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Originally Posted by truehappiness
I kind of sense that she saves money by using Kazuyoshi.
Rather than having to spend a small fortune to get Leslie / ND CHOW [if they even cost that much], she can pay Kazuyoshi like 1000yen and he'd be happy, HAHAHA. Thus saving money for a nice concert photographer or concert PV director. [Like Wataru Takeishi or Shin Watanabe, someone who worked under Leslie Kee at his studio or something]..
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Kazu is CHEAP!!! I knew it!
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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer
But I'm really not sure that such a contract exists though. Usually companies are not going to want to be bound to someone like that, they would want the option of using whoever they want, whenever they want.
I think its too much of an easy answer to say that the only reason he is still around is because of a contract. Because usually people like to espouse about how much control Ayu has in her career and that she has the power to work with whoever she wants - it seems like only when it comes to Kazuyoshi is her artistic control bound by a contract. 
I will say that I don't think his other covers are bad. Not GREAT, but not bad either. His PVs though have been atrocious imo and he has had more misses than hits when it comes to non cover photo shoots. |
But you also need to think that if say he was under a contract, and Ayu/avex just fired him, they would be breaching the contract, which leads to compensation and other legal affairs... which appear to be far too troublesome imo.
And I so agree with your last paragraph! I really think his album/single covers so far have been quite okay... I in particular love the GREEN/Days cover... the others are fine. But this is really a shock for me... cos they're really horrible...
And his PVs are the worst PVs from Ayu, honestly. I don't mean the plot/concept or whatever... it's just the way he's directing her to act and all the composition that make them suck so much.
And for magazines... yeah he's really more of a misser than a hitter... sometimes they look good... like Vivi Sep 09... I really like that photo shoot, I just think one photo looks particularly disgusting.