Namie Amuro - Past < Future Tour 2010
By chance, I saw Namie Amuro’s Past < Future Tour 2010 DVD on sale at MJ at AMKHub and it costs $29.90~ Without even thinking, I grabbed the last copy off the shelf and paid for it, making this my first Namie Amuro concert DVD!
I bet HMV sells this for a higher price so I’m lucky today!! :)
Pictures~~
The gorgeous, gorgeous slipcase of the tour DVD; totally ruined by the stupid PG sticker which I’m too lazy to remove for this photo. Why can’t the Singapore censor board be more discreet!! Anyway, this DVD features songs from her latest album (which was released long ago~), along with some other songs I heard/haven’t heard of before. I’m not a collector of Namie, I just buy the ones I feel I like.
The title is purple and shiny!
The back of the slipcase.
The really really long tracklist which she diligently sang the entire song out! I feel that this concert is very different from the ones I watch from Koda Kumi and ayu because Namie’s concert is simpler, focusing on just vocals and dancing.
And when you remove the slipcase from the digipak packaging, another gorgeous R&B Queen! Actually, I feel her face on the right looks a bit like a slimmer version of BoA.
The back of the digipak, showing off some screen captures of the concert. As I had mentioned previously, Namie’s concert focus on mainly vocals and dancing so she did away with a fanciful stage, elaborate costumes and stage magic.
From my judgment, I think her stage is around half the size of ayu’s typical stage and there is no runway (sad). I watched clips of Namie’s Best Fiction tour and saw a runway and hoped that it will be in this concert but I was disappointed. I want to watch her strut the runway!!
And, the stage is pretty simple; just a flight of stairs in the middle with hardly any trap doors for stage magic. I’m honestly a little disappointed but her vocals!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH~~~
I have never imagined that her songs can actually be SUNG on STAGE! Minimal manipulation! Plus all the dancing~ No wonder she’s the R&B Queen in Japan’s music industry! It sounds different from the album but it’s definitely for the better! So, half the time, I’m looking at my laptop screen and just listening to her sing. Since there is no show to watch, just dancing, her singing is enough for me.
When you open the digipak, you see this slip of paper and the DVD. It’s not even a booklet~ It’s just a sheet of paper folded in half with lots of words inside. There are, of course, the translation sheets which I intentionally did not include in this photo because they are ugly. The DVD is simplistic too. Oh well~ 29.90 only~ What do you expect? :)
The logo of this tour; a crown. The design is cool though; half the crown is exquisite while the other half is just digital, a perfect symbol for the Past < Future concept. But!! What’s with everyone and crowns? Ayumi used it for her 10th anniversary logo, Koda Kumi also used it for hers and now Namie… All the top 3 Avex queens… A symbol?? A conspiracy??
Too much Dan Brown…
Overall, the DVD is entertaining in terms of the singing (singing something that’s so manipulated in the album LIVE without manipulation is really MAGICAL!!). The visuals itself is okay-okay. The packaging is okay on the outside but not really appealing on the inside.
At least I don’t regret getting this DVD~ :) I’ll just add it to my growing collection!!
Now~ Waiting for them to ship my…
ayumi hamasaki - Love songs (CD+DVD)
Urata Naoya feat. ayumi hamasaki - Dream ON (CD+DVD)
AAA - Heartful (CD+DVD)
Can’t wait!!
