Namie Amuro is considered one of the three royalty of female J-pop. She was at the top of the charts before Utada and Hamasaki even debuted, and earned the title 'Queen of Hip-Hop' (or was it J-pop?). Then, because of several hiatuses from the industry, her career started to decline (but not super giant decline), and rebounded slightly with the release of her awesome album 'PLAY' in 2006. Her latest single, which I've talked about before, '60s 70s 80s', was released earlier this year, and became her biggest hit sales-wise in a long time.
She is also of the three 'Queens/Empresses' of J-Pop, the best dancer, the one with the best hair, the one with the most risqué image, and the oldest (at 30 years old). For '60s 70s 80s', she chose three songs, one from the 60s (New Look), 70s (Rock Steady), 80s (What a Feeling), redid them, and for the music videos, partnered with Vidal Sassoon and Patricia Fields. Vidal Sassoon made 30 second clips of her videos and used them in commercials for their VS hair products, and Patricia Fields was the costume designer for them all. Fields was the person responsible for 'The Devil Wears Prada', 'Sex and the City', 'Ugly Betty', and a couple of other stuff.
The PV's are pretty good. By the way, 'Stay Gold' was used in a commercial for Ascience, Kao's competing hair product.
60s-New Look-Namie Amuro
70s-Rock Steady-Namie Amuro
80s-What a Feeling-Namie Amuro
Asience (Jeon Ji Hyun)- Stay Gold - Utada Hikaru
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OMG i love that namie chick
shes hot
i love her style. i love her hair. i love her sunglasses.
in new look that is. i covet them! and her pin straight hair!!! aosdhjdaf aiyah;la
that said her music is kinda weird. still hot though
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