Favorite song that sadly had a bad PV?

[rainbow_smile]

progress was my biggest PV disappointment

and before that it was You were... I just loved the song sooo much back in the day, but the PV was too weird for me

And wow, I didn't know the blossom PV was so hated... I actually loved it xD And not because I'm a Jaejoong stan. I actually became his fan a few months after the PV was released

[Refix]

fairyland - It's so boring, despite it's one of her most expensive video. The song is boring too.
Pride - nothing special
Progress and Song 4 U - disappointing
XOXO - tacky
last minute - I expect more

There are more, but since they are nothing special so I don't remember.

[stepYOU1234]

BALLAD
The cats!

(don't)leave me alone
Bland and kind of tacky looking and not in a retro cool way

Love song and Last angel
Baaaad wig. It's a shame because Virgin Road with Mannie in was great. I felt so much more could be done with those songs.

Wake me up and Snowy Kiss
Weird Maro fighty PVs are not good PVs

XOXO
It's a parody right? But not a very good one...

and Dearest just hasn't aged very well. I think the fashion makes it look dated which is a shame because the PV would be good otherwise

[Gustavopc]

^ BALLAD? omg, it's one my favorite PVs from hers!

For me she has many plain PVs but they are still good, they don't need a circus going on to be good... If I had to say a GOOD song with a bad PV (cause all Colours PVs are bad videos for bad songs), I'd say Last angel. It's too confusing and doesn't match the song itself imo S:

[pimenta]

ANGEL'S SONG. I absolutely adore the song, but that pv is just....... WTH

And also Daybreak. I don't even like the version of the song used in the pv, but I love the original version so much.

[YukiUsagi]

Progress - Headache

[stepYOU1234]

Originally Posted by Gustavopc

^ BALLAD? omg, it's one my favorite PVs from hers!

I really liked BALLAD up to the cringey cartoon cats. They ruin it for me

[Aokani]

I'm not really a fan of Ayu's music videos in general, but the two MV's that really disappoint me are Dearest and GREEN.

[DonkeyKongRemix]

People astonish me! Most of the ones being listed are PVs that I think are amazing, like GREEN's and Sparkle. It boggles my mind how people dislike certain things so much but that just goes to show that people are all very different!

And to me Daybreak is so artistic and beautiful.

The main one that I think is just horrendous is Angel's Song. YIKES. And XOXO RUINED the song for me. XD

[//ABEST]

Angel i love that song but PV is so sad to watch, cheap Curtain call copy

[susiowong]

rainy day
Voyage
connected

I like Sparkle and Hanabi ~episode II~'s while everybody else seems to hate them.

[pimenta]

Originally Posted by Aokani

I'm not really a fan of Ayu's music videos in general, but the two MV's that really disappoint me are Dearest and GREEN.

wow, I actually love both of then haha

[terra]

Her PVs are mostly gorgeous but it falls flat at times, like lacking suspense or proper climax, it's not bad it's just there and that's it. Or my mind drew something from the song and the PV cannot capture that at all

My favorite songs with bad PV
ANGEL'S SONG - It's funny but it's not what I expected the PV will be.
(don't) Leave me alone - Boring.
GREEN - The last half falls flat, I was expecting something to happen but nothing.
Sparkle - I was expecting a more party PV, the latex idea is great but I don't like the execution.
Love song - That short wig is a no lol
Song 4 u - The dresses are gorgeous but that's it, for a song with build up the PV fails to match it.
The Trilogy with Maro - Just
XOXO - My initial expectation was a Summer Koda Kumi's having fun in LA kind, but I was so so wrong.
Lelio - She can use a better concept to present a just-dancing PV

[Aderianu]

CAROLS - so boring
ANGEL'S SONG - oh that wolf...
fated - I wish it be separate video, as part of Distance Love it's not very interesting. And I don't like ayu's look at wedding dress.
decision - boring
Microphone - I like part with ayu, but scenes with other people makes me sick. I never watch this PV in full.
blossom - because it's without ayu
BRILLANTE - I don't get the idea of Cleopatra at gym

[Delirium-Zer0]

Originally Posted by Aderianu

BRILLANTE - I don't get the idea of Cleopatra at gym

I just had to quote this cuz it's amazing, haha.

When I originally posted in this thread the only thing I posted was "Mirrorcle World"... I forgot about the thread but I really should add some of the others that disappointed me.

1) Born To Be... - I wasn't nuts about this song back in the day but it's grown on me over the last couple of years in a MAJOR way. But this... this is literally the only video Ayu's ever done that I consider to be a mistake. Others on this list may not be to my taste, but this one is the only one where I thought "This can't POSSIBLY be what they intended." The back lighting reeks of "we were trying to do the thing in Mika Nakashima's Yuki No Hana video but didn't know how." Which upsets me because Ayu's dress is gorgeous - at least I THINK it is, cuz you can't see it! The segment of Ayu & the others talking makes NO sense without someone explaining "This was a theme song for the olympics and at this part, she and the kids are talking about their dreams" because the video only has the song playing through there, the audio of them talking is mixed out. On top of it, that scene is the only part that looks like that - there's nothing to offset it, it sticks out like a sore thumb for the rest of the video. And the half-naked dude dancing in front of the lights, thanks to the back lighting, he actually looks naked, but even if his body were visible it would still be off-putting. I just... nothing about this video worked. I feel like if I were involved in the making of this video at all I'd be really really upset because it's very likely you couldn't see or hear my contribution to it.

2) BRILLANTE - speaking of male bodies making me uncomfortable. When they're just standing around it's off-putting enough, but when they're all this giant mass climbing up to grab at Ayu it's even worse. I don't think I've watched this video more than twice just because of how uncomfortable it makes me. I think I have a thing about muscular male bodies being unsettling to me lol... Traumatized by seeing chippendale dancers on TV talk shows as a child, perhaps? XD

3) Angel - geez. I was actually mostly okay with the whole "Curtain call"-esque segment, and the dancers coming in didn't seem all that out of place for me. But then the CG wings at the end.... x_x They were SO cheap, they clearly weren't programmed to occupy 3D space - Dancers are behind Ayu but their wings are in front of her, and it just looks SO terrible. I can't even say "it looks so fake" cuz at least that would fit in with the theme of the video - like, it's legitimately BADLY DONE. The most BASIC principles of 3D animation aren't obeyed here. It's a wreck. Also, more should ahve been done stylistically to make you say "Ayu's wings are not real, the dancers' wings are" outside of the color and the visible harness (which, honestly, they should have zoomed out on so it was more noticeable & obviously there on purpose). Like theirs should have been insanely detailed, and they should have been directed not to do any flips because that makes THEIR harnesses too obviously present... x_x

4) Lelio - I ADORE this song. But the video fell so entirely flat. The "calling" dance move needs to freaking die (HOW COULD YOU BRING THAT MOVE INTO LIVE PERFORMANCES, AYU!?!?! NOOOOOO), and the glitter hoodie with bare midriff may possibly be the most un-ayu thing she's ever worn - she comes across as just unbearably phony through most of this video, she is clearly trying WAY too hard to have a "cool dance video." I liked the flat-color flash-animation visual style of the video though, honestly, which I know wasn't to the taste of many people here... to me that was the only thing the video did right.

I don't actually like XOXO so I won't go into that video being a disappointment, but it was about 90% ineffective.

5) progress - I freaking love this song, I think it rocks and it's epic and I love the time change. But if there's one thing I HATE about any kind of visual piece - whether it's a moving image or a still one - it's when I don't know what I'm supposed to be looking at. SOMETHING needs to be guiding my eye at all times, and this has NOTHING of the sort. It's just like... noise. It's picture noise blowing past me, and I get the point after about 15 seconds of it. There's no reason for it to go the length of the entire video. Also, Ayu in the intro & Ayu at the end are too stylistically different so there's nothing tying them together. They're both one-off Ayus. Ayu has a ton of videos that do that and it's like "wtf why??" like the sparkly close-up Ayu in the "Rule" video, but it bothers me here especially just cuz the rest of the video didn't work.



AND NOW STATISTICS because that's fun!

The current ranking of the 30 most-disliked Ayu videos, just based on this thread. (Same number indicates a tie.)

1. ANGEL'S SONG
2. Born To Be...
3. Sparkle
4. decision
4. (don't) Leave me alone
4. Mirrorcle World
7. NEXT LEVEL
8. GREEN
9. Voyage
10. Bold & Delicious
11. Daybreak
12. glitter/fated
13. CAROLS
14. Connected
14. TO BE
16. Pride
16. rainy day
18. Curtain call
19. Dearest
19. progress
19. XOXO
22. Endless sorrow
22. HANABI ~episode II~
24. BRILLANTE
24. GAME
24. Last angel
24. SURREAL
24. walking proud
24. You were...
30. vogue Far away SEASONS

[ayumint]

NaNaNa
Lelio
XOXO
Shake it

[LONJJONG]

I actually like ANGEL'S SONG, though it didn't make sense but it's hilarious and that's all

evolution - wasted potential for such a great song! I prefer watching the Dome Tour performance.
BLUE BIRD - not a fan of the scenes of Ayu having fun with dancers and the buffet. The execution can be better and not to look like a BTS clip.

[Sky High]

Pride
Daybreak
CAROLS
Angel

[xLuna&1LOVE]

^ omygod by bringing up this thread, I noticed I was completely savage by saying that RAINBOW has a bad PV.
I take it back of course. I don't know what took over my body that day.
Also, I really like CAROLS. Simple, and the carousel shots are beautiful.

[thinkingoutloud89]

was in shook to see Daybreak and HANABI II - both are cinematically awesome PVs, especially the latter.

to add something: I always disliked forgiveness to a certain point, but I don't think it is really bad.