"Feel the love" short ver. PV

[truehappiness]

The main concept was sort of outlined in an ameba article.

ミュージックビデオは、米ロサンゼルスでオールロケを敢行し、主人公の少女が意中の男性を振り向かせるため に努力する過程を、アメリカンコメディ風のユニークなストーリーと、疾走感あふれる映像で表現。実写とアニ メーションがミックスされており、浜崎のミュージックビデオの中でも数少ない映像作品に仕上が っている。

http://news.ameba.jp/20131201-184/

Main points I think are...

- American comedy-style PV with a unique story
- Heroine wants to catch the eye of the guy

Might be slightly off, so someone can correct me if I'm wrong.

[ayu-michan]

Here's from another thread

Originally Posted by KLJames

i love the whole pv! its all abt be confident like those slim girls (eg: ayu) even you are plus size; just be happy and eat, exercise, dance, dress up, run to your love one, like "normal" girls around you.

To how I see it, that's the main message here. For fuck's sake I think all she just wanted to prove was be confident in yourself and stay happy.

This was very fun to watch. Troll Ayu is just trolling

[KLJames]

just like the lyrics sang: "i have decided to smile wide, even though there are things which hurt my heart and threaten to break me".

its all abt be confident like those slim girls around you even you are a plus size; just be happy (thats why almost all scenes she is wink and smile even in the full ver ending) and eat, exercise, dance, dress up, if you got a love one, just run to your love one and give him a hug, no matter in reality how weird the sights they will put on you (represent by James which he prefer "ayu"), some of them might eventually accept you (represent by scene which the girls 1st fight with her but eventually let her join the dance).

ayu in the video is to cheer up those characters: "go go go, atleast you tried!".

feel the love, feel the love, we can dance all night...
night and day, night and day, i'll be searching for my love...

i just can't feel the discrimination or offense in this video! i love the whole pv!

[emi♡]

oh my god. Fail.

She's like "MUAHAHAHAHAHA I'M A FUCKING MAGICIAN"


And no, the majority of people weren't right. People were saying she turns back into herself, and that Ayu just represented who she was inside the whole time, and both she and he see the beauty inside her.

Here, she turns back into herself, but.....she obviously wasn't her real self the whole time or he wouldn't be confused that she's fat again

I don't understand why they can't do anything right.


Fun PV? Sure yeah, whatever. At least I have more appreciation for the song though. I wouldn't mind hearing an instrumental, there's fun things happening there. I still dislike the melody.

[AyUmIXx]

the only problem is for James being all confused/surprised by seeing another different girl in front of him. hmmm..

edit:

or maybe the girl doesn't even give a damn anymore of how people might see her? she's liked "WHATEVER PEOPLE, AS LONG AS I'M HAPPY!"

[spanishfan]

Originally Posted by AyUmIXx

the only problem is for James being all confused/surprised by seeing another different girl in front of him. hmmm..

edit:

or maybe the girl doesn't even give a damn anymore of how people might see her? she's liked "WHATEVER PEOPLE, AS LONG AS I'M HAPPY!"

This could be a possible reading of it

I thought it was that the guy was enchanted by the girl, but suddenly he sees the real, then he's like WTF, but not in a BAD way, as someone said: if you're hugging someone, and s/he turn into other person, you'll be surprised (I'd probably run away scared xD)

Of course, if you want to see he's scared about her size (and not the change of person lol) you'll think is a bad ending as well.

[ayumisrael]

I just thought he was "wtf?" about what she did into the camera? lol

[Ayu-me]

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

I just thought he was "wtf?" about what she did into the camera? lol

Yeah, I would be confused too if someone who had been chasing me down to hug me tight, suddenly broke away from the hug to turn towards a "camera" and start doing expressions and gestures for an invisible audience. He's not completely aware of the "meta" of the video, I guess...

[waterballoon]

I dunno if it was as simple as she runs (full of courage, confidence etc etc) towards her "love" and gets "represented" as a standard of beauty (Ayu)... but really still is Adele then James's facial expression just made 0 sense.

also now that I typed that out, the whole idea felt good but it was so risky to execute in such a manner, especially since there were logic loopholes that didn't make the idea as cohesive or strong as it should have been. I'm not sure to applaud Ayu on trying something new for her music/PVs or to shake my head at how bad she is at execution these days.

still love the synth right after the chorus

[hidekirby]

Originally Posted by AyUmIXx

and the part she "turned" into ayu is weird.. how could she turn into ayu ? so james was blinded by a hot asian chick? LOL. actually, it could be much better if James didn't look surprise but happy as well after the hug, because he could accept the girl for who she is and impressed by her confident, which makes her look gorgeous and sexy in his eyes.

I expected this ending. What they came up with is still a bit confusing but I personally don't care much.
What I care about are those sunglasses disappearing/appearing in his hands! But it's not like this PV had a great direction to begin with.

Still enjoying it though! I really prefer something like this than another boring PV of her looking pretty staring at the camera... Of a PV full of her dancers.

[CoriKaru]

Soooooo.........She turned back into a fat mess and the guy let go disgusted as h311.......

And people are jumping on this troll bandwagon. Who did she troll? Fat people? Americans?

Oh. No worries then. Because SHE DID IT ON PURPOSE.

[emi♡]

troll because even after she said the ending was better, it's still shitty?
idk.

and lol @ the "he's confused because she's making faces to the camera!"

whatever helps you sleep at night.

[lumieregrl]

Well. She could've saved it if he looked happy (as if nothing had happened) after she changed back. I don't know. What a weird video!

[Maemi]

Originally Posted by CoriKaru

Soooooo.........She turned back into a fat mess and the guy let go disgusted as h311.......

And people are jumping on this troll bandwagon. Who did she troll? Fat people? Americans?

Oh. No worries then. Because SHE DID IT ON PURPOSE.

Where's that video with the different ending anyway? Can't find it

P.S. they should have changed it on yt cuz there's still the same PV with that shitty ending, oh well, I still don't like the song and the ending doesn't save the whole PV, so...

[hsienko]

Originally Posted by CoriKaru

Soooooo.........She turned back into a fat mess and the guy let go disgusted as h311.......

And people are jumping on this troll bandwagon. Who did she troll? Fat people? Americans?

I would say the fat girl in the pv definitely got trolled. That cartoon was "less than flattering" to say the least.

[njanjayrp]

At least the video is doing exactly what it's supposed to. People are talking about it, a lot this time.

The video is fun. It's not the best damn thing she's done, but she's done worse. It fits the song somehow. Nevertheless people Ayu's PVs can't help you with your own frustrations

[ComatoseBunnySnatcher]

People are sooo projecting rn.

[AyUmIXx]

Originally Posted by hidekirby

I expected this ending. What they came up with is still a bit confusing but I personally don't care much.
What I care about are those sunglasses disappearing/appearing in his hands! But it's not like this PV had a great direction to begin with.

Still enjoying it though! I really prefer something like this than another boring PV of her looking pretty staring at the camera... Of a PV full of her dancers.

i came up with another idea of the ending:

maybe the girl doesn't even give a damn anymore of how people might see her? she's liked "WHATEVER PEOPLE, AS LONG AS I'M HAPPY!" (that's why she acted all the way cute and fabulous in the end)

[kinix]

Originally Posted by AyUmIXx

i came up with another idea of the ending:

maybe the girl doesn't even give a damn anymore of how people might see her? she's liked "WHATEVER PEOPLE, AS LONG AS I'M HAPPY!" (that's why she acted all the way cute and fabulous in the end)

I think the ending part is kinda like the guy sees beauty as ayu. However, when she hugs him, she kinda tell him no, that's not me. And she pushes him away, making the guy confused about what's wrong with being beauty as ayu.
The whole PV kinda brings a positive msg rather than negative. Although for some parts it kinda makes it comical. like falling from the treadmill but she didn't give up and tried again. She fails again and decided that it's not what she's doing best at and decides to stop forcing herself and kicks the treadmill. Whereas at other areas, she proves that she can do equally well (if not better). She can still eat all she want, run as fast as others, doing aerobatics and dancing.

Originally Posted by hidekirby

What I care about are those sunglasses disappearing/appearing in his hands! But it's not like this PV had a great direction to begin with.

The sunglasses just switched from his left hand to his right hand. Obviously this guy is not a gd actor who knows about continuity.

[pommy48]

It looked more like she broke away, so she can show how happy she is after getting the hot guy to the audience
And the guy looked surprised before she started to do all those things to the camera.

They should have revealed in the end that the girl just hypnotized the guy to believe she was a skinny Japanese woman