Crossroad PV similar to Eminem's 'Love the way you lie' PV

[ImpactBreaker]

The symbolism and concept of the crossroad PV are enough to just not make me think about whatever it might have copied. I'm sure eminen's video doesn't have the emaning of burning ayu wanted to portray, since burning different matches mean choosing roads in life that leaves a track of ash as memories in the past, and while she stands there thinking, she's chosen a road and burns until what's left is ashes. This was my interpretation on the PV and it suits pretty well with the song lyrics imo:

Originally Posted by ImpactBreaker

The PV does show a bit of what the lyrics mean. That when you chose paths in life, sometimes they cause changes that never can be restored. That's what happens when you light a match. It burns along the trail until all that's left is ashes (The decision made and the past turning into ashes). Once match has be lighten, it can light other matches (opens roads to new decisions) and once the new roads are chosen, those trails will also get burned and turned to ashes. So what if red dressed pyromaniac ayu was not set into fire? What if she had lighten other matches instead of the ones she did? would her life have been different? If she thinks about the past, she can remember the warmth of the fire they once were, but still, they've just become ashes now. Did the decisions she make turned her into a rose or a burnt rose? While she just stands there thinking, she's made her own decision of yet starting a new road on fire, and in the end the path was traced and all the contemplation becomes ashes. This proves this last paragrpah:

Also from the lyrics:

What was it that just became ashes and what is this part of the match that is burning right now? I kinda interpret it like that lol.

The PV was not full of excitement but that's what the lyrics are about, getting melancholic and contemplating about decisions (crossroad) and the past; it wasn't that bad. I'm digging the song more now.

[Delirium-Zer0]

That and Ayu has compared herself to a blooming and withering flower in the past, and she combusts into an utter bonfire of flower petals after she's completely gone. The meaning of combusting & exploding in such a manner isn't out of character for ayu, and if you gonna have Ayu turn into a bunch of loose flower petals, isn't fire the best way to do it and have it really make an impact? I would have made the same creative decisions in her & the director's place regardless of whether people had been on fire in a recent video.