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Originally Posted by pedronekoi
She's still popular but I don't think that the fact that she's being on the spotlight will reflect on her sales. As Corvina said, her TiK ToK song (Megumi no Hito) was a big hit between the young people (even tho some people didn't even knew it was a cover by Kumi - I've said that to people that made tik tok videos with the song and they were shocked it was hers lol). I feel that everytime I say I like Koda Kumi here in Japan people kinda of laugh of me because the only image they get from her is being the Butterfly/Cutie Honey girl or being the extra gyaru personality (now that I'm learning japanese I can tell that the way Kuu speaks is extremelly youngish, with a lot of slangs and stuff like that) so is like I'm telling it as a joke, like you're not supposed to really like her music or you should listen to it as a joke. I don't know.
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Afaik that slang is a mixture of mostly Kansai-ben and some modern linguistic phenomenons like colloquial and internet words.
Kuu is often making fun while talking or writing as well, which is why I'm not surprised by such reactions (and it fits to her character, which is why I mentioned it before).
Not so uncommon for somebody coming from Kansai, cause Kansaiers are often seen as more harsh (cause direct) and well, funny, at least that was told to me (and also experienced). But also more welcoming and down-to-earth usually, especially by foreigners.
It's always interesting to hear about such experiences, cause mine were a bit different. Most Japanese I talked about her to were surprised, but they know her for her cool/strong image and didn't think she's a joke. But I was living in a smaller town more on the countryside and not in a big city.
Well, and I was in the Kansai region, so probably not a surprise to hear more positive views on Kuu.
Just searched a bit to show you guys what I mean, cause it's hard to explain and this cracked me up!
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-people...m-other-cities