Just a general question
As you all know Ayu has had some quite expensive PVs, and five of them are actually on the list of the most expensive music videos ever.

And these are:
Fairyland - $2,000,000
Jewel - $1,100,000
Virgin Road - $1,000,000
Green - $1,600,000
My name's women - $2,000,000

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My name's women? How the hell can that video have cost 2 milion dollars?!!

^ they had to pay her. lol...

I need to get back into listening to ayumi daily... I havent done it all week!!!
But her new album is coming out this week... SOOOOO...

Whaat? you think that Ayu's salery is what made that video expensive? >.< That doesn't make sense.. That means every PV of hers are supposed to cost 2 mil usd

No... but you do have to think about all the people they had to pay. (and ayumi was most likely the most expensive)
Plus factor in taxes and what not. The dance moves, the bar thing was probably rented out (meaning it wasnt a set which cost extra money).
Usually videos that are filmed inside the country are more expensive then videos filmed outside of the country and I dont see a reason why the would film this outside the country.

I would guess that 1LOVE, STEP you, Ladies Night, Blue Bird, Part of me and Mirrorcle World would be way expensive than my name's WOMEN.
I just can't wrap my mind around that my name's women cost the same as fairyland, where they burned down a hut.. @_@

Im so happy about the new songs!
we have 3 new full songs!!
SAKURA is the best, of course. Bye bye darling... blah.. I give it a quick listen but didnt really pay attention...
untitled part 2 seems such a drag... its on the verge of being interesting, but not quite...
I would say it gives melody a run for its money, but it doesn't.
there's my melody hate that I seem to be able to post EVERYWHERE!... i wonder how that happens.
=)

what is everyone elses thoughts on the new music!

I posted my opinions on the Love again thread; but quick summarized
I'm so tired of ballads I can't even listen to them, so SAKURA and Untitled for her pt2 goes out. (Sakura has very nice vocals though, untitled is VERY BORING)

I liked bye-bye darling, but I wish it was more verse and less chorus, the song is too repetitive, aka I'm gonna go bored within 40 listens.

I want to attend Saitama's and Yoyogi's shows... Hmm... But also thinking about going to Fukuoka during The Golden Week... hmmm what should I do

Yoyogi usually had the biggest BAM concerts! But I heard from a friend that went to Fukuoka that it's extra special, since its Ayus hometown, like how she talks in Fukuoka dialect when she's there and how she bonds more with the audience. It sounds so sweet~! I would have gone to Fukuoka

ohhhh... I wonder if it would be fun to go there!!
Ill have golden week off from work, so I could make that one of the shows im gonna go to!!

its my first concert so i plan to go to a lot of shows... I know she changes it up here and there, so im hopping to catch some of the differetn stuff!!

my name's WOMEN is longer than her usual videos, and this alone makes it more expensive than usual, as you spend more time producing it, needs to pay more hours to the staff and extras, etc.

Like I said before, I was only able to listen to Sakura

LOVED IT

you still cant listen to the others?!
on facebook petal is up!

Sakura, petal and bye bye darling are up for download in the download section!

My friend is picking up her review of ayumis music from a song for xx to current soon!!!! Yay.

Ayu looks like a dollfie on the March issue of SCawaii. o_o;

I thought I read somewhere that it was because they had to build the club set specifically for the PV.

mi|kshake~

I dont know why virgin road made me cry...
i'm turning into a SAP
ughhhh

I think it's 50 000 JPY for membership, then if you don't live in Japan, you need to pay a place like TENSO to hold and post your goods to you. Maybe their prices went down a bit but to Australia they were pretty pricey when I bought an album from them via YAJ. I just can't justify the cost when Perfume is so cheap lol

It's 6000 yen for the A membership with the TeamAyu website (and all the stuff that comes with B) and 4000 yen for the B membership for only the magazines and tickets and gifts and stuff. ^^

http://fc.avex.jp/ayu/index.html