Album arts: Kumi Koda - Dejavu

Kumi Koda's album and single arts these days always seem to get the same initial reaction out of me: Why can't this ho close her mouth? But Dejavu's album art got another reaction out of me: Rock 'n' roll circus. Kumi must have raided the dustbin of Ayu's dressing room at the Music station studios to get that wig and that Union Jack inspired top.

I've not been too keen on the singles Kumi has released from this album so far, or snippets I've heard in TV commercials. "Pop diva" is a banger. But I'm already sick of the song because of how Kumi is just shouting over the beat for 60% of it. So I just play the instrumental now, because "Pop diva" is all about that beat.

The official tracklisting has been released via Kumi's official website and oddly, neither "Inside fishbowl" nor "Outside fishbowl" have made the cut. A shame that. I rather liked "Inside fishbowl"....

1. Introduction
2. Pop diva
3. Lollipop
4. Okay
5. 逢いたくて | Aitakute
6. Passing by
7. At the weekend
8. Interlude
9. Melting
10. Hey baby!
11. ちょい足し life | Choi tashi life
12. あなただけが | Anata dake ga
13. 好きで、好きで、好きで | Suki de, Suki de, Suki de
14. Bambi
15. I don't love you!??

So that leaves around 5 songs for me to listen to that I've not heard before. It's all good though. I'm sure Kumi will manage to squeeze a new quadruple A-side release out of her vagina by April.

As always, Kumi's album will release in a CD only format and a special edition which comes with 2 additional DVD's containing music videos and a full live set of Kumi's.