Return Road PV thoughts

[tasking]

Originally Posted by emi♡

But, idk, I'm just tired of her doing this for these songs. And actually, I did not like the pairing together. I liked the song earlier by itself, and I like the PV without the song.

Yeah, this is the third "no singing/no listening to music" type of PV she's done I think.

I admit the ending shocked me though. Was it shot before or after the divorce? Because Ayu said in her message that she realized things weren't working when everybody started wishing her happy anniversary. So if it was shot before... we know her explanation was ******** lol

[Aderianu]

[A-TeensFan]

did you guys notice that what she was wearing in Return Road is the same as in Virgin Road, except that it is black? I wonder if there is any connection between 2 PVs?

[bluegie]

Originally Posted by JinHamasaki

Caught it right away.

My short thoughts:
The tank Ayu returns in is coming back to Japan (or decided to stay put) after the whole earthquake/tsunami disaster. Is she wearing black to mourn for the loss of her country? I can't 100% place my finger on it...

I knew the beginning was about the fukuyama power plant. I got confused the other way around tho. I felt like ayu was going into the building to destroy something, because before they went into the building, the building was fine. Once they plugged the guitar and drums etc., the machine started breaking down.

I think the mv really talked about her life last year, like she wanna moved to the US with Mannie, but after the earthquake she stayed in Japan. In the end they divorced. I dun follow her twitter but you guys said that she had tweeted the mv was not about her divorce. This is the most confusing part...:p

[BlackSilence]

my first thought.... Fukushima...... it's kinda like she's looking for someone, maybe it's about family friends and so on....the context is so obvious!

OMG that photo... there's definitelly some link to the Love song videos, and the dress is definitellt OF TH SAME cut....

[Aderianu]

Originally Posted by bluegie

Once they plugged the guitar and drums etc., the machine started breaking down.

maybe it's Power of Music?

btw, she has long hair in the beginning of PV and short in the end.
and she cut her hair after disaster

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by bluegie

I knew the beginning was about the fukuyama power plant. I got confused the other way around tho. I felt like ayu was going into the building to destroy something, because before they went into the building, the building was fine. Once they plugged the guitar and drums etc., the machine started breaking down.

I think the mv really talked about her life last year, like she wanna moved to the US with Mannie, but after the earthquake she stayed in Japan. In the end they divorced. I dun follow her twitter but you guys said that she had tweeted the mv was not about her divorce. This is the most confusing part...:p

Actually, it was this:

Some keywords from S Cawaii:

-The title "Party Queen" gives Ayu a sad feeling. (I believe Ayu has said in the past she is not a party person...?)
-There are zero happy love songs.
-call was originally the first song, she switched it. (Doesn't say why)
-Eyes, Smoke, Magic and the last LOVE were composed by Timmy, they are musical-esque.
-Return Road and Virgin Road have no relation, even though many people have asked her.
-Shake It♥ is "gay" sounding (?). The "girls" in the lyrics is in reference to gay men, and how they refer to themselves in that way.*
-Tell me why uses the very masculine form of "I", "ore", which the first time she has done so in her lyrics.

*She used the word オカマ/okama when referencing Shake It♥, if that helps anyone. In Japan, many feminine gay men use "atashi" when referring to themselves, which is the feminine way of saying "I" in Japanese.
**She also mentioned the song which she wrote in the airplane going to London, but...I don't remember which haha. I think it was reminds me, but I can't verify that until proper scans come out.

that was based on this aswer:

By the way, there seems to be many people who see the "road" in 「Return Road」 to be the same as the one in 「Virgin Road」, and draw a connection to your marriage and divorce. We as outsiders probably would not understand everything that has happened, and it is impossible to use our common opinion to explain an extraordinary life like ayu's.
"I've never wished for others to understand me. I aim to get through to others, to make them believe in me, but everyone is free to feel whatever they want from my songs."

as far as I remember she never twitted the songs arent related, did she?

[panda♥]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Someone brought up a parallel to the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant disaster which I can kind of see in the PV. Wonder if anyone else caught it.

i was interpreting the PV in my head this morning and kept thinking "some kind of nuclear warfare or something", but now it makes sense, lol.
aren't those nuclear reactors shown at the beginning of the PV??

By the way, there seems to be many people who see the "road" in 「Return Road」 to be the same as the one in 「Virgin Road」, and draw a connection to your marriage and divorce. We as outsiders probably would not understand everything that has happened, and it is impossible to use our common opinion to explain an extraordinary life like ayu's.
"I've never wished for others to understand me. I aim to get through to others, to make them believe in me, but everyone is free to feel whatever they want from my songs."

to me, that doesn't really mean RR and VR aren't connected, i think she's leaving it up to us to decide.
Ayu has always been really vague like that.

[YUKARI]

I actually hated the idea of using the photo. Why so obvious, ayu? I really don't like how she makes money from her private life.

[channy]

I think the foto at the end of the musicvideo lets the marriage seem even more fake and manufactured than ever before. They needed something for "Love songs" album release (marriage + PVs) and now "Party Queen" (divorce + PV) .____.

[Neo Daydream]

Originally Posted by A-TeensFan

did you guys notice that what she was wearing in Return Road is the same as in Virgin Road, except that it is black. I wonder if there is any connection between 2 PVs?

yes! I noticed! I was just about to ask if anyone else did! The dress looked super familiar and then after the picture at the end is picked up, I was like "OMIGOSH!"

I like the PV ok but the sound effects of what was going on was WAY too loud. I could barely hear Ayu's voice sometimes. I think Timmy's backing vocals will probably grow on me. I don't like em right away but I respect Ayu as an artist so if she likes the songs with them in there, I will listen and learn to love it.

I do think we needed more Ayu scenes in this.

[Maemi]

The only interesting part of this is PV is its ending lol

P.S. I totally agree!

Originally Posted by YUKARI

I actually hated the idea of using the photo. Why so obvious, ayu? I really don't like how she makes money from her private life.

Originally Posted by channy

I think the foto at the end of the musicvideo lets the marriage seem even more fake and manufactured than ever before. They needed something for "Love songs" album release (marriage + PVs) and now "Party Queen" (divorce + PV) .____.

[isthisLOL?]

The execution wasn't all that great. Bad CGI, some mediocre image compositions mixed in...but as a whole I liked it. I very much enjoyed the connections to Virgin Road and Microphone(which it is connected to in my interpretation, I did not actually connect it to the power plant disaster that much, but now that people point it out it seems just as plausible)

[kotora]

Based on some members interpretation, so I can see one or more PV coming ????

Love Song -> Last Angel -> Virgin Road -> Return Road -> ??????

I hope not it is not true that she extends the series of the story...hmmm Well I am confused sometimes when I read people's post here.

[isthisLOL?]

The Love Song -> Last Angel -> Virgin Road storyline is closed, it's a story that repeats itself in an endless circle. It's thought that Return Road may be a RESPONSE to that rather than a continuation.

[Larien]

Originally Posted by YUKARI

I actually hated the idea of using the photo. Why so obvious, ayu? I really don't like how she makes money from her private life.

Originally Posted by channy

I think the foto at the end of the musicvideo lets the marriage seem even more fake and manufactured than ever before. They needed something for "Love songs" album release (marriage + PVs) and now "Party Queen" (divorce + PV) .____.

Hang on, now, is that really fair?

I felt super weird about Ayu's shotgun wedding, too, and didn't understand what was going on with any of it. You know, though, the intricacies and authenticity of their relationship, if you want to make that the object of the conversation here, is not something that I think it's fair of us to criticize at this point - Ayu - and Mannie - have gone through a painful process with this divorce crap, whatever their relationship history before. I can say nothing about the Love Songs era events, but at this point, I don't think it's fair to say Ayu's using this whole affair "to make money." She's an artist; she's using her music, etc. to sort out her feelings and come to terms with events.

The point some people made about when this song was written/when the PV was filmed in relation to Ayu's actual divorce, however, is, frankly, yes, pretty...erm, awkward. :-/

[ayuuk]

Originally Posted by isthisLOL?

The Love Song -> Last Angel -> Virgin Road storyline is closed, it's a story that repeats itself in an endless circle. It's thought that Return Road may be a RESPONSE to that rather than a continuation.

Agree, but I am clueless why the picture is there at the end. I think that's kinda unnecessary.

[YUKARI]

^^ I was talking only about the photo. For me it's OK if this song was about the relationship between her and Mannie, but why omg why did she use THAT photo again? it just makes everything too obvious, too manufactured. I wish she didn't, seriously. This ruins the very good impression the PV makes. as soon as everyone understands that Return Road is connected with Mannie I wish she didn't make it THAT obvious. that's why I got this feeling that she just uses her private life to gain more attention and etc.

[tetsuo69]

pv was boring, but the song i find it to be really good

[yoshino]

I love the song and this is really the typical Ayu pv that I love too!!

I dun quite get the marching part. but the photo of her and Mannie makes me feel so sad.. Isn't this a divorce song by her? Although Ayu says it's not but it's hard to believe. =(