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Originally Posted by Linoa62
It's actually what I've been thinking lol
According to your previous posts I think you were expecting some kind of MUSE 2.0 visual-wise. I could be mistaken of course, I'm not in your head 
MUSE's concept was to mix pop and art and PLAY's concept is totally different. The concept this time doesn't seem to appeal to you at all unfortunately  |
But see, it's not even the visuals that I have the
most problem with!
I love the PLAY MV, and I think Phony Queen is cool for what it is, and honestly some of the visuals for Medusa (the non-dance scenes) are the only thing that barely saved the MV for me. And I absolutely LOVE the iTunes cover for the album even though I'm not too fond of the other two.
The thing I really have the most problem with is the music itself. >_< I find the pop songs all really generic, I find the album's production really lacking and poor quality, and the only aspect I think she really stepped up her game for are the ballads - but I don't listen to her for ballads anyway so that's just kind of there for me lol. The songs inherently don't lend themselves much to any kind of artistic representation, even though she tried with Medusa so at least there's that. Maybe she REALLY REALLY did have a REALLY hard time finding good songs for the album, because the 2-year wait for the album doesn't feel justified considering it sounds like it was mixed and mastered by Ayu's team and the songs sound like leftovers from 2011 ouch.
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Originally Posted by Linoa62
About the MV release, it has always been like this, they release a new MV every 2-3 weeks... I guess the wait has been a bit long for you since you don't like The Third Person And I lol
But we still have 6 MVs to go. Who knows, you might be surprised and like at least one?
I agree that Medusa MV lacks the "wow" factor. I watched it for the second time earlier and I felt way less excited than the first time even if it was still enjoyable. This was Jolin's first collaboration with this director (Jennifer Wu), I hope she won't use her too often XD
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Well, she used to release all her MVs at once on the DVD lol, but since that was years and labels ago that's a moot point.
What I meant by "slow" MV release is that, before the album even dropped, they had already planned an MV for every song and filmed most to all of them(?). But we didn't get the MVs with the album, so producing them all at once... didn't really serve much, since we're getting them all separately months apart in the end anyway. I may be wrong, but I got the impression that with MUSE, they picked new singles and budgeted for new MVs as they went along. And the result was that most of the MVs really LOOKED stellar and super high quality. I just worry that by budgeting all 10 MVs at once, they had to sacrifice quality for some, which they might not have had to do if they'd done them one at a time. Because, imo, producing 10 MVs all at once and then not releasing them all at once defeats the purpose of producing them all at once, if you're just going to release them months apart anyway. Unless she's just planning on going on vacation for the next two years once she finishes basic album promo, but lbr she's probably not lol.