Namie Amuro – “WHAT A FEELING” Remix

1. NEW LOOK
2. ROCK STEADY
3. WHAT A FEELING
4. NEW LOOK (INSTRUMENTAL)
5. ROCK STEADY (INSTRUMENTAL)
6. WHAT A FEELING (INSTRUMENTAL)

I normally pride myself on being into things that no one knows/cares about, but one of my guilty mainstream pleasures is the self-proclaimed “queen of hip-pop,” Namie Amuro. Her latest single, 60s70s80s, a promotional tie-in with Vidal Sassoon, is a revision of classics from the 3 mentioned decades. The ’60s features a sampling of The Supremes‘ “Baby Love”; the ’70s Aretha Franklin’s “Rock Steady”; and the ’80s Irene Cara’s “What a Feeling”.

Now, the single’s not set to drop until March 12th, but today the 3rd track, “WHAT A FEELING”, premiered on Japanese airwaves and a remix version has been discovered on composer/producer Shinichi Osawa’s myspace (thanks to NATE @ JPM). The remix, though almost completely different from the original, is off the hook and I’ve been looping it for the past hour. (I would post up the radio rip for comparison purposes, but the quality is so bad it’ll make your ears bleed.) The song’s got me into a sort of trance, and I almost made an impulse purchase of both the CD+DVD version of the single and the PLAY tour — that is, before I ran into problems with PayPal. It seems like PayPal and CD Japan aren’t cooperating at the moment. I don’t know whether to be disappointed or relieved.