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Originally Posted by AyusJewel

I think so too. Her earlier PV's have such a beautiful story sometimes. I watched her new PV's (Another song for example) and sometimes i thought "Is there any background story?"
I don't like PV's with only one scene and dance-parts only. I love ayu's PV's where you can see, that was a hard work to shoot and a big effort.

The best example was "Progress" i was so dissappointed, when i saw this PV. What was this? It is such an epic song...and it had deserved an epic pv...

They explained the concept behind progress in the making-of. It was a pretty epic project I thought that fit the song.

Ayu's older PVs seem to get some sort of weird rose-colored glasses treatment because while she does have a ton of PVs that were full of meaning earlier on in her career, she has just as many PVs where nothing is really happening around her or there's no "story" to be seen. I wonder if it has something to do with her change in directors at some point in her career (I'd say around Memorial address/MY STORY) where she went from basically using Wataru Takeishi every single time to experimenting with other directors.

So far from what we know about the PVs for this album, I don't think they would please many of the naysayers since one of them takes place in an apartment during a house party and another has Ayu in a nightclub with 'freaks'. There is the PV filmed in the Middle East(?) and the one where she rides a military tank and a factory/robotic drones are involved as well as a very sad ending apparently but who knows how those will turn out?

I think that FIVE's PVs suffered from being rather experimental in some ways and in others, not so much.

progress - stop motion PV concept, also done by RADWIMPS a while back. They need to take TONS of photos with a DSLR camera to create the effect

ANother song - a standard PV from any 'urban' singer, was essentially "URATA NAOYA"-made

Why... - the video was probably made with the concept of being a DOSQA promotional video. All of the outfits worn in the video are made by the fashion designer and one of the concepts was even lifted from their promotional materials.

beloved - made with the message of "hope" in mind, the concept was basically "find the color in your life in your darker days" but it wasn't executed as well as it should have been... probably because it was Leslie Kee's second PV ever

BRILLANTE - this had a bit of a story (something about the past and the future), but they probably could have done without the men

None of the PVs for FIVE were really standard Ayu PVs except maybe the last two and two PVs that vaguely resemble what she normally does probably isn't enough to satisfy people.

When I mentioned her vocals on R'n'R, I was specifically speaking toward the a capella / album version of RED LINE. That ending part just ruins the whole song.

IMO, it does not ruin the song at all. It's supposed to be very raw as though she is personally telling you that she is there by your side, holding your hand when you are feeling down.

Originally Posted by Kana×Shin

I really liked Ayu's earlier PVs, where's everything is natural and not computerize...

What PVs were 'computerized' recently? For the most part, her PVs -are- all natural.