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Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan
It's so strange that instead of just releasing the music videos MEANT for promotion and for fans (and non-fans) to hear/see, we have to now wait and rely on leaks in order to hear the songs in full.
it just seems backwards to me.
I swear it's like, Avex: "Our new strategy is, instead of airing full videos, we air half of it, but only sometimes. Sometimes we don't even do that. Sometimes we hold on to them and only air them a week after release. And since people in China get the cd's really fast, we'll let them leak it illegally before it's released and before videos have been shown. Also, we've just heard of this new site called YouTube, we're still looking up how to properly use that. We hear some people watch things on it."
I just remember the time when fairyland was sang on Hey!x3 like, a long time before the single was even released, and listening to and watching the show over and over and over and being so excited. I feel like it was much earlier than most of her performances went in terms of promoting before release date. (June 27th, 2005 was the Hey!x3 air date, the single was released August 3rd.) She performed it 4 times before it was released! gah
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The bolded part cracked me up.
I feel the same way. I remember when we would first hear a new song on a CM, and then she would perform it live several times before it was actually released, and then we would get the full-length PV...and THEN the new song would be officially released. The way avex does "promotion" anymore is just sad.
And don't get me started on the useless short version PVs.
They don't make me want to buy the PV anymore (because the only way I'll purchase a PV is if it's good...the WHOLE WAY THROUGH), and short versions don't necessarily make eventually watching the full version any more enjoyable...actually, they make the full version LESS enjoyable a lot of the time. Whoever came up with that bright idea needs to be fired.