Thoughts about the INSPIRE PV

[JimmyKoria]

Didnt it seem like the theme was "we've gotta make it through the desert, but together (and with some dancing) we can do it!" and its more like the flash back to her past life. So she had to bare her way (dancing and being carried) through the desert and the hard times to get to the good times (having money and love of millions) in the now. Its almost like the past was more, timid and ununctrolled, and the present is control (with buildings and stuff). =\ anyone agree?

Moments was so a better pv, it was pointless at times but it had better symbolism, like the kids breaking those facless drawing maniquins, a much sweeter pv. And "real me" was kind of the same...maniquins are just facless until you put a face on them.

[BanFan]

Reposted from other Inspire PV Thread:

I liked the song for a while but now I'm sick of it...I watched this video and I was pretty disgusted (no offense)...I thought Real Me would be the first and last video with dancing (Evolution doesn't count)...The whole video was just not really very Ayumi...I wanted her to do something different, but I guess I would have prefered something good and familiar. I hope Game's PV is better...*very glad he didn't get the Inspire CD+DVD*

I would have prefered something similar to the cover...I think her hair and clothes bugged me a lot...She should go back to black hair, it looks good, like in Kanariya!

[TeamAyu]

I think that I'm going to really love this PV as I was totally in love with [Real me] but I think most people dislike it because it doesn't have a 'story' or 'deep meaning' that were all use to from Ayu. Maybe she just wanted to have some fun and be just a little crazy hahaha but overall I think it's not bad.

[BanFan]

Oddly enough, I love Real Me's PV, but I hate this video...

[TeamAyu]

Originally Posted by fireworks501

my opinion on it is that ayumi has come to the point where she knows what she has to say - the "no one can live without love" - and i feel the way she says it in the chrous when she's dancing is so effective. it's not weak or understated, it's "here-i-am, dancing-in-the-water-with-hot-men, dressed-like-a-vamp, AND-THIS-IS-WHAT-IT-IS!".... it's strong, effective, visual, and certainly unique. it follows a tradition that she's established.

this is a very strong visual/audio/content tie-in. not as strong as OURSELVES - which i think in terms of linking content with audio and visuals, was simply her best - but i loved it. moments may have been pretty, but it was weak.

i think INSPIRE is just a video of celebration, of expression, of ayumi, of her experience, of who she is.

and i love it.






ps. easy breezy eats ass.

Well said ^___^

[tl1029530921]

a lotta namie's videos r just dancing too..

[JimmyKoria]

Real me wasnt that bad of a video, in a way it was corny, Inspire isnt corny video at all, but it dosent seem hamasaki like to me either.

[kournikova]

its a nice pv ^^

[yamogi]

there are storyline, did any notice there are butterfly in Ayu's back and in the entire pv, and there are also spider web that symbolize something? and the billboard is different in the end, a red object(can't figure out what it is) was added in the board.

[ImpactBreaker]

The PV is all about art, just like the reason ayu gave for making the song. If you notice you have many srtyles of art featuring in it.

-The Paintings
-The Dancing
-The Architeture
-The Theater
-The Filming (PV itself LOL)
-The Music (obviously)

I love the coreography, looks really egyptian, they definitely put some efforts in making that, it isn't like a typical BoA coreography you will see out there and neither that childish Trauma dance but something mature instead. There's quite a lot of style I think.

[tl1029530921]

Originally Posted by yamogi

there are storyline, did any notice there are butterfly in Ayu's back and in the entire pv, and there are also spider web that symbolize something? and the billboard is different in the end, a red object(can't figure out what it is) was added in the board.

um..that would be her..lol

[PrismaticTears]

Yeah but Namie's a dancer and she has the proper poise.

Didn't like the PV very much at all. Some visuals like the butterfly and riding on the cart were alright, the rest I didn't like. Real Me, I liked the dancing, some of it was interesting, this one I really didn't like it whatsoever. It's like watching your (blood related female family member) jump up on a table and strip. Not someone you expect to see acting that way, not someone you want to (assuming you're not into incest). Again with the red makeup, cherry/brick/fire engine red is awful IMO on her. Clothing is fine, on her face it completely detracts from everything else. The tight pulled back hair also got to me, japanese females just really never look good in cornrows/tight pulled-back braids 99.9% of the time.

Off of image, it seems like the director mashed the Voyage video into barely recognizable chunks, masticated it, then vomited it all back up into a bowl of hibiscuses in the middle of an LA ghetto with hispanics playing guitars in the background. Y'know what I think might've worked since it seems they were so intent on copying Voyage? Subservient girl getting married to someone she doesn't want to, escaping her family/marriage and living the life she wanted, loving whom she wanted to love. Trite, cheesy, overdone, but better than what they served up here. This has about as much plot as Panic Room and I hated that movie with a passion, I went to go see it because I got in free. Like someone else mentioned, this looks like something Britney Spears would've done, bad dancing and all.

[tsuki]

she's beautiful... and the BOYS!! o_O' *noosebleed*

[ImpactBreaker]

Originally Posted by PrismaticTears

Off of image, it seems like the director mashed the Voyage video into barely recognizable chunks, masticated it, then vomited it all back up into a bowl of hibiscuses in the middle of an LA ghetto with hispanics playing guitars in the background. Y'know what I think might've worked since it seems they were so intent on copying Voyage? Subservient girl getting married to someone she doesn't want to, escaping her family/marriage and living the life she wanted, loving whom she wanted to love. Trite, cheesy, overdone, but better than what they served up here. This has about as much plot as Panic Room and I hated that movie with a passion, I went to go see it because I got in free. Like someone else mentioned, this looks like something Britney Spears would've done, bad dancing and all.

But there's NO hispanic guitar in the song at all. Why do ppl insist in saying this song has a latin feel to it? It has no elements of latin music at all.

[kinoblue]

x-posted in other Inspire Thread:

ayu's gone hindu with those mad nail things - they look great.

I must admit that's the only part of the clip I actually like...it is easier to understand than a lot of her clips, but after ourselves and Because of you etc. I was expecting more of her incredible originality and flare...this is just mediocre, in Ayu-terms anyway. I still really like the song...and from the picture on the "Inspire" CD I was hoping that would reflect the PV...oh well...

[minkAYuko]

hahaha... it's indian... not LAtin at all!!!....

-I think AYU had a nose-job? anyone noticed that? on the scene minute 2:08 her nose looks different.

-I like this video and and before in thread on thoughts of how the PV would be like.. I said.. this is what I saidn 23rd June 2004, 11:34 am hehehe

QUOTE: "I think her video would be like she walking down a street.. with things going on arounde her... then turning into something fantastic but i don't know what....

or her face in front of the camera in a fantastinc setting or... something like never ever..

not very original..? hehehehe"

that's the last scene hehe... so i kinda guess it.

[Corybobory]

All I can say is, I want her hat.

[TeamAyu]

I don't understand why ALL of Ayu's PV's have to have a plot... they are JUST Promotional Videos after all. And like Impact said maybe it's just a celebration of love and art and not necessarily having to focus on a plot most of her PVs come to think of it don't really have a plot...

[truehappiness]

Well, this song kinda was made for the Guggenheim art exhibition =3

Zeo

[gakkun]

My honest opinion is: I loved the PV!!!! Mostly because of the guys...........and they were shirtless. what more can you ask for!!?? at least it didn't have half nude Indian/Egyptian/Thai/Sri Lankan/whatever -looking girls dancing around wiggling their assets, or whatever. I hope Ayu keeps this tradition.