The 97th Kumi Koda Thread
 

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Continuing on from the last thread; I don't really mind her trashy image, cos I know behind that is a sweet, powerful woman with an amazing voice! Unlike other trashy artists, who I won't name and shame. :P

Never noticed that the last thread was at 502 posts XD But thanks for the new thread :D We were discussing how Kuu is trashy and skanky. And how most people are split on it being sexy or umm, rude? XD

Lol I think it was more, where do we draw the line between sexy and trashy. Then people gave examples. :yes
But we can discuss that too, yeah! I haven't spoke about Kuu properly for a really long time.

So yeah, I think another good example of classy-sexy is the Cherry Girl video. Some might not agree, but that leather catsuit is so hot! I also think the powerful, badass image she gives off makes it even sexier. :yes

No, I agree. Kumi wasn't trashy in Cherry Girl. The only time she was very exposed was in the denim skirt outfit (which was really revealing and all, but she looked clean-****ty, if anything, not dirty XP), and the whole video wasn't about sex like some of the others.

EDIT:
HOLY CRAP. I just re-watched Cherry Girl right now, and my gawd.... The scene where she's acting as a bartender... HOLY FREAKIN' PADDED BRA!!! :thud Her boobs in that scene look so freakin' huge compared to the others, lol.

i used to LOVE koda's sexual image. but i was a teen and i was going through my ~skank~ period. now i don't like it really. it's fun to laugh at sometimes though, because she's so over the top that it's funny

now i kind of wish she would tone it down and be more mature. it would even be cool if she took her music seriously enough to start composing or something! that would be a nice change. as long as she doesn't compose a bunch of "Lick me" songs or something lol

after you guys noticed there is a thing between her legs in CD+DVD cover, it is still bugging me everytime when I see it.

it's really hard for me to think like "wow what a demented ****" because if you watch her in the making of the trashfest that is JUICY you just see a funny girl having a good time. in the scene where she spreads the guy's legs and gets down to simulate fellatio she couldn't stop laughing and it was just really funny to see. she's always the same KUMI no matter what she's doing.

but she is turning 27 and if she continues to act like she did when she was in her early 20s people (especially the Japanese since they are so age sensitive) will complain about her image even more than they already have. there's ways to be sexy without being over the top!

Exactly. You guys said it just right: she can be sexy, but she needs to tone it down; she can still be sexy without ever crossing over into skank territory.

She hasn't really been skanky for like 2 years, so I think she's pretty tame now.

I was about to say that. :laugh

Not really skanky - as in, overly sexual and kinda borderline gross - but Physical Thing's PV was kinda trashy. But other than that and a few things from Kingdom era, I don't think she's been bad at all since Black Cherry. Which is definitely tame for Kumi, yeah, considering back in the day, every single PV and performance had to be SEXSEXSEX, lol. >.> And Black Cherry was, what, 2006? So yeah, I like the image, for the most part, the past few years. Not at all gross, and still very sexy. :yes

*looks at Yume no Uta / Futari de...* So winter ballads can be super sexy too eh?

I thought the Ecstasy PV was sexy but not too out there, like a sophisticated sexy unlike a horny PV like Juicy.

I used to not like her so much because I assumed she was a sell out for using that sort of overtly sexual image, but after seeing interviews and stuff I kind of understand where she was coming from and now I respect her.

I agree.. I love all of her images (trashy/nasty/dirty/sexy/hot/cute/whatever) only because she fits these styles very well..
and that is one of the reasons she is my favorite artist all the time! :yes

yay for the new thread.

:laugh I love how you said that. :yes

I agree with cutie. No matter what she does, I feel like the real her always comes out somehow, and she's the same to me, in character or not, on and off camera.

But I feel like that...kind of about most of the artists I listen to, if I know who they are for the most part. Ayu, Namie, Utada, etc.

You can like this over the top "i crap the sex in your face" or not!
BUT i think when Kumi does it, it looks mostly more professional than some other artist (thinking about Shakira's pregnant dances on the roof in She-Male ( i mean you can be sexy, BUT don't put silly moves in a sexy video!) or Ciara's Cellulite-Shaking in Love Sex Tragic feat. Justin Timberlake! What was that!? It's even more horrible when you have a Full HD-TV!)!

And i think as an artist you're not always singing about things your feeling!
Somtimes they're telling stories with songs and PV's!
So this doen't mean when Kuu make a booty shaking PV she is a ****ty girl who makes "Love me long time" with 2 guys and a girl in an elevator!
The PV should fit the song!
For example: Physical thing
It's not one of her best PV's, but i think the "ALCOHOLIC PARTY CHICK" Theme fits the song!
So it's ok for me!
And you cannot have a sexy song like JUICY and making a PV like Lick me ❤!
Did you guys remember how JUICY would look in a McDo Commercial!?
(PREAZE WATCH IT ONLY IF YO CAN HANDLE THIS! xD)

Like Tsubasa said, Kuu fits in many images from sexy to classy to cute to whatever avex have in mind!
And that is what i love about Kuu!
All these sides and styles of her is for me more worth, ok you can't like every style she does/try, BUT she has a good mix!
And i agreed to cutie!
She has a great and cheerful personality!
And even in sexful situations in JUICY she laugh about it!
Cause she didn't take it that serious!
It's just a sexy song and she did a sexy PV for it! Nothing more!
And when i don't like a song/PV i just skip it!

@Kuu: i like you.. just the way you are ♥~
i love her because of her voice, her music, her style and her images

@Gubs: :roflmao at ur siggy!

@ the old Cawaii! cover:

oooh the old days... seeing the old Kumi makes me go all nostalgic... those were the golden days of J-Pop in my opinion (not to say J-Pop is bad now XD that Kuu was part of an era where the Japanese scena was beyond awesome, most key artists were at their peak)

She looks awesome on the most recient cover anyway. So pretty *-*

Big difference in the Cawaii covers. I prefer the latter. <3

Anyway, to me, her best example of a real SEXY PV is Aishou.

^ oh! i agree! :yes

TRICK TOUR DVD (Regular Edition) back cover picture thanks to Ai no Kage :


she looks stunnin' :luv2

^ :luv2 i REALLY like that back cover :heart

KUMI will have a taping of MUSIC JAPAN on December 7th!

http://i34.tinypic.com/2zfjx1z.jpg

what's she going to sing??

Probably Physical thing, or most likely Alive?

Maybe she's releasing a Christmas single, I wouldn't be surprised.

X_X another ballad D:

she already performed Alive on MUSIC JAPAN back in September! it's too late to announce a Christmas single.

^right!
avex give us information always 2 month before the release!
so if they give us information this wednesday, it would be released mid january!

so mid/end of january a new single and first wednesday in february the album is the most likely possibilty i think!

hm, i wonder what she's singing...

Gubsi, I love your sig <3

^ I second that. XD

Anyway, it is kinda hard to think of what she'll be performing... Really, Alive seems the most likely in my mind, considering the time of year and the fact that it's her latest release... But I really hope not. Screw that song. :headache

Thanks dude but I don't like it :no

the 1st press back cover is better :yes . She looked like she's in pain there D: :tired :dead2

^^ oh it's not the same for me XD I think the regular edition one is much better :luv2 I like her facial expression in it =3

but Alive was performed at Music Japan already =/
I don't think she'll perform that song for second time :dead2

it makes more sense now xD

so she might have a new single?

I love the Trick tour dvd cover + back...very showy and fun

The regular DVD back cover is really pretty!

:scry no new song??? no winter song??? no ballad song?? no i-cry-a-river-cause-my-bf-died-PV??

KUU!! i need newss!!!!!!!

um, all i know is that it better not be Alive :irked

:heart

Anyone got this textless? :tipsy

Przzzzz?

How its can be regular if its has 2nd disc?

anyway how do you think NEW SINGLE or NEW ALBUM for Kuu?

I love the backcover :yes

Does anyone have HQ scans of the TRICK Tour DVD? :eyes

I don't know I'm fine with both lmao xD

AyuHamasaki01, you can find the scans in the first post from the previous thread ;)
here is the link: http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95560

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New goodie for Koda Gumi members:

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/4125/gumipic.png


Credits: LiDaYu_Ran

So it's a... book?

^ it's a file folder ;)

on the left it says "KODAGUMI OFFICIAL FANCLUB MAGAZINE"
then I suppose it's to put into the FC magazines collection *O*

Kōhaku
Keep in mind, the following list is just a prediction, the list is in alphabetical order:

【Red Team - Female】　○aiko、△alan、△Aoyama Thelma、○Akimoto Junko、○Asamichi Yuki、○Amuro Namie、○ayaka、○Angela Aki、○Ikimonogakari、○Ishikawa Sayuri、○AKB48、○Otsuka Ai、△Kato Miliyah、○Kawanaka Miyuki、△GIRL NEXT DOOR、○Koda Kumi、○Godai Natsuko、○Kobayashi Sachiko、○Sakamoto Fuyumi、○Sakuramaya、△JUJU、△Superfly、△SPEED、○Tendou Yoshimi、○Nakashima Mika、○Nakamura Mitsuko、○Nishino Kana、○Hamasaki Ayumi、○Perfume、△Hara Yuuko、○Hitoto Yo、○Hirahara Ayaka、○Fuji Ayako、×Fujioka Fujimaki and Ohashi Nozomi、○Mizumori Kaori、○Wada Akiko


○High possibility of attending
△Might be attending
×Not attending

Lady GaGa is going to Japan after April!!

"Lady GaGa will visit Japan after touring Australia in April. Two new Monster Ball tour dates in Kobe and Yokohama have been added." GaGaDaily

The Monster Ball Tour:
Apr 15 – Kobe, Japan
Apr 18 – Yokohama, Japan

Credits: Hikki-kun

I want a collab. between kuu and gaga so badly :weep am I the only one? lol

http://i38.tinypic.com/29o1wuv.jpg

i know koda gumi is a fanclub and all but....what does gumi stand for? lol where did it come from?

^ It comes from the Japanese word "kumi," which means group or team. But in Japanese, whenever you add one word to another (in this case, kumi to Kumi, hah), the first letter of the second word changes to it's alternate sound. (For example, in the word "tsudzukeru" - meaning "to continue" - the "dzu" part changed from "tsu." Also, Hs become Ps or Bs, etc.) And for Ks, they become Gs. So Kumikumi ("Kumi group") becomes Kumigumi.

NO TO THE @#$@#$!@@! NO--NOOOO!!!! :gnash

i only want a collab if kumi isn't going to make me feel embarrassed with her engrish. i don't want people to make fun of her for trying too hard to be white like they did with that ain't cool. she should stick to japanese, so it can truly be an east meets west collaboration instead of west meets east trying to be west.

lol I object to a Lady GaGa & Kumi Kuu duet too

*points to the disaster that's of That Ain't Cool :no

everything about that song is bad, though. it was produced by fergie's team, and kumi's engrish just made it worse than it already was. even if she wasn't in it, the song just isn't catchy. Lady GaGa has some of the best music i've heard in a long time.. i love her new album. if that's the route a collab would take, i'm all for it as long as kumi brings herself to the collab and not trying too hard to be something else.

IDGAF what anyone says. Kuu x GaGa collab NAO. TABOO ~SEXIER VERSION~ NAO

^ lol yeah!!!

I think a collab. between lady gaga and kuu would be great and I don't need to look at what the collab. with fergie was =/ lady gaga and fergie's styles are completely different and I don't think these duets would have similar productions at all.

some GORGEOUS screenshots from FEVER LIVE IN HALL II DVD thanks to Hikki-kun:


:luv2 :love :luv2 :love

you can find the ISO and the DVDRip at ILK forums ;)

i love the first 3 pictures. so beautiful :luv2

i love that alternate version of you but the alternate version of anytime would be a lot nicer if they didn't use a blur filter over the entire video so much so that her face looks like it's melting.

can someone give me a clue where to find -

The making-of videos are available in a secret menu accessed from Koda's left eye.
show girl (Making Video)
JUST THE WAY YOU ARE (Making Video)
TABOO (Making Video)
stay with me (Making Video)
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DVD? O.o So its allready came out? I dont know even about any concent was already on stage

beautiful screencaps! And wow I would love a Lady Gaga collab... I have faith in Gaga that she would make their collab awesome...

Oh,. that's beautiful..

Someone put up a link here for the FEVER DVD when they can!

so pretty/beautiful :luv2

she looks great in that blonde wig & dress :yes

she looks pretty in FLIH II caps!!

God, wth wrong with avex..
why no news at all?!?!
not even about her recent b'day :(
i'm so bored..

omg she looks gorgeous in those screencaps :luv2

i second this~

A collaboration would be great. As long as it was up to Gaga's standards, and Kuu didn't speak english.

So I would want it to be in both Japanese and english for Gaga if she can't sing in Japanese lol

But I think she would think it would be fun.

Thanks for those pics <3 She looks great.

I would love a collab between th both

They are my fav Asian and Western artists.

And I think they fit well together!!

And Lady Gaga would defenitely sing a little bit Japanese she loves to sing or speak parts in other languages =)

And I want Kuu news sooo~~ badly!!!!

look at Kirsten Maria Cecylia

yess! and also it comes with the Lick me ♥ MV ~Special version~
actually there were two Promo DVDs for the FEVER LIVE IN HALL II
here are the contents for both.. (for all those who didn't know about it ;))


ilovekuu has all these videos uploaded to its youtube account..
here is the link if you want to watch these videos via stream =D

:weep
I want that DVD! Will it go on general sale?

^ if I'm not wrong.. those DVDs were only available at FLIH II event..
but there are always another options like ebay or yahoo auctions jp :cool (I think xD)

No, it won't, it's for promotion only.
The whole FLIH event is for promotion, promotion for the Pachinko machines. :laugh

But thanks Tsubasa for the screencaps, I love them!

I'm shocked that HK or let alone Taiwan press of the TRICK DVD is not out yet man D:

I wonder why this time round avex Hong Kong/Taiwan is taking so long hmmm

It isn't out yet?
Was it announced?
That's a bit strange.
But maybe for Christmas?

well artice ray @ ebay put the release date of the TRICK DVD in Taiwan last Fri but there's no evidence which suggest this on avex Taiwan's website so I'm not going to buy that for now

cos usually avex taiwan will announce upcoming Taiwan releases on their website so yeah

maybe it will be out next week ? I have no clue . I have been checking HMV HK , YesAsia but to no avail T_T

omg i LOVE these pics <333 are these new? they look like the younger kuu

what is ILK forums? what's the link?

Yes, these are new, they're from the new Pachinko machines from this year. It's the alternate PV version of you if I'm not wrong.
Here's the link to ILK, Tsubasa has it also in his siggy:
http://ilovekuu.foros.ws/portal.php
But it's a spanish forum and you have to register.

^ actually that video was recorded for the first FEVER LINE IN HALL, in 2007
if you notice, she has the black-cherry-era hair in that video..
and also, pictures of this version of "you" were included in the second-session-tour-book :yes

the only new versions for FLIH II are Ai no Uta, anytime and the acappella ones.

^sorry ot, but i LOVE your super cutie gif :luv2

15　*9　**3,207　*78,421　*4　Koda Kumi Live Tour 2009 ～TRICK～　倖田來未　　09/10/21

@Tsubasa:
That's ok, but they were released this year, weren't they?
So some are new, some aren't.

^ yes but that version of you was played in the pachinko of the first FLIH...
then they used it again for the FLIH II... the other videos are completely new ^^

@hearted: thank you! I love it too *-*



Picture of Kuu's 27th Birthday :

http://i45.tinypic.com/vhz338.jpg

Credits: kumi-land.blospot.com

wow! a lot of gifts and letters from fans.. =3

Aww..she looks so cute.
I wonder if she saw the ILK B-Day vid..

Hahah! She looks like a little kid there, with her mound of birthday stuff. :P

she looks so cute! :heart i hope she had a nice birthday.

i hope thats not real fur!!

lol she looks so cute! weird hat and glove things XD

LOL did she borrowed that glasses from BREAKERZ's frontman DAIGO (whom wore it inside the CD sleeves of LOVE FIGHTER) or Kayne West ? :laugh

it's cute though

It's the glasses that everyone's wearing..or at least, were wearing. I don't see them that often no more.

really kawaii picture *-* The hat and all the cute gifts are amazing.
And I like how her lips are coloured.

this kind of glasses are new feshion accessoires I saw them often.

Also the leading man from "Cobra Starship" (if you know them) wears those.

I so hope,too that she got the ILK BDay video!

I do know of Cobra Starship :yes . They came to my country to perform before :yes

but you have to admit these glasses are cool so no surprises she chose to wear them in that pic

she's so adorable!!
finally news bout her b'day!!

what does avex plan this time??
where's KUU, THE CRAZE-RELEASE-MACHINE??