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Originally Posted by haraiso
Namie is listed as the #2 most influential Heisei-era singer!
https://twitter.com/maimi2009/status...26579250167808
https://twitter.com/masu30626/status...21556944277505
I'm curious too! Because she's basically set for life, so I wonder what she does with all her free time lol.
She's still following music scene though. I remember she sent one of those big flower wreaths to... either BEGIN or MONGOL800, can't remember exactly who... when they had a concert.
And she was most recently (supposedly) spotted attending one of Daichi Miura's concerts back in February when he added additional dates to his tour.
But aside from that she's been living that wonderful anonymous civilian life haha. |
I wonder if she'll end up returning in a number of years though. She's had so much success, especially being the only major J-Pop idol-type to peak
twice, and having both more than a decade apart. I can imagine she's probably bored or exhausted with it right now, but in several years, she may be open to doing things again on a smaller scale. TBH, when she announced her retirement, I just couldn't see her ending with _genic as the last studio album. And it still just feels off for me that she'd be ending it with that sound, not something more evolved from what we heard on FEEL and Uncontrolled, especially considering how different P<F was from PLAY and QoHP.
But who knows! I'd love to see her come back if she gets bored of civilian life in the future. And chances are she'd probably have a bigger comeback than Utada did with Fantôme.