T3-90 60s 70s 80s

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

Namie Amuro - What a feeling [MTV,30fps]
by yo4ever

80s-What a Feeling-Namie Amuro



Asience (Jeon Ji Hyun)- Stay Gold - Utada Hikaru

T3-89 Final Distance

I was pretty late to school today. Our science teacher wasn't there, but I missed a test and she didn't mark one of my assignments.

My brain is just a jumble of things now, I don't even know what I'm trying to say.

By the way, for the English album, I used 6 Utada Hikaru songs, 5 of them Japanese. They were Hikari, Final Distance, Take 5, First Love, Kremlin Dusk, and Passion.

The other ones were Say My Name (Destiny's Child), Hung Up (Madonna), Unity (Kelly Rowland), and Wake Up Call (Maroon 5).

T3-88 Passion

For our English project, I'm doing a CD where we have to have 10 songs about a character among other things. I've done 9 songs, but now I can't think of the tenth song!

By the way, Koda Kumi has done a collaboration with Fergie called 'That Ain't Cool'.

But most importantly, word of a Utada Hikaru collaboration with superstar producers Stargate has appeared! On the BMI website, who handles licensing for some artists, a track registered under the name 'Apples and Cinnamon' has the Stargate producers and Utada listed as the composers.

Honestly, though, I don't really think that this will become a hit in the USA. Timbaland did several tracks for Exodus, and they weren't hits.

T3-87 Better In Time

I must learn more about computers.

Stupid viruses and file conversions.

I also read the sunscreen blog of wisdom on the website. Life experience really is very important. I'll try to follow what you said, particularly about living in New York. I wonder how long would it be until I'm 'hard'?

T3-86

I must get to work.

T3-85

I've been pretty uncoordinated recently.

I kept on coughing on water recently, such as the time when I had a coughing fit in the middle of the Children's Foundation's YPI presentation (for which I am sorry for).

By the way, lots of work, as I'm sure you already know from the blogs you've probably been getting.

T3-84

tired and bored.

T3-83 How crazy

CS and I went to IC's house today. I get the feeling that he thought I was a creep.

I hate it when people come over to my house and act pretty inconsiderately. There was once where a classmate and I ran over to my house during break to grab something that was due that day. I let him come in, and I went upstairs to grab my stuff, and when I came back down, he had his greasy fingers over the keyboard and was searching through my documents.

Now, obviously, I didn't do that at IC's house.

But many times I do things subconsciously, or things that I do without thinking and don't think of until much later that might seem offensive and inconsiderate to other people.

Generally, I don't give hints, I tend to be pretty upfront, or at least it would have to be extremely obvious.

I try not to, but I don't think things completely out before acting upon it.

By the way, Prisoner of Love is still second on the Oricon charts! Even a recut single from Utada could defeat Ai Otsuka, but is still no match for the power of boyband singles (Hey!Say!Jump!'s Dreams come true).

T3-82 Prisoner of Love -Quiet Version-

Sometimes it takes someone to be a total jerk to appreciate other people's virtues and realize that you may be pretty mean yourself.

Anyways, Prisoner of Love was released as a recut single.

In Japan, singles come before the album, whereas in the western world, there's a lead single, then the rest of the singles come afterwards to promote the album.

There's also a -Quiet Version- on the single that isn't on the album. Its pretty nice, better than the preview on the EMI website, but all that much better than the original version.

Its also right now at number 2 on the daily charts. Pretty good for a recut single.

T3-81 How crazy

I am tired and undependable.
We should expect the English play to die if it is left to my organization skills.