OOOH A Triple A-Side single?! I just fainted........................................... .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .....................AND now I'm back hahaha, omg I hope this is true, I will totally order it right on the spot, and hopefully a new album is scheduled towards fall this year since we'd have 5 new songs to throw on it, then again they might just grab 2 tracks from this single and throw them on the album excluding one...but you never know.

Fight together is boring. Sounds too much like a stereotypical anime song. I was hoping for something like come.

A triple A-side would be awesome! :D

Sailor Moon is awesome :yes :D

yes it totally would!
I really hope it's true~~

Other than Fight Together, the other titles sound kinda strange. If this rumor of a new single is true, then I hope that the song titles are different.

yeah. "power zero evolution" sounds really engrishy.

So excited for this single (if it's true) Namie always takes forever with releases, but I'm never disappointed with what turns out :)

My thoughts exactly. I can't even try to make out what that could possibly mean. That's on the same level as Body Feels Exit.

The single is probably not real but I do hope for another 3A.

That single sounds sooooo fake...but Fight Together also sounded fake when it came

I wouldn't be surprised if the names turned out to be real, mostly because she has had some songs with weird, unnatural sounding names ( "Dreaming I was dreaming", "Close your eyes, close to you" for example) . If it's fake, that would make sense too.

True, but I think her more recent song titles haven't had that engrish feel to it. They've made a lot more sense. That's why I'm suspicious about these rumored new ones.

:yes i thought the same !!!
Fight Together sounds fake when i saw the news, but is real and the song is really different, so maybe this single is true, and i hope they can change the names :P

The new songs don't sound that weird to me.
"engrish" or whatever you call it never bothered me that much
I don't think they sound weird.
Body feels exit is another story.

this sounds very good! :)

I think it's "power zero evolution" that is making me go 'huh?' The words 'power' and 'zero' seem like such opposites to me so it's like they're canceling each other out. The other one sounds odd, but not completely nonsensical.

i think the fact that the last song looks engrishy is what's making me believe this is fake. She really doesn't have any engrishy song titles. All of them being from before 2003; before style.

Exactly. That's why I'm suspicious. I want to believe that the rumor is true, but I'm finding it a bit difficult.

i think if anything will be true, it'll be the fact that a new single will be released. whether it actually ends up being a triple a-side, double a-side, or just a single a-side. i think we could expect a new single, regardless of the amount of songs in it.

Those are some crazyass names for a single from Namie. But if it's real, it's all good.

Yeah, I don't doubt that Namie will come out with a single this year. She seems to be trending toward releasing just one single per year.

They don't really make any sense to me, though. I realized that Body feels exit is probably her weirdest title for a song, but everybody kept mentioning it already.

I would have to conclude that I don't care about the titles of the songs, as long as they are good songs. It's really not something that I should worry about, as long as she is releasing something :)

I agree. Body Feels Exit is such a weird title, but I still really like that song. Yeah, the title will give me pause for a second just because it sounds weird, but if the song sounds good, then I won't care anymore about the title.

is all about the music baby

I like and respect that she doesn't release music like crazy. Like you said Koumori, I still like her old music, but aside from that it's also good to be teased a bit. Also, the woman needs a break. I mean she tours like crazy and she has a son who is turning 13 this year. Wow, he's gonna be a teenager this year. Time sure flies.

i think she is gonna release just 1 single this year (3 aside single sounds amazing for me), and probably and album later,

Namie is 1 of the few artistes that take her time to release material & then most of the time , the quality's there

I like that she doesn't over release when comes to her stuff & frankly I don't mind to wait , especially since from Queen Of Hip Pop onwards , she has been doing the whole 1 album release every 2 years which's ok

hopefully a new album will drop this year since PAST < FUTURE was released in 2009 8D

I'm guessing that Namie will come out with a new album next year. I'm only guessing that since Checkmate! is coming out this year.

The first song title is like when you wake up and say "Oh...dreaming...I was only dreaming..." and the second is saying "close your eyes" and "(I'm) close to you" what is there to not understand?

Let's see, it's about 2 weeks until the release of Checkmate. I really hope they've already started re-promoting the album. I'm not in Japan so I don't know if they have. It would be nice if Namie did a few tv performances, but I'm guessing if she were going to do that then we would be hearing about it soon seeing as how the album is coming soon. Here's hoping although I'm a bit doubtful.

Or it could be... Dreaming I was dreaming, like she was dreaming that she was dreaming?

^Dreaming I was dreaming that I was dreaming. lol Inception.

^AHAHAHAHA Inception <3

So there's two more weeks till Checkmate! is officially released? Nice. I can still wait...

...and torture the hell out of myself. :'D

I need the songs in hq,

I can't wait!

But they are grammatically incorrect in a way that is hard to decipher their exact meaning. I'm not hating on the names, I actually find that a really cool aspect about them. Is it "Dreaming... I was only dreaming." or " "Dreaming... I was dreaming then" or what Chiharo just mentioned? Also, if you listen to the song"Close your eyes Close to you" you will hear the lyrics " Close your eyes, and not your mind, then close to you tonight". How in the world are you suppose to close to yourself? are you suppose to be close to yourself? are you suppose to close yourself? etc. They just don't seem like normal song titles, and that's just my opinion. If you believe that they are in plain grammatically correct English and that they make perfect sense, then go on ahead.

^Isn't it I will be close to you tonight? So close your eyes but not your mind and I will be close to you tonight.
And it's a song title so who cares :laugh

ok wtf is going here?

Yeah, the subject itself doesn't matter at all. Picaflor asked me a question, so in turn I will respond with my complete answer. I won't just leave em' hanging :/ I know this isn't a extended discussion forum, but again, no one cares cause they are just music titles. :shrug

Isn't Tetsuya Komuro known for weird song titles? :D He wrote Close your eyes, Close to you after all and his english is bad as hell sometimes. :'3

Sorry if this has been posted earlier.
I think Namie got a new tattoo.

Pic:
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Source:http://wespai.com/namie/?p=2489

Sometimes?? :p

LMAO my favorite of his is "We will love, long long time" It's bad enough people use the phrase "Love you long time" to refer to any asian person around here, but to put it into a jpop song just torches it and gives many people a reason to slander it, I love CYC? but he def. should've left that out hahaha

@lakrits

I was wondering what her new tattoo said, but I can only make out 2 of those words, kinda frustrating, but it's nice nonetheless :D

yup, i see that too. :P

I think it's World :yes

I like her new tattoo, it's really nice.

I like it as well. Nothing gaudy about it.

new tattoo ooooooh

I miss the barcode, but the new tat is cool also.

She had it already in make it happen PV it seems! Tried to make some caps (look at her right arm)XD
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I thought the tattoo said "Love Peace Wale" LOL

it's still new anyways.

Namie tattoo girl ^.^ so cute

I always loved namie's tatoos :) The font is so cute~

^I did notice it in Unusual, Wonder Woman, and Make It Happen but I never bothered posting because someone had mentioned it before, I was just curious as to what it said, it's a nice tattoo though, just wish she would have kept the ones on her wrist, especially the barcode I always fancied that one :)

edit: Just noticed someone else's post and reread mine, lol I meant to put #1 not Unusual lmao

^yeah, her bar codes were definitely my favorite. I wonder what they mean, if they do mean anything at all.

i wonder what would come up if she went to the market and scanned it. I wonder how much she'd be priced. lol

^$10,000,000,000 :D I'd pay that much for a night with her if I ever had that much hahaha

I saw the new tat in Wonder Woman, Make it Happen and #1, but I didn't see it in Unusual. I'm gonna guess that she filmed that PV before getting it.

To me it looks like "Love, Peace, Wonka."

FIRE STONE ~endless story~

someone bring my Vulpix along when I go buy the single; I want her to evolve into a Ninetales!

you can scan barcode tattoos??? O_o

^It was a joke hahaha lol but I would try it just for the heck of it to see what might pop up if anything haha

HMV the music & movie master April 2011

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Ray May 2011

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^gorgeous

Taiwan press for both CD & CD + DVD's of Checkmate ! will be released next Fri , 2 days after Japan's release date

Both comes with the digipak as the 1st press aspect

CD http://www.5music.com.tw/CDList-C.asp?cdno=432415678870

CD + DVD http://www.5music.com.tw/CDList-C.asp?cdno=432415678869

Just a little over a week to wait. It's finally coming out.

Although I love the original cover, I kind of wish that the second pic from the Ray May 2011 issue was used as the cover. It's gorgeous (so are the other ones)!

I know I shouldn't complain seeing as how Namie has her collab album coming out soon, but I was still hoping that she would promote this album by making a few tv appearances. I was specifically thinking of a performance.

I don't think she does performances often

Yeah, it makes me sad that she doesn't do many television appearances. I like the performances, but I mainly just like seeing her interview portions because that's when we finally get to see Namie as a regular person.

Omg, so much energy :heart
haha i had never seen this perf. before xD

Its from her first concert at Chiba Marine Stadium I think ^^

So awesome cm

I noticed that they excluded Yamapi from the CM. It must be one of those weird Johnny's restrictions again.

The CM looks amazing!

I got a fabulous 90s Namie vibe from the gorgeus CM <3

Can we talk about the fact that this is her 62nd thread? This woman deserves her own forum on AHS.

^That's nothing compared to koda kumi's 134th thread. lolol

^doesn't even count :laugh

is there a release date for an OS press of Checkmate! yet? (if there's even one lol)
edit : nevermind I found it on five music :)

Seriously. You can't count like 100 of those threads because they're full of spam.

cool cm, but they should show yamapi

Wohoo! My order for Checkmate CD+DVD is currently in the shipping process! Besides the CM with previews for the song, the only song I've heard in full is Wonder Woman so I'm really looking forward to listening to the album when it arrives!

I don't think avex can do that in line with Johnny & Associates's strict measures when comes to image copyright & etc , even though I still think it's a bit too extreme for me to handle , despite being in the Johnny fandom for the last 3 years

anyway , the NINKI index for Checkmate ! should be announced later today on Oricon

On which website ?

NINKI index for Checkmate !

01 150.70 Amuro Namie - Checkmate!
02 88.60 Tokunaga Hideaki - VOCALIST & BALLADE BEST
03 60.70 GIRL NEXT DOOR - Destination
04 52.00 Soutaiseiriron - Tadashii Soutaiseiriron
05 45.20 Remioromen - "Your Songs" with strings at Yokohama Arena
06 35.60 Sata Andagi - Sata Andagi
07 30.90 SEAMO - Messenger
08 24.00 Kadomatsu Toshiki - 1988~2010
09 23.20 ZE:A - Here I Am
10 21.10 Aobozu - the very best of aobozu

CDJapan. :)

^^Great Ninki :D

^and mine must be in shipping process too as well, I expect it to arrive Mon or Tues for me, when did you order yours, I ordered mine right after the preordering was available lmao

Those look like good ninki results. Hopefully it will reflect the actual sales.

I preordered my copy on 2/18 so it was close to a month after I received an email from CDJ about the release. I always choose the cheapest shipping method so it will probably arrive to me in a little less than two weeks (my orders from them always arrive within 12 or 13 days).

^That sucks, I'm too impatient for that, I have to have EMS love getting my order's right away. Can't wait to open up that booklet and see who choreographed Make It Happen and Unusual.

^ i think it was posted awhile ago than SHUN choreographed make it happen & UNUSUAL. he was a dancer in the #1 PV, too. :yes

anyway, great NINKI! hoping for a great first week, too. :)

^He's choreographed a few good songs for her, I love his choreo, I love his sexyness too RAWR!

I can't wait for the sales, i think she is gonna sell like, mmm 200k the first week.This album is really good, and the new songs are really amazing

The ninki is so low tbh, i think the sale's not gonna be that high

PRECIOUS BEAUTY 2011 Early Summer No. 25

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^Pretty <3

I'm sure Checkmate's gonna hit the charts with awesome first week sales. At least I hope so. <3