Well, duh.
Oh lady, guy, go
JUMPing, NON STOP
"IT'S MY LIFE" is now officially the best track on "AND", because y'all decided so. Deservingly so, I'd say. Produced by Joacim Persson (Amuro Namie's "Golden Touch"), Sebastian Arman (Conchita Wurst's "Rise Like A Phoenix"), husband and wife Christopher Thornton and Diondria Thornton (Rick Ross' "Lamborghini Doors") and Ori Kaplan (Fifth Harmony's "Worth It") and written by Kumi, "WHO" appeared on the album as a newer track. This one has done some rounds, to tell you the truth. In 2016 the song was recorded by a Romanian singer Lariss and almost released as "Ladidadi". I'm saying "almost", because officially the track isn't available, probably due to the fact that Malta snatched it for their 2015 Junior Eurovision winner Destiny Chukunyere. Her version was titled "Fast Life (Ladidadi)" and is available at the moment. Weirdly enough, Lariss' even has a video. I feel bad for the girl.
The song is pretty good. It was an early highlight of the album for me, still with time it lost a bit of its polish. I think it loses a lot of steam by the second half, like it begs for a middle 8, alas there is none to be found. In other parts Kuu brings her best yolo swag when it comes to delivery and, honestly, I love it here, since the attitude is most welcome for an urban track like that. The chorus has one of the sweetest and catchiest melodies and I loved how Kumi commented on this one during the tour. Oh yes, did I mention she performed this right in front of my eyes? She most definitely did. Kuu said, that she knows that a lot of different people come to her shows and that not everyone of them are stans who know every single song of hers by heart, so she wanted to have a song, that would have an undeniable sing-along hook, that would make them feel included as well. She also hilariously depicted those people dancing in the crowd by themselves, dddd. Anyway, she then proceeded to teach us the part of the song that goes "dare, dare, dare" (meaning "who, who, who"), and when it came in the song, Jesus, the whole place was out of its mind screaming that word. Such an experience. I love this woman so freaking much.
The message of this one, I guess, is of not caring about what others say.
Wow, one round ahead, next turn next turn. If you're gonna turn no matter what,
then you gotta take the noble path
Who decided that? You said that, right, daddy?
(c) @otenkiame
Nobody called me "daddy" before, Kuu *blushes*
The track was this close to getting a higher score from @otenkiame (8,5), "Right off the bat this track is giving me life with that heavy bass! I'm not sure if I'm that big a fan of what she does with her voice here, but when that bass drops with the saxophone, my bussy is poppin’. Yeah, this is the kinda bop that I want to hear more of! Give me that heavy bass!" Yeah, the beat is great.
The attitude was everything @Cutlery (8,5) lived for, "It's solid, and once again I like it when Kuu gets all "who's stopping me? you?". Especially delivered energetically." She just sells it even if it is not perfect.
@Yeziirl (10) is high on life or something... "yas wig on fire snatched in outer space when will yo faves! Damn that’s such a mood setter, whenever this plays I just want to go to sex shop, buy the biggest dildo and then insert it into my crush, you know! And after he is pleased with that, Imma just sit or twerk on his face. That describes this song’s atmosphere perfectly. Still mad it’s not a lead track and doesn’t have a ratchet music video with Kumi slapping bad bitches with a whip and than they are bowing down to her! she performed it like once on a live tour and that was a solo performance without any dancing which was kinda wack if I remember correctly… do this track some justice, please!" I'll be just slowly backing away, while saying that the performance was still very wholesome.
Speaking of that performance, here it is in audio form. It's weird she didn't bring it out for at least the "DNA" tour, since her comment about it suggested she wanted more people to sing along to it. Oh well. The guitar instead of saxophone here sound quite lovely, don't you think?
And speaking of the original versions, here they are.
