[Andrenekoi]

^I never said Namie's popularity is exclusively because of the nostalgia. If that was the case she would be singing her TK era songs at any oportunity she had, and if I respect her for something, is for focusing on her new material. And I'm not undermining Namie's archiviements, I'm stating a pretty clear fact: Namie's material isn't complex or deep and 99% of the time it's the safest opition possible. Is this a objectively bad thing? Nope, she is not under any obligation of releasing anything creative.

But she went to the same process I described... Had a huge peak, became a symbol from a decade, had a low period (and really, the jokes and coments I read about Namie back them on the jpop fandom weren't much different from the ones people constantly make about Ayu now), had another peak, that is ending to most likely start another low. Anyone who stays around long enough will go through that.

And guess what? She peaked during the 90's, went down during the 2000's and got up during the 2010's, a time when the 90's are trendy.