NEW SINGLE || KODA KUMI - "Ai no Uta"
 

One Months after FREAKY, Koda Kumi's next single was announced! Ai no Uta, the title track is supposed to be a fragile ballad. The new single will be released on September 12th, 2007.

CD Tracklisting
1. Ai no Uta
2. Come over
3. Ai no Uta -Instrumental-
4. Come over -Instruemtnal-
*5. Ai no Uta (Rearranged) ~First Press Bonus Track~

DVD Tracklisting
1. Ai no Uta -Promotional Video-
2. Ai no Uta -Making of-

Thanks for that. I saw the 5th track on barks .jp but the kana wouldn't translate.

I hope the cover's good. A bit more inspired than her usual ballad singles.

thanks for the info.

Hm... Something no Uta again? Wtf Kumi!
I hope that will be a nice ballad. I'm tired of stupid Kuu winter songs. The surprise is this one, Koda? I'm so over this release.

IDEM IDEM IDEM

I hope it'll be a nice enough ballad, though I prefer her faster/more upbeat songs.

Wow, how typical. "Ai no Uta" is such an original title. :rolleyes

I usually like KK's upbeat songs more than her ballads, but hopefully this one will be a little different from her previous ballads.

I guess she lost her muse or something:

Ai no Uta / Yume no Uta

Come (Namie Amuro) + Over (Ayumi Hamasaki) = Come over

^^^If you look at it that way then no song is original.

I really think that Kuu isn't too creative and original.

Christina Aguilera (Stripped Song) = Make Over + Come (for Namie)
Yay, so original.

yea, i dont think kuu is that orginal either, last year she started off good but since then,......she's gone down hill.

hmm..perhaps she'll move out of the spotlight

They'll do anything to keep releasing singles!
They're going to exploit her popularity as much as humanly possible.

I bet you anything they'll do another 12 week single thing before her fame disappears. Except this time it will be one single EVERY DAY for 12 weeks.. then release it all again on a BEST album haha.

She's not even releasing singles THAT fast...

I don't think she's releasing too quickly. The whole song title debate is kinda ridiculous (in terms of the b-side). Because there must be no other reason than that she copied some one else, and not because the words are rather common.:rolleyes

Hopefully the song will be pretty good. I thought Aishou was beautiful and different from most of her ballads.

well...this yr she's sorta slowed down a bit i guess but if u thikn bout FREAKY it's pretty much the same as a 4 A-side...which = 4 singles? lol it's still somewat quicker than avg releases i guess...as for the single title..yah...a bit too "un-original" XD

way to make an interesting title, Kuu....first BoA reusing a song title, now the title that there's about 20 more of...ahh well i was hoping for a ballad this time, cuz i got kinda an upbeat overdose with FREAKY

alot of artists have the same song titles. that dosen't mean they're "unoriginal". song titles are very common these days, so you can't really be surprised that some artists actually have the same titles. it can't be helped, people. that's just how it is. plus, we also can't jude the song by it's title. when we actually hear the song, then we can all see if it's good or not. but right now, there's not even a preview, so..let's just wait and see, okay?

Hmm, I beg to differ. In 2006 she released twelve singles (sixteen if you count all of the 12 weeks singles). This year is not so bad I admit...she'll probably hit four single releases by the end of the year and that's okay, but she also released another BEST album at the beginning of 2007 (which IMO was unneeded considering how soon it was after her other two BEST albums). The thing I noticed is that the more she releases, the more generic her later releases are. I don't know who's in charge of her promotion stuff but they must be thinking quantity > quality or something.

I'm confused here. Usually a lot of people having the same thing drags down the uniqueness of that thing...so when you say, "that doesn't mean they're unoriginal", you must mean the SONG itself right? Not the title? Because the title is as unoriginal as they come; the song, it's too early to tell. I believe most people were commenting on the title. :P

Yeah, and that's just how it is, but that doesn't mean it can't be helped. No one forces anyone to have this title or that. I think it's a stretch to shrug off the title "Come Over" by saying it's a snip of Namie's song and Ayu's song or Xtina's or whatever, but you have to admit that "Ai no Uta" is a common title--in that same format, no addition or subtraction needed. But yeah, I'm going to wait and see too. Based on KK trends for the past year or two, I'm estimating a typical ballad release, but I guess we will see. :hat

I stopped being a big KK fan after the "Secret" era so I'm rather critical of her work...for the past two years, I'd say she's either been hit or miss.

i guess i meant the title. i mean, artists can't always have a one of a kind song title, you know? they're bound to over use titles and stuff. and i know people were commenting on the title. i just kinda think we're all just repeating ourselves saying the same thing, that's its "unoriginal" and all. i'd rather wait for the song to hear it and everything.

sorry if you didn't understand my post too good. i'm just kinda annoyed with a million comments saying the same thing about the title. :P

Good points :D I guess it's the same as many artists having songs with the title, "Because of You" or something XD

That's just the way avex does things. Look at Ayu's releases in 1999 or 2001. Also, compare Kuu's releasing schedule with her other avex/RZ counterparts up until September: both EXILE and THSK have released 4 singles and 1 album AAA's at the top though: 3 albums, 1 mini-album, 6 singles (compared to Kuu's 3 singles and 1 album).

i think it will be ballad or cutey song

they said it's already going to be a ballad. :)

My friend told me about the Ai no Uta thing as well, and I told him that I would write a song called Ai no Uta and make it "anti-love" themed just for him. :laugh

I think Kumi has kinda slowed down recently, which is a good thing. I still expect an album by the end of the year, but I don't know if I expect another single or not. It's highly possible, but we'll see.

Yeah, I think we can expect a album soon (Please, Please not a best album! please!). Cause she like 8 new songs to put on:

BUT, Aisho, FREAKY, Run For Your Like, Sora, girls, Ai no Uta and Come over... (if she also puts the b-sides on it)

I think that she'll release another single pretty soon after Ai no Uta :yes

Im looking forward to it...

I hope its good...but meh I like all her stuff

it is veryy very very fast

"ai no uta" is used by insane amounts of musicians in japan...haha. i'm looking forward to it, and i might buy it...hopefully it isnt ****ty, then i wount buy it...haha i really want the covers to be really...inspired by the song. rather than just a pretty picture slapped onto an emotional song.

i consider those years of ayu's constant releases as some of her best music, but as for kuu, these constant releases dont make me think her her best music. i honestly like pre-popular kuu better..."chase" is still my favorite song haha. and "take back" truly is a great song :D

^ I agree. When Ayu was at her peak, she released some of her best material. I think Ku's best material actually came from the period before she peaked.

stop complaining about the damn title!! and, Kuu is most likely NOT going to put ANY b-sides on the albums - "SORA", "girls" and "come over" .... "Aisho" MIGHT, because it was "BUT/Aisho" =\ ....

:yes

Well, it doesn't mind if she include Come Over on the album if the song is good but i don't want Sora or girls ~.~


Damn! I want the covers ~_~

I'm tired of stupid titles. Where is the creativity? I really hope some good songs, because if Kuu won't release any song that I like, I won't be your fan again.

I don't really like her ballads, but maybe she will surprise me with an amazing song.

Yeah! I want some nice titles!
I mean c'mon... Ai no Uta? and Come over?

me neither, though I loved Unmei and Tsuki to Taiyou
Mabye Ai no Uta is some rock song, haha, that would cool :yes

KUMI is really going down the hill. IMHO, She never good at singing, especially Ballad songs. I never like her ballads, not at all. She cant's sing ballads, She SUX at Ballads. Her up beat songs are so-so. None of them are good, at least for me. I used to like BUT n Butterfly. I always become BORED so fast with her songs compare to other artists. She is UGLY, I dunno why she can be here until now. And after all, these are all IMHO. Pls dont get offended. I had enough of her long time ago. But since my sis-in-law is falling head over heel on Kumi, I always kept update about Kumi. Her FREAKY is so freaky it FREAKED me out. I never like her photos, I never like her pose, I never like her face in the photo. She looked like she is trying to become sexy but as a matter of fact I think she looks like a $#*T. I dont like everything about her. But yet I am writing down this post about her. I am crazy.
Sorry everybody, Please dont get offended. If you ARE offended, GOMEN!

^ im just not gonna bother...
adding "this is my opinion" doesn't stop it from being counted as bashing..

^^^At least she knew she was being incredibly offensive and didn't insult our intelligence with a 'I'm so sorry. I don't mean for this 'Calling Kumi an ugly ******* Who can't sing ballads' to be offensive to anybody :laugh

'coz we need this.

Hmm, I'm going to partially agree here...I think her voice is best suited for up-beat fun songs; it's too smoky/raspy/deep/easily breakable (to me at least) for ballads, with a few exceptions.

And about the ugly thing: I personally don't like her haircut right now. The girl can take a decent picture, and she isn't ugly, but sometimes she does things that offset her beauty, such as that haircut or being too tan (4 hot wave cover, anyone? yikes), etc.

Sometimes she can pull off sexy flawlessly and other times she just tries too hard. Overall I just think she should be herself, like I think she was pre-BEST albums success. "COLOR OF SOUL" and other older songs really show the best side of her IMO, and I miss that kind of work because it showed actual heart and variety other than being the constant token sexbomb-turned-kawaii-schoolgirl-because-that's-all-she-can-do. Sorry guys, but I'd like to see her doing other things for a change...it seems like she's wasting her potential on being sexy.

But yeah.

I'm looking forward to the new single.
I hope it's more like "Promise" or "hands" and NOT like "Yume no Uta/Futari de." I like the CD/DVD cover!! I just wish she still had long hair :(

ooo i'm lookin forward to it. i'm excited. i dun care if she's goin up or down in the industry. i just want more more more more more koda kumi music!!! XD

I agree with you about the ballads things.
Kuu can't sing ballads (I only like Unmei and Tsuki to Taiyou), she just hasn't got the voice to that...

Okay, Kuu may be ugly (without make-up) but everyone you've never seen without make-up is ugly... but I guess you're talking 'with make-up'. Nobody is perfect!
Maybe other ppl here think Kuu is ugly, but what it's really about is her voice! and if she is a good singer.

And Kuu's style just is sexy. It's her choice to be sexy.
About the FREAKY cover, I think she finally knows what good covers are, if you look at the covers from 2000 to 2005 (my opinion)

If you don't like Kuu; it's not we're gonna make you a slave and torture you and lock you up in a tower without food and water so that you starve to dead, for the rest of your life because you don't like Kuu or hate her :D

I'm not judging you because you hate Kuu, Just like you did, I give you my opinion...

^ ... did you just say that everyone without make-up is ugly? o__O That's not true.

And at v3lun420 - why wouldn't a fan get offended at what you said? You called her ugly, said she can't sing, her songs are boring, and that she looks like a **** on the cover of FREAKY (which... she didn't really).

Adding IMHO to a post like that doesn't automatically make it 'nice and unoffending'.

No, I didn't... what I meant is:

Everyone you have never seen without make-up is ugly...

How do I explane without getting attacked: what I mean is that: If you have only know somebody with make-up, and you see them without make-up for the first time, you might think something like: she's ugly

something like that...
DON'T ATTACK ME BECAUSE i SAID MY OPINION

Didn't she say in that infamous interview that rhythm zone "commands" her to be ero-kakkoii or something?

LOL, she just said that your opinion does not match with hers. And she did that in the nicest way possible. :/

Yeah, it kinda bothers me when she doesn't own up to her actions and such...it convinces me that she's not being herself. Sometimes she even acts embarrassed by her overly sexy image and yet doesn't do anything to change it. I was watching the Music Station 20th Anniversary special thing where they countdown the Top 100 songs and "Cutie Honey" was one of those songs...they played a clip of her performing it and being ~raunchy~ and her reaction was lame. She covered her face and acted all embarrassed at her antics and yet continues them. =\

I dunno. She can do whatever she wants, but she should do it confidently. If she's going to be sexy, okay, power to her. Just do in sincerely, y'know? Don't act as if someone forced you into doing it later.

Yo, everyone THINK PINK.

:laugh am i missing something? although, my favorite color is pink. :yes

/random

As a matter of fact, I did not even try to be nice at all. I just spoke out my opinion and I did say Please don't get offended, and if you DO offended, I said I am SORRY:yes

I realize I was incredibly offending her and I did not feel sorry at all:no

ROFLMAO at that. Don't worry... I got more 'unbelievable' words even too complicated to expose here when I offended Kuu at sointokoda forum.

Honestly, I dunno why I bother offending Kuu at every forum I am registered. I don't like her, that's for sure. But FYI, if she doesn't have something, that ordinary people don't have, in her, I am not gonna even bother to offend her. Means that, she IS something that some other people offend her in negative ways, like I did. That's all I wanna say

And Please don't HATE me for saying those bad things about Kuu

^ Ah, don't worry. I don't think anyone hates you. xD

I don't get it. If you really hate Kuu, stop ****ing talking about her :\ I don't get why every single thread about a new single of any artist has to include posts such as "*Insert Artist name here* sucks, she/he/it can't sing! she/he/it is also soooo ugly!"

LOL, your registered at a Kumi forum and you don't like her? There are so many things I could say to that, but the way the system works it would no doubt be me who gets into trouble for being offensive.

Agreed. If you don't like a particular artist, is it that hard to stay away from topics relating to that artist?

its kinda obvious how she doesn't want to have that sexy image...
she's said she doesn't liek it.. but she had to accept it cause its the recording company that made her do it..
back in the day her singles sold crap and everything, she could've been dropped..
you can tell she's got more control over her career now.. her image is more "KAWAII" and that's what she's like..

the recording companies can make you do anything.. they've got your career here..
If you want to challenge them, then you're putting your career at stake and any future careers too..
Look at Suzuki Ami, her career was tarnished because of the legal problems she had with Sony.. back in the day she was known as Ayu's rival..
now she's nowhere near such a title anymore.. her singles fail to chart and stuff...
same can be said with Ayu.. didn't she not want to release A BEST? but she was forced to??

^Even Toshiba-EMI was planning the release of Hikki's BEST without telling her about it.

Also..
there's a difference between bashing and stating your opinion...

stating your opinion can be done is a mature and unoffensive manner...

eg.
STATING OPINION
I don't like Koda Kumi and her image. Her suggestive actions and revealing clothes puts me off. I also don't think she's got that good a of a voice.. Her singing is overrated.

BASHING
I HATE KODA KUMI! She's S-L-U-T! She can't sing for shyt! her voice is completely C-R-A-P!! rant rant rant...


just because you add "Oh don't get offended by my opinion, if you do I'm sorry"... doesn't mean its not bashing an artist..
SORRY it doesn't work like that...

jeez if you despise her that much.. why not leave these threads alone...

I just don't understand why people don't like her. She's obviously a good singer if so many people are buying her music. Okay, so her image is a little more sex-symbol than Ayumi's but....what is the difference than the tendencies of other artists.

I realize her music doesn't suit everyone...so here's a suggestion to those people....don't ****ing listen to it. It's pretty simple unless you have the i.q. of a snail.

Kumi is far more successful than many artists that are out there right now and I believe she's just as respectable as such as any other artist is.

And as a side note...every artist is what their record label wants them to be. Her image has made her far richer/more successful than anyone who degrades her will ever be.

Sorry for the rant... it just pisses me off when people bash people as if they could do any better at what the person they're bashing is doing.

DOWN WITH RHYTHM ZONE!!!!! the weeds!


Really? I think it's stupid that Kuu can't choose her own image...
Lucky for her they didn't show SKAKE IT :P

LOL, my favorite color is also pink...
But still, it bothers me that Kuu didn't pick her own image :(


Are you becoming the new BabyUtada? lol.
If you don't like her, why post in a Koda Kumi thread?

Uh uh, if you look at Birthday Eve, Koi no Tsubomi (i think it's cute) and Run For Your Life ... :yes

that's true. If you don't do what they, they can just easily put you on the street.

Weeds... =O ~

But am I the only one who doesn't like SHAKE IT? I mean... it seems like everyone thinks it's super great for some reason. o__O

^^^You would like it if you put your back into it :laugh

^ My back? ... o__o; wut

SHAKE IT is great... not because of all the -how do you say- sexual moves (to say it polite).

LOL! And if your a** could do it.

Hemenene humenene
himenene homenene~

So this new single - is it her last one for the year? Or... *braindead*

yeah, that's what I wanted to ask:

what is the Ai no Uta ~First bonus press~ (or whatever), is some remix?

You know, it's good that Kuu seems to be the only 'sex-symbol' that's overly popular. Look at YUI and ayaka... They're no where near sex-symbols and they're doing fantastically well.

what's that she touch in her cover??

OMGGGGGGGGG:

http://mullemeck.serveftp.org/jps_be...tails&id=36729

ZOMG someone get that on MF pronto!



...please :(

i'm on it, lol. :D

:roflmao

it'll be interesting to see which single between Ai no Uta and CLAP&LOVE will take the top spot. I think maybe ayaka has a better tie in but we shall have to wait and see.

^ we all know whos going to take the top spot...
Kinki Kids will rank #1..

woops double post