[ARASHI] The STORM isn't over, so don't Refrain...*thread #30*

[Beauty4123]

aww, that's so cute! i can still clearly remember when DAIGO was on shudukai-kun back in '08, lol. i bet him & aiba have tons of fun hanging out!

[KarenPang]

haha yes both of them are in the same wavelength , airheaded & etc

it's funny that MatsuJun commented that he feels he's on the same wavelength as DAIGO when DAIGO appeared on Shukundai some 3 years back erm o_O

it will be true if DAIGO is a DoS like MatsuJun (unfortunately he's a DoS only when he's onstage) but DAIGO's a complete DoM just like Aiba :p

[KarenPang]

192kpbs rip of Lotus is up for download here

omg it sounds much better listening to a much better/higher quality of the show as compared to the 128kpbs rip that I downloaded at 1st

[Midori-chan]

The supposed Lotus single cover:



I hope it's not real (two communities on lj have posted it today, though), because it looks so cheap!

[dreamland2.0]

lol that looks very fan made~~ I like their clothes at least

[Beauty4123]

too fan made, lol. especially the font ()

PLEASE for the love of JE let it not be real!

[Midori-chan]

Well...there is a new preview of the PV out (sorry, I can't post the link, because it's a locked community), but I can post the screencap:



See, there is the same cover on the pic.


But I also don't like the cover. It's all over the place. Nothing fits. The dark background doesn't go well with their colourful clothes. And the font is terrible too...

[Beauty4123]

i kinda hope the whole PV doesn't just have them in that room for the whole time. i want new scenes, lol. but arashi's PVs haven't been that interesting in awhile.

i really don't like the cover, lol. maybe it'll look better in person, but compared to hatenai sora, it's just not nice. even Dear Snow covers are better! at least that was simple but still nice & not so cheap.

but like caroline said, their clothes do like nice! but they should seriously use a different background. at least the song's good, though, right? so...let it be.

maybe CDTV used a promo pic from Lotus or something that's totally not related to the actual covers, but that's just my wishful thinking, LOL.

[Midori-chan]

^ Well...in "Monster" we also thought that they will be dancing in this one room all the time, but in the end there were some other scenes too.

It's just hard to judge a whole PV by one screencap or a 15 seconds preview!
Let's just wait and see, I would say!


And about the cover...yes, it looks cheap and boring. I'm really disappointed, because even when their last songs weren't that great, the covers were always nice!´
Well, I think in the end it's the song(s) and the PV that really counts and not the covers, ne?!

[Beauty4123]

haha, i guess i shouldn't jump to conclusions so fast! it's just that in about 40 seconds, from that first PV preview we got, all we saw is dancing. and this new screencap has it, too. so i'm just worried a bit. i mean, after Dear Snow's "singing & standing" PV, i think i'm kinda worried when it comes to arashi's PVs now!

yup, the songs will be a billion times better! and although you have to see the cover first in order to listen to them, i think i've still seen worse covers by other artists.

[Midori-chan]

^

But I always enjoy Arashi's dance videos. "Crazy Moon", "Believe", "Monster",...they're really awesome.
And I'm quite sure that there will be some other scenes. Like solo shots of them and stuff like this.

Mhm, that's right.
There are certainly worse covers and maybe the cover will look better when we get it in HQ!

[Beauty4123]

i didn't really love Crazy Moon's PV. i liked the dancing! but i didn't love the scenery too much. matsujun's hair wasn't helping either, LOL. but i think Ashita no Kioku was the much better PV of that single, IMO.

i'm never picky with any of my j-pop, but i dunno why i'm kinda like this with arashi's latest PVs. i do like the PVs, i can't lie, lol. but i just feel that they could be so much better! but that doesn't take away my love for the songs by themself, though. after watching the BnMF tour, it's like all the nice designs & animation or whatever goes to their tours and not so much to the PVs. if yamapi can get high budget PVs, arashi can too!

[Midori-chan]

Oh, I enjoyed the PV for "Ashita no kioku" much more too! I'm just a sucker for PVs with a storyline!
But I'm also weak to Arashi's dancing. But you're right...MatsuJun's hair didn't look to good in this PV. But Aiba made up for it!

Ah, so you have watched the whole concert already?! How did you like it?!

YES, the screens on their tours are always soooo amazing! I really liked the one during "Mukae ni ikku yo" best. The love story between the robots was so bittersweet!

But I also wish that JE would put more budget into Arashi's PVs. I was really looking forward to an awesome creepy PV with storyline for "Monster". What we got was nice too, but I think they could have made more out of it!

[ka♡ri.]

Ashita no Kioku is still one of my top Arashi songs ever! I love the PV too! I'm not really feeling Lotus yet! I need to listen to it more.

[Beauty4123]

i LOVED it! of course! i noticed those animated robots, too. so cute! but during that song, it just made me feel kinda sad, haha. the whole tour was really amazing! arashi never disappoint with their tours. every tour just gets better & better than the previous tour! i'm still re-watching performances, it's like all i've watched during this week besides for other music PVs.

i'm not saying like every arashi PV needs to be high budget, but i'd love it if JE gave them a few! but it doesn't have to be too high budget for it to be nice, i guess? like kitto daijoubu was a very entertaining PV & it just never gets old! even hatenai sora's PV was really nice. that was simple but still beautiful to watch, like a few other arashi PVs. i just hope for them to get this one PV where it's just like "BANG!" that's how amazing i want it to be, LOL! i think i've been fantasizing about a Mada Ue Wo PV too much!

[Midori-chan]

Mhm, the performance was sad, because the song is very sad. But it was really one of my favourite performances of the whole concert...and I liked their outfits too!
Though my favourite outfits were the ones they wore during "Let me down"!!

Jup, I also think that a PV doesn't need a high budget to be beautiful. Like you said, "Hatenai sora" wasn't something amazing, but it was nice. And I wish they would get a PV like "My Girl" again. It was so great and it had a real storyline. I'll never get tired of watching this PV!!

[KarenPang]

lol it looks really cheap if not fanmade , I wasn't expecting something like this o_O

Covers for both editions of Lotus should be out sometime this coming week since usually the cover artwork for all the Johnny's groups for their stuff are out about 3 weeks + prior to the release date of their material

[dreamland2.0]

I think what's really bad about it is the border
looks like some cheap gradient xD

I haven't watched the tour yet I don't have enough room on my hard drive to download xD I gotta get on that~~

[KarenPang]

I looked at the cover closer & are those star sperks (or lotus flowers that're going to bloom ?) at the back ? xD

but omg they haven't had a bad cover since ... We can make it ! so for once , it's somewhat refreshing to see a bad cover of the guys lmao

hopefully that cover's for the CD + DVD because usually , the CD only artwork are supposedly much better :p

[Beauty4123]

aww, i've always liked we can make it! at least the black & white didn't look bad, lol. i thought the boys looked hot in the cover. especially jun! i loved his Bambino! hairstyle.