Worst Colours PV & Discussion
 

Let's choose which PV in Colours is the worst & have a little discussion on them, since I think the PVs are getting fans all riled up this time round.

Now every video has received some form of backlash...

Feel the love: Featuring obese girl trying too hard to fit into standards of beauty, represented by Ayu. Adding salt to the wound, said obese girl was featured in comical manner that seemed to mock her appearance/effort to lose weight, despite all fan-made theories that the video is about "loving who you are".

Merry-go-round: Video with the least criticism, with some saying it's a copy of "progress".

Lelio: Amazing song letdown by a horribly boring video; bad dancing, awkward posing, cheesy background effects... :no

XOXO: Cute song that had a video that many said to be "rubbish". Featuring Ayu and her transexual dancer (Lico). Having escaped from RuPaul's Drag Race, them "girls wanna have fun" and used a phone's selfie features to take awkward shots, followed by them being slutty in a nightclub with bad lightning.

What fans didn't ask was... Where's your selfie stick Ayu??

http://www.independent.co.uk/incomin...0stick%203.jpg

Angel: Beautiful song featuring "Curtain call" alike PV taken in a "single take". Beautiful Ayu, beautiful dress, cheesy effects towards the end (no one can take that one second of blurring to give her wings seriously). Much complains about not digitally removing her safety rope away despite theories that it made her "human".

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IMO the worst is Lelio. And don't say "all" guys although most of you want to :P

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Discussion:

For all that is worth, I thought XOXO & Angel probably had hidden "symbolism" in them.

In XOXO, like many have said, has elements of satire towards selfies and maybe slutty girls. The overacting could be attributed to her satire acting of "rich and materialistic" girls trying too hard. Other over-the-top fakeness includes the badly weaved weave & Lico as a "BFF".

But no one can take her seriously because her execution was filled with garbage (as always since maybe 2011)...

What I think could have been done better were to have all her female dancers in and just having a good time in the USA. Maybe tease some boys along the street, have pizza, twerk a little, and then end off with a selfie? She had potential here to dress normally, be a girl-next-door having girly fun with her BFFs but she chose to dress hideously!

For Angel, I thought the premise was beautiful. It was dark, desolate and very quiet.. fitting for the song. With such an atmosphere and the famous single take that Ayu does pretty well (Curtain call, Sweet Scar), it makes you wonder why the camera keeps shifting; Ayu never constantly stays in the middle which bothers me.

The effects were shitty too though I did get where they were coming from.

I didn't like that she didn't "go all the way" with this. Like if she wanted to have angels descending to give her wings, perhaps a better idea were to have her be dead, having her spirit wander around the streets, before getting judged by a "powerful being above", and angels coming down to give the decree that she's a devil, and maybe she struggles and wants to go to "heaven" with the angels?

So much potential given the theme and atmosphere of the song but of course she butchers it.

^Agree completely with you about XOXO and how she should've execute it. I was expecting something generic tbh like having all girls fun and all, it'll be OK. The selfie concept can be implemented while dressing casually ofc lol

Also agree on Angel, she can do more about it and the story actually.

Lelio can be fix with better costume and make up, because when you see YEAH-OH it's kinda the same but the execution is better imo

My favorite PV remains MGR since I love timelapses and her natural look is too beautiful to miss :yes

Everything except Merry-Go-Round

ayu is so dramatic in Angel, hahha, she makes me laugh. And just look at the angels, XD XD.

Lelio, ayu is so funny and silly dancing with cheap effects, she makes me laugh too.

XOXO, ayu's expressions are so bad, and her eyes are so big, she makes me laugh a lot.

Feel the Love, ayu appears 5 seconds acting so fake.

Merry-go-round is the only good PV from this era.

The only video out of the bunch that I can stand is "Merry-go-round" (single or album version caus etheyre nearly identical) and that's only becuase she looks pretty on the roof
Every other video is rather atrocious

yep merry-go-round is the only one that has quality in it, love both versions.

as for the others, it could have been better if there are more stories on them. everything is just so random. i really like when fans could describe/give their opinions about the hidden msgs in her PVs.

Lelio is quite good, i like the effects, but ayu is lack of costumes, different scenes..and of course the dancing skills.

XOXO is soooooo random... why would she come out in the daylight (her walking to the club is way too early, that looks like just around lunch time LOL..) and she's already in her sexy outfit, it'd be better if she could wear a coat cover it then take it off once she hits the club., then the guys in the club would be surprised how hot and sexy she is...then she could take many selfies as she wants n post them in instagram/twitter/facebook that "girls just wanna have fun!"
even though she's so funny doing all the selfies.. and she's having fun..but everything is just so lacking..
angel could be so good...i don't understand why the safety rope has to be seen on her.. her black dress is gorgeous though..

oh well, at least i enjoy the album though. i like most of the new songs.

Because she doesn't turn into an angel, she just want to be one.

That makes sense !!!

XOXO is just terrible in every way.

Lelio is kinda fun, but her dancing and facial expressions leave something to be desired.

I like Angel, even though she's way over dramatic.

I'm actually not too fond of Merry Go Round.

+1, this is the only album I would buy CD only.

Just saw Lelio. I thought it was 2014, but I guess I'm wrong and it's 2004. Or... 1994?
Not sure, but can someone please sit Ayu down and just put her in dance classes for awhile? I've seen big girls do better moves!
She moves so awkward... :(

Lelio reminds me of when I take my little brother to Chuck E. Cheese, and they have these random generic music videos playing, where there's just a kid dancing, and then random computer generated shit happening in the background.

If that video cost more than $1000, she got ripped off.

i like Lelio! Other than ayu's awkward attempt to dance, i think its colourful and upbeat!

Angel is fine. I like ayu's angles during the chorus. =x

XOXO is really trashy. ayu could have done a normal kinda party PV like Shake It, but she did it 1000000000 times more trashy than that with the big hair, ugly outfit and the dumb acting. -.-

Merry-go-round is beautiful and that's it.

Hahaha, awkward is the best word to describe Lelio.

I really don't like XOXO either :(

"Lelio" PV reminds me of works from "mini" and "Mizca" but those were low-budget electro-pop attempts (I like both of them, nonetheless), hence that weird feeling as one would expect something more subtle and elaborate from Ayu's team.

I thought all the PV's were terrible, to be honest. But using the term "slutty," is a bit offensive, don't you think? Nothing about the XOXO video had anything to do with promiscuity, and slut shaming is no good.

I prefer XOXO out of all of them, because it was fun.. But in all honesty, all of these PV's are completely laughable, mediocre, and poorly done.

This pretty much sums up my thoughts about the PVs.
And that lipsync in Angel is just horrible. I like the concept though...

they are all bad in different aspects except for MGR:

LELIO: totally random, low budget outfits, pretty much pointless video. I think if she could have gotten at least one point of the video right, say outfits, dancing or effects it wouldn't have been so lame lol

XOXO: i just found it over the top and laughable. She also looked horrible, and the dance scene at the club was probably filmed with a potato..lol

ANGEL: got my attention at first and it would have been fine but she was overreacting and the CGI again....someone teach them how to do it right. It had a lot of potential though.

Feel The Love: i don't even know, i don't like the song and i ust didn't like the PV either.

Merry Go Round was probably the only one that i really liked. Preferably the single version, it had symbolism and some sort of meaning and it look quite "Ayu" to me. It was the only decent PV from the bunch. While Angel could have been the second if they toned some stuff down and put a bit more effort to other things.

Thanks, I didn't know how to describe them :)

worst videos ever

some of you think, like me, that the "black-wings-i-can't-fly" concept on Angel video
is simillar to the first segment of the lady gaga's G.U.Y video?

For me the worst is Angel. The idea of the pv was good, but the execution is beyond terrible imo. Everytime the dancers appeared during the chorus I started laughing because it looked so ridiculous, and the editing in the end was just awful.

I can live with Lelio, because even if it looks ridiculous, it seems supposed to be that way in the first place, but I can't bring myself to like Angel's pv because I can see it was supposed to be beautiful and meaningful, but IMO it simply didn't work and ended up looking ridiculous and laughable.

Honestly most if not all the PVs had potential to become great but because of the little things , they all fell short of expectations

And for that it's a pity as the songs themselves are quite good . The PVs are the ones that more or less drag things down :x

Also I couldn't help but get the whole Maleficent vibe when ayumi 'grew' wings towards the end of Angel which I don't know if that's supposed to be good or bad -_-

I got reminded of those types of PVs too lol which is sad considering they were both debuts and those were their first PVs.

And even sadder that their PVs turned out better.

Okay... well.. Angel isn't TOO bad. I was worried. Sure it's rather cheesy, I get the point of the harness and the black wings. She's not an angel, but she wants to be, the best they can do is try and lift her up despite it?

XOXO, I wanted to take her phone and throw it away. Geez. As for the dancing, is that really Ayu?? Or a dancing double? The lights glaring at our faces makes me wondering if they were trying to hide it?

If xoxo is meant to be taken as a joke and shows how self centered girls can be with taking selfies and worrying about self image, and dancing over-sexually in clubs then she did an amazing job at reflecting it. It's Startin' part 2. I love it.

If xoxo is meant to be taken seriously and this is how ayu likes to have fun in her spare time and she actually thought this was a brilliant idea for a pv, and she thinks she's being cute, then I hate it.

Ugggg, I don't even know where to start. The songs are gold, luckily I don't watch PVs or MVs often so the album is still gold... but god... these are... ugh... Ayu WHY!!!

XOXO full version PV has an extra 10 seconds that doesn't do much.

in 1080p I think it's slightly better.. I can't get over hers and Lico's outfits but it's fun. I laughed really bad because in HD the weird extras she hired to lipsync looked even more awkward.

i also think she should've use a HTC One M8 cos it's got a 5 megapixel front facing wide angle camera. and she left her lipstick in the toilet (where does she keep it before that?????)

XOXO, its so skanky. Trashy. Ridiculous. I don't like the concept at all. And her outfit... what's the name of a woman dress and make-up like that parading on the street in the middle of the fking day? If she want to do that 'girls gone wild' thingy, she could stick with my name's WOMAN, from a timid working girl gone wild in the dance floor.

After watching XOXO in HD the only thing I don't like is the dance break when she's on the floor looks like she's really having sex and she will tweet something like OMG I had sex on the club and everyone was watching

Merry-go-round is kinda 'ayu classic' video. She looks gorgeous and thats all.
Angel would be fine if they would work a little with ending. The backround/dancers/her look + filter looks amazing. I just can't stand the cheesy ending with horrible effects.
XOXO is terrible. I can't stand her face expressions.
Lelio is "just fine". It's good she made something diffrent for a once.
I don't have opinion about animated Feel the love ver, is just fine i guess? I like the original one beside the CRUEL ENDING. I can't stand her "stupid blonde" acting.

XOXO really really sucks ;___; The song is soo great but the pv ... >_>

sad to say, all the videos are rather reductive. except for mgr, but that doesn't have anything interesting happening either. it really looks like she is over it all and not even trying anymore.


*goes off to watch rainbow pv* Aah, quality <3 T___T

I like them all except for Feel the love.

YEEESSS!!! I tear up every time I watch it and think about the symbolism and lyrics with it...WHERE IS THAT AYU!?!?! T_T

I wasn't too impressed with this album tbh. I mean, I liked it, but something just didn't feel right. There was something missing. I can't really say what it was, but I didn't feel connected to these songs too much. Maybe my opinion changes when I get to translate those songs into Finnish for myself.

There are three songs that caught my attention (Terminal, Angel and Lelio). They were the ones that amazed me. Others are songs that I can only say that I like them. Some more (Merry-go-round, Hello new me and NOW & 4EVA), some less (XOXO, Feel the love, Pray and What is forever love?) but knowing me my opinion may suddenly change. It usually does that when it comes to Ayu, hehe. :3

And what comes to PVs... well, none of them were really impressing (although I haven't seen Merry-go-round yet) in my eyes. Especially that XOXO PV was annoying. Feel the love had a very nice idea of spreading love everywhere but that damn mouth animation just made me cringe in annoyance lol. Lelio was just weird as hell and Angel was nice, but it just made me think of Curtain call haha. :D

As summarized I'd say I like this album, but it's definitely not one of my favorites (yet). But it's not really shit either to me. It's one of those albums that has to grow on me for a while. There are two other Ayu albums that I get that similar vibe. Those are Secret and NEXT LEVEL. There were some epic gems on those albums but overall I wasn't impressed with them almost at all but since then they have gradually grown on me. Maybe CoLOURS will also do the same~

^I agree that XOXO is annoying. It's boring to watch, and IMO it's a PV that alienates fans.

^Yeah I find it rather boring, and also annoying. If I want to watch a club video I'll just stick with fly high, lady dynamite, and my name's women.

I like XOXO, she looks good and it's fun. It's the best of the bunch for sure, but that's not saying much...

Lelio is the worst one, she looks awkward on top of it being bad. Angel is just... one of her dramatic arm waving performance in a video, down to the dancers around her with a harness. Should have just made a live MV considering the tour started last month. :/

As some others, the only PV I truly like is MGR. Feel the love is cute too though.

Overall the PVs looks tacky and so awkward, I was defending the cover's laziness but I just can't with the PVs. I can't. They wasted good ideas for a low budget mess.
Oh well, not a big deal for me. I'll get the CD only lol.

I liked the PVs in HD. They're not that spectacular, but they're entertaining, more than the ones she released since Love songs to me. The endless stream of trilogies and history/dramatic PVs since them were not my cup of tea :laugh
I remember really liking the Sweet Scar only.

XOXO is extra fun with the parody of selfies and the self-centering view of people nowadays, and imo it's overly exaggerated on purpose. The clothes on the regular street to criticize people who makes a high production for every time they're on street or just want to take a photo, the fight to appear in the camera and be the center of attention while appearing "casual". The isolation in the bathroom just to take a photo and seems pretty while everybody is having fun. And it was very nice to see her dancing again :)
I don't know if this is the reality of yours, but in my city this is a pattern of behavior that is easy to notice and see the references in the video.

Angel is beautiful, the CG on the wings could have been more elaborated, but this doesn't ruin the PV for me. The explosion of the chorus with the dancers was well thought and the effects here and there made it very good for me.

Lelio is regular, she doesn't seem so awkward dancing to me anymore, the effects were pretty good imo, always changing the background and being dynamic. And I won't say that these didn't require too much effort of her team because I really couldn't make it better and I don't know how much time they had, so, I think it's quite prepotent to judge them like that.

If "XOXO" was overly exaggerated on purpose, it needed to be MORE exaggerated. I don't buy the satire explanation.

For one thing, Ayu just... looks like that sometimes. And we all dislike it, lol. In the past she did duck face and atrociously fluffy hair UNIRONICALLY. She's also done brightly colored lipstick she had no business wearing. Unfortunately, in a misguided attempt to recapture her youth, Ayu started doing a TON of duck face and overdone lip sync and some really ridiculous clothes when she approached 30. So this doesn't look far enough from Ayu's norm for it to be obvious that it's parody.

The other thing is that, ugh, god help me, I've seen girls who look like this and dress like this and don't realize how ridiculous they look. Ayu's lived in LA long enough to pick up on some of the style itself, but has she lived there long enough to realize that most of us think it's really ridiculous? I honestly can't tell. On top of it, it sorta SEEMED like she was making a statement about selfie-culture while Lico was dancing but she stayed glued to her phone. But then Ayu joined in the party too. So where's the satire or statement there? She had fun anyway, okay cool... sooo.... what happened in this video then?

It looks like she legitimately thought she was doing a video in which girls are having fun - yes, it was probably exaggerated, but I don't think it reaches satirical levels. If satire is the intention, it wasn't obvious enough.

THIS!

To be honest, I don't think too much thought or "meaning" went into the pvs. To me it looks like fans want the videos to be more than they actually are.

Ayu has done far better meaningful pvs in the past (like alterna, rainbow, last angel, etc...) so I think if she really wanted to do something satirical or add social commentary they would have definitely done a better job.

Just my thoughts.

I'm not that fond of any of them, really, except for XOXO. All of the PVs don't really have any Japanese feel to them at all, at least to me.

I watched the videos last night, expecting them to be bad, but they were downright terrible. What has Ayu come to? XOXO is complete trash. Angel had an interesting concept but the execution was not good (a recent theme). As others have said, merry-go-round is the only decent PV in this era.

Bad videos ruin songs. I want to unwatch.

Okay they all are pretty much bad except MGR which still isn't that great.
The worst I'd say is Feel the love because of it just giving out the wrong message.
But XOXO and Angel.. goddd those were some of the worst she's ever come out with.. they are so tacky.

I don't like Lelio...the video is just....odd and uncomfortable. I like things that are visually interesting...

...but that video just felt bad...

I hate to say this...she looks like she's trying too hard to carry an image that doesn't suit her, and I don't even like casting judgement like that on people. But, that style she went for isn't very convincing.

I really don't like XOXO because I hate how so many pop stars are wearing those tiny outfits with no pants. It felt too silly, too. I've been raised in a conservative environment though, so maybe my opinion doesn't count for much! XD

The Angel PV has grown on me - tacky effects, execution could have been better but its doesn't ruin the song for me, and that's all you can ask from Ayu's PV these days. The best aspect is the filming filter/effect used. If you look closely it seems that it was actually sunny at the time they shot this PV, but they make the sky look quite dark and cool.

And my praise for MGR is the original video, not the VERBAL remake, which is boring, although I do like the additional shots of Hong Kong they inserted.

Leilo isn't terrible, it's just not that interesting. The effects are cool, the dancing is not.

Going back and re-watching the Angel pv, the dancers were unnecessary, and their outfits along with the angel wings look extremely low budget. I know Ayu is supposed to stand out among them, but they look like they're wearing pajamas.

The angel scene was also poorly executed. I don't think they know what "depth" is, because with what they were doing and the close proximity of them all, if they really were wearing angel wings, they'd be a tangled mess especially with them all on wires, and one of them doing a flip in the air right next to ayu, but appearing to be farther back than he is. Besides being a curtain call rip off, the idea was really nice, but poorly executed. It was such a good idea to have her rising up on a cloth to symbolize that she wants to be something she can't, but that's about all I liked from the video.

Also I noticed about 3 people running in the video in the background. What is that? They didn't look like joggers, they looked like normal people running for their life, but not in a way that's related to the video.

It's a huge pity cos I think Angel is the best song on Colours, with the best (along with Terminal and Merry-go-round imo) lyrics and the PV really looks like it had the most potential to be that "oomph" we needed since (when was the last video again.......) Don't look back???!!!!

Then she butchered it with execution. I "credit" this to her "A CREW" aka "Hause of Ayu"

and brillante? I always thought it was a great song & PV.

I finally watched XOXO :P

um I don't get where everyone thinks it's a parody of selfie culture tbh. I feel like she has her phone out the whole time because that's just what people do now when they're going out and having fun, and Ayu is now a part of this. And it's out the *entire* time because they wanted to get that feeling of her filming the whole thing herself...

So. I like her outfits, and I get where people think it's somewhat trashy...but honestly, I don't think it matters that much. It kind of goes with the song to me. She's just representing this culture that goes out, and....has fun :laugh


It's funny because, I feel like if Koda had done this PV, I'd love it, and other people might too, because everyone would think "oh she's just being koda and having fun and being trashy dancing in clubs" and it would be normal.


idk...maybe it's because I'm from california and I'm just used to people acting like this. Is it ridiculous? idk, maybe. Do I care how other people have fun? Fuck no.

I know plenty of successful, intelligent, fun people, who go clubbing, dance dirty, and take selfies. It's not a damn crime, and it doesn't automatically make someone "trashy".

I mean, I know that Ayu's crap hasn't really been the best...but uh I can give her some slack here. And yeah, she's a shitty actress but whatever. That's not new.

Like ir or not but Lelio is the most downloaded PV from Colours. Since its release Lelio PV is on Video Clips top 50 from Recochoku. And considering that only people that live in Japan can buy from Recochoku, we can say that Lelio is the favorite video of Colours from her japanese fans. It was #43 last week ^^

The truth is, I had few problems with Lelio. I don't particularly like it because it looks like they didn't take the concept as far as they could have which resulted in a half-hearted looking video. But, I'd take awkward and half-baked over the PV of XOXO.

I loved that song, but after watching the PV, I'm trying really hard not to dislike the song. The song itself is so catchy but I just don't think I can get the image of Ayu and her buddy "humping" those two guys lying on the floor out of my head. I thought it went beyond tacky. It was just... Distasteful and embarrassing to watch.

At first, I tried to just accept the video as being a silly, satirical kind of thing but after seeing the extended video, I was just disturbed. Their outfits looked horrible on them too, which made it all the worse.

I typically stray away from sharing such severe opinions but since this is a thread about worst Colours PVs, I felt like this was a place where I could rant about my dislike for that video.

The video really sells Ayu short. That is the main reasons why I strongly dislike that video. In the video, we see a ditzy, selfie-obsessed girl who strolls into a club and shoves as many guys around as she wants, even to the extent of treating them like objects. I know Ayumi is a woman with a lot of deep thoughts and talent, since her whole career is evidence of that. She has never been squeaky clean in terms of modesty, but she has never come across as simply sleazy to me until now.

I can't comprehend how a person would want to portray themselves in that kind of light.

But, it is her career, not mine. She makes her own choices I suppose, but I certainly did not find this one appealing in the slightest. She could do much better but settled for less.

Gave the PVs another watch and I don't think any of them are really thaaat bad haha, although I can't watch the Angel one properly but I think it's just because I'm not a fan of the song.
I also think Lelio and XOXO are good...and I love the single version of the Feel The Love PV! It's so hilarious and high energy :)

well it's probably the most "normal" one you can show to your friends without them bursting out in laughter

all of my friends who used to know her or don't know her at all gave a sweeping comment that she "looks like an auntie" in XOXO

I must say I never liked Ayu shorts in Lelio.
They look just odd and make her hips look bigger than they are.
Costumes were terribly chosen, except for MGR.
Idk but I guess this videos look pretty amateur to me :/

a friend of mine busted out laughing when the dancers appeared during "Angel"...
I also agree with your earlier comment on the lyrics, I also liked Terminal, Angel and Merry-go-round the most in that aspect and I had high hopes for Angel but I was let down. I just can't take it seriously. Ayu's acting, okay I'm used to it, I could live with that but the dancers? The angels descending from the sky? .... :/



Regarding Merry-go-round:
I actually thought the Verbal shots for Merry-go-round were quite nice, I also liked the idea of two different cities and not knowing what the other person is up to now etc. The problem I have with it is that the video itself is too slow. I guess you could put certain shots in slow motion (they represent the time passing in slow motion when you are not with me, kind of like that intention-wise) but the song itself is too fast paced in my opinion to keep the whole video really slow. This would have needed cuts, something that would have made the video seem more dynamic. To me it's pretty static (which also could be interpreted but I won't ;) ).

When i looked at the credits for the mv, the mv for the new songs were directed by A crew! This probably explains why the mv turns out quite differently from the usual.

Not only that, XOXO is a Kumi-kind-of-song too. I said it right away, as soon as I listened to the preview.
It's a song Kumi could have pulled off just fine, but to work it with Ayu they should have done something more drastic and pushy.

lol what i find funny is that the chick who's up on "most expensive music videos ever made" list with 5 of them on there, has came to this.... xD just few years ago she had Virgin Road....Now she has these xD they really had cut her budget quite a bit xD

Do you know alan ? She wasn't very popular in Japan, but her videos were nice, you don't need a lot of money to make something good and interesting.

^I DO, they are all stunning! i don't know... Maybe it's not the money maybe it's the wrong people she works with.

Amen. I feel as though she must have different people working with her... Unless her tastes have changed THIS much.

D:

Which would be...weird...

I really wish she had some people on her staff who had actual artistic eyes and could make her PVs much better. It seems as though they completely lack any artistic merit whatsoever. Especially compared to some of her older PVs, which could have come off as odd but were at least creative at times and pleasant to the eyes. These PVs from Colours are definitely odd...but no fun to look at. XD

Honestly last time when her PVs were much better if not higher budget looking , I had no problems watching them if I'm taking the bus or the subway train & I would feel proud that at least I was watching PVs that were executed well

Now with the quality of her PVs deteriorated until like this , I'm quite embarrassed if not wouldn't dare to watch them in public . It's like how would people react if they saw me watching XOXO ? :tired

I agree. :(

:no

Pretty much my thoughts as well =\

I personally LOVE Angel pv, it's beautiful and I like when she 'fly' in the end. The angels did a pretty good job floating and posing like a real angel lol. Definitely the best pv.

Lelio is a rip-off of Namie's Lovegame, but still pretty good.

Feel the love and Merry-go-round are forgettable.

XOXO is the worst obviously.

^Lelio and Lovegame look absolutely nothing alike. I would have never in my life made that connection.

rach year her PVs keep getting worse. to me, in Colors, all PVs are lame and low budget, except maybe Merry-go-round