January 29, 2000

Namie had a meeting with 100 lucky fans who bought GENIUS 2000. This is the first fans-meeting after her return. Namie said she doesn’t really care about the selling number, she just felt sorry for her fans that the album has been delayed and delayed. Since she hadn’t released any album since 1997, she wanted to make the album perfect: that’s why it took such a long time to produce. She also said that 1999 is just the year for her to get back/ready, in the year 2000 she’s going to take back what she lost.