[Namie Amuro] The 95th Thread ♫ Queen's Farewell〜Compilation, Tour & Retirement〜

[jiarongisme]

I saw bits and pieces of the Okinawa live and Mr. U.S.A. got me emotional. Loved watching her dancing with the same choreography with her 15 year old self in the screens.

[lfe.]

I really hope she does one last live performance of Defend Love. After seeing Hide n Seek from Live Style 2016, which is arguably her best live performance of the song, all I could think in my mind was "can she do this for Defend Love?"

And woohoo, took a lot of failed auctions but finally scooped up my favorite gatchas from the Live Style 2016 collection.

[Meat Pao]

Originally Posted by haraiso

If you join the fanclub, then yes. You'll be able to apply for any of the lotteries that are open only to fanclub members, as well as the ones that are open to the general public.

As far as "priority" goes... it's a lottery system so you're not guaranteed a ticket even if you're a fanclub member. But as someone mentioned before, you would probably have much better luck getting ticket if you were a fanclub member since the members-only lotteries are usually always held first and those lotteries are probably when a good amount of the tickets are snatched up.

Originally Posted by KarenPang

Priority is always given to fanclub members so chances of getting the best if not better seats is higher if you're in any artiste's fanclub

By the time the general ticket sale opens (except for Johnnys where you only can attend their concerts if you're in their respective fanclubs) , by then the seats wouldn't be that great

Also be it if you ballot for tickets via the fanclub or general ticket sale , you wouldn't know the seat number only after the tickets are mailed out usually 2 weeks prior to each concert date

Thanks for the input guys! I'll probably join fanspace to get a shot at good seats for her dome tour next year.

Also, I'm a bit bummed that the supposed collaboration album (what with the hint towards it during the _genic era to vote for artists you want her to collab with) is probably not gonna happen anymore. Plus wasn't there supposed to be some collab between her and Koda Kumi? I remember some studio posted on instagram and hashtagged both their names.

[maddy1111]

Originally Posted by lfe.

I dunno, if this album was titled "Finally one more album after this one" then I would be convinced.

[Chiharo]

Not knowing whether Finally is going to be the last thing she releases bothers me a lot, because I'd rather save the money for that possible last studio album than order this compilation. But if I'm getting the compilation I'd like it to be the limited edition with the poster. Ughhh.

[CeReSu]

I think I'll wait before buying the Best. I'm not a fan of her old songs.
And I want to keep this little hope that we'll have a very last original album next year.
If not, I'll buy the Best at this moment!

[ahtka-chan]

Originally Posted by Meat Pao

Plus wasn't there supposed to be some collab between her and Koda Kumi? I remember some studio posted on instagram and hashtagged both their names.

That was never a fact, or even a reliable assumption. They probably only tagged both because they can send demos to their staffs and/or were in a writing session aimed for them.

If Namie would collaborate with Kumi (which is highly unlikely, since Namie only collabs with people with high popularity, not the case of Kumi anymore) she would never let a team of producers break out the news just like that. She'd do a huge announcement, or release the info together with the details of a second collab album.

[SunshineSlayer]

^ Actually, she usually only collaborates with not very popular people.

[voltron]

^ +1

[ALfromHELLSING]

It would have been awesome if Namie surprised everyone & dropped her last studio album next year sometime before the official retirement date, just like Momoe Yamaguchi did.

Originally Posted by ahtka-chan

If Namie would collaborate with Kumi (which is highly unlikely, since Namie only collabs with people with high popularity, not the case of Kumi anymore) she would never let a team of producers break out the news just like that. She'd do a huge announcement, or release the info together with the details of a second collab album.

She does indeed. Do you remember Crystal Kay's last chart-topping album, which sold over 100,000 copies? I keep searching but nothing comes up. I wonder why.

[KarenPang]

Honestly , I only consider Yamapi as the only high profile artiste Namie collaborated with , given that he's a Johnny's

Hirai Ken is another as he has been around for a really long time

Anyway you don't need to collaborate with the most popular IT artistes at the moment in order to put out something great

[Gustavopc]

We've been through this namie feat. popular artists issue before I can't believe this is being brought up again

[thinkingoutloud89]

Yeah. its still bullshit. She collaborated only with artist she found interesting/thought they suited her vision of music. In she end, she made all her collabo songs her own in her live shows.

[ahtka-chan]

^
^Yeah, and still people keep bringing Koda Kumi again and again for some reason even though there's nothing pointing to a Checkmate 2...

Originally Posted by KarenPang

Honestly , I only consider Yamapi as the only high profile artiste Namie collaborated with , given that he's a Johnny's

Hirai Ken is another as he has been around for a really long time

Anyway you don't need to collaborate with the most popular IT artistes at the moment in order to put out something great

I agree, you don't need to get together with huge artists, but that's what she does.

She herself said she only chose AFTERSCHOOL to collab because of UEE's popularity in Japan.

As for Crystal Kay, the song is hers not Namie's, that makes a difference.

But oh, well, let's agree to dissagree.

[lfe.]

Conversation is getting pretty tense, how about we change topic to what was her best collaboration song?

Mine would be Grotesque with Wonder Woman as a runner-up.

[thinkingoutloud89]

make it happen, wet n wild and ups&downs for me

[Gustavopc]

Originally Posted by ahtka-chan

^
^Yeah, and still people keep bringing Koda Kumi again and again for some reason even though there's nothing pointing to a Checkmate 2...

There was the pool for us to vote for artists we wanted her to collab with. Of course this doesn't guarantee nothing, as well as we never got the results to see if Kuu was even voted, but hey, among the fans in this forum Kuu is still one of the most popular names and compared to ayu and Hikki is the one whose sounds fits Namie's style the most.
Imagine you're a fan of both (nowadays), and after the pool a producer posted those hashtags. It's impossible not to wonder if something is really going on, people tend to get excited over things they like you know...

Plus this "oh it's someone feat. Namie" makes no sense, Namie featured DOBERMAN INC in FIRST TIMER for example. It doesn't hurt to assume your point didn't make sense and I'm telling this from a friend's point of view. Plus the whole SUIT CHIC stuff and so on, Namie has always been featuring plenty of artists since the last decade.

Oh, and my fav collab is make it happen probably. I had high expectations for I'm Not Yours but I'm not a fan of the song itself, tho the PV is gorgeous.

[thinkingoutloud89]

^no, FIRST TIMER is her song feat. DOBERMAN INC. as for everything else, agree.

[Toniayu123]

I still think checkmate 2 is not impossible, i know I'm the high expectations one lol
As For my favorite collab, it'd probably be black diamond, or Uh Uh... or Indy Lady or Luvotomy. Gosh can't choose haha.

[Darkifrit]

Best collaboration will always be BLACK DIAMOND and i’m not even fan of DOUBLE.