After seeing the 3 PVs someone uploaded from the 'Circle' first press DVD, I knew I had to order the first press straight away before it runs out.

Hopefully her next album will follow suit and include the PVs from the singles on a DVD.

Kaela = <333

I love her! Magic Music has become one of my favorite songs of this year.

Circle is one of the best JPop songs ever made, IMHO. :luv2

I really like her album "Circle"! :heart

I was wondering when Kaela would get her own thread :P

She was considerably "big" while I was in Japan, so I became curious as to what was so great about her; bought her album "Circle" and found the reason to her greatness :P She's got an interesting style. ^^

I'm so glad I managed to place an order for that too. It's coming in another week or two, I can't wait! :)

Magic Music was insanely catchy. Even my friend who doesn't listen to J-pop at all wanted me to play the song at work, just so that we could all get hyper and work faster. :laugh

I didn't like her debut album, but I like Circle and Magic Music.

"Takaku takaku JUMP shite" is so catchy, it's insane. :tired

Too bad she doesn't host SAKU SAKU anymore. It was so cool.

Actually I got to listen to her while watching, 'Attention Please!'. Her cover of 'Pretty Woman' is definately amusing and charming. I might check her music out if I have more time.

Word. Saku Saku was addictive to say the least. If I could wake up to that kind of a morning show everyday, I'd go to work a happy man.

*Buys the SAKU SAKU Vol.2 DVD with Kaela on Yesasia.*

Love Kaela. My favorite songs border between Circle and BEAT. I also love how her videos are so trippy.

And I love her haircut. :yes

I'm so tempted to buy both volumes! But my pesky common sense is holding me back because I can't understand most of the stuff they're talking about. :( And they ain't got no translations either...

It's been eerily quiet around here...

Well, in case you didn't know already, Kaela has teamed up with the Sadistic Mika Band in their revival this year, and their collaborative album NARKISSOS was just released on Wednesday. Amongst other songs, Kaela does a cover of their classic "Time Machine ni Onegai", as well as the lead single "Big Bang Bang".

Sadistic Mikaela Band official site. Yes, the band members decided to alter the band's name to highlight the inclusion of Kaela.

And also, there is currently talk about her having a yet-unnamed single for release in January 2007. More stuff to look forward to!

Listening to the Sadistic Mika Band album now. http://www.jpopmusic.com/forums/images/smiles/music.gif

Cute picture on the official site.

I've been listening to it too. It sounds like something that I'd play in the car, seeing that my dad likes this rock and roll sound they have as well.

Is she not going to release anymore songs as a solo artist?

She will, in January. Her work with the Sadistic Mika Band was as a guest vocalist for an album only.

Oh I see. Yay, that makes me happy! I <3 Kaela. She is so silly & cute!

can someone upload her album circle? i want to hear her songs...at YSI please...i know her from dorama "attention please"

Check back in the Downloads section later, I'm in the process of uploading it now. :)

And yes, Kaela is too silly and cute for our health.

*EDIT* I'm sorry, but I couldn't compress the album to under the 100MB for free accounts. Does SS work for you?

That's quite a cute picture on the Sadistic Mika Band website :D Good to hear that Kaela will come out with a single in January! Maybe it'll come out on my birthday....:P

NARKISSOS

Here's a link to the Sadistic Mika Band album if you haven't gotten it already.

Ooh Thanks Benny :D

A little bit of news on Kaela:

Kimura Kaela will be participating in the COUNTDOWN JAPAN 06/07 Osaka Concert held by Rockin'on on 29 Dec on the Planet Stage.

http://www.cdjapan.jp/detailview.html?KEY=COCA-15944

can't wait for this <3

I love the title!

Here's the cover to Snowdome for those who haven't seen it, brilliant as always.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...n/snowdome.jpg

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And her new album 'Scratch' is up for pre-order on most major online retailers!

Scratch

Temporary Image
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...COCP-34093.jpg

Release: 7th February 2007

Regular Edition: 2800 yen
First Press w/DVD: 3300 yen (According to cdjapan, contains all PVs of singles from Magic Music and onwards and live footage.)

I'm gonna go pre-order it in a sec. I'm so hyped for it. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v174/kevin711/3.gif

Wow, great news O_O Is Snow Dome her new single?

Man..all these artists keep releasing and I just don't have the money to spend on them :(

Yeah, I'm spending waay more than I'm earning definitely. :(

I'm still going to pre-order though. Those covers are hilarious, as always. :thumbsup

rumor has it that Kaela is dating Rip Slyme's member Su...


^^

LOL I'd love to see a source.

I was getting a bit worried about the lack of such news since she's about the age to get a boyfriend, seeing that she just turned 22.

i read it in a magazine
i laughed when i read that..... i think they actually make the perfect couple... they are both crazy as hell.. only that su is 33 years old XDD, and he is divorced XD

'Snowdome' PV is up on Jpopsuki tracker! Check it out

Fantastic PV as usual, and the song's got a very nice melody. Can't wait for her new album.

I didn't keep up with her work! Wow! New single, new album! =D

I can't wait for her new album! :P

Thanks for the heads up, will be downloading it soon enough. Sounds promising too.

Her blog was given a bit of a makeover, but it still looks crazy though. :laugh

For those who haven't seen the Snowdome PV yet, you can see it here

I love it, and I love her semi-new hair.

can someone introduce me? i wanna know who she is. she sounds good. whats her voice like? whats she look like? what kind of music does she do?

Hmm..Well, first of all, she's half British/half Japanese. She became famous as a model in many teenage magazines, she's pretty popular with teenagers and I'd say 20-somethingers. Her voice is pretty clear, and can be strong when she wants it to be. Her style is great - she's very creative with her designs and PVs. As for genre, mainly punk/powerpop. Its all insanely catchy, with great guitar riffs. Although she has been known to mix some trance in with the rock, which I would love to see her do more of. Since I can't upload anything right now, I'll post the links to all of her PVs on youtube..Kaela really does need more love, she's great.

happiness!!!

Magic Music

Circle

BEAT

Real Life Real Heart

YOU

Snowdome

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the fact that her new album is released in Japan 02/07. I downloaded an early leak of it earlier this morning; if anybody would like it, let me know and I'll upload it here.

there has been rumours about kaela dating Rip slyme's SU

now yahoo jp confirms the news

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20...000064-sph-ent

i read the article

aparently it was published in a magazine 「女性セブン」

they have been living in the same apartment building but in different rooms... (correct me if i'm wrong)

it also said that they have a 11 years difference

it is also said that they start dating since the end of 2005

its also said that they havent got married.. but they keep the possibility of getting married in a future

btw SU is divorced

sorry for the rough translation -_-

Just a quick update: Scratch debuted at #1 for the week with sales slightly under 200,000. Pretty strong numbers, and looks like her career's setting off very nicely.

mishidabo: Thanks for the translation, but the article said they'd started dating only last fall. But yes, they are living in the same place, only in different rooms.

Ahhh "Scratch" ROCKS! I love listening to Kaela's voice! :heart

I'm really into "You" lately!

I'm addicted to her new album Scratch!! It rocks!! =)

THIS THREAD IS SO DEAD. :cry:

^perhaps there isn't much Kaela's fans in this forum?

I'm just startin' to LOVE Kaela. I LOOOOOOVE Jasper so much!!!! <333

Kaela is so underrated. :( I wish she was more popular. "Scratch" managed to sale quite a lot, so I hope the same thing will happen for her next album. It's supposed to be release on 2008.04.02. :D

GO KAELA!

Jasper is pretty repetitive but can get pretty addicting too. Oh, it also took me a while figure out the lyric to 'Dive Into Shallow' (B-side off the Jasper single) is actually all English. XD

^ I agree but it's pretty cool and the PV is amazing... her next album is going to be really good...

actually she does have a very good music, just that it needs
time to grow on the listener.

and now, I can't wait for her new album!!!
so it's gonna be out on 2nd apr??

Yeeeap! Though i think it's not officially announced yet, since i saw it over at wiki.theppn. Since no one has said this yet,

Jasper got #9 for it's first week! And it sold 22k, that's about 2k more than Yellow's first week, which is great ((:

EDIT-

I forgot to mention i recieved my CD+DVD version of Jasper today! I just scanned the booklet & Back cover.

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/2...erscan1.th.jpghttp://img204.imageshack.us/img204/2...erscan2.th.jpghttp://img204.imageshack.us/img204/7...erscan3.th.jpghttp://img204.imageshack.us/img204/9...erscan4.th.jpghttp://img204.imageshack.us/img204/7...erscan5.th.jpg

i just want to know..
yellow bla bla bla is kaela song or not??
i ever saw it on channel V but i cant read kanji so i dunno who is the singer

^yup her previous single was Yellow.


thanks meatpao for the scans.
now I'm addicted to Jasper!!!! :laugh
actually it's quite a fun song!!

Lovely scans! Thanks a lot, meatpao. =)

oww so yellow is her latest single???
is she new artist??

the sounds looks great..
i think i start like kaela..
i like yellow very much

good to hear that her single did fairly well. i love the song, and the PV is amazing! i just want to go live in the jasper PV, it looks so fun!

^ what is her latest single???is that yellow???

Her latest single is Jasper and the single before that is Yellow. No, she's not a new artist. She debuted in 2004.

nope, jasper.

have you seen the video?

if you liked yellow you'll probably like the new song too.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x43m4w_jasper_music

yup she's not a new singer.
she has released 2 full albums so far.

and I hope a 3rd album will come soon after Jasper single.

^Actually she has 3 already: "KAELA" "Circle" and "Scratch".

^ohh I made a mistake. so sorry. :laugh
thanks for verifying for me. =)

Ooh, I love Kaela. :)

Anyways, this has been bothering me for... five days now. In the Jasper performance in Music Station, towards the end, she's doing some hand movements, which make it seem like her wrists [or something..] are turning and turning and turning etc etc. HOWWW does she do that?! :O

OOH, example! [2:16 until the end.]

it looks like she's doing the same move that ravers do when they liquid (with glowsticks).

but i don't know how to do it.

WHAT???
i just heard yellow..
i think she's new artist :P

woww cool :yes
but seems yellow is the best for me :D

so it's mean she will realese 4th album??
hmm i need recommendation for her songs..

which songs you like??

^yup so she might be releasing her 4th album soon. =)

my fav songs are Tree Climbers, Magic Music, Samantha, Snowdome,
Ground Control and many more.

My favorites are:

- You
- Magic Music
- Snowdome
- never land
- Scratch
- sweetie
- dolphin

Ahhh her 4th album will be amazing! Every since her debut her works have been becoming progressively better.

I recommend her "Scratch" album. All the songs are pretty good.

^yup I agree! Scratch is really an awesome album!

No one's mentioned BEAT! That's one of my fave songs ever. :laugh

hmm..
okay thanks for the recommendation..
i'll request for full album scratch and BEAT
beat is single or album???

and how about her chart???
is she doing well on oricon chart??

Lol, I don't really like Scratch, I like KAELA and Circle more for some weird reason XD. I LURVE Jasper, that song got me into her XD.

This is what I got off her wiki:

so jasper is the newest single..
i ccan request thoso song also..

yellow is including scratch album or for upcoming 4th album???

You
dolphin
Yellow
snowdome

AMAZING SONGS BY HER!

Yellow is a new single so its gunna be on the new album, not on scratch.

hmm..
thanks for the recommendation, friends :D

It's called Tecktonik! :tipsy
For this single she was inspired by the french electronic/dance/nu-rave scene...
Here's a very popular Tecktonik video, gotta love those moves! :luv2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36e9kZcRWGI

^ THANKS for the info! Thats cool LOL! I saw that type of dance in a eletromusic video...then I'll post it.

JASPER
SECOND WEEK : 9, 140 COPIES SOLD (#15 on Oricon)

TOTAL: 31, 935

Yay! It officially sold more than Yellow.

^ yaiiyy..
happy to hear that....

that's great! thanks for the info! :yes

Kaela's new album title and tracklisting is out.

TITLE: +1

CD Tracklist

1. NO IMAGE
2. Jasper
3. Yellow
4. STARs
5. Famiredo (ファミレド)
6. déjà vu
7. Samantha
8. +1
9. No Reason Why
10. Kagami yo Kagami (鏡よ鏡; Mirror, Mirror)
11. Hayaru Kimochi Teki My World (はやる気持ち的; Fashionable Feeling Like)
12. 1115
13. Humpty Dumpty

DVD Tracklist
1. Samantha (PV)
2. Yellow (PV)
3. Jasper (PV)

Live -Onna Kusai Oto Kokusai 2007.12.20- (オンナク祭オトコク祭)

""+1" is the fourth album released by Kimura Kaela. Its release comes almost a year after her third album, "Scratch". The first press edition comes with a DVD containing Kimura's most recent music videos, footage from her recent concert, a twenty-eight page booklet, and a special slipcase."

I'M SO EXCITED!

+1???
weird title... :P

ahh i should hear this new album :D

yah the DVD only 3 Pvs

I don't get why both B-sides from "Yellow" end up on the new album and yet they left out "Dive Into Shallow". Shame. =X

I believe this is the promo shot for "+1"; I have yet to come upon the cover for the regular edition though.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...mocchi/1-1.jpg

1st press (w/ DVD):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...cchi/1_DVD.jpg

When is her new album going to be out? o_o Wow, seems like just yesterday Scratch came out

Current release date is set for April 2. Can't wait!

^ Ooh, very good timing then. :)

I dunno if it's just me, but I actually didn't like Scratch so much...:shrug I listened through the album only once but nothing really stuck out to me besides some of the single tracks.

The album cover is hot! But i don't like the idea of adding screws into it >_> But it reminds me of Jasper PV 8D

And damn, I CAN'T ORDER +1 ON CDJAPAN! They temporarily can't accept money from paypal. Argh

By the way, i think No Reason Why should be replaced with Dive Into Shallow, (or rather no english songs at all xD) after all Dive Into Shallow in my opinion is much better than No Reason Why. I can't even make out what is she saying in No Reason Why >_>

waww this is nice cover..

I still prefer Scratch's cover though, especially how every detail in the cover represents the songs in the album.

^ Yeah I really like that concept.

I didn't really expect deja vu to be on there too, I was thinking Honey B would be on the album but sadly it isn't..

I never noticed that o_O I think I will look closely at the cover now....

yayy! finally a new album!! thanks for the info! =)

there are quite afew b-sides. actually she should add in more new songs instead.

samantha is new Pv or single PV??

Samantha is her single before Yellow.

^ owww..i see...
]so it's mean no more new PV for this album, right

Sadly, yea ): From my knowledge i don't think she's done any PV for her album tracks though.

Bad news guys, i guess +1's getting a #2 as she's competing with aiko.

^ really???
aww..she should the 1st...
i dun want aiko win...
sorry for aiko fans