Namie teams up with Vogue Japan and Gucci and debuts her new song "Ballerina". Mass scalping ensues.

Namie had already silenced a fair few by doing the one thing nobody said she would be able to: Top the first week sales of her 10th studio album Uncontrolled. But now she is just playing with hoes for fun, with the emergence of a new song and a collaboration of proportions that chicks don't get unless they are in the big league.

Namie's brand new song "Ballerina"  features in a special collaboration between herself, Vogue Japan and Gucci. When Namie does collabo's, bitch gets serious budgets. NEVER FORGET dat 60s 70s 80s promo. This cheque Condé nast are cutting for Namie will see Haruto through Keio university and keep his trust fund stacked so he's set for life and ain't never gotta know what it feels like to work a job.

Namie looks fly to death. Your fave is out in the cold wishing on a star for Namie to fall off before Christmas.

The musical backdrop to "Ballerina" is of Wolfgang Gartner's 2009 Complextro banger "Fire power". The production is insane and relentless. It sounds like NES Castlevania, an ABBA record and Daft Punk all had sex with a ghetto blaster at Alton towers. And just as Namie has managed to prove with her last 2 albums, she is able to take electro and rather surprisingly reign the whole damn thing in, in both Engrish and Japanese. This song should have been on Feel without a shadow of a doubt.

Namiserable had better show me some work when she performs this song live on her Feel tour, but she probably won't. She definitely won't. She'll just fuck the whole thing and be sat in a chair as her backing dancers go in during all of the stuttered bass drops.

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