Namie may not be an "artist" and may be just a pop singer and dancer, but I still find the lyrical situation so stupid. This is the kind of stuff that gives pop a bad rap.
It's not even that the lyrics are stupid (they are) but the fact that there's not even a pretense of meaning here annoys me. The lyrical content won't hurt my enjoyment of the album (the Engrish nonsense will) because I don't listen to Namie for any imagined artistry, but it annoys me all the same.
Pop is plenty capable of producing songs that, while they might not be incredibly artistic or innovative, are still meaningful or purposeful. Songs about being attractive and clubbing really only function for passing time getting ready for girls' night out or whatever. I mean, lyrically, this album just COULDN'T be anymore purposeless and impossible to connect with except maybe on a Friday night. She's not saying anything, and neither are the songwriters she bought the tracks from. It's just a whole bunch of lyrical filler for the sake of putting out something new.
The lyrics themselves sound like placeholder lines, like the songwriter just jotted random phrases in to fill the notes for a demo and never got around to finishing the song or making it coherent. So much of it is absolute gibberish? And the fact that she's singing all these incomplete thoughts that don't make any sense to an actual English speaker, let alone to Namie who can't understand English, just baffles me from a musical standpoint because
what's the point?
I know the point is $$$, but still. For Japan's leading pop star, it's just... I want more??? I know it's pop and pop exists to be profitable and commercial and marketable, but at some point you reach a level of purposelessness that it just turns into k-pop.
ETA: It's not just the fact that the lyrics are "vapid", it's the combination of everything. They're vain and meaningless, they're gibberish, they're in English which she doesn't even speak, they're in English which her target audience doesn't even speak. It couldn't be more filler.