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How would they be able to show ayu's confidence with anyone else but ayu?
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I really don't like this video because the message of the video could be missunderstanding. I don't think Ayu would gave a bad message but is what i feel watching it. :°(
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That was kind of weird.
I feel like I know what they were trying to convey with this PV, like a light-hearted, feel good about yourself type of video but it didn't match up with what I actually saw. It's awesome to have videos inspiring people to reach their goals (like the Born to Be video) and Ayu has done campy videos really well (Startin') but this just feels...off. I mean, maybe instead of the girl turning into Ayu at the end, why not have her join up with Ayu in the dance sequence with DJ Hello Kitty instead? Like it seems there were other ways of showing being happy with yourself than the way the ending turned out. I know they had to show Ayu in more screen time, but the ending just makes the whole video....ambiguous in meaning. |
I like very much the interpretation of Yoake..that really made me like the pv more..at the beggining I was really "shocked" but I like the fact that she's always taking risks..well almost always!
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It means get happy, healthy and fit, and then you'll get that muscle stud diiick. http://www.godlikeproductions.com/sm/pgceiono.gif
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The PV is at least suprising xD Nobody could expect that so that's fine. Whole thing is very light and fine for me - fits the cheesy mood of the song. And i just love how the ending is interpreted like it's something super deep. For me it's simple. Ayu is her idol, so in the end she pictured herself as Ayu with this guy cause she was happy. Oh and animated parts were fine, done in such cheap way on purpose.
Funny thing really, i wonder how it will work on sales. |
I can't watch it right now ;___;
I'll be dying from curiosity util I get home >.< |
This is how I see it: The girl wanted to be like Ayu so much that she ended transformed into her. So, in the end, the girl who gets the love of the guy it's not her "real" her anymore.
Conclusion: You should be and accept yourself, and not to try to be like another person. If you try to be like another person, you may lose your own self while doing it. |
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I'm a big/fat girl and I didn't find it offensive. I thought the actress looked really pretty when she had her makeover scene. I could see myself BEING offended at the ending, but I choose to see it as something positive, work hard towards your goals and be happy. It's not a lifestyle guide, its just a music video. :D
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It's so different from her previous PVs. The cartoon/anime part is very funny!
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I thought it was cute
But also it's sad that ayu's never gonna have them expensive videos ever again.. |
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Name me one other than fairyland or GREEN that was 'expensive' looking that was filmed outside of Japan and wasn't Sexy little things/Microphone. I think she's just had way too many on-location PVs lately and she hasn't filmed a PV in Japan in HOW long? Last one was probably Melody. Out of the last album's PVs, only three~ were done in Japan and two were in studios. (Missing was in front of Mt. Fuji iirc) Everything else was done somewhere overseas whether it be LA or some other location in a public or public-looking lot. If the concepts were like Dearest, I suppose more people would be okay with them, but that can only really be done once before it gets to be too much. |
I liked it. It's fun and it's definitely different from her previous PV's.
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I like it. Funny yet kinda touchy although some people might get offended by this pv. And agree with other member post, the last part is kinda crappy... she needs an acting lesson.
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I thought it was really comical in a good way :-) But yeah her acting has gone really bad. I suppose she's going for cute over sexy. |
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When she falls on the broom, just what is it that she sees on the building? It looked like a skeleton or something. |
nice !!! it changes ! Ayu is not really present in the PV so we are not bored of her always faces...Quite funny.
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i think it's cute..and very creative...i really love the idea and the story and all scene is so unique and made me want to replay it again and again...this is good...make me liking the song even more...
like what Yoake thinking...i agree with it... and maybe the "ayu"s part doesn't mean that the woman has transform, but more that if you work hard, you will get people to see your beauty and liking you. I think maybe "ayu" in there is just a symbolsym of perfect woman. |
Not a big fan of this PV. For me, it would be better if the girl ended up meeting the guy after her hair/make up transformation, when she was pretty and ready to go.
I think it does send the wrong message, that only if you have a nice body, like Ayu's, the man you like will look at you. And, honestly, I felt it was super weird that girl "becoming" Ayu in the end, since they are NOTHING alike. If it was meant to be like this, I'd rather see a fat Ayu in the beginning and a slim Ayu at the end. And, I agree with what's been said here, she looked stupid at the end, she can flirt, she's a sexy woman, she doesn't need all those unnecessary "aegyo" (sorry, don't know another word for that), she doesn't need to look cute all the time. I think she's the cutest when she's acting naturally. |
I think the video is fun and people shouldn't think too much about it even though I like Yoake's interpretation.
I am not taking it too seriously and I am glad we got something different. |
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i agree with yoake's interpretation, that's how i see the PV after the 2nd watching.
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Lol at philosophical ramblings on a music video with the budget of a youtube parody.
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honnestly, i like this PV, i think that it fits the song very well. I don't think that ayu would say that bad message like "be thin if you wan't to be loved", i mean, ayu had so many time spoked about confidence ,accepting it self . btw...i'm just so happy to see something else than poor love story pv XD
(i'm new here and i don't know if there is any presentation section for new member :s) |
Hahaha! I think all of you think too much of the video. It's just a PV for god sake. you only think about the chubby girl. i really like Yoake's explanation. it's a good thing ayu made this PV, what if it was Timmy being the lead actor in the PV??? I don't think you guys want that~ lol
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This is a joke right?
Seriously, is everyone playing along with it? This is not actually an Ayu PV right? Are we sure her YouTube account hasn't been hacked or something. |
It was kinda funny, but I wish the ending was different. The girl should've gotten her man with her own body.
But the last scene with ayu was so gorgeous, she looked so good! |
I truly hope she has another version coming out.
I don't hate this video but it's just not what I expected. |
The girl is an Ayu fan.
In the end of the video she gets Ayu's confidence and gets the hot boy. If they were trying to say the fat girl and Ayu were the same person, they would have used an asian fat girl. |
Actually, I think that ayu portrays the girl, since she behaves like her (what some call the bad acting) it's not bad acting, it's silly acting, like how the girl was being silly =)
If ayu really portrays the girl then ayu's acting is actually great (logically) =P lol Fun stuff. |
on the bright side for those who don't want the boyfriend scene again...because James Ellis already show up on Feel the love PV, so he won't show up on Merry-go-round PV
i believe Merry-go-round PV will use darker theme |
I was finally able to watch it! wow, it's completely different than what I expected! But it's really fun, I like it! It's nice :D
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anyway Ayu should use Fat Amy in this PV! omg gonna be freaking hilarious and so real, I just cant, Fat Amy :laugh |
omg dead at Ayu making a fat shaming video
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I think you guys are wrong. I think the message is that no matter how we look on the inside we are all beautiful on the inside and that how she appeared at the end is just how she is on the inside.
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omg the pink title card, the animation parts, those sticker lips appearing everywhere. I'm pretty sure some people here could make something better than that.
The end of the video was a mess, the girl should have just punched muscle man and been happy with her new motivation. Then her and Ayu should have gone for cocktails. THAT would have been a "hard work gets you places" video not... whatever that ending was. I just... I don't even know anymore lol |
Could someone please upload the Video as a download? Like usual it doesn't work in Germany -.-
I'm dying here from reading your reactions |
I like Yoake's interpretation, but unfortunately most people aren't gonna see it that way, especially when a good percentage of those people watching are gonna be kids thanks to Hello Kitty. So the fact that it's basically saying "if you want your crush to like you, lose weight" or "lose weight and you'll look like Ayu!" and you have to really analyze it to see otherwise was a really bad decision on Ayu's/the director's part.
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I loved this video, it was a bit shocking at first but very fun with an overall good message. |
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I mean... "did that girl just turn into Ayu?" was probably on everyone's minds at the very end, hahaha. |
I found it very funny :lol
It's clear that the girl and Ayu are the same person, I think everyone concluded this, that explains the "poor acting", both are acting silly to be comic. That kind of trashy humor that some love and some hate. You can see in the cartoons this feeling as well. I really like the Yoake explanation, although, maybe it's too deep. I just think the girl worked hard to find her lover, trying to be skinny and such but when he saws her, it doesn't matter any of the things she tried (because she doesn't change at all from the beginning to the end), he saws her beautiful inner self impersonated in the image of Ayu. Kind of the "beauty is in each one's eyes" concept. |
People are overthinking, seriously.
As a overweight girl (well not like that girl, but I'm definetely not thin), I don't see anything offensive in the PV. It's funny, silly and REALLY different from her usual meaningful and strange PVs. The animated parts could be better, I know they want to resemble 60s ones, but they looks like Flash cheap animations. Anyway, If you really want to get a message out of the PV, they are probably: - Ayu have a bad case of dysmorphic disorder and think she's a overweight dorky girl. - If you're confident in yourself, you will look beautiful. The only thing that scared me is Ayu acting bimbo. That's frightening. |
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It seems avex has gotten smart. When I try download the video it comes up as 0 bytes. Sorry guys :(
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I just think she could have pushed the "confidence = beautiful" message without having the girl turn into her.
You know, by the girl getting the guy the way she is? I'm sure the rest of the video and the part with the makeover do enough to show that she's now confident and happy in herself. |
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A larger girl becoming thinner and supposedly happier, and then getting the guy is so typical. |
I thought it was very boring and just "why...?" I'm not crazy about the music either, so this whole single is a bust for me. :\
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I really don't know what to think about this. It was fun and unexpected but ... some parts looked a bit cheap. And i didn't really understood the message behind the end. I thought the girl would finally feel pretty and confident and get the boy but instead she turns into Ayu... Well i find it sad if it was all about girls have to be pretty end thin to have a boy.
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by the way, looking on that overweight girl, i feel motivated and see a different side...
even though you are overweight, you can be very healthy (i think this is the meaning of the scene when she pushed away marathon players)...she can be very confident and don't have any fear..and of course looks pretty (the scene when she got make over, and DJ Hello Kitty suprised by the way she looks) i don't know...i feel that the PV working nicely altogether..and supporting the song very well... for people that said Hello Kitty is for a kid, you really don't know how famous Hello Kitty in Japan. I think every Japanese women love Hello Kitty! |
Hm, I suppose I meant more of a Masashi Muto-twist. The girl 'becoming' Ayu was just... so him. Also they probably wanted to involve Ayu in the narrative somehow and this is how they did it.
I did like how the lead actress' character basically had no fear whatsoever. She was basically like... I KNOW WHAT I WANT OKAY? and went for it. |
Damn, this is possibly one of the worst music videos i've seen in my entire life. I get that's it's just supposed to be silly and nothing more but everything about it looked awkward, low-budget and half-assed. I would even like one of those boyfriend concept PV's more than this, or a simple club styled one for that matter. To think this woman used to make the most incredible music videos in the whole J-Pop industry, hoping for something much better with the Merry-Go-Round video.
Video: No Songs: Meh Covers: YES Not digging this release at all, but let's just get this out of the system Ayu :P |
She still does once in a while when she actually makes music videos. Falling in and out of love so many times in the last few years really made things wonky in Ayu-PV-land. Having one trilogy for Mannie and then one for Maro was such overkill.
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Such a shame because I really like the song, I'm still ordering the CD-only version because I love both songs so far but this PV is the biggest piss take I've seen in years. It hás to be some kind of joke. I am still in a state of shock. Also in Japan there are very little fat / Caucasian people so they are completely insensitive to how obviously offensive this video is. My only hope and light in this situation is that Ayu was too busy with her own things and just said "yeah whatever" when the set intern proposed this parody. |
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Ok, that was a nope as big as Alaska. JUST NO AYU.
It had a nice idea for the storyline and I totally see where they wanted to go with this (a-la Last Friday Night by Katy Perry), but the budget wasn't there, and everybody can see that. The animation parts were supercheap and awful to look at, and I didn't like at all the way it was shoot and directed. The only nice parts were the funny and adorable attitude of the girl and Ayu last appearence (yes, me loves my ahegyo Ayu, thanks). It was meant to be nice, and silly and fun (just like the song), and I appreciate that, but for me it was a horrible job. Pity. |
I liked it haha i thought it was silly. I don't think she was saying if you work out you can look like me. I have a feeling it was more of a "shallow hal" thing. Cuz it was from his POV when you see ayu. I actually think the girl was actually really playing ayu too cuz they have similar hair styles in the video too.
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I feel that the video is trying too hard to go viral, with a "funny" concept and a twist at the end.
I'm not the one to point the "fat goes thin" thing because it's just boring. If they showed the chubby girl again at the end, but with the guy, then all those things you guys are saying would make sense, but it was just her getting all thin and "the way that he wanted", nothing deeper than that. |
All jokes aside in regards to the weird animations, the cheesiness, the white girl suddenly turning into ayu and etc... I thought this was a pretty cute PV. And it was obviously meant to be a silly video, and I think that's why ayu acted the way she did at the end.
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love the song with the video.. especially when DJ kitty doing aerobic thing
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this PV is terrible. I'm shocked ayu would come out with such a horrible message like that. I was SURE that she would have walked away from the douchebag at the end afterwards. really disappointed she would do something as offensive as this.
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I love yoake's interpretation on the pv, it's really touching if the Hot guy( played by James Ellis) sees the inner beauty of the fat girl (represented by a pretty image of ayu).
Did you guys saw the part when he turned and looked at ayu? He seem to give the 'wow' expression. I guess they wanted to depict that he was clearly mesmerise by her beauty. Inner beauty of the fat girl. I would prefer the moral to be 1) A hot guy sees an inner beauty of an women and fall in love with her Rather than 2) women should try to look "slim and perfect" in order to make a hot guy notice you. |
Y'all have to understand that the "Health at Every Size" movement and other overly PC shit that makes fat people feel better about themselves doesn't exist in Japan.
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I don't get the end of the video either. The girl has finally excepted her body shape and sees herself as beautiful and becomes confident? Anyway, the video is a no for me. :no |
Ok, so the meaning is "if you like someone run like hell and get a haircut and then Ayu will come and keep him for herself" :p
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Hope he can work with her again!! Haha...
He's way better than mannie IMO... |
It takes forever to get to the punchline, whatever that punchline means, but it just seems to be a video in style with the trend. :shrug There's a lot of these type of music videos around recently. They're fun to watch but that's about it.
It reminds me of the video for I Could Be The One by Avicii vs Nicky Romero. Feel the love also sounds like that song in the instrumental. |
That was...horrible! :( I hate the song and I also hate the MV. What kind of message is that, Ayu? Work out to get a guy to notice you? Get thin so that you can get a man that will look through you, if you don't look like a Barbie doll?
Is this really the same Ayu that wrote songs like "Real Me" and "My name's WOMEN"?! :shakehead |
i found it kinda insulting really. Like he didnt even pay attention when he glances back n shes overweight but then is entranced by her once its skinny sexy ayu.
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She should just have paid that girl in the video a liposuction. What an awkward mess, she has hit the rock bottom with both her music and her videos...
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I haven't really read the comments in this thread, so I apologize if im repeating something already said;
but IMO it looks like she's making fun of her weeaboo fans, listening to Ayumi and dreaming about their crush. Why use an american/western actor? I know this was filmed in the US, but I'm PRETTY sure there are some "chubby" asian girls she could have picked instead? The transition from "I feel bad about myself thus I look ugly" to "I have accepted my body and now people look at me differently" would have been waayyy smoother. Unless Ayu has decided she is no longer asian :p Quote:
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Wow. Uh..no. Worst video and song of her career for me.
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Yes, ayu literally meant that you have to be thin and pretty in order to get a hot guy. Exactly.
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It's just a music video. Why does everyone has to get so serious about everything all the time here? Just enjoy the song or go make your own PV if this one sucks. :) Personally I just found it funny. That's all.
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It's kinda tacky, ngl. But omfg at Ayu stealing that girls man at the end, I was hoping there would be a cut at the end where the girl runs up and punches Ayu out for trying to steal him.
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Actually, you don't.
And the main character never seemed to feel bad about herself judging from her pretty unwavering confidence for the whole video. IMO, the video is as fun as the song. Bubbly and bright, not meant to be taken too seriously. At the beginning, I was like.. Wait when did she get such a good photo of him with his friends?! Lol that there was a picture involved a la Mannie but not really. |
You all are WAY to sensitive and just over thinking to much...
Wasn't the girl in the animation even flying in a broom? XD , this is supposedly to be funny and silly like it is . And have to say that girl can run lol!! Overall I really like the pv, and the final scene for me means that the girl finally finds her true self and then gets the guy. Like wasn't the whole video about that e.e. And Ayu acting like that was also because the girl was all silly all the time too... Anyway, love also the little moves DJ Hello Kitty did there too ^o^ |
How dare this japanese singer use a japanese point of view and the japanese view of beauty for her japanese video aimed to the japanese marketing?
Gosh! So racist! :P |
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^OK, whatever you say, dude. :p
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The song is really cute (listening to it plenty of times) and the video is just something different from ayu. that's all for me :)
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