^* Yup. Yet another reason why I dislike Amuro so much. ....But Kumi, she's getting the same way. She'll sacrifice vocals for dance moves, try way too hard to be 'sexy' or 'cool'....Puts out a bunch of generic crap half the time, and then the other half of the time it's covers/samples (which, Namie has quite a few, herself, that I didn't originally know about :O). And also like Namie, sometimes she can be so J-Pop, but then she can also be so Western-poseurish...... Oh, God, one of my favourite singers is turning into one of my least favourite.
Kumi still does most of her lyrics, though, and she originally did almost all of her older songs, unlike SOMEbody. :X