I'm still trying to figure out how WANT ME, WANT ME made it to a Christmas special.

All I want for Christmaaaaaaaaaaaas is la la poppin coochie.

Though, I didn't hate the arrangement.

I think we're mostly bothered with how you've got all these perfectly vague defenses for every criticism of Ayu, but Namie is like this untouchable screw up who you have some unique insight into because of her answer to an interview question that you took out of context.

Might be just me, but like, we've all watched people come onto AHS and try to argue that the Milky Way is held together by their favorite singer. And then just walk away saying, "Well, you're not going to change my opinion that blue candles can blow themselves out because Ayu did it in the momentum PV." It's really typical stan stuff. (Hell, I've done this myself.)

I think we all made really reasonable points to you about Namie being a performer and artist in her own right. Maybe you just weren't much of a fan in the first place, and your interpretation of her answer to that interview question made you throw down your Cinnamon Toast Crunch and race to your computer to delete all your Namie MP3s? It's just a bit overblown. And maybe we should have just ignored it.

And to be fair, when you post long rants about how you've fallen out over an artist in that artist's thread, you're putting up a billboard advertisement for people to respond to... otherwise, you would've kept it to yourself, you know?

But we can drop it. I would just keep in mind that until a thread is actually locked or the other people stop responding, you should really not be the one asking for the conversation to be over. Because, again, we didn't bring this topic up for discussion.

Hope has been made available for online purchase starting from yesterday onwards

http://namieamuro.jp/news/2018/20180211_hopeinfo2/

Finally has not been made available online for sale & I think it will cross the 2.1 million mark this week , physical sales wise

It’s been a while since we’ve seen those numbers for a solo artist. So happy namie can still pull it off.

Me :D

AAAAHHHHH

Let's go together! You, me, and the other person who answer my question! Hahaha I really wanna go with someone haha even if we end up far inside the dome xD we could go a karaoke before of after

Oh, actually I'll be at her May 5th concert as well.

Promo in Hong Kong

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVp-KFVV...jpg&name=small

https://twitter.com/FoonJJ_MUFC/stat...20208751460353

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVl8TIqV...jpg&name=small

https://twitter.com/FoonJJ_MUFC/stat...36709821775872

I NEED TICKET DETAILS THIS WEEK FOR THE SUNDAY SHOWWW when are they gonna let us know?

I’ll be going to Japan this March and I can’t freaking believe that I don’t have the
opportunity to see her live not even once!!!! Her tickets seemed so impossible to get!

Goods video. Venue specific patches.some commemorative plate things.

Having unable to secure tickets for namie's final tour, does anyone know if its worth visiting the venue to see if there are last minute selling of tickets sold legitimately?

There's a small possibility provided if anyone post details online but seeing that Namie's tickets are sold digitally , I don't know if it's possible

namie amuro Final Tour 2018 ~Finally~ concert goods sale times have been released

【Aichi , Nagoya Dome】
・2月16日(金) 13:00～20:00 ; concert not taking place on this day just sale of goods only
・2月17日(土) 10:00～
・2月18日(日) 10:00～

【Fukuoka , Fukuoka Yahuoku! Dome 】
・2月23日(金) 13:00～20:00 ; concert not taking place on this day just sale of goods only
・2月24日(土) 10:00～
・2月25日(日) 10:00～
・2月27日(火) 11:00～

http://namieamuro.jp/news/2018/20180213_tourgoodsinfo/

Also purchase of namie amuro Final Tour 2018 ~Finally~ concert goods will include a shopping bag with a randomly allocated design on it , there're 11 different designs made available

For now there're no goods restriction on how many you can buy per item but that might change . Also I assume they accept credit card payment (10,000 Yen & above ?) if not best to pay the exact amount in cash as the queue will be very long

Not sure if sale of concert goods will be sold after the concert(s) sell well :confused

And Finally has suppressed 2.1 million in physical CD sales

http://tieba.baidu.com/p/5551002708

Would anyone going to the concert be willing to grab a few goods for me and I will gladly pay???

Has anyone actually received the tickets? LOL

I just finished converting Hirai Ken's Ken’s Bar 2017 X’mas Special !! .ts file to .mp4

Ken's cover of Namie's WANT ME, WANT ME is quite funny but he nailed it

He was rooted to his bar stool chair & luckily in a way he didn't dance cos he looks awkward doing so but the hand movements Ken did while singing WANT ME, WANT ME was amusing :laugh

Tickets for Shenzhen (March 17th & 18th)
https://en.damai.cn/event/tickets_142265/
https://www.qupiaowang.com/Ticket/Index/6122.html

Tickets for HK (March 30th & 31st)
https://ticket.urbtix.hk/internet/eventDetail/34895

Tickets for Taipei (May 19th & 20th) will be on sale starting from February 28th.
http://www.arena.taipei/ct.asp?xItem...2590&mp=12203a
https://tixcraft.com/activity/detail/2018_namie

Anyone who is going for the Nagoya trip received their QR codes already? concert is in 2-3 days and I personally havent received ANYTHING

Have you checked your ticketboard account? If I remember from the past, your tickets are housed in one of the subsections of your account there, but one would think that they would have informed you via email that they were ready.

btw, since you are going to Nagoya it would be helpful to get a report from you afterward! Especially concerning how inflexible or not they were regarding checking people's ID's against the tickets. I've got a few Tokyo tickets that I would like to be able to give to some friends, but am at a loss for how to do that.

And totally different, but I just completely missed the whole Namie interview drama. I think orbitalaspect and voltron pretty much nailed it, but here is my condensed two cents.

All of what she said in the interview made total sense in context with her career and was pretty much what I suspected; nothing new. Also, many people seem to forget that her career did not begin when she signed to Avex; she was performing semi-professionally before she was even a teenager. That screams more parental pressure than actually choosing it for yourself.

There has also been a strong rumor that she got locked into a 20 year contract with Avex when she was a young teen; a lot of things sound great at that age that you then regret later on, hence her possible lack of passion regarding her career at times. It also would have been completely fitting for her to "retire" at 20 when she got married and pregnant, many many female japanese stars have been lost to that, but she stayed; that points to either A) that 20 year contract OR that maybe she does have more passion for what she was doing than you think.

All in all, I just completely disagree with the interpretation of that interview that started this drama.

https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/special_...25th/amuro/vr/