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Hide & Seek (Amuro Namie)

PLAY Cover
Artist
Amuro Namie
Song
Hide & Seek
Lyrics
Nao'ymt
Music
Nao'ymt
Other Information
Production, All instruments: Nao'ymt
Additional vocals: Hiromi, Nao'ymt



Information

"Hide & Seek" is a hip-hop song recorded by Amuro Namie, and produced by Nao'ymt. The song was recorded for her seventh studio record, the Urban contemporary influenced PLAY. "The album opens with an intriguing cascade of marching band and synths in "Hide & Seek" that sounds incredible on its own.[1] The song is a mixture of elements from both hip-hop and electronic music. It was used as a radio single for the album and received a music video, along with "HELLO".

The song contains backing vocals by Hiromi, who at the time was working as a studio musician and part of Nao'ymt's production team (she had also release a couple digital singles). She was featured on several of the Nao'ymt productions on PLAY. In 2008 she released her debut mini-album, the R&B styled True Colors.

"Hide & Seek" was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan for over 100,000 digital downloads. It was also certified Double Platinum for over 500,000 cellphone downloads.

Music Video

A shot from the music video

The music video for "Hide & Seek" was directed by Kawamura Kensuke. The video features Amuro in a similar outfit to the cover of the CD+DVD cover for PLAY.

The video won the "Best R&B Video" award at the MTV Video Music Awards Japan 2008.[2]

Discography
  • [2007.06.27] PLAY DVD (#1)

Performances

Concerts

Television

  • [2007.09.16] MTV Student Voice Awards
  • [2010.05.19] World Music Awards 2010

References

External links