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"Run The World" is hardly revolutionary (or good), but making a laundry list of obscure similarities between it and 10 years worth of Ayu's videos just seems... well, strange. Reaching, maybe? I don't know. I mean, we could say that some of the images rattled off are common symbols used in a lot of visual (pop) art. Seeing as both Ayu and Beyonce sell a similar image (the powerful diva), there's bound to be some overlap in the symbols used. But the cinematography is completely different, and we're picking out things as vague as "colorful costumes." And a burning car that's not even shot the same way... If that's our criteria, where do the similarities end? I guess I don't understand what's there to discuss.
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