^ Wow, surprising. I h8 Max!

aww she look so happy

max wore that shirt for the a-nation party too....

she's adorable, and it looks like she had a great time :love

Lol it seems max has to get himself in every photo of every artist nowadays.. :laugh Namie looks great though :)

UHPlus: Geez I just said that's what I thought, but took it back as I realized that's not how it is.

^you know, i actually had the same first impression of namie. i always thought her voice was nice but kind of weak. :P

but when i got interested in her, i listened to some of her ballads and watched some performances and then i realized how great and strong her voice actually is lol.

HEY!HEY!HEY! SP 2009.09.21
 

Ranking on todays HEY!x3 SP. Voted by the viewers.

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/2450/hey90sp.jpg

1990年代 聴きたい曲 リクエスト TOP 10：

1. SMAP - Yozora no Mukou
2. Amuro Namie - CAN YOU CELEBRATE?
3. Kome Kome CLUB - Kimi ga Iru Dake de
4. DREAMS COME TRUE - LOVE LOVE LOVE
5. ZARD - Makenaide
6. Southern All Stars - Manatsu no Kajitsu
7. H Jungle With t - WOW WAR TONIGHT
8. Koizumi Kyoko - Anata ni Aete Yokatta
9. Oda Kazumasa - Love Story wa Totsuzen ni
10. Nakayama Miho & WANDS - Sekaijuu no Dare Yori Kitto

Source and complete top 50: http://wwwz.fujitv.co.jp/HEY/ranking_90.html

namie looks so adorable in the party! she looks really happy and delighted :luv2

Those are the cutest pictures ever! I love her smile. ♥

Such cute photos!

And Namie's dogs are so cute! :D

Can you tell us about the rest of the BEST non FICTION transration?

So her b-day was actually a pretty big deal, huh? Here I was thinking she was just gonna spend it at home..

..but Max seriously needs to stop showing up in all the pics now. WTF..

I love the b-day pics. She looks fab.

Namie's all perked!!! I think she has opened up so much so much..SO HAPPY FOR HER!!

well, i dont have the translation sheet, nor i understand the japanese, maybe you're referring to pommy?

At first I thought you were talking about Max as in her friends MAX and was like "ohnoyodidnt" for a second. But yeah, it actually annoys me how he's all praising her now just because of what she's accomplished for BEST FICTION. I bet he did not come to any of her birthday parties before. Idk he annoys me

Damn you're right, I don't know how I got you two mixed up!:mischief

Max is funny :D
I want her new album!:cry Having WILD & Dr. there is cool, but she might decide to release another single?

Oh I can translate BEST NON-FICTION, but can anyone give me a scan of the sheet? I only found two pages on wespai...and there should be more right?

Awwwwwww! She's so adorable!!!

Ahh! Please translate! :laugh

oh that is true, forgot about that, ok i'll work on that translation~

aw, i'm glad she had a wonderful birthday :yes.

Who is MAX? what is he famous for? someone please tell me more info :)

^ Max Matsuura is Namie's producer or something. He's Ayu's producer as well and is the CEO of avex trax.

Anyway Namie looks drunk in the pictures HAHAHA

EDIT: Okay I think it's better to say Max Matsuura is more of Namie's boss LOL.

http://i34.tinypic.com/2815zrn.jpg

all better
such a cutie. i :love her so much.

^ hahahahaha ye i agree she is such a cutie

Thanks Meat Pao for the info.

idk if this has been posted but i found this really cool mashup of wild. i really like it, but i wish they didn't alter her pitch.

still pretty cool though

:roflmao at Max's face being blanked out there xD

i don't wanna be mean or anything but max is just fug. why can't he be hot or cute? :(
well atleast he's rich...

anyway that wild x lady gaga mashup is pretty sexy :P

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'namie amuro BEST FICTION TOUR 2008-2009' DVD

Position: #1
2nd Week Sale: 33,620
Total: 188,180

I hope that it will reach at least 195k, if not, it's already been an amazing DVD sale from a female artist

I'm pretty sure it will reach AT LEAST 198k next week

hopefully 200k next week :P

Oh I'm sure that if you wake up and wish really hard to be hot or cute you will.

I'm happy that the man who leads Avex (and without him, there would be no Ayu, no Namie, no Koda, no Ai and a lot of artists more) is there because of his hard work and talent, and not because he is "hot". That was a real superficial comment on your side.

um, he's there because she's making him munny, so I mean...us being superficial towards him is sort of warranted, since he wouldn't give a crap about her otherwise.

That's really cool. thanks for posting.

Wow, :thud

not really, she doesnt say "oh, hes ugly! he should look better!" because hes the CEO of avex(CEOs are allowed to be ugly), but because he seems to appear in every single pic of a big artists birthday, and if you look...like Max...you should NOT try to be photogenic xD

lol okay.
i was just saying that because he keeps popping up on pictures. just look at ayumi's and koda kumi's a-nation party pics.
and i think the edited picture identity posted > the original :yes

i don't think BFT should have any trouble reaching 200k.
poor max. him appearing in a photo can make anyone look like a goddess.. not that namie or ayu need any help, but yeah :P

While I'm happy for the accomplishments Max made, really more credit would go to Tetsuya Komuro for "building" Avex. Namie came to fame just fine without Max. As far as I can tell Max really didn't become important until after Ayu hit it big.

This is correct, Tetsuya Komuro is the one who made Namie big-- Max Matsuura has absolutely nothing to do with it (not to be mean but people, please do research and get your facts straight). Also, I remember reading around the time of last year's a-nation that Namie helped build the foundation for the current Avex.

^ Well it wasn't just Namie, though she was a big part of it. Groups like TRF and GLOBE were absolutely huge for Avex as well and all of them were produced by Tetsuya Komuro. Avex had already been 'built' by the time that Ayumi and Max got there. :) But you could say that a second wave began after Ayu hit it big.

Yeah..you could say Tetsuya was the "Max" of the 90's.

No. Tetsuya was even more important. I think nobody in the Japanese music industry came CLOSE to TK. EVERYTHING he touched in the mid-90s become gigantic phenomenons: TRF, globe, Namie Amuro, Tomomi Kahala, Ami Suzuki, hitomi (in the beginning of her carreer). And he was not only a producer and a manager, but a huge celebrity himself. I remember seeing a list of the biggest tax payers in the entertainment business in Japan during a span of 20 years and he was, by far, the number 1 (and he was actually accused of tax evasion!).

Max Matsura is very successful but he is not a extremely influential and powerful brand. He is the president of a huge corporation which is not exactly what TK was in the 90s.

I would put him way above Max actually. If you look at the number of songs produced and often times written by Tetsuya it is amazing. There was hardly a week in the 90s where he didn't have a song somewhere in the top 10. He was ultimately responsible for the success of several different artists. Max on the other hand I would say his only real claim to fame has been Ayumi. You could even maybe say that Max just got really lucky with her since he hasn't really had a major success since. Plus Max is more of a manager type and Komuro was a song writer/producer.

edit: now I see that andre basically said the same. :)

everything TK touched in the 90s will sell like crazy :roflmao

love the 90s song! especially all the song from TK family, they are very nostalgic

I haven't got my copy of best fiction tour

it is 2 weeks since YA has sent it

:shakehead

i ordered my copy on sunday so i'm hoping that i'll get BFtour at the end of the week :)

BFT 2nd week
*1　*1　*33,620　188,180　**2　namie amuro BEST FICTION TOUR 2008-2009　安室奈美恵　　09/9/9

It's funny. Her BF DVD will sold more than her latest single WILD/Dr. :D

does TK still write/produce music?

i hope he reunites with Namie someday, just for 1 song or 1 performance. kind of like what he did with globe this summer.
because i really love Namie's older works. but i doubt it will happen lol

i think it's because even casual Namie listeners who normally don't buy her stuff even bought the BFT DVD. it's really the tour of the century :P

besides that. It's a single! So, she would release an album soon. They will put the singles on that album.
DVD's are somewhat memoriable and you can do more things with that: watching / listening...

Anyway, I think it's sadly that they photoshopped Namie so much. She is a really beautiful natural woman and lots of photoshopping makes her fake.
That's why I don't like the last covers. Well, the BEST FICTION for certain.

it's part of the "theme" or whatever, so there's an excuse. but i still don't like them (well at least the BF tour ones, the BF album ones were pretty)

His band globe should be getting back together since his legal issues are figured out (all their music is back up on iTunes) Wondered if their cancelled releases will be released. There popularity kind of died (they were *reallY* popular) but they still have their fanbase. I love globe, whether its pop/rock, or trance.

I still haven't watched this concert. I gotta download the torrent version as soon as possible and watch it. If it's good as I believe it is, I may actually buy it for a change. :D

I ordered it as a blu-ray.

BUT its at customs until next week=(

Namie sells so well with that DVD. ^__^

I really like the covers of the album and the tour DVD :yes I think it fits the theme really well.

"...it's not real. It's the best fiction" :lech

I translated 'BEST non FICTION' on NNN. :)

new VS CM:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhiFG...layer_embedded

new VS CMs/makings are out





:heart: this woman, these new songs sound amazing so far.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=...09&view=videos
kenkenken1009 has all the CMs/makings up

o m g, I almost got a heartattack.

THE NEW CMS ARE AMAZING. NEW SINGLE PLEASE NOW! :thud
AWESOME... I have no words for this....

I JUST DIED A LITTLE INSIDE

SONG SOUNDS FAB. CM IS SO HOT


ljsdhljgdshlgjhlgds

:smitten :luv2 oh namie

omg@_@ I need some heart medicine@_@
This is totally OVER LOADed!
Why we hadn't even known any info about these new stuff@_@

:shughug I know right.

new single please :weep

COPY THAT sounds so good :heart so damn catchy! i'm in love!

MY LOVE sounds a bit repitive but still nice! and omg it's a ballad <3

OH MY GOD <3
i love them :o gosh she is gorgeus !
My Love and Copy That :luv2

http://vidal.jp/campaign09/index.html
hope someone can extract all those pics. gorgeous gorgeous.

Wow, I love both the songs! CMs are great too! :D

Wow the new songs sound great! Just when I was wanting another single for her.

The only drawback is that the COPY THAT cm reminds me way too much of the NEW LOOK one, and the My LOVE cm reminds me of the space theme from WILD. Other than that, I can't find any complaints...

Namie is still on a roll - I expect this to do really well

Sorry my mind just exploded on the hotness of those two songs.

I really hope the CMs will be extended to full PVs :yes.

I love the theme for MY LOVE.

that would be cool...but i would rather we get both two new pvs and extended versions of the CMs. :colorjump

or is that being too greedy? :innocent

COPY THAT IS SO AMAZING!

GORGEOUS...and I already love the songs!

^ The new songs are AWESOME! I love that they are doing kind of a decades theme again, but putting a different spin on them! Like a spy theme for the 60s etc. And then a future theme for the other. Goes right along side Dr. and Wild.

i feel like dying now .... :thud

the pictures on the VS site are so amazing. :thud

ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SONGS!!! both of theem ssooooooooooooooooooo awesomeee!!! i love you namie!! this is year only for your joy!
here we go, rising diva~ XD ♥

they did that with the 60s70s80s pv's.. so don't get your hopes up ;)

-
COPY THAT is stuck in my head already lolomg
and the pictures on that site are beautiful

Well, I can always dream. :yes :laugh But I'll listen to your advice.

the new cms sound pretty bad to me...first one is okay, but that ballad sounds really, really boring

I managed to cap the "Earth" picture in full, if someone wants to make walls :

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/1...itre2ev.th.jpg


Layout :

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/425...itre1kl.th.jpg


Caps from COPY THAT :

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Caps from the making photo of COPY THAT :

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The two new songs sound good, but I prefer my love for now!

When I saw that the 3 cities/country where London, Russia and L.A. I had to think of "From Russia with love" XDDDDDDDDD

it's weird though that they took Russia instead of Moscow or Saint Petersburg.
And the background music on this page http://vidal.jp/campaign09/index.html Kinda reminds me of the Austin Powers music :laugh

:dies:!!! Love the new cms! COPY THAT is super fun and addicting, and I'm happy she's doing some R&B with MY LOVE! I hope these are the PVs, but I don't hav my hopes up. Either way, this was a great way to start my day!

A question:
What is COPY THAT sampling? I've heard that beginning!

The CMs are awesome! Namie looks so beautiful <3

I actually like My Love...hopefully it turns out to be a double A-Side single and then she'll release a new album next year instead of a single.

lol i was just thinking yesterday how namie CM's just come out of nowhere and hoping for some soon.. and here they are

omg i love both songs so far!

Oh My God O_O

She is the #1 now, without doubt !!

thank you for the pics

WOW WOW WOW!! thank you very much! i love your set ayumi.hamasaki!!

New songs sound really good!! I love her 50's 'Grease' style in the commercial!!

The new songs sound soooooooooooo great! Namie always brings the goods <3

i love the songs~

The earth picture is epic...I thought she was under water at first...I love her top in it too. So pretty :luv2

thank you luna! :heart

the My Love CM reminds of Dr. PV.
.. in the end of Dr. someone says "to be continued". so maybe there's gonna be a Dr. part 2 after all? :o

I need a wallpaper with the London Russia and Los Angeles Namies *_*

Finally! :heart

can anyone put the CM's and making-ofs up for download? pretty pls

love the CMs and the songs OOMMMMGG!!! Namie is such an inspiration. That was totally unexpected. :D

:yes it means, soon we're getting a new single, maybe in October... and new album next year :no