The Queen has returned. While she isn’t the “Queen” or “Empress” of pop, I will tell you that if I were any of the artists at avex, especially one that supposed to be one of the top divas, I’d be paying my respects to Amuro. Whoever was the genius in charge of having her make new songs mixing classics needs to get a huge paycheck. I’m actually extremely pleased that they have Namie doing this and not any of the other artists on avex to be honest. With Namie’s style in more recent years taking on hip hop/funk influences, and now with this turn into dance, she’s seriously proven herself once again to be a force to be reckoned with.

The PV itself incorporates a lot of 80’s styles yet the song itself is a perfect mix of 80’s and modern dance that it just works. While I don’t care for the broken English she speaks before the verses, the chorus is so amazingly catchy there is no denying that Namie has truly taken the songs and made them her own. For a woman who is a single mother, hitting thirty years old and nearly fell off the face of the planet after her mother was murdered, she has proven that she is such an amazing and admirable woman.While I’ve never been one for 80’s fashion per say, if you do look at her outfit in the beginning of the video, and her hair, it is purposely styled after Irene Cara, the woman who originally sang the song “Flashdance (What A Feeling)” which is the same song this particular song samples during the chorus. Oh, and the dancing? Fantastic. Bloody fantastic. It’s back to utilizing Namie has a great dancer again, which is part of what she is known for. The break dancing done by the back up dancers with the motorcycle helmets is also impressive.

I can foresee this single doing extremely well. If it doesn’t, then there something seriously wrong with people in Japan.