umm...:grumpy why did the photographer have to take a pic from this position >_<

I don't like the scans of popteen!
Her hairstyle isn't good! It's awful

Eh? What's so bad about it?

^ Yeah and Ayu's hairstyle in your sig is so much better? o_O I don't see how people can think that hairstyle is awful. She can totally pull off the rockstar look. I think it has a lot to do with her face shape too.

lolz
oh really?
now i know why alot of ayu fan dont like DO ME MORE vid ^___^
It seem like they only like something GIRLY CUTTIE OVER-WOMANLY

There's nothing wrong with girly cute! As long as it isn't overdone and they aren't trying too hard. Case in point: NEW LOOK and WoWa. ^_^

^ WoWa should burn.

I'll pretend you didn't just say such a thing.

Anyway, looks like Namie has added even MORE dates to her tour:

2009/04/05 - Nagano M-WAVE Olympic Memorial Arena
2009/04/06 - Nagano M-WAVE Olympic Memorial Arena
2009/04/10 - Okayama Sougou Bunka Taiikukan
2009/04/11 - Okayama Sougou Bunka Taiikukan
2009/04/18 - Mie Prefectural Sun Arena
2009/04/28 - Yoyogi National Gymnasium
2009/04/29 - Yoyogi National Gymnasium
2009/05/09 - Green Dome Maebashi
2009/05/16 - B-Con Plaza Convention Hall
2009/05/17 - B-Con Plaza Convention Hall
2009/05/23 - Nihon Gaichi Hall (Aichi)
2009/05/24 - Nihon Gaichi Hall (Aichi)
2009/05/30 - Morioka Ice Arena
2009/05/31 - Morioka Ice Arena

8 months of touring wtf

oh just her armpit, just look weird to me~

hmm i love the Do Me More PV <3 just..i still don't get the goat heads?

They're horse heads, not goat heads. :P

I meant if I had that much hair ^^; Oops! My hair doesn't grow very well at all D:

is the new VS CM coming soon? wonder if it will it tie-in with a new Namie song?

Wow, those were some neat scans. I like the hairstyles, although I think she looks a tad bit pale. Perhaps the blonde color was it, or the makeup.

I was referring to WoWa's over girliness in the PV.

@jbrat
Thanks for clearing up what you meant.
Looking at your sig, I remembered I need to preorder something.

Dang that is a long arse tour! GO NAMIE! I can't wait to see it but its like forever until we get to!

maybe she lost a lot of money in the recent stock market meltdown so she's adding more shows :P

so, we'll be getting the DVD (and hopefully BD) only after June'09 :thud

http://bk.pps.tv/ct100025480/moreimage/5.html

oh what magazine and issue is this picture from?

8 months?! Namie is a touring queen. Someone said she might have a total audience more than ever in her whole career

i use google and found this :

[2006-05] WOOFIN' Girl
http://www.namieamuro.net/gallery/th...s.php?album=20

^ That's my number one fave Namie shoot.

Yes, it's my favorite shoot too.
:hi5

Yes, it's my favorite shoot too.
:hi5

my d/load speeds to MF is super-slow these past few days, can anyone d/load the new perf at wespai and upload to another mirror?

haha, yet another NL perf :P

^ The ts one or the mpg one?

oo thanks! i love this photoshoot~ so sexy :yes

its alright. my ISP should be back to normal next week (after the fix the undersea cables). in the mean time i found the perf in HQ on youtube, where my speed is still decent. thanks anyway.

Namie's new "look" for this perf is kinda weird :P one more perf tonight on CDTV? happy new year to Namie.

Happy New Year to everybody.

Thanks for letting me know you're okay on the performance.

I actually loved that performance of New Look this time it seemed stronger and louder to me but Idk but I really loved it this time over all the other ones for some reason.

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/2...p233293gk6.jpg
http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/8...p234542dy7.jpg

Best pf of NL so far! <3

Natsumi and Hiromi is looking increasingly beautiful. i wonder how does the 5th (new?) female dancer of her Tour looks like?

how many times she want tpo perform NL... i'm a little it sick about it :( cmon, where's do me more as well as what a feeling??

In her tour concert
She wanna play Hide n Seek

^haha, NL is the new CYC - she'll most probably perf it alot for the rest of her career. i was hoping for white boots+RS perf myself (even though it is the least popular of her '08 songs)

i just realized something, if she never gonna sing any TK songs ever again, does that means no more teary-eyes perf? :(

waiiiit she will never perform TK songs again? :weep I'm sure the blacklisting of his songs will be lifted eventually, a majority of his songs are some of the highest selling singles in jp ever. It's not like they can pretend they never existed :yes

I just hope she is able to sing them during her next tour...

^can try http://www.youtube.com/namieken and http://wespai.com/namie.

maybe some of them will sing TK songs in the future by removing TK's backup vocals first, LoL

actually i just watched globe decade DVD recently and really enthralled by their perf ....

This is terribly off-topic

but is it ture that Namie had the flu while recording the song "HimWArI" for "break the rules"?

^not sure, but that's what someone typed up in the Love_Enhanced wikipedia entry. maybe she just wish to re-sing the song, i can't really tell the difference between the 2 versions anyway.

Yep that's true, she did say that in some interview but i lost the interview n cant remember what interview it was
Anyway acougan, how couldnt u find the difference between 2 version?
Break the Rules version was baddddddddd, her vocal is so so so thin
while HimAWArI of LE has a perfect as well as her current vocal!
I always skip the BtR version while playing the album. One more thing, LE also marked HimAWArI as New Vocal in the back cover



Btw HAPPIE NEW YEAR guyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
May the best things come 2 us on 2009 as well as our beloved/single mom NAMIE!

ya himAWAri is one of my favourite song from namie. the song is calm, emotional, and gentle. i love LE version more, the voice is much much clearer while BtR version sounds like... really in flu

Namie really added the fruityness that NEW LOOK needs when it is being performed. Nice, Namie.

Of course I bet she will perform it tonight too. Lolz. It's the number 1 hit of the year (for her), so don't complain.

EDIT: Happy new year. 2008 shall be forever known as the year of Namie. Let's hope she kicks ass next year too!

http://i42.tinypic.com/6gdkk0.gif

arerere~

^nice gif

haha, so she did perf part of RS :) no white boots though and all her tattoos are covered, maybe the stage was very cold? :P

Happy New Year fellow Namie fans! <3

Thanks, I thought it would be fitting not to mention lulzy.

The CDTV performance was FIERCE, really. There's nothing more to say. Just see it for yourself:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8UCSvWFb39M

NAMIE the energizer bunny y/y?

great performance! i saw medley but i didnt expect 60s70s80s even though i SHould have!
love her slick arm movements a lot...very nice!

:laugh That gif is awesome.
From what show is it?

I loved that whole performance!
At the end of NL when her eyes closed and went straight to the ground looked a little weird but cute. And she gave a winky hehe.

Finally I get to hear RS and WAF live. Force! and Force!

the CDTV performance is awesome!
I love the outfits :luv2 She did look tired though.

Namie looked so scared holding the firework. :D

http://wespai.com/namie/?p=1023



NOTE: the video is slightly off-sync

it's cute that she & TK were dressed so similar! 11 years later, she is again dressed in black-&-white for the award show :P

wow.. love the poster!! ♥

^since you mentioned that, yeah, i feel it sometimes too!

isnt it weird namie to sing a higher key for some song like shine more, and a lower key for pink key in concerts? its weird, shine more is fine but pink key would be weird

i'm getting sick of 60s70s80s :(
me want some new songs >.<"

^ I second that

I wonder what genre she'll try next... I know some people are hoping for a ballad... ew ><;

i want something like WANT ME, WANT ME

How many times can she pop her coochie? xD

I would like a ballad too, but I think she plays it safe with her upbeat songs and keeps ballads for the albums.

she won't release anything cos she's too shy to promote a new single during her concert MC sections, LoL

me too :yes

or something like SO CRAZY or something :>

some clips of '06 tour fan-captured from the upper right aisle

^ Hope that person can also capture some BEST FICTION TOUR for us! :P

Absolutely ;)

Something "shocking" yet really really good. I think WANT ME WANT ME was the last song that made me go "oO????? What the... this song is great <_<!!!!!"

WANT ME, WANT ME was ferocious <3 I want another song like that

POP MORE COOCHIE GURL!~

and it was the song that got me into Namie C:

MICHICO always have good taste - and i really like her as BG vocal.


for those who are curious abt MICHICO after listening to her for so long:



EDIT: speaking of BG vocal, can also check out Hiromi (she sings BG for some Nao'ymt produced PLAY songs)

http://www.myspace.com/hiromisrainbow

^ I cannot hear Michico for **** in the bg vocals. I can't tell anything apart from Namie. But if someone could tell me where you can hear her voice in a song that would be great. Also, is that the same WARNER who choregraphed videos for Namie like SO CRAZY and Put 'Em Up?

MICHICO should be the one with better sounding Engrish in the B/G - LoL. the most obvious song will be CSCEIS with some random rapper dude in the B/G

i think Warner the choreographer is different from this Warner. i think Warner the choreographer appeared in the Making of EYU (i could be mistaken)

MICHICO sounds good and alone I can tell she complements Namie's voice well. If Ayu would do the same, soem songs wouldn't be ruined *EndoftheWorld*
Listening to CSCEIS now and wow, she blends in real well.

WANT ME WANT ME was so great because it was so different (imo) from what she had done before. The dancing and the water in the music video, that stuff made it simple but enjoyable. =] But her hair was yucky. o_O

I would like something like WANT ME WANT ME with the title like "Do me more".

Maybe something like "Sit Top On You", "Come so Fast", "Take it slow".
Title sounds nasty but has another meaning. Lovely!

I want her to do something similar to her 181920 days :spazzed :love

Here's the February cover of Sweet:

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/n...2009/cover.jpg

^ Good luck wishing that.

Haha...

Wow, I'll have to look out for michico next time then. She does seem to compliment Namie well.

Namie has that "**** me" sort of look in WMWM. It's one of my favorites.

WMWM = the first song + video that introduced me to Namie, no joke. Back then, I didn't really give Namie that much of a chance since I was obsessed with Ayumi (lol srry). I find it funny how some of the melody was copied for a Bollywood theme song LOL! But it makes sense, seeing as how it uses the traditional instruments used Bollywood theme songs. Middle Eastern music/instruments = loooooove

Wow she looks great O_O;;;;;

:weep
I'm interested to see if she changes style though, in the past her releasing a best of album marked a change of style so...!

That WARNER in the PV is the WARNER that choreographed "Uh Uh,,,", shine more, Put 'Em Up, SO CRAZY and ALARM etc...

I saw him in the making of 'Put Em Up' PV and as a dancer for Hikki Bohemian 2000 concert. No idea he became a part-time singer :P ... >_<

The choreographer of EYU (I assume is BoA's Eat You Up) is an white-american..

I don't think she'll stop doing R&B. Besides, she seperated from Tetsuya Komuro a long time ago, so yeah. And the sound is too "dated" now, as much as I love her old music. :/ I suppose that's what makes her older music so special. "Dreaming I Was Dreaming" is, wow. Amazing. :) One of my favorite slow songs from her.

WARNER is an awesome choreographer. Kind of good-looking too. He had said that Namie is on the same level as her back-up dancers when it comes to learning the choreography and that she has a really fast memory.

I love the cover!
It's been a while since we have seen scans of her, isn't it? I can't wait to see the scans.

I want smth new from Namie... :( A new single maybe... I know she won't release anything till her tour is over :/

I would die for another Dreaming I was Dreaming @_@ I don't really think she will stop doing R&B either but I think she will branch out and do a bit more genres now. Like how Style, QOH, and Play were pretty much strictly R&B but with 60s70s80s we got such a great mix. The last time she had a pop song as a single was like Say The Word?

As much as I love 181920 style Namie, there's no way she'd go back to that. I love her current direction, though, too. :D

tbh, my opinion about Dreaming I Was Dreaming is that it is a boring song (MY OPINION).
I really love GO!GO! Yume no Hayase de and Body Feels EXIT! :luv2

She should release another STYLE like album. STYLE was a great album IMO.

^ GO!GO! Yume no Hayase de is my favorite song from Dance Tracks :heart Body is one of my favorites from Sweet 19 Blues too~

I don't expect her to release like a pure eurobeat song again LOL but just something that sounds similar to her olden days but modern at the same time :)

OMG, AyuHamsaki01! So many people disagree me in saying STYLE is a great album. So nice to meet someone who thinks the same thing.

Body Feels Exit, Chase the Chance, I HAVE NEVER SEEN, LOVE 2000. I would so die if she did something remotely close to any these. :luv2

i also agree that STYLE is her best album :yes

thanks for correcting me. so Warner the choreographer and Warner the hip-hop singer of GS is one and the same - LoL. and LL Brothers were her "darlings" rapping in "My Darling" - that song is really fun as a performance!

STYLE is a very nice album to listen to similar to G2000. i feel her subsequent albums, including BF are more geared towards performance and showmanship.

great cover

STYLE is the album that made me a Namie Amuro fan. :D

I like how it encompasses a variety of styles and still manages to flow so well.

It's one of my favourite Namie albums along with PLAY and break the rules.