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Originally Posted by Melrose
Sorry, but JUST THE WAY YOU ARE is better imo. And that's coming from someone who hated her no longer than a year ago.
JUST THE WAY YOU ARE has many more shots going on, making it less boring. But it's really not comparable, because JUST THE WAY YOU ARE is a feel good slow/med tempo song, and Rule is a fierce energetic song so obviously they're going to have two different types of PVs. And it sounds like you just don't like JTWYA because it's not your piece of cake. But from a subjective point of view, JUST THE WAY YOU ARE is better. Some shots are done really nice & artistic (like in the restaurant, the lighting). In Rule it's just some generic shots with hardly any thought behind it, except the shot with the blue bird on the plate thing. And the strange zoom ins/zoom outs of the second chorus look like the director found a cool new button in the program he's using and decided to get all excited with it for that part.
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If that's the case then the PV [poker face] must be a directorial revolution...
FYI, I do like the song JUST THE WAY YOU ARE. It's one of the three songs I actually liked off of Koda's little TRICK. It's actually the PV that makes me wanna vomit...and die from a seizure of boredom. In my opinion, there is absolutely NOTHING original or artistic about that video. It's nothing more than a regurgitation of Destiny's Child's [girls] + the ending of Ayumi Hamasaki's [Days] + any other generically-themed "we're totally BFFs now!" music video. It's just a simple video that's boring.
The music video for Rule is superior to that garbage in every way...The constant zoom in and zoom out focus is meant to recapture your attention. It is a strange technique, but it's been used in videos before...It's just an effect that hasn't really been used in Ayu's videos. We're used to an Ayu video having the feel of a cinematic feature. Everything flows smoothly, then fades out, flows smoothly again until the conclusion comes and fades out again.
For this video, when you think about it critically---that kind of process just wouldn't work for this song. You can tell by the awkward appearance of the bird. Scenes that flow seamlessly don't fit with this song AT ALL. It has to be WHAM---BAM---BOOM---HAHA---YOU---CAN---SEE---ME---HERE---HERE---AND---HERE! It's a track full of energy, and therefore it needs an energetically directed video. Not all that artistic, slow-pace, traditional Ayu, JUST THE WAY YOU ARE-simple theme...
Of course that's just MY opinion.
(Have fun with this statement kids...I've got class. I'll be back later...)