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AyuM
08-30-2009, 02:23 PM
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Namie's sexond studio album (after her million-selling Eurobeat album "Dance Tracks Vol.1") was a phenomenal success, selling almost 2 million copies during it's first week, over 3,36 million copies during it's original chart-run and over 4 million copies to date, also producing three massive million-selling singles one 800,000 selling single and one 500,000 selling one. According to various sources it is considered to be a classic and groundbreaking album for it's time. It reformed the Japanese pop culture and fashion, as million of Japanese teenaged girls started copying her brown long hair, her unique short skirts and her high heels. It also impacted Japanese pop music very much, as Jpop became way more pop-flavoured than before. Generally, Namie introduced electronic and techno sounds in Jpop.

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"An example of her clothes and style which created a craze in Japan, just like the Madonna craze during the entire 80's, or the Brintey Spears craze during the late 90's-early 00's"



Songs like "Don't Wanna Cry:, "Body Feels Exits", "Chase the Chance" and "You're my Sunshine" are considered to be classic Jpop songs. I also think that she was the first artist who started titling all her songs in English, a feat followed by every single Jpop act since then.

A truly brilliant album which wrote history. Also, my 2d favorite Namie studio album after "Play". :mrgreen: :D

What do you think? ;)

Neil
08-30-2009, 04:23 PM
For me, this album didn't age very well... It may have been 'ground-breaking' at the time, but it sounds dated as hell.

Whenever I think of this I always think 'BODY FEELS EGG-A-SHITE' That is some classic engrish right there!

britneyfan09
08-30-2009, 04:27 PM
This isn't amazing IMO. I rather prefer Concentration 20 which IMO is just an amazing overall record and her best album along with Play.

AyuM
08-30-2009, 06:01 PM
:cry: I'm sad to hear that you don't love this album! :shock: People seem to absolutely love it. But Concentration 20 was indeed trully amazing on it's own right Britneyfan, I guess that it could be considered a more solid album... ;) :D

crazycool
08-31-2009, 11:04 AM
I rather prefer Concentration 20 which IMO is just an amazing overall record

Agreed.

This album has its moments.
LET'S DO THE MOTION is fab.

crazycool
09-06-2009, 09:11 AM
Random, but I love the title SWEET 19 BLUES. :lol:

AyuM
09-06-2009, 09:29 AM
Yeah, it's a pretty unique and cool title. It's referring to the sweetness of her age and life at the time isn't it?

BlackNLatin
09-08-2009, 05:44 PM
By the name, i thought it was a group! :shock:

crazycool
10-03-2009, 04:57 PM
Listened to this album today, and it's actually alot better than I've been thinking. It's taken me like a year to proper get into it, but it's actually a really fantastic record, and quite groundbreaking!!

LET'S DO THE MOTION + PRIVATE are just lush.

PRIVATE might be my favourite at the moment.