[Namie Amuro] The 77th Official Thread「FEEL」

[toLOVE]

I hope she'll sing in Chinese or Spanish for her next album

[TeamAyu2004]

nice new song!
Cant wait for this album!!!

[terra]

I kinda got over my concerns over her Engrish...by pretending she's not singing in English

[emi♡]

I get over it by singing over her bad english lol

[Heavenly]

I'm the only one here who mishears "heaven" in the song HEAVEN ?
To me, she sings "hey bun!" -__-'

[pimenta]

Originally Posted by Heavenly

I'm the only one here who mishears "heaven" in the song HEAVEN ?
To me, she sings "hey bun!" -__-'

I listen hea-boo

Originally Posted by Heavenly

It's kind of weird though... in studio she has plenty of time to pronounce words properly, and she comes up with enormous mistake like Hey Bun, or Supplies....
Is it THAT hard to pronounce for a Japanese ? O_o

I don't know, maybe she doesn't realize her pronounce is bad when she records the songs because no native English speaker directly told her that
I mean, she recorded a song with TCL and they didn't seem to mind that her pronounce is bad, otherwise they wouldn't have released it like that...
I think it's probably really hard for Japanese native speakers to correctly pronounce English words, specially because sometimes they pronounce the same way they would write those words in katakata...

But then again, her pronounce is still better than some other Japanese artists, and they don't seem to mind when they record songs with English parts that no one can tell what the heck they are saying (like Kuu sometimes)

[Gustavopc]

^ She sings anything but "Heaven" there Ilike to pretend she's singing Hair Pun

I also agree Neonlight Lipstick sounds like from PLAY era, its chorus is very similar to H&S

[Heavenly]

Originally Posted by Gustavopc

^ She sings anything but "Heaven" there Ilike to pretend she's singing Hair Pun

I also agree Neonlight Lipstick sounds like from PLAY era, its chorus is very similar to H&S

It's kind of weird though... in studio she has plenty of time to pronounce words properly, and she comes up with enormous mistake like Hey Bun, or Supplies....
Is it THAT hard to pronounce for a Japanese ? O_o

[Gustavopc]

Maybe it aint, I think she just doesnt think it's worth it sdgaf

[terra]

Well Japanese English pronunciation is not as good maybe because they had their own pronunciation for English based on their language. They didn't have 'V' so they compensate it with 'B' because it sounds similar. 'Heaven' is written in Kana as 'Hebun' and pronounced 'Hey-bun', and most Japanese pronounce it like that so it's no surprise when Namie sing it like that.

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by terra

Well Japanese English pronunciation is not as good maybe because they had their own pronunciation for English based on their language. They didn't have 'V' so they compensate it with 'B' because it sounds similar. 'Heaven' is written in Kana as 'Hebun' and pronounced 'Hey-bun', and most Japanese pronounce it like that so it's no surprise when Namie sing it like that.

This. Exactly. And since by far and away the majority of listeners are going to be Japanese, the Janglish may be intentional.

Originally Posted by pommy48

I don't even care about 'heaven'...I care about her pronouncing 'reason' as 'raisin'!

@Chiharo: I love to blame Avex for everything, but in all fairness, they're just the company that distributes Namie's music. Her label is the one that produce her music.

Also, people are looking over a fact that has kinda flown under the radar - this album is being released under Namie's very OWN record label for the first time.

[AyuHamasaki01]

The ESPRIQUE CM is beautiful, she is gorgeous. I love the last shot. And the song sounds really awesome too. I do hope it's some sort of hidden track on the album as some suggested earlier.

[ILoveGeniuses]

@AyuHamasaki01 me too.

Btw every time i try to go on Namie's facebook page this morning after a few seconds a thing on fb comes up saying i cant view the page right now. been doing this all morning. Anyone else having this trouble?

[pommy48]

I don't even care about 'heaven'...I care about her pronouncing 'reason' as 'raisin'!

@Chiharo: I love to blame Avex for everything, but in all fairness, they're just the company that distributes Namie's music. Her label is the one that produce her music.

[Benikari47]

@Chiharo: I totally respect your opinion, it's nearly impossible to like everything a artist puts out and people need to understand that.
This is a place to discuss, not just praise her to god (i'm a bad example at the moment, obviously lol). People should be free to express their opinions however the hell they want without being trash talked or feeling disconnected from other fans. I'm of course sad you feel disappointed with the direction she's going, but personally i'm happy to see a lot more people "stanning" for this era than Uncontrolled! Electropop is a tricky genre at the moment as well, it's been mainstream for what.. 5-6 years now? So there's not that many ideas left, a lot of songs are beginning to sound extremely generic.

I'm sure she'll change direction again with a couple of albums, Namie's always been very diverse in my eyes, which is why i respect her so much and why she never gets boring to me. So hopefully she'll appeal to you again soon!

[terra]

"Hey-bun" "Raisin" "Rearry" are all better than "Watermelon, Watermelon, Watermelon like I do~"

[Heavenly]

Originally Posted by terra

"Hey-bun" "Raisin" "Rearry" are all better than "Watermelon, Watermelon, Watermelon like I do~"

This one was legendary ! lol

[jean-baptiste]

This is random but Checkmate is ****ing awesome to work out to. I'm gonna see if Uncontrolled has the same effect.

[everlastingRAINBOW]

New Esprique cm and song on Facebook...

[ALfromHELLSING]

Damn Heaven is catchy. Having it on repeat right now, but man I could never imagine that she's singing Heaven at the beginning of the chorus. I thought it's hell through.