[Namie Amuro] GROTESQUE. the 82nd thread

[Ayu_desu]

I am really excited for this release! I've been hoping for new vocals to CAN YOU CELEBRATE? and Sweet 19 Blues for long long time and now we'll be getting them!

Also excited for new PVs for the old songs! I've always thought this concept would be awesome to be act upon, but not realistic. However, it works great for a best album! I also love the covers and the hat.

[~StarCatcher~]

Yay I am excited for a new Namie best album ♥
new vocals and new PVs and a Contrail ballad version are great.

[freedreamer]

need this in my life!!! CAN YOU CELEBRATE 2014 OMG..
and the CM is fantastic..I was stunned

[AyuHamasaki01]

That CM was perfect.

[& + H]

The cm caught me off guard, I was like how did her hair grow so fast from her shot hair.
And then I was like ugh duh!! cm blew me away

[ladyluthien]

Yeeeessssh!!! The covers will have to grow on me, but I had a feeling after that favorite ballads survey we might have been getting a compilation of sorts. New vocals and new PVs!!! Where can I preorder?!?!? I needs it now!!!!!!!

EDIT: Just preordered the CD+Blu-ray version! Yay!

[Benikari47]

New picture for her UNTITLED campaign, she looks stunning!

[marty]

Originally Posted by Benikari47

New picture for her UNTITLED campaign, she looks stunning!

I love her sweet expressions, and she looks like she's feeling something for a change, lol (also, hair porn everywhere).

[~StarCatcher~]

The covers could be something different for a ballad best album imo.
I think she totally has the same look like Kumi had last year for her Dreaming Now! covers.
The eye make-up, the hat and the hair everything looks like it and when I first saw the pics I thought it was Kumi :-D

[NintendoHTF1242]

Contrail ballad version I'm legit crying

and omg she's including I WILL still crying

Is there anything special that comes with the CD+DVD/CD+Blu-ray? If not, I'm just going to pre-order the CD version.

[Rocky Raven]

Originally Posted by NintendoHTF1242

Contrail ballad version I'm legit crying

and omg she's including I WILL still crying

Is there anything special that comes with the CD+DVD/CD+Blu-ray? If not, I'm just going to pre-order the CD version.

Can You Celebrate (2014 MV), Sweet 19 Blues (2014 MV), Four Seasons & HimAWArI MV

Gosh, it would be a waste to buy CD only. I mean, seriously!

[Beauty4123]

I love that new UNTITLED picture! Namie's so pretty.

[Heavenly]

I really love the visuals of this album, and the title BALLADA sounds really beautiful to my ears
Even though I don't know all of these songs, I think I will preorder this album (CD+DVD) and re-discover pre-2008 Namie Amuro

EDIT : If she's gonna release a 2014 version of Can you celebrate?, she will slay everybody this year in terms of sales !

[Yumsushi]

The CM is really clever, but the album name is a little silly (cause it will be pronounced Barrada by the Japanese which means "he got cold" in Arabic lol). Either way thank god she's re-singing Can you celebrate. I have never been able to sit through the original song cause her voice was atrocious back then.

[TeamAyu2004]

i really liked the CM and cant wait to get this on blu-ray!!
Cant wait to get back to japan!

[prussian blue]

^She looks like she's going to have a duck face, and the photographer immediately press the shutter

[marty]

Originally Posted by prussian blue

^She looks like she's going to have a duck face, and the photographer immediately press the shutter

LOL
I just imagined the scene.

[tsumekaze_]

I hate to admit it but this is how you pull off a good marketing and a great best album. I'm impressed, hats off to namie. I wish ayu would do something like this.

[UHPlus]

Originally Posted by KLJames

ayu did that already in 2003 for "A BALLADS", that why they name the album as "Ballada" (haha just kd)

'Ballada' is how some European languages way of calling ballad. It has nothing to do with whatever 'A BALLADS' is...

http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballada

[orangeakira]

Originally Posted by UHPlus

It has nothing to do with whatever 'A BALLADS' is...

I'm pretty sure they were joking. Also A Ballads is Ayumi Hamasaki's only ballad-best compilation album released in 2003. It features some original mixes of her best ballads (such as dearest and hanabi), it has some new mixes of songs, a new song (rainbow which wasn't released on it's respective album), and a cover of a song originally by yumi matsutoya.