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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. |
Wow that was harsh XDDD
Actually some of the songs have been mastered & mixed by people who collaborated with Ayu such as Jaycen Joshua
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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.
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It was not right after the album's release though!
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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.
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They only filmed the 10th MV recently actually. I'm Not Yours has been filmed a couple of days before the release and it was the 8th one. They're mostly likely keeping all of them as a marketing tool for an upcoming Celebration version.
PLAY's filming plan is way different than what they used to do, you're totally right. Usually they used to film 5 MVs or so and they planned for more if the album was selling well.
Concerning MUSE we kinda got additional MVs by accident though. We were supposed to get MVs for Color Photos and Friday the 13th, but Warner refused to pay after the director said that they would cost more than expected. So Warner decided to shoot MVs for Beast and I instead. We got an MV for Color Photos but it has only been released on KTV, and they did a live MV for Friday the 13th in the end.
Jolin has been asked about the budget thing actually and just said that we should not worry and that every dollar spent was worth it... Medusa was the 7th MV to be filmed by the way.
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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.
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She has lots of promotion this time. She's really fighting to stay relevant... She had a live on Chinese TV recently to promote the album, the last time she did it was for Myself. PLAY has more signings than MUSE in Taiwan as well, Jolin has a lot of radio appearances... And I just read that she might have a signing session in HK in 2 weeks.
Right now they're releasing a new MV every 2 weeks, but near the end of album promotion they will release them faster I think.
Well, PLAY World Tour will most likely start after the end of promotional activities for the album so I doubt she'll go on vacation indeed XDD
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The MV is visually interesting, but it's not her best MV.
I'm really expecting I love, I embrace MV, especially because of the directors, since I love their works.
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Which MVs did they film? I think I read they did one for Beyoncé or something?