Ohh chase the chance again..heheh
thanks for the info.. It would be better she sang do me more and SEXY GIRL for promoting BEST FICTION

Fascinating. Thank you.

omgz, the a-nation setlist is so close to perfection. <3

It's been here since.. forever. You just have to upload images to another server and not directly hotlink them.

Girl Talk and WANT ME, WANT ME.

I'm so excited! Just 3 days to the release of BEST FICTION!

Hopefully we will get cd quality 320 kbps rip soon of the 2 new songs :D

Yep. I won't get my copy till early next week though (monday-tuesday) since the shipment will take 4 business days with EMS.

I' so excited for the release of BEST FICTION :3 I prefer DO ME MORE to Sexy Girl, personally. Although the music in Sexy Girl is awesome. What do you guys think?

With this best album I also gave older songs I didn't like a new chance (shine more, Put Em Up..). <3

shine more and Put 'Em Up are awesome!

I'm intending to buy the CD+DVD version just because Singapore would import them. Heh. Should I buy filmography 01-05 after I buy this? I'm kinda in a dilemma since most of the PVs are in BEST FICTION.

I was at one stage contemplating buying the filmography 01-05 DVD, but I decided not to after pre-ordering BEST FICTION. I think there are only a couple of PVs on the filmography which aren't included on BEST FICTION. To sum it all up, I'd say don't waste your money on it. =P

PVs that are in filmography 01-05 and not in BEST FICTION: 'Say the word', 'I WILL' and 'WoWa'...

Not really worth it then. =S

ooh thanks for that

ehh.. she ONLY performed GIRL TALK at MTV Asia Aid 2005.

Namie's teeth look fine to me. I can tell the difference between a Shadow and an actual Broken Tooth. Quite funny though how that came about on here.

Love the look.

I saw on tv news the short clip of Namie at A nation *________*

Here is Namie at a-nation '08:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x69...ion-2008_music


Its like some News thing.
OMG Look at her run in those boots hahaha. I love It.

I never rly realised how terrible Namie is at singing until now. o__o;

She is just tired but she surely has one problem, when the song is new she cant sing it immediately well on lives because it always happens like that when she goes to tv shows etc..but in the tours she is absolutely amazing

^ Yep, actually I've seen some performances from her older tours, and Namie sings ten times better than what she does today. Hmmm~

Yeah so I think that its about the new song...she is tired here and plus Sexy Girl is a new song and she has some problem with new songs but when she get used to it she will be just perfect like always =)

Sexy Girl also seems to be in a higher octave than most of her music, she seems to be struggling to hit some of the notes, you can see it in her face.

Same for What a Feeling...her face expression in the chorus is always painful

Aw, Namie :luv2 She looks so adorable in that tube top. LMFAO@her running :P

Lovin' the performances (even the sexy sweat!), but I can't help but hate on that outfit. Plastic invisible straps? Girl... :no

Hope that she DOES change her outfit at least once in the whole tour and also the setlist >_<

The way I see it, in most of her recent tours from So Crazy Tour-PLAY there have been little renditions of outfits back and forth, like the Uh, Uh... performance in So Crazy, or the Sweat suit outfits, The Dresses where it turns into a skirt or something else, I don't see much going on with her outfits...unless Patricia Field comes in:love

I want a setlist like this...maybe even a few altered songs though...

01.Do Me More
02.Shine More
03.A Walk In The Park
04.Put 'Em Up
05.Alarm
06.Girl Talk
07.Wishing On The Same Star
08.Rock Steady
09.Can't Sleep, Can't Eat, I'm Sick
10.Funky Town
11.So Crazy
12.All For You
13.White Light
14.Baby Don't Cry
15.Body Feels Exit
16.Chase The Chance
17.Want Me, Want Me
18.Darling
19.Sexy Girl
20.What A Feeling
21.Can You Celebrate?

Talking about the one piece outfit she's wearing, there's a black one & blue one during her 'Hello' tv performances. Then a black & white strips one on her avex shareholders' meeting live and now a orange one... >_< I bet namie has the same outfit with 20 different designs in her wardrobe or something !

^I knew I had seen it before... she must love that design.

http://ginaunni.wordpress.com/2008/0...-is-a-copycat/

Was this posted here? I'm not sure, but w/e.

It's sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo lame. I guess it's a good thing that someone COMPLETELY copied Namie, but dang.

^ my friend showed me that yesterday, at first i thought it would only copy a little..but geez...@_@

Wow. If your gonna copy, don't be so obvious about it.

And despite those clear straps, I still like that a-nation outfit. I think it's the color that does it for me.

:irked Wow.

Does anyone have the actual video, I'm curious how the song sounds in comparison.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXM0FXWNTMM
The music video itself has rip offs. Its like the ho-tastic version of New Look.
Also, I was reminded of Do Me More at part. Though gotta say, addicting song.

Something is wrong with that girl...I mean, the video was good and song was nice but something about her face just bugged me. o_O

^It's probably guilt for ripping off Namie. But whatever, the song's nice and not ripping off New Look so I'll forgive her

I agree x_x; Though I didn't really like the song. I think her vocals killed it for me.

with the running-with-boots, there's no doubt namie will sing like that...

she's just too tired, and also i never saw her running in her concert stage. so this is the first time :yatta

GRACE were you talking about this one:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7R0gB7_NjFg

CDJapan shipped my copy of BF (w/ the poster) a couple of hours ago.
If it's as quick as for my 60s70s80s copy, it should be there by Saturday, August 1st.
Yeah ^^

Get it away! It's so.. BLEH.

http://ca.c.yimg.jp/news/1113963440/...g/g080907l.jpg

Live Streaming @ Yahoo.jp

You can see the whole namie amuro '100m Sprint' in there! Lol!! ^_^

Well, you know, Chase The Chance came out over 10 years ago... of course she'd have problems with the notes, duh!

And Sexy Girl is a hard song to sing live in the first place because her voice is all electronicized.

Ugh, I'm getting really irritable now. For one thing, yesasia doesn't seem to ship CDs early... Is it because they're located in Cali? :P

Let's see if my copy is already shipped.

*2 minutes later*

No ... YA should really hurry up.

Why Chase the Chance? ugh.
And where is DMM? she should have performed DMM instead of CtC

KAWAII! Namie is so cute!
I love the shirt.

Why is the Hello outfit back? :irked
First time at A-Nation and such a crappy outfit ... But I like the hair.

:( I really want to watch it but I can only watch it when I get back home.

Namie is way better anyway.

Like I said. I want to see. T_T
I hope it's good :laugh

^wow! it will be released tomorrow? nice! i hope someone will scan the booklet and share with us^^

Thanks for the video! Namie's amazing! She sprinted in boots! <3

I'm always so amazed how well she can move in heels. Her dancing is so on-point.

^ guess it takes practice , lots of practice Triple D

I watched Miss Hong Kong Pageant 2008 last night and they used 3 Namie songs!

- Queen Of Hip-Pop
- Hide & Seek
- NEW LOOK

LOL really? Damn, I missed the show! I'm going to watch the reruns then.

Namie was great in a-nation!

WHAT A FEELING was the usual WHAT A FEELING performance as in it couldn't reach the awesomeness of studio + PV.
WANT ME, WANT ME showed almost the epitome of the cold-hard face. You could totally see that she was just like "Ugh, I'm gonna go through the motions and just sing the song. -_-" SO COOL.
Sexy Girl's dance was cool and uh. Yeah.
Chase the Chance was kinda painful to watch, she was very tired and it's never a good sign when your hair is stuck to your body. The sprint was just like from the Concentration 20 tour.. I think that it's a tradition for her to go to the sides of the stage during that song.

SO, YEAH. Nice.

LOL

that's really surprising & interesting that they chose to use her songs

You must be joking, right?

YesAsia has a building in Southern San Francisco, though I think that's just their U.S. office, not where CDs are shipped from.

The song was cool, I liked the song, but come on, you're blind if you don't see that it's basically the NEW LOOK PV live >.>

^It SCREAMS copy >.>~ I mean, I forgive her and all since the song is cool and not ripping off, but still...

I agree with Kaori, girl you are so right. Elly's song is hot and that PV is NOT ripping off Namie. If anything, Namie's PV is borrowing from a common theme for movies and plays in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. I seriously wouldn't even think it was copying if someone hadn't mentioned it here.

Also, I reviewed BEST FICTION in my new blog ;) Please click my signature to view it.

^Her PV didn't, her preformance did >.>

a small break of BEST album
have anyone seen this?
http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/images/mako_is_sick.pnghttp://mako.cc/copyrighteous/images/namie_is_sick.jpg

Where is copyright?

^...Is the top serious or is it just a spoof...?

lol, who is that guy? looks like a joke?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mako_Hill

lol.

My goodness, "Do Me More" is simply amazing. I can't help but gush about this song; the melody just flows in such an appealing way. The song alone makes me want to buy a copy of the compilation. :heart

^ i know! the song just get stuck in your head!

I'm beginning to warm up to the song as well. I've heard it three times and it gets better with each time. I still can't remember the entire melody, but parts of it have been already haunting me these past few days along with Sexy Girl. I love how this is happening just around the release of BEST FICTION.

Those MQ rips do not do the songs justice, the pv rips don't either, they have so much more of a profound effect on me now that i've heard the audio in 320kbps.

IMO the best thing for this tour to be AMAZING!

-New outfits that are stunning and eccentuate every part of her body!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Amazing stage set up, wiht AWESOME props!
-Little interlude movies, and a cute scene from Golden Eggs again!
-ABSOLUTELY HOT CHOREOGRAPHY!(THAT'S A MUST!!!, and
-Namie and her vocals!, Her lives IMO are so much better than her Studio Recordings, when they're rehearsed enough.

EDIT:
For those who care...

First Press for CD+DVD of Best Fiction is sold out on CDJ

Pictures of the BEST FICTION package from Yahoo!Japan auctions.

Oh my god, thanks for the info about BEST FICTION sold out on CDJapan. Lucky i ordered first press early.

Mine is still in Shipping Process! ;_;

EDIT: The special poster looks so so so much better :weep

thanks for the pics , criminal

lol Namie sure likes to put her hand almost near her mouth :laugh

are the back covers for the CD , CD + DVD editions different ?

I think they're since I saw the back cover of the CD + DVD from the pics that you posted

Oh, I so want that special poster. It looks awesome! =P

I'm crossing my fingers that my copy will turn up tomorrow and if not then definitely Thursday! =D

OMG!!!! the album is sooooooo beautiful!!! i really really really going to buy it!!!

The songs so much better now. Sexy Girl has improved GREATLY, it almost sounds like it was rearranged, the MQ version really distorted my view about it.

omg the album's inside is awesome!!! getting my album in 2 days!!! with poster..wonder what poster i'll get?

I LOVE THIS PICTURE.

I used to dislike Do Me More and sexy girl but now im addicted to Do Me More:love

Who is actually going to buy BEST FICTION because of the packaging? I know I am. D:

lol

I might now after I saw the packaging :innocent

ah theres some pics i havent seen before thanks she looks great, altho she is quite computerized lolol

well i already ordered it, but if i didn't and just saw the pics now~i would definitely order it!!!

The booklet looks really pretty - I wanna buy the album now ^^

!!! IT LOOKS AMAZING~~~!!!

Wow, looks really nice. Can't wait to get it.

I bought BEST FICTION today, no time to open it right now but I got Tsutaya Special Poster which is very different from BEST FICTION theme, the looks and all its different but still good.

Namie is the spoke persone for the Tsutaya Campaign of 20% discount of some items, all her albums and many other things (not hers) are with 20% discount, will post pictures tomorrow.

And what is funny (and irritating) is that Ayu's new best has already took much space on Tsutaya's even if its 2 months earlier than the release..she is almost outshining Namie with that promotion

Oh my ... The packaging for best fiction is really really nice!

Packaging looks great!...but I don't see an obi...:(, but overall I love the way everything looks, especially the cd+dvd, they look so tropical, I'm more excited to see the dvd menu though...XD!!!

I wish I could get both poster editions...I want it soooooo bad!, and this is prolly her best packaging ever!

Pictures:

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...PAP_0021-2.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...PAP_0022-1.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...PAP_0023-1.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...PAP_0024-2.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...PAP_0025-1.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...PAP_0026-1.jpg

This is the same of my poster

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...PAP_0027-1.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...PAP_0029-1.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...PAP_0030-1.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...PAP_0031-1.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...PAP_0032-2.jpg

^ ooh the pics to promote BEST FICTION are lovely :love

she looked so beautiful

Thos posters are so totally owning the Mirrorcle World ones. XD

What's up with Tsutaya Records? O_O

No its not Mirrorcle World one, its the one to promote the new Ayu best..they use that one to promote it temporanely XD

Namie looks really pretty on the posters ^^

Wow that is some serious in-store promotion. Lovin' it!

Yeah dude!

That promotion is crazzzzyyyy!

The posters are so damn pretty, too!

I want an item from there! :weep

I love the Tsutaya posters! The promotion certain looks nice.

I love the 320kbs rips whole lot better than the ones we had before~ I also never heard White Light before, love it~~

^ Eh, I don't like "White Light", although I like every other song on BEST FICTION (although I'm not a HUGE fan of "GIRL TALK" either ...)

I love the box of the album. It's not the same jewel case. ^and I love "White Light", i guess not everyone's taste

^ I love White Light. I always overplay it during the holiday season. :)

Wow nice promo, I want my Best Fiction nowwww

White Light is one of my favorite Namie song. :D

Omgg... ma che bello! Sono un po' gelosa di non vivere la a cuesto tempo. lol :(