[Namie Amuro] The day has become brighter in Namie Amuro's 84th thread! (❀◦‿◦)

[Zeke.]

I appreciate the soft, mellow and subtle enchantment of the Christmas season this piece is able to convey. It's extremely warm and has a silky smooth beauty to it.

Personally, I don't consider myself a Namie fan. I hate all the shit everyone else worships. But the songs I love by her, I truly do adore. This song excels at creating an environment, where as everything else she tends to release fails to transport me anywhere special.

Her milky vocals in White Light are also a bit reminiscent of "Come", which was the first track I ever heard by her. It was dreamy, velvety and remains unique amongst the rest of her otherwise mundane discography of empty copycat tracks.

[RikkuK]

Originally Posted by Zeke.

I appreciate the soft, mellow and subtle enchantment of the Christmas season this piece is able to convey. It's extremely warm and has a silky smooth beauty to it.

Personally, I don't consider myself a Namie fan. I hate all the shit everyone else worships. But the songs I love by her, I truly do adore. This song excels at creating an environment, where as everything else she tends to release fails to transport me anywhere special.

Her milky vocals in White Light are also a bit reminiscent of "Come", which was the first track I ever heard by her. It was dreamy, velvety and remains unique amongst the rest of her otherwise mundane discography of empty copycat tracks.

And my backhanded koda kumi compliments get me flagged. PSH NEXT.

Originally Posted by Delicious n Bold

I'm jamming to White Light atm. Namie's best song obviously. If Namie embodied death, she's outdead herself here. She's never sounded more dead and bored during a very happy time. How could you not like Namie sounding bored over some smooth beats. Merry Deadmas Everyone! Jingle Bells Linging~

LOOOL

[NintendoHTF1242]

Originally Posted by Zeke.

I appreciate the soft, mellow and subtle enchantment of the Christmas season this piece is able to convey. It's extremely warm and has a silky smooth beauty to it.

Personally, I don't consider myself a Namie fan. I hate all the shit everyone else worships. But the songs I love by her, I truly do adore. This song excels at creating an environment, where as everything else she tends to release fails to transport me anywhere special.

Her milky vocals in White Light are also a bit reminiscent of "Come", which was the first track I ever heard by her. It was dreamy, velvety and remains unique amongst the rest of her otherwise mundane discography of empty copycat tracks.

Stardust In My Eyes doesn't create an atmosphere for you? Prayin' 4 u bb.

[Tom Punks]

Stardust In My Eyes is like really really fucking loud lol.

[Rocky Raven]

Originally Posted by Zeke.

I appreciate the soft, mellow and subtle enchantment of the Christmas season this piece is able to convey. It's extremely warm and has a silky smooth beauty to it.

Personally, I don't consider myself a Namie fan. I hate all the shit everyone else worships. But the songs I love by her, I truly do adore. This song excels at creating an environment, where as everything else she tends to release fails to transport me anywhere special.

Her milky vocals in White Light are also a bit reminiscent of "Come", which was the first track I ever heard by her. It was dreamy, velvety and remains unique amongst the rest of her otherwise mundane discography of empty copycat tracks.

I'm glad Namie didn't follow your standard of uniqueness.

[Zahara]

You all sharks and out for Zeke's blood.

This isn't shark week yo.

[Delicious n Bold]

Poor Zeke. But I think he's right. It's not like most of Namie's songs actually create any atmosphere. It's just hot dance/pop music. You don't listen to namie for 'emotion' I think. You listen to her because she sounds hot and miserable. However, stardurst in my eyes is like one of the most atmospheric songs she's done. Oh and Alive. Namie really showed she could feel on Feel.

[Heavenly]

Don't forget Beautiful... This leftover from FEEL could slay any ballad she made so far.

[UHPlus]

Originally Posted by Heavenly

Don't forget Beautiful... This leftover from FEEL could slay any ballad she made so far.

Everyone forgotten about this sad sad winter ballad...
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v...type=3&theater

[Toniayu123]

I consider myself a Namie's fan, but I have to agree that I don't listen to her music because I "feel" it, I simply like it, and that's the difference I see between Ayu's and Namie's music, the feelings.
Speaking about ballads, I think Namie has done pretty good ones, and I WILL is one of them

[orangeakira]

The ballad version of Contrail really brought out a whole new level of emotion that I didn't hear in the original song. Especially since (it sounds like) she resung the vocals. Those lyrics really felt like they meant something.

However. that aside. I consider Namie Amuro one of my favorite female Jpop artists. I would even go as far as to put her in my top 5. But I don't listen to her for the emotion and passion that I hear in utada or Ayu. She doesn't compose, arrange, play any instruments, sing all her own backup vocals, write lyrics. She really doesn't help out with the music.

[Minttulatte]

Lololololol, Namie's ballads has no emotion? Oh god, it was a ballad that got me interested in her music in the first place! You can't assume all people became her fans because of her dance songs. I was drawn to her by her ballad called Baby Don't Cry. And that song made me cry because of the atmosphere and the emotion it has. I can't believe some of you "fans" say that people like her only because of her sexy dance songs. That's just bullshit and makes me wanna puke. You need to stop comparing singers to Ayu and hate on them because they don't have as much as emotion in their songs as Ayu does. All singers are different, and that's how it's supposed to be. That's all I want to say. >_>

[Tom Punks]

Originally Posted by orangeakira

The ballad version of Contrail really brought out a whole new level of emotion that I didn't hear in the original song. Especially since (it sounds like) she resung the vocals. Those lyrics really felt like they meant something.

However. that aside. I consider Namie Amuro one of my favorite female Jpop artists. I would even go as far as to put her in my top 5. But I don't listen to her for the emotion and passion that I hear in utada or Ayu. She doesn't compose, arrange, play any instruments, sing all her own backup vocals, write lyrics. She really doesn't help out with the music.

Yeah, it's kinda impossible to take her seriously as a literal musician/artist when all she does is pick songs and put her vocals on them and look dead in PVs. I am a fan but I do agree with Zeke it's mostly copycat stuff and there's nothing really original about her. That's why I've never really understood how people can totally stan for her because she has like no charisma and no unique qualities??? I mean I like her and all but it just puzzles me when she's like someone's #1 diva because I just don't get why other than the fact that she has by far the best visual production quality among the jpop divas now.

[tenshi no hane]

Singers can still put passion in their songs even if they don't help write it etc. I mean, a singer's voice is (one of the) important things to make a song really hit home. You can have great lyrics but if the voice sucks, it's not going to come across.

Not everyone has the talent to compose and arrange. Being able to acknowledge that, leaving it to the professionals and just sticking to singing is also a strength. She's a singer. Composing, writing lyrics etc are just extras. It's not fair to call her out on not doing those things imo.

[Delicious n Bold]

At times she's not a very good singer but I really like the songs she does sing overall. She may not have any involvement in her music and that comes across as being more of a karaoke singer but she does a good job. I still like her but I never considered her a real artist tbh. Just a (karaoke) singer mostly. But that's not a bad thing, it never really was.

[thinkingoutloud89]

Hu? Namie is just a lovely person and a greta performer. And who said she has no involvement? She said she would never sing a song she can't picture a PV/live peroformance with. Morover, she wrote lyrics like I WILL which is one of her best ballads, yet she said she feel like no one wants to read her lyrics (probably because she is such a shy person), but she is not like "okay, write these lyrics for me". She is involved in her writing most of the time, she just doesnt take credit because she probably just giving directions and hints.

edir: karaoke singer? Have you ever tried to singa n original song. She is in the industry for decades now. she is probably standng in the studio and is like "okay, we have to sing that part here...make this longer..".and so on and so forth. She never came across as someone that is not involved in her music.

She made the strongest transition in Jpop ever and it was all her own decicion - she created her own image and that is something most other divas lack: the courage to take risk. I beg your pardon, but move aside - Namie is coming.

[Rocky Raven]

Originally Posted by Tom Punks

Yeah, it's kinda impossible to take her seriously as a literal musician/artist when all she does is pick songs and put her vocals on them and look dead in PVs. I am a fan but I do agree with Zeke it's mostly copycat stuff and there's nothing really original about her. That's why I've never really understood how people can totally stan for her because she has like no charisma and no unique qualities??? I mean I like her and all but it just puzzles me when she's like someone's #1 diva because I just don't get why other than the fact that she has by far the best visual production quality among the jpop divas now.

In 2003, all the magazines in my country Vietnam wrote about Ayu as the Goddess of Jpop. They mentioned Name Amuro's name as the loser who lost her own throne to Ayu, yes, they wrote it frankly that way.
Right away, I searched for information about Namie to see who's that unlucky singer. And since that moment I've become her biggest fan. Namie's so western and so unique when you place her beside Ayu and her over typical-chessy-lovely-Japnese kawaii-storyline videos.
2003 was the year of greatest music, Linkin Park released 'Meteora', Evanescence released 'Fallen', Madonna released 'American Life' and Namie released 'Style'.
At that time, Namie & her Japanese music was so so different comparing to other Japanese singers that I felt like I'd finally found the greatest Asian female artist, so cool in music and stylish in image without being Asian-typed chessy. And I hated to follow common taste, so when ppl around me talking about Ayumi, I just silently trusted in Namie because I had a strong feeling that the artist who sang Put'em Up,Shine More,So Crazy & Alarm could never be a loser in the next ten years, because people would grow up and get cooler with their music tastes, they would be less tacky over time.
And thankfully, ever since then Namie's get cooler and more successful with her own unique & signature look: Boots & Skirts.
So I've been following Namie b/c she's so stylish yet still always stick with her own image, looking at her u can see how you changed over time but still be yourself. She's the kind of artist that I always proudly introduce to people around me.

[mi|kshake]

Originally Posted by tenshi no hane

Singers can still put passion in their songs even if they don't help write it etc. I mean, a singer's voice is (one of the) important things to make a song really hit home. You can have great lyrics but if the voice sucks, it's not going to come across.

Not everyone has the talent to compose and arrange. Being able to acknowledge that, leaving it to the professionals and just sticking to singing is also a strength. She's a singer. Composing, writing lyrics etc are just extras. It's not fair to call her out on not doing those things imo.

I agree! Just because she doesn't do all these things doesn't mean that she has no passion for music.

I need to listen to Ballada again - one of my favourite Namie albums even if I do own all her studio albums!

[Delicious n Bold]

Originally Posted by thinkingoutloud89

Hu? Namie is just a lovely person and a greta performer. And who said she has no involvement? She said she would never sing a song she can't picture a PV/live peroformance with. Morover, she wrote lyrics like I WILL which is one of her best ballads, yet she said she feel like no one wants to read her lyrics (probably because she is such a shy person), but she is not like "okay, write these lyrics for me". She is involved in her writing most of the time, she just doesnt take credit because she probably just giving directions and hints.

edir: karaoke singer? Have you ever tried to singa n original song. She is in the industry for decades now. she is probably standng in the studio and is like "okay, we have to sing that part here...make this longer..".and so on and so forth. She never came across as someone that is not involved in her music.

She made the strongest transition in Jpop ever and it was all her own decicion - she created her own image and that is something most other divas lack: the courage to take risk. I beg your pardon, but move aside - Namie is coming.

I think that image and actually singing are two different things. I'm just going by the definition of a karaoke singer, one who sings somebody else's songs. I agree with what you said in most places and I'll meet you halfway. She's a karaoke singer who knows what she wants.

[JackieRos]

With her amazing dance and vocal talent, I don't care if she writes her lyrics.
Ayumi can not dance but can write amazing lyrics and her voice is amazing.

Each singer has their own way of being amazing.