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Originally Posted by InoriNoUta
Someone on here did a great analysis of the (d)Lma PV. I recommend it for anyone who has misgivings about the video because it made me look at it differently--plus it made me like it. I'm pretty sure it's in the PV analysis thread.
As for some of the other posts on here, I think some of you may not be considering a simple PV as a good PV. For instance, I thought Daybreak was great. Simple, subdued, and really nice. That's a PV where the lyrics are really central, and so I think people who aren't fluent in Japanese won't get as much out of it because we're not really being shown a story. Instead, Ayu's singing the story. I always saw the Daybreak PV as her as the narrator of a story, sort of sharing her thoughts as she walks on a long, barren road. She's sort of still on a journey but she's come to this conclusion or something.
Then, of course, not every PV is going to be like Ladies Night, alterna, Mirrorcle World and ourselves... I kind of like it better that way. If every PV Ayu made was an attempt to be deep and philosophical it'd get pretty boring after a while, plus it would take away from the videos that WERE significant like that. Sometimes a music video is just a music video, meant to showcase a song. Nothing more. It's just a matter of what you like and what you don't, I guess.
The only PVs that bore the hell out of me are her summer song PVs, with the exception of fairyland since that was interesting. BLUE BIRD is my favorite Ayu summer song and I thought the PV was dull as hell. Beautiful camerawork and colors, but booooooooring. I'm sure people think I'm weird for that, but then again I think people who didn't like Endless sorrow are weird lol. How can you not like that PV? It's so good =( Same with Mirrorcle World. That ****'s all about the Singularity you guys~
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THIS.
Maybe we don't appreciate videos for the same reasons, but Endless Sorrow is an amazing PV with an amazing message, great atmosphere... it's subtle, clever, perfect. It almost sums up the kind of style that Ayu tried to incorporate into her videos during that era (with PVs like Dearest, evolution etc that carry subtle hints here and there.) It's quite surprising that some of Ayu's better directed/well-thought-out videos are being listed here. I find that Dearest has some of the strongest messages within Ayu's videos, being represented in the most subtle possible way. It's very beautiful and very Ayu.
But however much I love Ayu's deep messages within her PVs, she can't make every single video like that. Nothing would stand out. So although I agree with most of what InoriNoUta said, I think BLUE BIRD is a great video in its own right. It fulfilled its aim of being a summer video-- it was pretty, well-made, and happy. That was how it was supposed to be, wasn't it?
All that said though, I do think videos like that of Born to be... and even TO BE are slightly... hmmm... I suppose my issue with TO BE is not to do with its symbolic meaning-- because it's VERY symbolic, what with the kaleidoscope and all-- but it's just it doesn't *look* very on par with how pretty the song is...