"Respect the Power of Love" | ||||
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Single by Namie Amuro | ||||
from the album Genius 2000 | ||||
Released | March 17, 1999 | |||
Recorded | January 1999 | |||
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Length | 12:39 | |||
Label | Avex Trax | |||
Songwriter(s) | Tetsuya Komuro | |||
Producer(s) | Tetsuya Komuro | |||
Namie Amuro singles chronology | ||||
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"Respect the Power of Love" (stylized as RESPECT the POWER OF LOVE) is the 13th single from Japanese recording artist Namie Amuro. The song was released on March 17, 1999, by Avex Trax. It was used as the KOSÉ Cosmetics' VISÉE commercial song (which she was featured in) and also the Asahi Drink "niceOne" commercial song. The album cover was also taken at the location where the music video was filmed. The music video was shot at Coyote Dry Lake, California, just like Madonna’s “Frozen” one year before.
Her second single to be released after her hiatus and taken from her fourth studio album Genius 2000, the single was released on the same day that Amuro's mother, Emiko Taira, was murdered. Following this news, Amuro immediately canceled the promotion for the single and returned home to her home prefecture Okinawa to identify her mother's body.