译All Music评安室奈美惠1996年原创专辑《Sweet 19 Blues》（甜蜜19岁的蓝调）（3.5星

原文链接：https://www.allmusic.com/album/sweet-19-blues-mw0000920036

作者：Ted Mills

翻译：Nomanlandever

Amuro's debut album came almost presold; four of its songs had already been number one hits in Japan's Oricon charts, all before the teen idol had hit her 19th birthday. (The melancholic passing of another sweet year of youth -- a particularly Japanese obsession -- was the subject of the album title and accompanying song.) But instead of packaging the existing songs with filler, producer/svengali Tetsuya Komuro turned in a brilliantly produced pop album, adding some slinky dance numbers that could have been singles in their own right, and revamping the singles "Body Feels Exit," "Chase the Chance," "Don't Wanna Cry," and "You Are My Sunshine" with remixes, new arrangements, or extended jams. For those used to the Euro-techno of the singles, the relative sophistication of the Steely Dan-isms and late-'70s jazz-soul of "I'll Jump" and "I Was a Fool" came as a shock. The maturity shown here had a close correlation to Janet Jackson, who similarly shed her young image overnight. Amuro's voice is limited, but she never goes beyond her reach or sounds like a little girl lost in an adult's arrangement. Listenable -- and danceable -- from beginning to end, any 19-year-old pop wunderkind couldn't ask for anything more. The album went on to sell 3.6 million copies in its first week, unprecedented for a Japanese act, and secured a place in Jpop history.

安室奈美惠的出道专辑差点提前发行，专辑里有4首歌曲都卫冕日本公信榜冠军，这一切都是在她19岁之前实现的。（青春又老去一年——一种日本人特别痴迷的意象——这是专辑名也是同名歌曲）。小室哲哉没有在专辑里乱塞“填充曲”，而是做出一张制作出色的流行音乐专辑，收录了一些流畅的舞曲，也可单独发行单曲的舞曲，并将发行过的单曲"Body Feels Exit," "Chase the Chance," "Don't Wanna Cry," 和"You Are My Sunshine" 重新混音，重新编曲，做出新鲜尝试。对于那些热衷欧陆舞曲的听众来说，精彩依旧的Steely Dan乐队风格和七十年代晚期的爵士灵魂乐风格的两首单曲 "I'll Jump" 和"I Was a Fool"令人大跌眼镜。这里显露的成熟与Janet Jackson紧密相连，她也曾在一夜之间褪去少女形象。安室奈美惠的嗓音条件有限，但她从不失去掌控，或听起来像是迷惘于成年人编曲里的小女孩。全专既悦耳——也适合跳舞——全专从头到尾听下来，这位19岁的流行巨星完美的不能再完美了。专辑在首周就狂销360万张，对于日本艺人来说可谓是前无古人后无来者，必定载入J-Pop史册的成就。