If you want to get to like her, I don't think it's exactly a good thing to just pick 3 albums and listen to them once and have a veredict. I disagree with a few people who said you "shouldn't try to lenjoy her just because she's popular". Of course, you shouldn't be pushging yourself to like everything else other people like, but that can be fun if oyu actually feel like you could try working that out, without forccing yourself. I believe one of the facts you are doing this is because you can't get why people exactly like her music and maybe who knows you might even have some sort of guilty pleasure with her, so you want to find exactly in yourself where can you get that good feeling that her fans do when listening to her music...it happens and can be fun! Well, some things can be an acquired taste. I used not to like Namie as much either, but after doing a bit of self questioning why, I started giving second chances to her and now I enjoy her music. The best example of this happened to me with Mika Nakashima. I coudn't understand how she was popular and why people liked those "boring and annoying" songs. I then picked an album in which I liked only one song, and then started to let it just play. In a couple of days, she started to become one of my favorite japasnese artists. The majority of those songs grew on me, and osme of them became much more pleasurable than the ones I liked better previously. I started to see the diversity in her, and she actually made me get interested into other japanese songs that had other genres other than JPOP. I even started to appreciate jazz, which I didn't previously. Nowadays, I'm thankful that I gave mika second chances because I personally feel I'd have missed a good part of waht japanese music could offer me to enjoy.
My advice is, if you pick an album, listen to that song you enjoy most, and then couple it with a few others you enjoy moderately, but doesn't hate. It's possible that your favorite songs might actually shift, and the one you found so awesome, become a little bland and some other you thought were mediocre can become really enjoyable.
It's like getting to enjoy eating vegetables after you've grown hating them. It happens, and it can be a cool experience
