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Originally Posted by tanachu
How can you say that when you've admitted to not seeing many of her concerts though? And it's not necessarily true, you have to take into account the circumstances. The CRAZY crowd, the fact that it's been so successful... She was a little bundle of her energy in the SO CRAZY tour recording, and energetic for SoHP and very mellow for Live Style. It depends on the circumstances. One just adapts themselves to the mood..
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I watched every concert of hers since So Crazy Tour (what means 5 with BFT)... 5 of 9 recorded concerts is a good number, and all of them were consecutive... IMO this is good enough to make a fair impression of how Namie is as a performer (how she IS, not how she WAS... how she WAS doesn't matter to me cuz it's already in the past, it's the same of saying that Whitney Houston is the best singer even based on how she was before her voice was killed by the drugs). IMO SC Tour is boring, SOHP is boring, LS06 is one of the most boring concerts I ever watched, Play is entertaining and BFT is very good. I watched some random 90s performances and agree with Sunshine Slayer that she was a lot more energetic
I don't care about the circunstances, the same way I know that Utada United has crap vocals because of Hikki's alergies (she is my favorite singer) and I don't praise her for the amazing concert while she was stupid enough to record a DVD on a place that cause allergies to her... If they want to be performers, they need to do their best to their performances being good (and I'm saying that after having a 3 years experience as a stage actor). If you put yourself on role that Namie puts herself, sorry, but IMO you need to be energetic.
But, this is my opinion... I'm not saying that she should retire or that she sux... I'm not saying that people shouldn't like her concerts... I'm just saying that as a person who thinks that Namie's concerts use to be boring, I think that most of BFT was very good on aspects she usually lacks IMO