Originally Posted by Delicious n Bold (Post 3137536)

Some people want sex more than partying.
Partying is a lot of work tbh. You have to get ready, you have to go outside and move, you have to drink, sometimes you drink a lot and get drunk and then feel the pain in the morning unless you drink tequila only since she's the best alcohol for you/doesn't make you feel hung over.
With sex you can just do that at home. No real preparations, just showering.

Originally Posted by Tom Punks (Post 3137332)

Namie may not be an "artist" and may be just a pop singer and dancer, but I still find the lyrical situation so stupid. This is the kind of stuff that gives pop a bad rap. :( It's not even that the lyrics are stupid (they are) but the fact that there's not even a pretense of meaning here annoys me. The lyrical content won't hurt my enjoyment of the album (the Engrish nonsense will) because I don't listen to Namie for any imagined artistry, but it annoys me all the same.

Pop is plenty capable of producing songs that, while they might not be incredibly artistic or innovative, are still meaningful or purposeful. Songs about being attractive and clubbing really only function for passing time getting ready for girls' night out or whatever. I mean, lyrically, this album just COULDN'T be anymore purposeless and impossible to connect with except maybe on a Friday night. She's not saying anything, and neither are the songwriters she bought the tracks from. It's just a whole bunch of lyrical filler for the sake of putting out something new.

The lyrics themselves sound like placeholder lines, like the songwriter just jotted random phrases in to fill the notes for a demo and never got around to finishing the song or making it coherent. So much of it is absolute gibberish? And the fact that she's singing all these incomplete thoughts that don't make any sense to an actual English speaker, let alone to Namie who can't understand English, just baffles me from a musical standpoint because what's the point?

I know the point is $$$, but still. For Japan's leading pop star, it's just... I want more??? I know it's pop and pop exists to be profitable and commercial and marketable, but at some point you reach a level of purposelessness that it just turns into k-pop.

ETA: It's not just the fact that the lyrics are "vapid", it's the combination of everything. They're vain and meaningless, they're gibberish, they're in English which she doesn't even speak, they're in English which her target audience doesn't even speak. It couldn't be more filler.

Originally Posted by Delicious n Bold (Post 3137659)

Queen of controversy

But yeah jpop central is VERY positive about this album. It's so positive it's like a... I don't know... A huge sugar rush so big it feels like all my teeth are rotting and I'm gonna get diabetes or something. Not saying positivity is bad but I've always liked a balance of opinions. Too positive and it's annoying. Too negative and it's depressing. This forum seems to be JUST right. There's enough people liking it and enough people dragging it into oblivion that everything's fine and dandy... At least I think so.

Originally Posted by Delicious n Bold (Post 3137659)

Queen of controversy

But yeah jpop central is VERY positive about this album. It's so positive it's like a... I don't know... A huge sugar rush so big it feels like all my teeth are rotting and I'm gonna get diabetes or something. Not saying positivity is bad but I've always liked a balance of opinions. Too positive and it's annoying. Too negative and it's depressing. This forum seems to be JUST right. There's enough people liking it and enough people dragging it into oblivion that everything's fine and dandy... At least I think so.

Originally Posted by ayumisrael (Post 3137675)

Well unfortunately there's NATE to dictate the forum/namie thread there so you can't really voice remotely negative opinions there about Namie and she happens to be his favorite. He doesn't get that there were a lot who don't like the words namie sing in the new album and makes excuses for it (and it has nothing to do with namie not writing lyrics/not being deep). You can have good/cool lyrics without going deep but also without being repetitive and be ridiculous.

If Namie is that in charge of the songs she chooses than she has to take responsibility for what she sings in her songs, with all the grammatical mistakes, or repeated words/themes.
But again, it's not for an audience that completely understands what she sings or the language she sings in.

I wouldn't call the people who voice such opinions haters since a lot of them like namie a lot and buy her music, they just think she can do better and singing lyrics/words is part of the music she does.

I still don't care much for these stuff if the music is fun. On the most part.

I hate it when people don't let you voice an opinion about Namie if it's not wow! amazing!

Originally Posted by Isicio (Post 3137731)

_genic / 安室奈美恵
時代を突き抜けるポップ遺伝子。オリコン週間アルバムランキングで6作連続1位を獲得した『FEEL』以来 、約2年ぶりとなるニューアルバムは、なんと全未発表曲による録りおろし作品。クラシカルなダンスビートや R&Bグルーヴなど80's-90'sリバイバルを、国内外の気鋭クリエイターと共にカラフルなダンスポップにまとめ上げた最新作。La dy GagaやSelena Gomezらの作品を手がけるJoacim PerssonによるクラシカルなR&Bナンバー「Golden Touch」、KerliやLoreenらダンス歌姫の作品を手がけるSeventyeight Productionsによる安室奈美恵初のバースデー・ソング「Birthday」、BeyonceやS ean Paulらの作品を手がける若き奇才James"KEYZ"Foyeによるバラード曲「Anything」 、Diploと共にMadonnaの作品を手がけるUKアンダーグラウンド・シーンで最注目の新鋭SOPH IEによる「B Who I Want 2 B feat. U hum sneak it」など、これまでも世界の最先端をいくクリエイター陣といち早くタッグを組んできた安室奈美恵ならでは のエッジィな面々と競演。さらにSpecial Trackとして、世界のダンス・ミュージック・シーンを牽引するDJ/プロデューサー David Guettaとのコラボレーション楽曲「What I Did For Love」の追加収録も決定。まだ誰も感じたことのない、最新型の安室奈美恵が詰まった渾身の一枚!


This is the description of CDJapan .
It seems that some songs are produced by some of the producers who have worked for Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez , Beyonce, Selena Gomez , Madonna, Loreen etc

In my opinion it was very likely that this happens . How many times have imagined or desired Namie well as other Japanese pop singers to debut in America? _genic Think is that result, international namie but without risking real debut in the US market and fail. And I like to give us this very international drive without it becoming the new globaliza star.

Originally Posted by mi|kshake (Post 3137769)

I wonder which song she did with Loreen's producers?