Messages 450 - 451 : Director of New PV is...

[Linza-mo]

New PV director is Kazuyoshi Shimomura (Mirrorcle World , GREEN), huumm I don't know if it's a good news
(source : AyuAngel.com)

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I'm finally ...
No. 450 17-02-2009 04h35

... back.

I've finally come back to my home.

The shooting went went rather well today.

Come on. I'll start with a good bath ...


Today...
No. 451 17-02-2009 09h39

... it's the continuation of the yesterday's shooting.

I sing, taking stupid and strange pauses, but when I do exactly what Shimoko, who directs, wants, it's always that! lol

Come on. Today, I will be transformed into a strange, soft creature, and I'll go for it! Be brave!!!!!

Japanese translation : Incognito@AyuAngel.com
English translation with the help of rikku411

[Lee_Hamasaki]

i like both video so for me is a good news..

but what is the new pv?

[MissElin_]

Oh maaan, that guy again... Hope he will make the PV of his life now. But even so I guess it still wont be like my beloved Ishii...

Thx for posting the messages! ^^

[love in music]

i liked those PVs so good news to me. thx

[Ayumiko]

damn it! what are you trying to do ayu?!!

[njanjayrp]

god I didn't like what he did with MW, GREEN was nice though~ don't really know what to expect.

[Linza-mo]

it's one of the two new PV for Next Level =)
(in the DVD there are 6 PV, so 2 new one)

[Coelacanth]

Ugh, not this queen again.

Originally Posted by Linza-mo

it's one of the two new PV for Next Level =)
(in the DVD there are 6 PV, so 2 new one)

Did she say in a TA message that she was only shooting 2 new PV's? Or are you assuming MW is going to be included in the album?

[thinkingoutloud89]

Originally Posted by Linza-mo

it's one of the two new PV for Next Level =)
(in the DVD there are 6 PV, so 2 new one)

If MW is included...otherwise we get 3 new

[SunshineSlayer]

Seriously, WHY does she keep choosing these people over Kouki Tange, Wataru Takeshi etc etc or even someone completely new?? I'm not saying her directors of the past couple of years are total crap, but they could be waaay better especially considering she could basically get any director that she wants. Really makes me wonder about her judgment these days.

She has worked with the same average at best directors for like 2 years now - if nothing else, wouldn't it occur that that style just might be getting a little bit stale?

[Maxker]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

Seriously, WHY does she keep choosing these people over Kouki Tange, Wataru Takeshi etc etc or even someone completely new?? I'm not saying her directors of the past couple of years are total crap, but they could be waaay better especially considering she could basically get any director that she wants. Really makes me wonder about her judgment these days.

She has worked with the same average at best directors for like 2 years now - if nothing else, wouldn't it occur that that style just might be getting a little bit stale?

Because he's a close friend of her and Mika Noguchi.

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by Maxker

Because he's a close friend of her and Mika Noguchi.

Unfortunately that IS probably why. Its something that I've been noticing her doing more and more. Such as Takahide Ishii being someone who went to her same high school etc. That's not a good thing. When you are in her type of business, I think you should be hiring based on ability and talent, not on personal connections. Her world has become too insular imo.

[Raleigh]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

Unfortunately that IS probably why. Its something that I've been noticing her doing more and more. Such as Takahide Ishii being someone who went to her same high school etc. That's not a good thing. When you are in her type of business, I think you should be hiring based on ability and talent, not on personal connections. Her world has become too insular imo.

Yeah I must agree with this. I'm sick of seeing her dancers stuffed in our faces because she's such good friends with them, her terrible backup vocalists she will never get rid of and now it's annoying to see her working with directors just because they're her friends. It's arrived to the point where it's annoying because it's more like "Ayumi Hamasaki & friends" lately and unfortunately they are not as talented as they like to think they are...

I think that the fact she has so much control over her career is also turning against her. She's getting surrounded with a bunch of friends who seem to be more interested in hogging all the attention for themselves to get to the top.

[Melrose]

Originally Posted by Demure_Dusk

Yeah I must agree with this. I'm sick of seeing her dancers stuffed in our faces because she's such good friends with them, her terrible backup vocalists she will never get rid of and now it's annoying to see her working with directors just because they're her friends. It's arrived to the point where it's annoying because it's more like "Ayumi Hamasaki & friends" lately and unfortunately they are not as talented as they like to think they are...

I think that the fact she has so much control over her career is also turning against her. She's getting surrounded with a bunch of friends who seem to be more interested in hogging all the attention for themselves to get to the top.

Peco rox though.

[jbrat2219]

Originally Posted by Maxker

Because he's a close friend of her and Mika Noguchi.

That is not a good reason at all! But at the VERY least (I'm really trying to look on the bright side here...) the videos are getting slightly better. Mirrorcle World was horrid, GREEN was at least a little better... (I think the editing was more at fault than his directing...) So, we'll see how this one turns out

[bluegie]

Originally Posted by jbrat2219

GREEN was at least a little better... (I think the editing was more at fault than his directing...)

Doesn't the director need to take care of the whole production? If the editing is bad, he should have said something (besides, he was the one directing the scenes... so probly it's hard to edit something that is bad already).

Originally Posted by Linza-mo

First time she had did trust a foreign director (Luis Fernandez) he made for her Pride and Bold and delicious, not really a success -__-

I kinda agree with B&D because it's pretty average. I think he did a better job on Pride. Also, the editing and scenes transitions are much better compared to Shimomura.

Originally Posted by micster

Pride is a lot better than anything Kazuyoshi has ever pulled out his ass

Originally Posted by se7entheaven

you guys are sometimes overreated U_U sorry I know that like and dislike are relevant. BUt I think MW is a nice PV, so does GREEN (just that I don't like her style, but not the video). I mean ayu herself thinks that MW PV is cool n great why you guys kept on complaining? as long as ayu looks pretty in it I don't care. Her mouth movements are OK. Really it is just fine. you can't expect ayu to sing with her mouth literally closed. In MW she's soomehow showing 'power'. so did she in Rule PV. I know for slow paced song like GREEN some of you said she's overreacting. But I guess they just wanna make it more dramatic ^^

I also think MW is sorta a nice pv (not too bad... her fierceness does match the song). For the GREEN pv, I still hold up my breath against it. I can't just say I like the pv because "as long as ayu looks pretty in it". The overacting part shares some faults, but the main point is that he could not bring out what we suppose to see. Look, he just kept telling ayu to do those OVER dramatic stuff. I know probly he wanted to use the "drama" to express the meaning of the song. However, the way he chose is totally irrelevant. As a result it just makes many of us thinking ayu looks like a drama queen. Also, he did a extremely bad scene transitioning. I assume he is really good in photography (2D), but I feel like he's using such concept to make a video (3D). It doesn't work this way, and he totally ruined the pv (and the song).

And I do feel the same way about she has been using the same team over and over again. Sometimes I do feel she isolates herself from the real world. First her band, then peco and princess, then her dancers, and now even the pv directors. When was the last time her dancers and the band not showing up on lives? JEWEL, which was two years ago. I think it's hard to see ayu alone in recent years. Basically nowadays ayu = ayu + those people. It's not necessarily bad (at least to the band), but she doesn't need to bring out the dancers every single time. And now the dancers even show up in LUMIX cm. This is a bit ridiculous (and yeah... I must admit funny at the same time... seeing them on LUMIX).

[jbrat2219]

I sing, taking stupid and strange pauses, but when I do exactly what Shimoko, who directs, wants, it's always that! lol

So she KNOWS what he's doing is stupid!.... Oh, Ayu

[Ayumiko]

Originally Posted by Maxker

Because he's a close friend of her and Mika Noguchi.

that's why?? that's like ishii who was her classmate...ugh...ayu!!

It's so weird...she only uses wataru for her tour videos now and not pvs...the last one he did was decision. ...those tour videos were so good!! Taskinst~ and I bet (don't)leave me alone was by him too.

[duque]

Originally Posted by jbrat2219

So she KNOWS what he's doing is stupid!.... Oh, Ayu

i know!!!...come on ayu do something about it!!!

[elepop]

She knows she's doing all these strange stuff in his PVs, but she's still working with him? Urgh. I really don't like his works. He's gonna make her walk and exaggerate her facial expressions again. T__T

Ayu needs some diversity.