[Koda Kumi] The 196th Thread - My music is designed from my DNA

[KarenPang]

Happy birthday Kuu !



https://twitter.com/KODAKUMINET/stat...97119282663424

Lucky fans who'll be celebrating her birthday with her tomorrow at Kanagawa Kenmin Hall

[Corvina]

From her FCs:



International fans should also be able to send her birthday messages through her global FC as soon as the 13th in their country begins.

[KarenPang]

Go to Kanagawa



https://twitter.com/KODAKUMINET/stat...22021126320128

Kuu's Instagram



https://www.instagram.com/p/BqHAJkFANrF/

[Gustavopc]

iirc she wore those high hells for the 3 SPLASH shooting (ECSTASY look) and even the pose is similar to the back pic

Happy bday queeeen May your days keep on shining bright and be full of joy, love and music

[Corvina]

Report from the live today with a bunch of pics:

https://mdpr.jp/music/detail/1804505

















Setlist for today and for the DVD recording:

Spoiler:

01 Dangerous
02 Pin Drop
03 IS THIS TRAP?〜ECSTASY〜TABOOメドレー
04 HAIRCUT
05 HOT HOT
06 会えなくなるくらいなら
07 愛のうた
08 恋のつぼみ〜I'll be there〜Somedayメドレー
09 CHANCES ALL
10 NEVER ENOUGH
11 OUTTA MY HEAD
12 WATCH OUT!! 〜DNA〜
13 ScREaM
14 HUSH
15 Guess Who Is Back
16 Ultraviolet
17 PARTY
18 LIT
ENCORE
19 Lady Go!
20 め組のひと
21 Work That
22 WIND
23 walk

The report includes spoilers for the show, so I put it in spoiler here as well:

Spoiler:

The show starts with her flying in from the top of the stage for Dangerous.
For HAIRCUT she changes her hair with wigs from long to short and also changing colour e.g. from blond to red several times, like the title of the song suggests. She also changes costumes here.
She then sings Ai no Uta in a white dress, followed by other old and new representative songs from her, presented in an unchanging singing voice and performance direction. In CHANCES ALL she's showing herself in 6 big vertical LED panels.
The first MC starts with Kuu saying that she's celebrating her 19th Anniversary on December 6th and her 36th birthday today. She's joking that there are so many numbers, that she can't remember all of them.
While saying that she gets shouts of "Congratulations" from the venue.
She then contemplates about her 20th Anniversary coming soon and that she's going to look back to see which life she walked so far.
After that Kuu introduces NEVER ENOUGH. She had something to say this year, so she packed it into a song and that is NEVER ENOUGH.
She feels that while making her own lives, creating songs and so on she wants to make people, her family and friends, to enjoy those more and more, to make them laugh at least.
This song has the meaning of "it is still not enough", which is also ocurring for other occasions in life before you finish something (so basically it represents the drive to go on). After that she's singing the song softly.
In the Encore she performs Megumi no Hito, a song she covered herself in 2010 and had created a big boom on TIK TOK with with more than 600k videos posted and more than 8 million views on youtube since that. The audience is dancing with her, uniting the whole hall.
In her second MC Birthday Eve is suddenly played and her staff surprises her with a chocolate birthday cake. Kuu thanks everybody with the words, that the only thing she wishes for is good health and blows the candles.
She promises her fans that she's going to focus on making songs, but will also continue to dance as long as her body moves (she literally says "Kumiko's body" here to emphasize, that as long as Kuu privately has good health the Kuu on stage is going to dance). At the end her fans are blessing her with a loud "Congratulations, Kuu-chan".
DNA Tour is Kuu's third consecutive hall tour, mobilizes around 80k people in 23 cities with 35 performances throughout the whole country and ends December 31st in Osaka with her first ever Countdown Live.
Today 23 songs were performed (12 for the first time in this tour) and 2,300 people were mobilized.

Here's some more info from Kinot on Baidu, who attended the show today:

For PARTY money bills were shot today, which wasn't done before on dates.
Here are pics:


Apart from wishing for continuing health, he says Kuu told everyone that she recently always has cramps in her legs, rofl.

[Corvina]

I'm making a 2nd post, so that the first one won't get too long.

Max Matsuura was there today as he said:



He says she had a lot of power and lots of laughter.
It was a cool and fun live for him.
You can see the fan banner in the background.

A better pic from the cake:



Some birthday flowers from the venue:



TBS tweeted abotu showing footage from Kuu from today on tomorrow's morning show!!

https://twitter.com/TBShayadoki/stat...36599306907649

The short morning news reports:
https://mobile.twitter.com/_no2818/s...30175265153025

https://mobile.twitter.com/_no2818/s...48244662329344

[Xianghua]

Kuu will perform at FNS Kayousai on December 5th.
https://www.fujitv.co.jp/FNS/

[Darkifrit]

Can’t wait to hear Ai no Uta live!

[Corvina]

More like Megumi no Hito -it's her hit from this year and Suzuki Masayuki is there as well.

[KarenPang]

From Twitter



https://twitter.com/KODAKUMINET/stat...21480585707520

Kuu's head in a Kloop paper cut off

[kaled kalil]

This one looks so much better than the one she was wearing before!



And I'm happy to see that Aenaku naru kurai nara was performed, the superior ballad won. I'm not here for Kokoro kara i love you.

I'm always happy when I see that she's performing at the FNS. At this point I always hope for a cute collaboration, her performance with Akiko Wada. The setlist for her will probably be Megumi no Hito and Ai no Uta, sadly.

Btw, I have to say that making an instagram account was one of the best things that she has done lately. She gets media coverage with random things (like changing hair color) and it's nice to see all her fashion. ♥

[ALfromHELLSING]

Originally Posted by kaled kalil

And I'm happy to see that Aenaku naru kurai nara was performed, the superior ballad won. I'm not here for Kokoro kara i love you.

I love both but I'd definitely pick Aenaku Naru Kurai Nara over kokoro kara i love u. It would be great if kokoro kara i love you was released as part of bonus pictures on DVD/Blu-ray.

As for her FNS Kayousai performance, she might perform something from AND or DNA instead of Ai no Uta. She did perform NEVER ENOUGH at WADA Fes, which was a pleasant surprise. I'll take anything over Ai no Uta & Butterfly, at the same time I'll take those two over Lick me.

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

That white dress is gorgeous
I wish she didn’t have yellow antennae hair though.

[Corvina]

Kuu got some coverage with avex releasing material for her birthday live in newspapers as well, not only at online sites.









Interesting thing is, that those are all sports newspapers.
I guess she has a good stand with sports media and fans because of her engagement with Sagan Tosu, baseball and female wrestling.

Especially the last one is interesting.
The headline says " Megumi no Hito big streaming hit on Tik Tok - Koda Kumi gets popular again with 36".
And in the article it says that the rate of young fans, teens and tweens, at her lives increased, next to the old fans around 40 (in their 30s and 40s), especially women.
Great to hear confirmation about her gaining young fans.

I do wonder why avex keeps the more impressive performances of the tour under wraps. We only got footage of Dangerous, some ballads and end/encore songs. HAIRCUT, ScREaM and Outta My Head e.g. would show better why this tour is something to look forward to. Or also HOT HOT with the fans.
I suppose the thought is that they want to increase the interest for the DVD release by limiting those performances to the DVD (and maybe a TV broadcast).
But imo it would help more gathering interest if they showed snippets of those, so people will know what to expect. I mean, they did it in the past. Oh avex.

[KarenPang]

There was a heavy rain in Tokyo today



https://twitter.com/KODAKUMINET/stat...77091725332480

Kuu's Instagram





https://www.instagram.com/p/BqXBU5vg7ss/

Only Kuu can wear a raincoat & still look so fashionable in it and the raincoat is red colour = win

[ayumi_croatia]

I love the raincoat, I just hate her current hair color - it looks dirty.

[wednesday]

Originally Posted by ayumi_croatia

I love the raincoat, I just hate her current hair color - it looks dirty.

I was gonna comment the same thing. It feels like she has had this colour forever, and I have disliked it since day one. I have been anxiously waiting for her to change it.

[KarenPang]

Kuu last night went to Tokyo Dome to watch Taylor Swift performed on the last date of her Reputation tour





Kuu posted the same photos via her Instagram & Twitter

https://twitter.com/KODAKUMINET/stat...45392616697856
https://www.instagram.com/p/BqZ_834AWyg/

[Corvina]

Kuu is at #6 for Dam Karaoke's ranking of most sung artists for the now ending Heisei era:



Full list in romaji:
01. Ayumi Hamasaki
02. EXILE
03. Mr.Children
04. GLAY
05. Southern All Stars
06. Koda Kumi
07. Saburo Kitajima
08. Hibari Misora
09. B'z
10. Hiroshi Itsuki

For single songs Ai no Uta is at #49:



Full news:
https://www.dkkaraoke.co.jp/news/181121.html

DAM only started business in 1994, so the ranking is basically more of an all time best ranking for DAM.

[oaristos]

^ Thanks for posting! It reminds me that lot of Japanese people I met have told me "Yeah, I don't really listen to Koda Kumi... but I always sing Ai no Uta at the karaoke!" It's nice to see proof that the people in Japan really enjoy singing her songs

Also, did not expect to see Ayumi in the first place.