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Originally Posted by maddy1111
In what universe is Past<Future underrated album exactly?
It debuted on no. 1 on Oricon, it sold approx 600 000 copies, that is more than her two previous albums (Queen of HipPop and Play) and even more than her next album (Uncontrolled). It includes her smash hit single Wild/Dr. And it is seen as her 'fresh start' and received stellar critical reception. Not sure if you have been around Jpop music at that time, but it was just huuuuuuge.
I can understand calling Style album underrated since it was selling poorly and debuted only on no. 4, but PastFuture is one of her most successful album (not taking into consideration her Best of albums).
People on the internet are just using that word ("underrated") without truly understanding what it means, I guess
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I understand what you both said but I really believe that the 'underrated' wasn't about the album's success, but it is underrated by many of her fans and Namie herself.
past<FUTURE is, by far, the album that had the least amount of performances of Namie's career besides her flop eras.
It is understandable that GENIUS 2000 and Break the Rules didn't got many attentions from Namie herself because she was on the "low tier" that time, but she was at the top of her 'game' during pF era and still it got zero promo from Namie herself. No TV promo even for the single. WILD was only in two tours and cut out of her next era tour Live Style 2011, and she ALWAYS got the lead single of some album to stay on her next era tours. (Let's us remember how Uncontrolled received A LOT of promo, from TV to anime to tours... Break It was in five tours and even Let's Go and In The Spotlight got more performances than WILD).
And I do remember a LOT of Play fans talking a lot of trashy things about the album because 'Namie was sold' and they wanted R&B Namie back... and I still read some things like that mostly from Play fans than the Style or QoHP fans.
So the "underrated" pF era, at least for me, comes from this
