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Originally Posted by Crystal_Ageha
I also don't like that she has officially gone off into another direction of music style, simply because her hip-hop doesn't sell and she wants her popularity back. :\
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How do you know that's the reason? Namie's style has never remained stagnant in her career ever - she has always changed with every album either drastically or by gradually adding on to what she did in the previous album. Plus she was never completely Hip HOP to begin with, but the more accurate self-proclaimed term Hip POP. And while that style may not have sold astronomically when it was first released, Best Fiction sold over a million copies and Play and Queen of Hip Pop certainly were no slouches either. That style certainly was indeed, selling. If she really wanted to play it safe and cash in, she could have stuck with that style, but she chose to change again. Couldn't a lot of what you described be applied to Next Level as well? Why isn't it acceptable that they both want to have their music change and grow? I would hate it if Namie just kept releasing Style over and over again, just like I would hate it if Ayu had never moved past Loveappears.