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Subtitled news report on NEWS ZERO -broadcast date Oct. 2nd- related to Finally (song + best), her 25th live anniversary concert in Okinawa, and her retirement overall if someone is interested (download only, no streaming): https://winkychan.dreamwidth.org/112146.html

Transcript (parts about Finally -the song- only):

MC 1: In tonight's ZERO CULTURE, we went to interview Amuro-san, what kind of feelings did she put into the song "Finally" ?

Voiceover: What kind of feelings were put into the ZERO theme song ? Last month, Amuro-san told us this at the location for the closing part of the live.
Namie: What sort of song should be presented, I thought about this a bit, but somehow, among the songs to be released, there is a song which is a great tune and seems to fit the program, so this song is proposed.

Voiceover: Only 4 days after this live (25th anniversary live concert in Okinawa), Amuro-san announced her retirement on September 16th 2018, one year later. Next month, her best album compilation "Finally" compiling her great works among these 25 years will be released.
Meanwhile, Amuro-san's choice for ZERO's theme song was the same as the title of the album, "Finally".

Namie: Originally it was a bit sorrowful just listening to the song, while I was not drawn to such sorrowful part of the song, I wanted to make it a bit positive, a bright kind of song, comparatively, because there is such an image as well for the TV program, and for the direction of my lyrics. So the lyrics were also revised like this.

Voiceover: Amuro-san requested to revise the lyrics many times. Inside the lyrics, there was this expression: "To the bright future".

Namie: I want to sing something that is as bright and positive as possible. If it's sad and sorrowful, because somehow I will also be drawn to it, and I think it will be the case for the person listening to it as well, even for myself who is singing, somehow, I want it to be pleasantly bright.

Voiceover: To be positive, such thought is put into Finally.
(Finally plays) Finally I can stop dreaming / The day I've been wishing for has just started / Finally I can stop wishing / A black and white world is brushing with colors from this moment / A whole new story starts on this stage I am standing / I can be stronger because I have something to hold on to / Getting into an unknown world with the brilliant sunlight / Spreading my arms because I will accept your everything / To the bright future Finally

MC 2: The song "Finally" contains the lyrics "I can stop dreaming", not "I can't stop dreaming" but "I can stop dreaming", what feeling of hers is behind this lyrics, it is a song that is surprising to the audience. As seen in the VTR, Amuro-san asked for a revision of the lyrics, this is a song with lots of thoughts by Amuro-san, it is delightful to have this as the theme song.

MC 3: Right so. Finally, the ending of one thing is the start of another thing.