Britney's Startin' ?
 

Whahaha this was quite funny:

In short:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hePxVxrfaXk&feature=fvw


Well?

I hate how its so obvious that Ayu is ripping off Britney Spears here.

seriously lol it's not just a little bit of "inspiration" or whatever it's like exactly the same :P

i think Ayu's is a parody :laugh

Why the hell did the play BoA? o.O

LMAO some crazy ayu fans were all over this

:roflmao

Wow. Really the same. Who copy who?

@asmAyumi1992: If it was a copy, it would be Ayu who is the copycat. Brit's Toxic came out in 2003, Ayu's Startin' came out in 2006.

Anywho, Brit is my favorite North America artist, Ayu is my favorite Asian artist, so I love both and don't care that they are similar. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if Ayu "borrowed" a few ideas for fun.

^I said "if". And I don't think she "copied it". I think she wanted a video to represent the North American music industry, and who is the princess of pop over here? Ms. Spears.

You know what, after watching Startin' over 100 times...I honestly didn't see the simularities between it and Toxic. Wow...just...wow. It may have been obvious to everyone else, but I just NEVER associated the two with one another. Wow...

Though I have to say that I STILL prefer Startin' to Toxic, because Toxic's video was too sexually charged. Sure it fit with the song, but it was still too much.

That's a good point. It is a very, very westernized video (Ayu's).

Definitely similarities, but watching one right after the other, to me the videos have completely different feelings.

Yet Ayu is praised with credit when her PVs are amazing. ;)
A little plagiarism isn't anything new in the music industry. :P

It's pretty obvious Jackie ( :P ). Toxic was a huge hit and Ayu was bound to have seen the music video at some time or another, so I'm sure all the blame can't be thrown upon the director.

Not the entire video, but just the motorcycle and explosion part.

EXACTLY!!

I don't gaf if she copied off brit or not. I love them both. Toxic and startin' (ayu and brit too ♥). I couldn't give a crap if they wanted to cover eachother's songs either. (called a cover, but I bet the ayu and/or brit haters would just say that that song was "stolen" from the person its covered). blah blah blah. Like with kumi's shake it, and some trf song or something? they go on and on and on AND on about how kumi stole the song. when chances are she probably just sampled the song or even covered it.

Again. I love both music videos, both songs, AND both artists. so whatever. I think it's even cool that if ayu was to copy a brit pv, she'd use a cool one.

The motorcycle part is the most evident copy of Toxic's video imo.
I don't care at all.. srsly. She has great PVs, if she copied sometimes.. oh well I didn't care.
Lol @ the comments btw

Still think that Startin' is a sarcastic video...

About blaming the director... to bad ayu herself said a lot of times that she chooses the way her stuff is going to be done (and this counts for At02 and Dearest too...)