[Koda Kumi] The 186th Thread - 60th brand new single on the way

[Corvina]

Originally Posted by KuuXAyu-fan

Honestly I won't be surprised if she announces nothing and then we hear in April:

Fan club 60th exclusive single Bring It On April 2017 + tour title Live Tour 2017 ~Best Single Collection 2~ with no other release for the year besides the tour DVD.

The new album is coming till the tour.
Should I let you remember?

2016.11.23
レコーディング♪
くぅちゃんは次のアルバム、ツアーに向けて新曲を制作中！

Recording ♪
Kuu-chan is in the middle of producing new songs for the next album for the tour!

[KuuXAyu-fan]

Originally Posted by Corvina

The new album is coming till the tour.
Should I let you remember?



Recording ♪
Kuu-chan is in the middle of producing new songs for the next album for the tour!

I remember. Sorry to be over dramatic. It's just last year we heard similar words and we ended up with "Winter Of Love." I know its 99% likely we'll get a studio album before the tour but I'm just nervous. Hopefully we get some more info soon.

[Corvina]

I do share your feelings of iimpatience, but it's still the old year and you said it yourself, WOML e.g. was officially announced in January.
Would have loved to get more info and the album earlier like with JAPONESQUE, but hey, it is confirmed, that's the only important thing in the end.

[orbitalaspect]

Originally Posted by Corvina

I do share your feelings of iimpatience, but it's still the old year and you said it yourself, WOML e.g. was officially announced in January.
Would have loved to get more info and the album earlier like with JAPONESQUE, but hey, it is confirmed, that's the only important thing in the end.

I know her sales have dropped a lot, but it'd be more important to me that she not record an album for the sake of having a reason to go on tour again. I'd rather she do the album for the sake of doing an album, like every album she's done since Black Cherry.

[kaled kalil]

But for most of the artists, doing an album is just a way of getting the songs together to go on tour get the coins, specially if we think about the japanese music market with artists releasing albums yearly...

She's recording an album for the sake of doing it, and to have something to promote next year. I don't know what's bad about this.

As I said a couple of months/weeks ago, I'm not expecting any news until January/February, with the album coming right after one or one and a half month after.

[thinkingoutloud89]

For Kumi is actually one of those few commercial artists of Japan that still put thought into the overall product that is called "album". I think WOML showed that not having single is beneficial for the cohesiveness of the product, so I'm glad one ofter another drops releasing singles.

[ahtka-chan]

^Well, both "Beyoncé" and "Lemonade" are proof that you can release a cohesive album with decent singles.

And, ever since UNIVERSE I feel like Kumi releases albums just to have songs to sing live...

[thinkingoutloud89]

Originally Posted by ahtka-chan

^Well, both "Beyoncé" and "Lemonade" are proof that you can release a cohesive album with decent singles.

And, ever since UNIVERSE I feel like Kumi releases albums just to have songs to sing live...

what you talking about? Beyonce only had one single "Formation", before the album came out

[ahtka-chan]

Originally Posted by thinkingoutloud89

what you talking about? Beyonce only had one single "Formation", before the album came out

As of now, Lemonade counts with six singles: "Formation", "Sorry", "Hold Up", "Freedom", "Daddy Lessons" and "All Night". They are all nice tracks (well, I personally don't like Sorry, Hold Up or All Night).

Formation was the only pre-release, yes, but that's because the release system in America is different from Japan. In Japan, you generally have four singles, and then the album, in the US is the opposite.

So, if Kumi has a definite goal for where she wants to go with her music, she is perfectly able to release four singles and an album filled with songs that match the sound/style she presented in the singles, something that, in my view, she has been failing to do. Her discography is very diverse, there's nothing wrong with that, but it's harder to show evolution and maturity once your releases are like that, and that's something that made me lose much of the interest I had for her. But, anyway, I still hope one day she'll release a very well crafted album, with thought and a message, like "Lemonade", "A Seat at The Table", "Fantôme", "19 to 20" and others.

I think the closest she got to release a cohesive album was ETERNITY, but that's my opinion.

[KuuXAyu-fan]

Originally Posted by ahtka-chan

As of now, Lemonade counts with six singles: "Formation", "Sorry", "Hold Up", "Freedom", "Daddy Lessons" and "All Night". They are all nice tracks (well, I personally don't like Sorry, Hold Up or All Night).

Formation was the only pre-release, yes, but that's because the release system in America is different from Japan. In Japan, you generally have four singles, and then the album, in the US is the opposite.

So, if Kumi has a definite goal for where she wants to go with her music, she is perfectly able to release four singles and an album filled with songs that match the sound/style she presented in the singles, something that, in my view, she has been failing to do. Her discography is very diverse, there's nothing wrong with that, but it's harder to show evolution and maturity once your releases are like that, and that's something that made me lose much of the interest I had for her. But, anyway, I still hope one day she'll release a very well crafted album, with thought and a message, like "Lemonade", "A Seat at The Table", "Fantôme", "19 to 20" and others.

I think the closest she got to release a cohesive album was ETERNITY, but that's my opinion.

IMO JAPONESQUE and countless other Kuu albums are better than Fantome or any other album Hikki has released. In my view, Hikki has been rehashing the same songs post-Deep River and Fantome is her most generic and uninteresting album yet.

However we all have different opinions and are allowed to share them.

[Zahara]

Originally Posted by KuuXAyu-fan

IMO JAPONESQUE and countless other Kuu albums are better than Fantome or any other album Hikki has released. In my view, Hikki has been rehashing the same songs post-Deep River and Fantome is her most generic and uninteresting album yet.

However we all have different opinions and are allowed to share them.

As a fan of both Kuu and Hikki, I have to disagree with this entirely. Fantome doesn't even sound like a Hikki album sis. Kuu is doing her thing and it's working for her very well and she's changing her sound bit by bit but still retaining what makes her her. Hikki never really had the issue of her albums sounding the same, but we're even lucky that she remembers to record.

[Corvina]

I actually think every album after UNIVERSE is, compared to UNIVERSSE, much more cohesive...
(which doesn't make UNIVERSE a bad album, as I love it)
And btw. didn't she prove last year, that she doesn't need a new album to go touring?
Personally I couldn't care less.

[jiarongisme]

HOTEL and MONEY IN MY BAG were single tracks though. Just thought I'd put it out there

[thinkingoutloud89]

^forgot those two, but it was not like she had 4-6 a-sides over a span of 1 1/2 years. Most of the time, the first three of those don't fit the overall tone of the album (see stay with me, or ayus Beautiful Fighter etc.), but other than Namie they all fear to leave them out.

[thinkingoutloud89]

^thats basically what I said. I know that these songs where released as singles, but these songs are decided as such AFTER the album came out.

Releasing a single after the album is a whole different story, since it is already a part of the album. But the way Japan handles it just doesn't work for me anymore. I don't mind diverse styles and I love that about Kumi, but I hate out of place songs - and its mostly the singles that stand out like a sore thumb. Although always top-notched songs one came to love already, they destroy the overall "theme" of the album in many cases.

[ahtka-chan]

^It happens in Japan also. Both Hikki's First Love and BoA's Be the One were released after their respective albums.

[thinkingoutloud89]

^I know all that XD I listen to J-Pop everyday. It's not like I said "its with every album", i just said it happens and that I'm glad that it is slowly decreasing. I know you don't mean to, but it feels like you make me sound stupid. I did not want to start sonething, sorry, I just pointed that out

[Zeke.]

Fantome is definitely not a "re-hash," and I mean that in a negative sense. ULTRA BLUE and songs off of HEART STATION were better. I wouldn't eat a turd off the crap Ku has released since UNIVERSE.

[KarenPang]

2016年,応援してくださった皆さん
本当に有難うございました‼そしてお世話になりました��
2017年も会えることを心から楽しみにしてます��
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And Zeke , if you're not a Kuu fan anymore , why are you still posting here & bashing her music ?

Last thing I want to see is Kuu's thread/s getting flamed again by the mods on here as to what happened in the past

I could say even further if not more nastier stuff but I'm not going to

Anyway with today being the last day of 2016 , all I can say is that being a Kuu fan for 10 years , it's no doubt that she worked hard to where she has gotten but 2016 is her most quietest to date in terms of new material

It felt strange as all the while everyone was so used to her releasing new music so frequently until at times I can't keep up unlike this year

I do hope she will wow everyone for all its worth when 2017 rolls by (in less than 3 hours' time for me)

[Zeke.]

I still love a lot of Ku's music. I just gushed over Driving a page back or so, and raved about how amazing her songs are to dance to prior to that. I just wish she would start throwing out a quality release every now and then again.