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Originally Posted by orbitalaspect
Wow. Wow. Wow. This is a new low for her with PVs. I don't think she's done something this bland, pointless, and disappointing. Every time the song started to build up, I was thinking, Okay, something is going to happen here, maybe it'll be... Oh, no, I guess it's just Ayu's face again... and the light swinging again... Okay... well, maybe something will happen after this verse... It looks like something mi--- oh, nope, more Ayu's face and the light swinging again. The. Entire. Fucking. Video.
It's bad enough that I think she could have just NOT done a PV for Last minute and it wouldn't have been much different. Hell, she could have done the PV back in December if this was all she was going to do for the song.
I'm super disappointed. I've had a lot of shit to spew about her recent PVs, how boring and flat they feel, but I didn't honestly think she would just look at camera, no backdrop, no story, no point whatsoever, and mouth the words for 4 minutes. That's low. Very low.
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How is that a new "low," if I may ask? (Not attacking your opinion, just curious.) There are many videos like this, with very few theatrics/props/etc. Off the top of my head: Duffy's Warwick Avenue, Janelle Monáe's Cold War or Björk's Pagan Poetry. They're great, imo, because they focus on the artist conveying something directly to the viewer but leaving a great deal of space for interpretation. It's nice.
On my first viewing, I would guess she's somewhere in limbo or purgatory. The light is swinging like a clock pendulum to show time and the blackness gives a sense of depression or eternity. With her movements, I think she's either trying to live with herself, put the pieces of her "soul" back together or fighting with someone/something that's tortured her for a long time.
I could be looking too much into it, but at least the video made me intrigued enough to make my own storyline to her video. And there's room for a plot to have been told, just maybe not be explicitly. I prefer that to "Oh look, the buff guy likes the girl because she looks/feels like Ayu now" (FTL) or "She's not that great of a dancer" (Lelio) or "This doesn't fit the song at all" (Melody) at least.
