Out of these options, which girlie pop had the classiest retirement?

 

Rihanna -- dropped a masterpiece album, became a makeup mogul.

 

Britney Spears -- dropped a masterpiece album, became a fierce mental health advocate + exposed the music industry.

 

Namie Amuro -- dropped a masterpiece greatest hits album with a secret final studio album hidden on the third disc, massive dome tour, finally put her stuff on streaming, then removed it and ghosted the world.

 

Explain your reasoning LUVS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Namie Amuro, hands down.

She left on a high and her last compilation album reached #1 selling over a million copies in its first week.

 

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The album reached #1 on the weekly Oricon chart, and is Amuro's first album since her 1996 solo debut SWEET 19 BLUES to sell over a million copies in its first week, making her the first artist to have a #1 album in their 10s, 20s, 30s, and 40s on the Oricon charts. Finally sold a total of 1,777,850 copies in 2017, making it the #1 album of the year. It sold an additional 638,989 copies in 2018, making it the #1 album of the year for the second year in a row. This made Amuro the first artist in 43 years to top the Oricon end-of-year charts for two consecutive years.

Source: generasia

 

Jpop was never same when she retired.

Edited September 11, 20241 yr by CityPop

5 minutes ago, CityPop said:

Namie Amuro, hands down.

She left on a high and her last compilation album reached #1 selling over a million copies in its first week.

 

Source: generasia

 

Jpop was never same when she retired.

A QUEEN! It was a moment. I miss her so much.

 

I am still a little salty she made me go dust off my CD collection when she ditched the internet.

 

P.S. Love your avi, Beni is THE VOCALIST.

Came here to say Namie. Didn't expect her to be an option in the poll 

 

(although deleting all her music from streaming services was nasty)

Edited September 11, 20241 yr by Space Cowboy

Cher. Did a farewell tour and 20 years later is still on it. 

3 minutes ago, LatinFreak said:

Cher. Did a farewell tour and 20 years later is still on it. 

SCREAMING. You have a point

 

I would die for a followup to Closer to the Truth, that album was such a serve.

Rihanna was the classiest but Namie was the most iconic for trolling

I just found out who Namie is with this thread and I want to check her work out. Does anyone have any advice on how best to do that since she's not on streaming? 

3 minutes ago, holyground13 said:

I just found out who Namie is with this thread and I want to check her work out. Does anyone have any advice on how best to do that since she's not on streaming? 

If you love Janet and can get over the language barrier you will LOVE Namie. Namie really is Janet's daughter.

 

If you want to legally purchase her albums, check out CD Japan, Yesasia, Amazon Japan, or eBay/Yahoo Auctions.

 

google j-pop suki

 

 

10 minutes ago, UrMom said:

If you love Janet and can get over the language barrier you will LOVE Namie. Namie really is Janet's daughter.

 

If you want to legally purchase her albums, check out CD Japan, Yesasia, Amazon Japan, or eBay/Yahoo Auctions.

 

google j-pop suki

 

 

Thank you I saw some of her images and she looks very Janet adjacent! I love CDs but the shopping to the EU would probably be too expensive. But I'll have a look into that website 

2 hours ago, UrMom said:

Britney Spears -- dropped a masterpiece album

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11 minutes ago, oceans said:

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I will stand by Glory forever 

 

Right up there with In the Zone and Blackout for me. 

Little Madonsters are gonna come for me with this, but I truly think Madonna in Rio was her swan song for her touring career, and god what a way to go out, if so.

10 minutes ago, .Odyssey. said:

Little Madonsters are gonna come for me with this, but I truly think Madonna in Rio was her swan song for her touring career, and god what a way to go out, if so.

Hmm seems like a plausible theory

... going out with a bang indeed! 

 

Even if she quits touring I need a new album! 

1 hour ago, UrMom said:

If you love Janet and can get over the language barrier you will LOVE Namie. Namie really is Janet's daughter.

 

If you want to legally purchase her albums, check out CD Japan, Yesasia, Amazon Japan, or eBay/Yahoo Auctions.

 

google j-pop suki

 

 

Janet's daughter? Oh ****, I might have to check her out 

Wait Namie retired in the cuntiest way possible. Is it really true or is it as factual as option #2?

 

44 minutes ago, UrMom said:

I will stand by Glory forever 

 

Right up there with In the Zone and Blackout for me. 

I was surprised to see the mixed reception for this one... and then I wasn't.

 

Further proof of a deep generational chasm that divides ATRL into two camps; the twentysomething pop sophisticates with 15 to 20 years of top-shelf pop consumption to their name, and an unruly kid crew with Scream Queens avatars and tributes to Nick Jonas in their signatures. It's not that the latter generation is a lost cause entirely, but they've clearly never heard a "Britney" — that is, they've never encountered a voice quite as distinctive as Britney's. "But I know Britney! Circus was the first album I bought!" First off, ask for a refund. And no, you don't know Britney, you know a very stilted and subdued version of the iconic performer.

 

The Britney of "Private Show" is Britney as Britney is intended to sound. She very skillfully vacillates between a range of tones; she nasally, then guttural, then grainy, then nasally again, then delicate. (And yes, that's how she's supposed to do it.) She's sultry. She's goofy. She's sounds slightly absurd. She's fully engaged. She's expressive in ways that "technically superior" vocalists just aren't. She is brilliant. You have no idea how brilliant she is.

 

This is the probably purest attempt Britney has made to harness some of that ineffable charm that made her early work so irresistible. I adore it.

34 minutes ago, Cherish said:

Janet's daughter? Oh ****, I might have to check her out 

Please do it! Her performance style is fashioned after Janet: delicate vocals + very intricate choreo.

 

Namie's got an EXCELLENT discography. I would recommend starting with her mid-career albums that blended pop with hip-hop and R&B -- Style, Queen of Hip-Pop, and Play, or the best of album Best Fiction. Her other stuff is great too. The late-career work skews more EDM, and the early stuff is mostly produced by Tetsuya Komuro (it's great but you have to be partial to 90s j-pop sounds).

 

12 minutes ago, oceans said:

I was surprised to see the mixed reception for this one... and then I wasn't.

 

Further proof of a deep generational chasm that divides ATRL into two camps; the twentysomething pop sophisticates with 15 to 20 years of top-shelf pop consumption to their name, and an unruly kid crew with Scream Queens avatars and tributes to Nick Jonas in their signatures. It's not that the latter generation is a lost cause entirely, but they've clearly never heard a "Britney" — that is, they've never encountered a voice quite as distinctive as Britney's. "But I know Britney! Circus was the first album I bought!" First off, ask for a refund. And no, you don't know Britney, you know a very stilted and subdued version of the iconic performer.

 

The Britney of "Private Show" is Britney as Britney is intended to sound. She very skillfully vacillates between a range of tones; she nasally, then guttural, then grainy, then nasally again, then delicate. (And yes, that's how she's supposed to do it.) She's sultry. She's goofy. She's sounds slightly absurd. She's fully engaged. She's expressive in ways that "technically superior" vocalists just aren't. She is brilliant. You have no idea how brilliant she is.

 

This is the probably purest attempt Britney has made to harness some of that ineffable charm that made her early work so irresistible. I adore it.

100% underrated vocalist! Unique and expressive. She really brought the fire back with Glory.

rihanna: classic album, wealthy empire, started a fam

Namie at least had the decency to tour and release a GH album. however the way she erased her entire career from the internet was NOT CLASSY at all and she deserves jailtime for it