Kina Grannis

Congratulations, Kina!!
We <3 you more than you’ll ever know!

Oh. And say “cheese!” Now we only owe you 999,999 smiles =D

“i just realized theres a punching bag in my backyard… thats weird”
haha

Kina, I know what you could do….you could start broadcasting live on blogtv.com! A bunch of other youtube stars have been getting on there regularly. It’d be cool if you were one of ‘em!

-Mel

hey kina-

Because of your great performances and fun videos, I have been converted to watching youtube videos alot more frequently now (primarily because of your stuff). Before watching your weekly videos, I would just tune in to youtube for an occasional weird video clip. I now consider the weekly video a great form of entertainment to start my week off properly. Congratulations on all your success. You’ve definitely earned it and deserve it. To the rest of the Grannis family, thanks for everything you’ve given too! :-)

-k

Already commented on youtube But here goes again
You always make my day a little happier
so THANK YOU

Actually Kina, our anniversary is the day after the superbowl. I can’t believe you forgot *sniffsniff*

Also, as long as I’m admonishing you, my mother always had a rule: “you can pick the flowers that God planted, but not the ones that I planted”. That rose is suspiciously nice…

Ok, done. It’s been a good 9ish months. I’m glad you exist, Miss Grannis

*lemon face*

This calls for a party.

Happy Anniversary!!! I only discovered you a few months ago, but I sure am glad I did. You are very talented writer and singer, and you have a great personality. I love that you involve the rest of the Grannis family in this adventure. People don’t usually get to see what it was like for their idols trying to have a career in showbusiness, but we get to see what it is like for you and your family which is really neat.

PS. Rose & Lemon = very pretty

Something special for me would be your friend request for this here miffed fan, if you do, I’ll accept and subscribe again:o so long as you’ve become aware that there’s been a long running fan contact distribution problem that became obvious within the last blahg rather than just being a felt notion = no pressure, tis up to you of course, you might have kept it that way on purpose, but, I’m humiliated enough to not care either way as you can almost imagine being the case;)

Anyway, I must be off now to finish crying to my Mom about it all while she’s still here = I nearly lost her as well as nearly losing my eldest dog this year, mind you the titch had another slight scare last week, but luckily she’s still here and keeping the mop/etc busy and Mom’s still suffering continually, but they’re both worth it all and then some=<em3!

Oh man, it’s not even Monday!

Happy anni Kina! Thank you for being you :).

@sabafa
…did you get my email?

Awww. Random adorable video! Happy anniversary Kina! Here’s to year two!

congrats on ur YEAR ON YOUTUBE!! haha thanks for the video!! i hope year 2 is as good as this year!!

Happy Youtube Anniversary! It is amazing how many things can change within just one year. Here’s to another great year and many more to come! *raises glass* Cheers to you!

P.S. We need a Tim Tam party!

yayyy !

@kina

No, but I got the friend invite from you<u32

Cool, it has just dawned on me that this means we share a special anniversary friendship:*D thank you so much KinaMUWAH

I’ve already subscribed and have your own thoughts singing out to me even as I write this – you truly are gifted and a nice speciality of yours to my way of thinking, is that you seem to realise that others may well be lesser or greater but still equal to your own measure of specialnessTYPEthing in this oh so real world!

Now where’s that mail got to? Perhaps my own contacts got lost along the way too, tsch! If you don’t see a comment from me here now and then, you’d probably best assume I or my computer is dead, but maybe you wont get that lucky:P

happy youtube anniversary kina lot of happyness and success keep youtubing
it’s always a pleasure for me to see the tiny kina bean’s adventures haha!!
thank youuu so MUCH !!!!
PS:i’m not youtube but my birthday is 4 march 1985 don’t forget me pleeease!!!(you will break me heart if you forget me).thank you for the little bonjour in my cd’s package.PS bis KINA as yellow as lemon as beautyfull as rose+sunshine in his eyes.haha bye:)

1. Congratulations on your anniversary, Kina! High Fives all around!!
2. Back To Us better be on your new album. It may not have made my top 5 list, but there’s only so many I can fit. :)
3. Rose and a lemon? Too cute! Where did you find them anyways?

Happy Anni! I think I’m one of your newest fans.. I’ve told all of my friends about your music.. they all think I’m crazy that I’ve falling in love with the songs of “random” youtuber”..

eh.. whatever..

I don’t know if this has been suggested before, but you should make an appearance up here in Canada.. We Canadians love your genre of music!..

In any case, once again Happy Anniversary..

I look forward to seeing more of music in the future..

PS: Do you do fundraisers?

Your gift to us is not having to wait til monday! wee, long day at work, this made me feel a bit better for some reason. Anyway happy anniversary! I’d liked to thank youtube as well for introducing you to the world including me haha. Oh and that lemon looked tasty :p

@sabafa
if you don’t get my email, can you email me so i have your correct address?

@kina

Great vid and congrats! Also, thanks for your reply by e-mail. I look forward to seeing you someday in Vancouver :)

@kina

No problem! I’ve just done multi checks to no avail:( but my computer isn’t allowing access to one of them since the last system blowup – sheesh -and I think that’s the one I used to have showing on an old You Tube account, so maybe that’s why:/ although I’ve been putting where you should now send to in the ‘Leave a Reply Mail (will not be published) section for a while now, if that helps in the meantime:)

Tell you what, I’ll send you it in a private video once it’s uploaded and have you noticed that your video hasn’t got the dodats that allow for all your other videos to be played, tis a shame as it looks nice up on my page!

Wow, I can’t believe I’ve only known you a year! It feels like so much longer!

who is sabafa? *thinks oovret is tervoo backwards so….*

a f a b a s *scratches head*

oh almost forgot, congrats! you’re cool! i like you! and your music!

Happy anniversary! It has been great watching all you’re vids this past year. Brightens my day =) Oh and thanks very much for the lemon/rose.

Here’s to another year of youtube greatness.

P.S. It looks so sunny and beautiful over there – makes me miss California so much! I might just have to make a trip out to LA sometime in ‘09!

<3

In the Web 2.0 world, popularity stems from authenticity. But popularity can become addictive. And fame, along with the will to please your fans can also steal that away from you. This video is a reminder of your pure authenticity which has not become tarnished in the past year.
Thank You for being yourself.

-Whom you are now, may you always remain. May your spirit never change.-

:-)

Happy Anniversy!!!

@kina

Tis done, I’ve ticked 4uONLY;) and it’s up, and viewed, but of course, the You Tube degredation process has seemed to omit the interesting bit, so don’t go blind in looking = 1 eye hurting session/week done already, so you might have to settle for a stage career as a certain black spot carrier in Treasure Island if you miss/ignore this comment when you’ve finished tonight’s show!

HAHAHAHAHA u got a rose and a lemon then tasted the lemon….I love the awkward…Its what makes u Kina! and y we love u!

Congrats!! things are only gonna go up from here cuz I know I keep loving the music more and more each day! and Im sure I can say that about most of the people here =)

btw i can’t stop listening to the Goldfish song….I need that on my ipod ASAP!

simply adorable. kina your videos from the beginning were so adorable (e.g. walk on with the lip thing, don’t matter cover, strong enough introducing the guitar!)

so many! the beginning videos were amazing, awkward is amazing LOL
and the new ones are just as amazing! =)

you have a punching bag in your backyard????!?!?!?!

kina fans – wouldnt that be awesome/semi funny if kina was like some martial arts expert and could kick anyone’s butt hahahahaha

Naaa…Hardcore Kina Fan over here! Happy Anniversary. You’re the Bomb diggity

Happy Anniversary!! Just discovered you a week ago and i’m hooked!!! Cheers to a 2nd year!!

PS…thanks for the lemon & rose!! Wer’d u find them? The rose i understand since u r in ure backyard..but a lemon?!?! hehehe!

nice you love your fans well when i emailed you the other day i was astonished that you replied well i have been applying to USC ad UCLA for college and stuff i want to be a pediatrician travel the world volunteer and help poor kids or be an ocologist pediatrician for cancer cures for kids and alike well im getting carried away. Im going to college soon so either of the schools and nervous of getting out of high school and into college any advice cuz im like not wanting to leave cuz of a Feudian like problem of having to cling on certain things, can i have some take of your experience or anyone elses? o and thx for the care on great the fan base!

what song is playing in the background?

@k itscalled Back to Us i was watching it on youtube in the afternoon after school. so yea peace and your welcome gd nite everyone sleep tight! =D

Happy Anniversary!! :) ………..

@ meeks

best hidden track is found after a song called aerials by SOAD.

called arto

yup yup

happy anniversary kina!

Happy Anniversary Kina and everyone!
Kina, you were so cute in this video. I’ve almost cried. One year, it’s such a long time. Thank you for being there for us.
I’ve also wanted to tell you that “Back to us” should be on your album. I haven’t heard it untill now, so I haven’t voted for it. But now I’d definitely do that.

Happy Kinaversary!

Although I consider my Kinaversary the day I first heard of you – December 26, 2007. That’s so cool that I know the day I first heard you :)

Happy Anniversary!!!! I started out as a Liason fan who found you through “Ours to Keep” and have been watching through all the Superbowl drama. So, keep it up and have a GREAT year 2!!!

this video is too cute :o)

Happy YouTube Anniversary!!!

@code2mind–
best gravatar ever!

See, THAT’S why I say Back To Us should go on the album.

Ha! This blog was great, you were clearly in a euphoric mood and it totally shined though. I’m all smiles. :-)

@kina

I’ve replied through You Tube’s mail and even that was failing to comply too:)) ARGH, but it now say’s it has been sent, so quick, go set your computer to destroy mode;)

happy youtube anniversary.

wow has it been that long…?
cant wait to see whats in store for year 2…

ok, off topic but was just wondering if anyone here likes Souplantation?

haha… that was random!

Hey Kina,

Congrats. You’ve been doing great things. :) Love your tunes, love your voice. :)

Congrats on the milestone – i know i’ll be around for the years to come if you keep on posting away :).

I’ll be grabbing a CD once thats released, add em to the collection :)

cheers

why!!! oovret asked you if you really think that you’re a bad person?
it’s seems to be a very strange question!!

@ meeks

kina factoid: she is a Brown belt in Karate.

@meeks hahahaha!!! you called it! that’s rich! LOL!

@dr g – glad to hear she can handle her own crowd control!! anything she can’t do? I doubt it!

@meeks

You did totally call it! Can’t believe it’s true!

@dr g

Thanks for that tidbit of information!

@kina

Seriously, is there anything you CAN’T do???? ;)

she can’t sing bad and she can’t write crappy songs

Ah, violence: the one thing Kina has hitherto lacked (aside from that one time she threatened to kill Emi)

So Kina, care to have a sparring match? Loser includes the winner’s favorite songs on their his or her next CD release?

happy anni! ew im kinda late though.
you’re super aweeeesome, kina! (:

wait is the gold fish song on the cd along with together i love both the songs! =D

oovret: week 29
Happy YouTube Anniversary!

How long did it take to create the “Message From Your Heart” video entry?
How long did it take to get your first “random” subscriber?
Who are some of your YouTube subscriptions/favorite YouTubers?
When you posted your first video did you imagine that exactly a year later you would be in a studio recording an album with Interscope Records?
Now that it has been discovered, will the punching bag be used?

Great explanation Kina; so that’s why you answer all my questions.
So I recently went back to see Tervoo, and it appears you are the last completed interview. You must have set the bar too high and none of the other participants wanted to follow your interview.

Kina! I’d love to meet you in the OC!

@oovret

#4 – great Q. it gave me goosebumps

@ Meeks

Misa factoid: she is a Brown belt in Karate too.

Could an Emi factoid be far behind?

One disapproving look from Emi can pretty much put you in the hospital for a week….

Kina: “I wish I could something more special for you guys today”

Do you have any idea how special this video is to us?
Or how special you are? –> Everything you do is special! :)

@ any G Are the gals OK re today’s LA fires?

Mudansha!

That’s crazy – their panel exainers must be tone deaf to not be swayed into just granting bazillionth yudansha rankings, just don’t tell them that I said so unless I post this anonymously:/

Kina still karateka? Or does the bag find = about to be?

If so, major gulp and other worried signifiers, this formerly miffed fan would just like to stressfully confirm the deisre to not have to start sleeping with eye lids kept open and heart set to race off out of here mode instead of the usual eye lids dropping, heart stuck on the contented adoration mode of watching Kina whilst holding off sleep!

Haha, probably others here do this too, but if no one owns up, then I don’t do it either and others must have their reasons for not saying they do (;like not reading this for example;) especially since the Monday postings shifted over into sometimes being of the ‘in your dreams’ category! d8p

titch shout to techies here, david choi is looking for web designers = $

@ sabafa

The Grannis clan is well and safe. Where we are I can see the smoke clouds, but they are well away. Kina is near the plume, but 25 miles from the fires.

@ Dr & Mama G

Forgive me for missing you out, but I only asked about your little ones due to your postings, so I guessed you’re safely clear of all of the fires!

dr g is awesome!!!! More factoids please!!! I will be the oovret to dr g and mama g haha LOL ok here we go just three questions for the lovely parents :)
how often do u call misa since she is so far away?
what was your favorite kina performance you have watched live??
Where/what iis the grannis household’s favorite restaurant to celebrate a family celebration haha

@Dr G

Thank you!

@Mama G – Haha!! I read that an hour ago. I am still cracking up!!! :-D What do you usually tell the ER nurse?? hahaha

@Dr G – I had the same q as meeks. Thanks for the ans. Glad all the G’s are safe and sound. Our thoughts are with you and the rest of the SoCal folks.

I already wrote you on facebook but I’ll say it again, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY KINA! I LOVE YOU!

Love Sara <3 <3

so then…

Emi factoid: she is a Brown belt in Disapproving Looks

hope you and your family are safe during the fires Kina! Be safe everyone.

@TimR

At least yudansha in beauty though!

No TimR…. I’d say she’s more like a black belt :D

Well I would think a black belt would kill and not just maim, but you know best Mama G!

@Mama G & TimR

Uh Oh U2 just wait till Emi catches your eyes – ooo if eyes could really maim/kill you two would probably be lined up somewhere where theres no more physical movement, quick Tim copy Mama G and put a blindforld on to save yourself!

Happy Youtube Anniversary! I wish i have known your music since then :( but you are so wonderful! more amazing years to come! you might be playing in our country by next year… or sooner :)
and oh, this is the first time i heard “Back to us”, it makes me calm.. is it off the album?
Hi to the awesome Grannis family! sweetness :)

Emi factoid: Emi doesn’t have a Brown belt in anything, yet. She is a black belt in being a supportive and loving sister to Kina and Misa though.

HEY happy anniversary!
Recap: i first heard about you through a friend a little less than a year ago, so a little after you began your journey. And at the beginning of this year i bonded with a friend over you. we found that we both loved your music. and since then we have been telling our entire campus of you, and we are hoping one day you will make the trek to play for us. Your music has touched so many people, you shouldnt be thanking us on your 1 year anniversary. we should be thanking you!!

@confused newbie–

I think I only went there (Souplantation) once, but for some strange reason I have fond memories of the place. Who couldn’t love a place with dozens of soupy-goodnessy options?

@Dr G

Way to go, and although I’ve only heard Emi’s voice in a supportative roll, to my ears, it also has a black belt in loveliness, as does Misa’s too and despite what Misa said about it, she looked beautiful alongside Snow Patrol’s singer<3

Also, I’m sure that everyone knows that nothing mal lay behind Mama G’s jests, my chides too, and also know that everyone is well equiped to give the evil eye when the right buttons have been pressed too many times, but I think you were right to step in, sometimes people are unintentionally hurt by such like to an inexplicable degree!

@Dr G

A lot of KG fans must get caught up in all the excitement here and in the vids. We probably don’t realize how intense it must be for you and your family. At times it must range from weird to outright creepy–complete strangers commenting on you!! So pardon our awkward posts, and thanks so much for sharing a glimpse behind the curtains. But all this is what makes Kina so real to us, and that is a big part of what draws us here. It seems so idyllic.

Anyway, my point would be that no matter what color belts you wear in the G clan, there is so much talent and character. It is so clear to us how well you all support each other. Emi, Misa and Kina seem to be Xtreme role models for young women everywhere, and you and Mama G seem to be America’s best ‘rents!

ps I bet Emi plays a bigger role here than we might be led to think.

yay happy youtube anniversary kina! :D
you seriously have made my taste in music so much more pleasant. i love your shows, i love your songs and most importantly, i love your personality and that you give us, the fans, a little more insight every week on the real kina grannis. keep rockin and never let anyone get you down. you might have some haters but you have a really strong support base even outside your closest friends and family :) btw. i subscribe cuz im a hardcore kina fan :D

p.s. i REALLY liked that song. like REALLY REALLY liked it. is it gonna be on the album or on itunes anytime soon, cuz i definitely want it

@Misa

how about Pink’s, the legendary hot dog stand? i tried it once, it was cool! my buddy had the three dog night – 3 hot dogs, wrapped in a giant tortilla, 3 slices of cheese, 3 slices of bacon, chili and onions – it was painful watching him chow that down at like 1am in the morning.

lots of pics of celebs…perhaps one day, i’ll see kina’s mug gracing pink’s walls.

I want to HATE your awkwardness but I CAN’T!

I want to HATE your singing but I CAN’T!

I want to HATE your lyrics but I CAN’T!

I want to HATE your family but I CAN’T!

I want to HATE your face but I CAN’T!

I want to HATE your lemon rose thingy but I CAN’T!

I want to HATE your Disturbia cover but I CAN’T!

There is NOTHING about you to HATE Kina Grannis!!!!!!! AAAARGHH!!!!

I HATE YOU (hate you hate you hate you) for that Kina!!!!!!

@HATER:
Sorry to say, but after finding Kina, your days of hating are over. Soon you´ll find yourself smiling while humming a Kina song, you´ll start admiring butterflies and flowers and see the beauty around you, and you´ll turn into a positive & likable person… you won´t be able to fight it, so just let it happen…

and of course I didn’t mean anything by my comments either. I was just striving for completeness in the factoids. I blame Mama G! with much love of course ;)

Hi Kina & Kina fans,

Congratulations with the Anniversary. It’s these little tidbits that people remember and cherish that makes them special and loving persons. A lot of people just can’t seem to appreciate even the smallest thing in life (like your lemon and rose) and therefore don’t see the beauty of it all. I hope your album recording is going great, I hope you’ll stay on youtube even longer. I will be here every Monday (or days in between now you posted this whacky in betweeny) starting off my week on a happy note. Cause that is what Kina makes me, Happy!

Hugs

Nicky

HEY KINDA LIKE UR MUSIC..

We all send our thanks to all of you for the support you have given Kina, and the kind words you have had for us. I am a very lucky dad. I wish all of the guys and girls on the blog could have as great a family and as great an experience as a parent as I have had.

@Dr G

Fingers crossed for the grand parenting stage being an improvement then, as oy, do the girls have a good mix of genes/skills/values to try and replicate, but at least they’ve a fair chance, I fear that the vast majority of us will luck out on matching this, although tis a lovely sentiment to wish for us, thank you<3

@Kina

Too Soon tends to be dropped from being available to view within You Tube player sites, is this because you do not wish for it to be available, or some kind of fault that keeps happening? It’s gone too soon for me every time it happens:.( but this is offset a little whenever I do have quicktime up and running to view your earlier video of it:] In case it is of help to others, here’s an alternative source for it:-

http://search.live.com/video/results.aspx?q=kina+grannis+too+soon&scope=video&docid=106571366429&FORM=VIVR

Click on the 3min 43secs one for it, but if memory serves me right, it can be chosen from within the media section of this (Kina’s) site too!

not sure if I commented on this already or not…don’t think I did. But anyway, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

Happy Anniversary, KinaTube… even though I’ve watched this twice and still not managed to hear everything you said.

I keep catching myself listening/humming to the music instead… even the 2nd time through when I was TRYING to listen to just the message, every 8-9 secs I find that I’m back to the music. ;-)

So if you’re taking requests for Originals videos, I vote “Back to us”, please. Haven’t heard it since Kaleidoscope.

-wwar1ace

@ TimR… no worries! We’re just having fun :)

WHOOOOOO! =)

cool Mama G

And I second wwar1ace (and all the other people who I don’t want to scroll up to mention) about ‘Back to us.’ Probably the only reason it didn’t make my top 5 last week was that I don’t remember hearing it!

i third wwar1ace yay! =)

Wow, remember when I was only seconded…?

Good times.

Well hold on to ur stick and rudder, Ace, ur about to go for a quad. =D
I was doing the same thing, concentrating on the song and forgetting to listen. But no problem hitting the replay a few times to hear it all!

@ wwar1ace yea i do. haha! =)

i change 818-er and 818-er aka Alex to this yay!

wwar1ace… you trendsetter, you ;)

you’re adorable!

you are AMAZING kina! :) anyway you hear that all the time from me.. But anyway, thank you so much for sharing your music with us!! Much love!

you might be our favorite person ever.. we found you on youtube a few minutes ago and have listened to all of your videos! and gotten your songs off itunes! =)

good luck! looks like you will be a star..