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Old 21st September 2010, 08:33 PM
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Old 21st September 2010, 09:12 PM
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Kinda disappointing!

She looks gorgeous, and the fire thing was nice, but she could've done SO much more with it. She's just sitting there. She could've gotten up, she could've danced while slowly burning away, she could've set other things on fire, I can think of about a hundred interesting things they could've done with the fire, but they didn't do anything and just let her... sit.
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Old 21st September 2010, 09:26 PM
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I really do like the song, but the PV...it's kinda blegh...The red dress Ayu freaked me out, she looked plastic to me and those lips, but I absolutelly loved the shots of her in a black outfit. They could have dome MUCH better!
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Old 21st September 2010, 09:52 PM
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I really like that PV.... no idea why.. but I really enjoy watching it.
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Old 21st September 2010, 10:12 PM
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It's pretty, it's symbolic. Her outfits are gorgeous!!

But it's pretty dull in the end.

MOON gave more for me. Both of them are filled with emotions. But in crossroad she starts fire up pretty early and then you just watch her in the tv (love that hair and outfit) and the red dressed ayu flaming up.

In MOON and Dlb the birg turn in the PV's always showed in the end. You builded up this long wondering for the whole song and then you see the turning end that makes you think like crazy. In crossroad this starts a bit to early to me so I start to become bored and then I loose interest.

But it's a very pretty PV. The colours and scenery is lovely!
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Old 21st September 2010, 10:21 PM
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TV Ayumi was so pretty, the other Ayumi looked like Ayumi's twin brother in a horribly cut wig. I wonder if its supposed to mean reincarnation or something. Not too exciting unfortunately, I wish she did something like the 'space in between'
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Old 21st September 2010, 10:58 PM
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overall as a PV i'd give it a B since the fire was really cheap looking. but i love the message of the PV. i missed PV's like this that had a clear message.
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Old 21st September 2010, 11:10 PM
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Well, on the preview picture the fire looked very fake. In the video it was all okay.
The end was disappointing though.
Kinda part of me.

Doesn't mean I didn't like it. It was an okay PV.
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Old 21st September 2010, 11:14 PM
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meh...boring...what saved the pv for me was how gorgeous ayumi looked.
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Old 21st September 2010, 11:22 PM
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I love it!
love it love it love it!
So amazing and beautiful, even though the fire starts early
its so beautiful to just watch her burn? (that sounds wrong)
but it is
Ayu is gorgeous both the tv ayu and fire ayu
reminded me of Because OF You because it focused a bit on tv as well
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Old 22nd September 2010, 12:06 AM
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It was a pretty good PV; it's not my favourite, but I think it's still beautiful. There's something about it I just loved.
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Old 22nd September 2010, 12:13 AM
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It's beautiful but boring like MOON, we can see just how she is burning herself
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Old 22nd September 2010, 01:40 AM
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omg she looks so pretty, but jeez, it was so boring!!!
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Old 22nd September 2010, 01:47 AM
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i actually am very happy with this PV.

and to those saying the fire looked fake, i don't get it. watching the making of shows that the fire is real, its just been edited onto ayumi and i thought it looked very great and very realistic. what did look like crap was the fireball in the end. that was really bad, not just in how it looked, but as an end to the PV. it could have ended much better.

yes, she is beautiful in this video. i wondered if she wore blue contacts for the TV screen ayu.

also, i thought it was WAY better than MOON's PV. i already said this in another thread, but it was similar to moon because in both she is consumed in something (oil vs fire) and she just sort of sits there in both and lets it happen. i thought it was an interesting sort of link.
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Old 22nd September 2010, 01:47 AM
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boring. disappointing. fire the ****ing director.
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Old 22nd September 2010, 01:52 AM
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boring. disappointing. fire the ****ing director.
please no. Masashi Muto is amazing. you don't like his other PV's with ayu either?
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Old 22nd September 2010, 02:01 AM
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not much happened, but i still liked it. the parts i love the most are ayumi in the television screens, though, lol. even though not much happened in the PV, i still feel like it was pretty symbolic, in a way.
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Old 22nd September 2010, 02:36 AM
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I liked it, but it's not my favorite. I did like watching Ayu on fire, as horrible as that sounds. XD TV Ayu looks gorgeous, and I think she was wearing blue contacts, unless they edited the color of her eyes. Overall, I'd rate it as a B. I will watch it again, but I won't be watching it frequently.
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Old 22nd September 2010, 02:49 AM
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even though nothing drastic happened, i liked it! not her best, but i liked the atmosphere and the overall look to it.

Ayu looked gorgeous in the PV though. (even if she looked a bit too plastic at times, haha. )
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Old 22nd September 2010, 03:04 AM
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It's not the best PV but something about it is very compelling. The Ayu playing with the matches has such a a creepy and sad atmosphere ( why is she continuously smiling?)...I get the feeling she's not even human. The TV Ayu, on the other hand, is very emotive and it looks like she is singing to the burning Ayu. I think there is more to this PV than meets the eye.
It is a tad boring though
But I really like the atmosphere.
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