Namie Amuro 20th Anniversary interview in ViVi July 2012

[mesmer_esque]

Saw these scans earlier in the week, so I worked on this one yesterday~
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►What kind of memories do you have of your debut days?

When I was debuting, I auditioned for commercials, but rarely passed…. I thought it was because I looked like everyone else, so I suddenly got a shag for my long hair, which was about the same length as it is now,

Comments

[dancingjunk]

Thanks for the excellent translation mesmer_esque! I was working on doing this myself but having some difficulty with it.

I have a copy of the magazine and what you call 'the blurry part' says
'とにかくみんなでお祭りみたいに盛り上がれたらいいなと思ってます。

I also liked the comment in the magazine 'Solo tour performances -> 452!! ViVi cover appearances -> 25!! '

[mesmer_esque]

Welcome~ and thank you for the line!! The scan is really blurry in that section so some of the kanji was difficult to make out.

I didn't see that part, I don't think someone scanned it? Weird to think a lot of those tour performances were done in the last 5yrs of these 20! And it totally feels like she's been on the cover a lot more than 25

[brackdiamon]

Namie talking about her social anxiety outright makes me smile, because her mom talked about her being really shy and we see her the same as an adult as a really shy person with people too.

Hehe, even Namie Amuro got rejected for a lot of auditions. But in my eyes she still got to do a lot.