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Originally Posted by roddypii
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  |
Thats sounds more like your view on the matter than what is actually going on. I never met any Namie fan who doesn't feel like P<F is among her best albums. The album and the tour were a fresh start for her, the tour had one of the longest runs overall and gave her a second boost after the success of BF.
As for TV performances - she mostly stopped them after 60s70s8s and it has nothing to do with her 'underrating' her own album.
You can't even compare it to Uncontrolled because 1) it had a very different single rollout and 2) it was meant to be her good-bye album (only stopped last minute by the fact that she couldn't do the final performance she wanted).
If anything, uncontrolled is much less liked by fans than P<F and the fact she performed Break it so much maybe just due to the fact she like it live (the song has frikin' 3 versions) and even that fact does not 'underrate' any other of her releases.
After Uncontrolled she even went a totally different path again which also showed in her tours.
I don't know if you were around during all the eras, but your perception on this is really weird to me.
edit: also the spotify stats for both albums show that P<F is the much better received album overall where as Uncontrolled is mostly sold by a few hit songs.