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#2
27th November 2012, 02:33 AM
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I am SOOOO much more excited for 'again' than I was for "LOVE"!
Sweet Scar is just beautiful, Wake me up sounds promising, Snowy Kiss is not at all what anyone expected, and Ivy remains a mystery. This is going to be a masterpiece!!
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27th November 2012, 02:39 AM
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^ me too!
I loved LOVE, but Im thinking this is going to be so much better!!! I cant wait to get my hands on it! |
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27th November 2012, 02:39 AM
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Sweet Scar is already better than any of the "LOVE" songs imo. I just can't wait until this album leaks~!
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27th November 2012, 03:24 AM
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YES. We have specifics.
 So the "2012 uptempo rock number" is Wake me up, Sweet scar is the 'strong main vocal' ballad, snowy kiss is surprisingly the sad uplifting track, and Ivy is the medium ballad. Time to update. The order of the descriptions on the site was pretty on except for snowy kiss/Sweet scar switched. Very interesting for Ayu to title it as such. Almost everyone (actually didn't everyone?) thought that would be the ballad! Then again, snowy kiss is like an 'ice cold' kiss which kinda fits the same feel that Sweet scar does as a title.
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Last edited by truehappiness; 27th November 2012 at 03:34 AM. |
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27th November 2012, 03:26 AM
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Wonder if that means Ivy will be my least favorite...haha medium ballads tend to be so generic. High hopes though~!
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27th November 2012, 03:31 AM
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^ What are some other medium tempo ballads... because I might be thinking of different types of music...
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27th November 2012, 03:33 AM
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I think crossroad and MOON are 'medium ballads'.
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27th November 2012, 03:35 AM
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like MOON, Why..., Days, Sunset, Winding road...but come to think of it, I adore those except for Why... and Sunset. So maybe it will be amazing! haha I'm sure there are more, this is just off the top of my head.
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27th November 2012, 03:44 AM
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those are medium?? really! I couldnt really think of putting Moon and crossroad together... or Days...
but if those are the examples then i will be happy with Ivy. 
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27th November 2012, 03:47 AM
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^I mean I'm not an expert, because I've never heard of this genre before ayu, but those are my guesses, haha.
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27th November 2012, 03:51 AM
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yeah... i get so confused with her descriptions... lol...
but if it is like those I will like it. |
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27th November 2012, 05:00 PM
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27th November 2012, 06:22 PM
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27th November 2012, 08:22 PM
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Looking at Ayu's last 20 or so PVs, it's interesting to note that most of them only have one 'look' in them as opposed to the two or three we used to get in older videos or even just one or two 'scenes/backdrops' as opposed to a lot of different cuts from different angles which we normally see in music videos nowadays and even in her 1998-2006 videos. Maybe it's just due to Masashi Muto's changing habits as a director since he directed like 90% of the videos.
MOON - Hideaki Sunaga - two Ayus (ink Ayu + Ayu with dog) but mainly in the same two rooms blossom - Takahide Ishii - no Ayu at all crossroad - Masashi Muto - two Ayus (burning Ayu + TV Ayu) but mainly in the same room with the chair or the room with the lights Virgin Road - Masashi Muto - A few Ayus in different large dresses with Mannie and lots of scenes in the same general area of the CA desert Sweet Season - Luis Hernandez - "two" Ayus (mom Ayu + trashy Ayu in the end) in the same house, lots of kids... Love song - Masashi Muto - two Ayus (wig Ayu + long hair Ayu) featuring Mannie on a backlot set Last angel - Masashi Muto - four Ayus (Mannie Ayu + long hair Ayu + Virgin Road Ayu + parking lot Ayu) featuring Mannie at the backlot set, hotel, and parking lot do it again - Masashi Muto - two Ayus (bed Ayu + dog-walking Ayu) in B&W room and War of the Worlds set progress - Masashi Muto - "two" Ayus (hat Ayu + curls Ayu) in two scenes on a white backdrop and green screen at the end ANother song - Masashi Muto - one Ayu (fedora/cornrow Ayu) featuring Urata Naoya on a set Why... - Masashi Muto - two Ayus (sleeping Ayu + butterfly Ayu) featuring JUNO and lots of different angles on a studio set with green screen beloved - Leslie Kee - two Ayus (B&W dress Ayu + children Ayu) on a beach and in a plain studio BRILLANTE - Leslie Kee - one Ayu (superman Ayu) with Timmy and a LOT of guys in various studio shots Shake It♥ - Masashi Muto - one Ayu (UK Ayu) with Timmy and a lot of extras in an apartment NaNaNa - Masashi Muto / Hiroki Yokoyama - same as above at a club Return Road - Masashi Muto - one Ayu (black dress Ayu) at a power plant how beautiful you are - Masashi Muto - one Ayu (white dress Ayu) on a plain backdrop You & Me - Masashi Muto - a lot of casual Ayus with Maro Song 4 u - Masashi Muto - four Ayus (queen Ayu x 2 + pawn Ayu x 2) on a chessboard in the same 'scene' for the entire PV Missing - Masashi Muto - one Ayu (messy hair Ayu) in field with floating men Sweet scar - Wataru Takeishi - one Ayu (white blouse Ayu) on a studio set one-shot PV (we haven't seen Wake me up and snowy kiss yet, but they'll probably be like You & Me, just with another guy involved along with Maro) And looking at these PVs, there are only really about two or three PVs (bolded) that I think are similar to older PVs (2006 and before, I suppose... maybe 2007) she's had in terms of pacing and 'feel' but it's not a bad thing necessarily that most of the PVs are not like her older ones or even just like most pop PVs in general, it just makes for some underwhelmed fans. She needs to experiment with more directors, I think. After years of working with Wataru from 1998-2002, she switched things up and hired new talent in 2003 for & and that was really refreshing for the years afterward. Perhaps she needs to do that again at some point in the next year or two? Up until NEXT LEVEL or Rock'n'Roll Circus we had at least three directors per release compared to now where it's essentially all Masashi Muto. He's not bad but he's done almost eveeeeerrrryyything for the last 2+ years. Oh, it probably also doesn't help that the majority of the songs were medium in some way or a ballad.
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Last edited by truehappiness; 27th November 2012 at 08:26 PM. |
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