Can We Go Back

"Can We Go Back" is a song written by Adam Watts, Andy Dodd and Shanna Crooks and recorded by Kelly Clarkson during the sessions for her 2009 album, All I Ever Wanted.

The single was a limited release and Kumi wrote the song about the controversy in 2008, wanting to recognize her mistake and move on, going "back to the way [the fans] used to be".

Both editions harbored different cover art, with the CD only showing Kumi with a full frontal, her chin tilted up towards the camera.

[12] However, both covers were taken on the scene setup in the music video where Kumi was bound to a wall, symbolizing her restraint of the past and breaking free for the future.

[13] The video was given a Joan of Arc theme, to reflect "being in a battle with a friend, being injured and supporting each other" image intended to be expressed in the song.

[4] The music video takes place on a battlefield with Koda Kumi and her back-up dancers dressed in clothes inspired by Hundred Years' War-era uniforms worn by the French military as they tried to raise their flag on the field.

[14] The ending to the music video is shown with Kumi and her compatriots raising their flag in the style of French artist Jules Eugène Lenepveu's famous 1890 artwork Panthéon II.