People don't want Kuu to change, or not be herself to get better sales. I think we're catching the wrong end of the stick, here. People are just suggesting that Kuu should shake things up, change things/experiment with her career that she would choose to want to, like Namie. Namie changed herself because she wanted a change, and it worked, not because she had to. If Kuu is happy as she is, than of course she doesn't need to change, but Kuu has always stated that she continually wishes to grow as an artist, by trying new things, and there's nothing wrong with people suggesting what they think she should try next. People are just saying in their opinion what they would like to see Koda change, as constructive fans. As a fan they have a right to that opinion, and to worry about Kuu falling into the 'Ai Otsuka' region, nobody wants that. XD The only complaining people are doing is that JAPONESQUE is not selling as much as it deserves, I don't see any other complaining in terms of Kuu, just what people personally would like to see her do next. Ex. re-styling herself, in a way that she wanted to, or just release an r'n'b album or rock album, things like that.
Like people have suggested, she can try a load of things to shake it up, and she would put her sexy style on it, because that style is unique to her, it's what she does. It just depends on what she chooses to blend that style with.
Like for me, I'd love to see Kuu do an album where each song had a theme and influence from a different country, as she filmed the PV's on thise countries, like in her 12 singles collection she did a cover representing a different country on each one, that would be awesome!
Such as, Arabia/India would kinda be like Candy/So Nice, I imagine a british song would be like pop rock or just pop, lol. America, strong r'n'b song, Japan, nice ballad, etc.
And I don't think it would hurt for her to try some more stuff of what's in fashion at the moment, considering she represents a young fan base. But of course, only if she wanted to try that, people are just suggesting, no one would want Kuu to feel that she has to do something that she didn't want to, that would be horrible, and she never would.
She may not want to dress up as a doll, which is fine.
I seem to have found a habit of writing in big essays, sorry about that. :/
I was wondering, does anybody have any of Kuu's albums in Itunes .m4a lossless format? Or just anything you have will do? ^_^