The Wisdom of Jpop PVs: Part IV

Watching lots of Japanese music videos is an excellent way to educate yourself in the ways of continued existence in life. Every day, Some massively numerized part of humanity dies. They die for many reasons, but one of the main ones is failure to pay attention to the lessons of Jpop PVs.

From exactly some number of weeks ago and onward, whenever I feel like it, which was "on most Mondays" in the beginning, but isn't today, I will help you interpret these lessons, so that you may continue to exist.

Today's Lesson: Zwei - Fake Face

Finding deeper meaning in places where it should not normally be found (Jpop PVs) is my primary job here, but sometimes I feel like not writing very much. For those occasions, of which today is one, I will warn you of PVs that are there only as mindless entertainment and have no educational or artistic value at all.

Zwei's fairly recent video for the song, Fake Face, is an excellent example of this. It was created on the assumption that all a good PV needed was lots of pretty moving images that would make children happy and jump up and down with gruntledness. This assumption was false. People want to be challenged and moved by the music videos they watch. Other artists, like Takashi Fujii and Biyuuden know this.

Not Zwei though. I will now stop writing and give you a whole big thing-full of screen shots so you understand exactly the height, width, and depthosity of my correctness.

Now, please watch something else and have a Happy Nonspecific Winter Celebratory Time.