Uncontrolled (album)

Uncontrolled
A blue-tinted close-up face shot of a woman, with long hair being windswept to her right. In the background is an extreme close-up of an annular solar eclipse.
CD+DVD and Playbutton editions' cover
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 27, 2012 (2012-06-27)
Recorded2010–2012
Studio
Genre
Length50:17
Language
  • Japanese
  • English
LabelAvex Trax
Producer
  • Hisahiko Iida
  • Shintaro Higuchi
  • Daisuke Shimokawa
Namie Amuro chronology
Checkmate!
(2011)
Uncontrolled
(2012)
Feel
(2013)
Singles from Uncontrolled
  1. "Break It" / "Get Myself Back"
    Released: July 28, 2010
  2. "Naked" / "Fight Together" / "Tempest"
    Released: July 27, 2011
  3. "Sit! Stay! Wait! Down!" / "Love Story"
    Released: December 7, 2011
  4. "Go Round" / "Yeah-Oh!"
    Released: March 21, 2012

Uncontrolled is the tenth studio album by Japanese pop and R&B musician Namie Amuro, released on June 27, 2012.[1] This marks Amuro's first original album in two and a half years since her last album Past<Future (2009) and her first original album for her 20th anniversary of her debut. It was released in three formats: CD+DVD, CD and Playbutton (limited edition). Uncontrolled consists mostly of songs sung in Japanese, however this was the first album of Amuro's to feature several songs sung entirely in English. "Go Round" and "Yeah-Oh" are songs with entirely English lyrics, and are included under the titles "Go Round ('N Round 'N Round)" and "Singing "Yeah-Oh!"" respectively. The new songs "In The Spotlight (Tokyo)," "Hot Girls" and "Only You" are also include entirely English lyrics.

Met with mostly positive reviews from music critics and was shortlisted at the Asia Association Music Prize Awards, the album became a commercial success. It spent three weeks at number one on Oricon Albums Chart, making Uncontrolled the second album of Amuro's to do this after Best Fiction (2008) spent six weeks at number one. The album was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan. This was her fifth consecutive number one album since 2007, and her sixth consecutive double platinum album since 2005. Amuro promoted the album by embarking on the Namie Amuro 5 Major Domes Tour across Asia between 2012 and 2013.

  1. ^ "[CD]Uncontrolled [CD+DVD/ジャケットA] / 安室奈美恵". Neowing (in Japanese). Retrieved May 25, 2012.