BUT/Aishō

Infobox Single
Name = BUT / Aishou" "BUT / 愛証


Artist = Kumi Koda
from Album = Kingdom
B-side =
Released = March 14, 2007
Format =
Recorded =
Genre = J-Pop
Length =
Label = Rhythm Zone
Writer =
Producer =
Certification =
Last single = "Cherry Girl / Unmei"
(2006)
This single = "But / Aishou"
(2007)
Next single = "Freaky"
(2007)
Misc = Extra album cover
Upper caption = Alternate cover


Lower caption = The CD + DVD Cover

"BUT" / "Aishou" is Kumi Koda's 35th single and was released on March 14, 2007. It was her first single of 2007. The single is a time limited purchase and can be purchased in any method from March 2007 to May 2007. "BUT" is described to be a "destructive", "four on the floor" dance track and a "time machine dance style" song by the Japanese Fact|date=April 2007, and "nihongo|Aishou|愛証|", meaning "love proof", is a love ballad. "BUT" is also the theme song for the Japanese edition of the movie, "Step Up".

There was also an analog version of "BUT", set for release the week after this single's.

Tracklisting

CD version

# BUT
#
# BUT ~The Ghettobots Remix~ (First Press Bonus Track)
# BUT (instrumental)
# (instrumental)

DVD version

# BUT
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# BUT / nihongo|Aishou|愛証| [Making Clip]

BUT analog version

:A1. BUT:A2. BUT ~Drum 'n Bass remix~:B1. BUT ~The Ghettobots Remix~:B2. BUT (Instrumental)

Music Video

* The PV for BUT consisted of Kumi, at the beginning, sleeping in a large chair dressed in frivolous clothes, revealed to be chained to the ceiling by a pulley. She attempts to break out of the chain, and once she does, she runs around the room in a girlish manner. The mood changes from playful to more provocative as she descends an elevator into a new room. This room is full of women (the same two women) dressed in bellhop clothing, bowing. The video's scenes continue to alternate between the rooms as the song continues, and at the end, Kumi wakes up in the green room. Everything seems to have been a dream.

* The PV for Aishou is set in Feudal-era Japan, and in a large shiro. Kumi at the beginning is walking through a twilit hall in a shoulder-bare kimono, as she enters another room and proceeds to remove her upper layer of clothing. There are cut-scenes of her in a doorway against a moonlit night, and then her, ravaged on a bed. After this, there are scenes of her reclining in another room, smoking. There are also animated scenes of a bird flying through the night, as the video ends by going through the other rooms.

Charts

Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)

External links

* [http://us.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/code-j/section-music/pid-1004654088/ BUT (Analog Version)]