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Originally Posted by Shiso
I think i am the only one who thinks the pv is CRAP...
maybe it's too much of a word... but i seriously didn't like it. The song is wonderful... but the PV - she looks bad, the 'story' (i can't really find any story behind it - it's just LOTS of random symbolism) is extremaly cheesy (dying under a cherry blossom, PLEASE!), the colors are bad, the CG animals look unnatural (the horse is the exception, but it doesn't fit the fakeness of this PV). When the snake ate the mantis - i was laughing... and it was supposed to be such a dramatic scene...
The growing hair is so GROSS...
I really liked some of the moments... when she put out this thing out of her hair and destroyed that sakura petal, or when the lamp started burning... but that's like... ALL...
plus... SHUYA AGAIN! Why do i have to keep seeing SHUYA in her PVs? I'm DEAD TIRED of SHUYA! GO AWAY!
The director made such a better work with CHU-LIP...
Dissapointed...
maybe tomorrow after seeing it more timesi i will change my mind a little...
The song is BEAUTIFUL at least...
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I actually really like the animals...to me, the horse being tied up to the tree (whereas usually horses represent pure, unbridled freedom) is largely symbolic of who Ayu is supposed to represent in this video--she's supposed to be be free with her lover dude, but because she's tied up to the tree for so long waiting for him, she eventually dies and becomes ONE with the tree (and thus the growing hair = roots, y'know)?
And the CHU-LIP PV was really, really random. The cow poo = not good taste. I'd take overusage of lipstick over cow poo anyday lol.
What really confuses me is what the traveling people/soldiers were wearing. Ayu is in a traditional Japanese kimono (albeit, at first I thought it was a Chinese dress due to the frequency of use of those colors and patterns in China), but then what the people are wearing (the ones carrying the lanterns) are more like Chinese headgear or even Thai. I'm not a Japanese history buff, but I definitely recognize some of those as Chinese/Thai cultural patterns. Or maybe her lover IS Chinese and he has to come overseas, which is why it takes him so long
I actually really like the pink and red. She could've done a lot worse (aka the BLINDING lights in the Born to Be PV), and pink and red are usually the spring colors of Asian cultures.
I like how this one, no matter how pretty it is, is more than pure eyecandy (like JEWEL; that was an unshameful jewelry commerical to me), and holds certain depths that need decoding
I like it.