what's so expensive about my names WOMEN?
 

well it's one of the three most expensive pvs ayu has made...but what's so expensive about it?

I think one of the most expensive things about it was hiring out the club that they used.

^i wonder how expensive it is

and also, hiring those western model?

Interesting question you have raised! Hmm...

judging from the props used in the pv wouldn't make it expensive
what club was it? and if it have the same value as the jewels used in JEWEL, it must be expensive, is the club in europe?

no idea man

I always thought JEWEL was the most expensive PV coming from ayumi , I was surprised it goes to fairyland

for fairyland I think it's because of the house that was burnt down at the end . If so it seems silly to burn & throw away US$2 million down the drain if that's the case !

If it's for JEWEL , then I can understand due to all the bling bling that was used .

For my name's WOMEN , I really don't know . I always thought that the club venue in the PV was in the studio & all

for fairyland, i think it will be quite expensive to borrow a piece of land from hawaii government, besides that, the helicopter they used, the burning house and other stuff, it will be make sense if it is damn expensive. for my name's women, maybe the women are all super model in their country?

for the airplane fees to hawaii, does that count?
and the models weren't really all that pretty...i think

I still think that it's the whole burning of the house which constitutes a big bulk of the production $

LOL

I think the people in the PV were her friends

there are so many people used in mnW, and also special music mix

oo what about earring ayu was wearing, could it be really expensive?
but how do they determine how expensive a pv is? do they keep count of everything they used? everything they rent

fairyland, i think what's most expensive could just be the land they were filming on, the helicopter...could cost a lot to rent, but i still think airplane fees would be a lot..., maybe they had a boat at the beginning, when the camera was coming close to the beginning. what about the dance lessons?

Edit: did the people in my names WOMEN costed a lot to hire?

lol

there's so many possible reasons as to why my name's WOMEN PV is expensive

it's too bad there're no main reason as to why that's so :(

if the helicopter fees is high, then what will BLUE BIRD's PV cost? they even rent a big boats for that

I checked on travelocity.com for ticket pricings from Tokyo to Honolulu and it was about US$1,300 for one adult.

^i wonder how many staff and dancer going along with ayu

i would think a lot, and include the camera people, unless they use natives?
but did they shot it during summer or spring, cause the plane tickets are more during the vacation seasons

I've been wondering that too! No idea thogh...

Honestly I don't like My Name's WOMEN's PV at all :no

About fairyland
Helicopters are not SO expencive to rent but maybe she bought one and threw it to trash can :mischief

^^Yeah... I don't care too much for the PV either. I really do wonder why it's so expensive.... :no

me too

I always thought the price tag to it's decent but I didn't except it's ranked on par with JEWEL & fairyland , price tag to the PV wise

;/ hmm.
indeed this is really a good question, haha.
i guess should be the club renting fees? but hor.. my name's women de MV not really that nice leh -.- i mean other than ayu act sexy and cool inside the mv.. there's nothing more -.- lol. i think fairyland is much better as compare to my name's women o.0 (IMO)

its expensive to hire so many caucasians.

They hired a lot of models that lived in Japan. One of the models gave their account of the entire thing in her blog. She was South American I think, but lived in Japan.

Also, it's highly possible that the cost of the PV was so high because they didn't rent out a club, but rather, they built the set from scratch. I'm sure there are more details in the MTV-made making of my name's WOMEN. Perhaps someone should uh, watch it.

Most of ayu's PVs' places are built only for PV shoting, and there was only one place.

So, maybe all this can make it expencive but it looks cheaper than it is. :(

Actually, I think it's the reverse of that. It looks "cheap" [as in not too expensive.. in a positive way.] but is much more expensive than we expect.

The making of my name's WOMEN here:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=80SC4NZD

Such a waste of money too :(

It only cost a little less than a million dollars to make.

it was never the club..think of...for that amount you could build your own one

fro fairyland it was(...besides the burning thing in a forest XD) surely that all the people around her (let it be 200 in complete) had to get to hawaii and to stay theer fro at least 1-2 days and so on and so forth

fairyland cost a lot due to architecture and stuff. Though I do wonder if they completely burned the house down or if it's still there...

It could still be there. If someone from Hawaii went searching.. maybe they could find it.

Why My Name's Women is so expensive is interesting... I mean, many Ayu PV's seem way more expensive than that, even Endless Sorrow, Mirrorcle World and others

Many of Ayu's more expensive looking PVs imo, rely extensively on CGI.

Endless sorrow is sort of an example of this. Sort of.

the 1 that looked cheapskate was Daybreak :P

Well, Daybreak was a recut single and shouldn't have even gotten a PV.

Same kinda goes for Fly high and kanariya but eh.

er ya that's true but I think Avex wanted a PV to be make for Daybreak just for the sake of it

un-necessary I tell you :no

I was also surprised to find out on wikipedia that my name's WOMEN cost about 1 million. I guess the reasons some people gave like building the club from scratch is legit but if it's that expensive, it should have multiple wow factors which i didn't get. And the 1300 round trip to hawaii, i think that's economy price. They probably flew at least business =O

^ 1st class even possible

Well, wow factor #1 was the massive amount of people used in the PV, and wow factor #2 was that everything was probably made specially for the shoot [jewelry maybe not, but perhaps clothes and stuff or lack thereof..]

Do you have the link to that blog? Although, it would be a pretty old entry if it's still there. And I've watched the making, I just don't understand a single thing they say. :no

To be honest, I also think that the outfits of Ayu, Etsu and Chiharu where quite expensive too. But yeah, if you watch the Making of you see the club is just a set.

So her most expensive PVs are my name's WOMEN, JEWEL and fairyland.

^ Yea it wasn't an actual club that they rented out; it was a set so they built it to look like one.

I'm not sure, they could be worth a lot but I think most of the costs comes from the equipment and decorations. Club decorations and equipment (lights, platforms, glass cups, etc) sometimes end up being more expensive than the club itself