Video killed the Japanese Pop Star

Let’s imagine for a moment that you’re listening to your favorite artist and you get online to download their latest music video. However, much to your dismay, after you view it you feel disappointed, confused, and maybe even angry. You come to the realization that you’ve wasted five minutes that could have been used for taking a really long and enjoyable piss. Though I am a huge fan of melody., watching her promotional music videos are like watching a crazy person ramble on the subway, you just say to yourself “What the fuck was that?”

Even with catchy tunes, her good looks and delicate singing voice just can’t make up for her completely intolerable music videos. Okay maybe that’s an exaggeration, but most of her music videos are just awful.

Dreamin’ Away was melody.’s debut music video and started off with the camera panning to her face and nice body, so far I’m thinking that the PV would pick up, but NO I was wrong! When she sings the chorus you’ll see her dance a stupid jig, a hoe down, Michael Flatley's Lord the Dance while wearing an ugly transparent blouse.

What ever you call that dance, you’ll see her do the fucking jig all the way through the video she even does some sort of thumb dance that resembles one of Seinfeld’s characters (all of you should know what I’m talking about, i.e. Elaine). The rest of the PV goes on with random events such as a couple kissing, boys skate boarding, a Muslim floating in air, boxers dancing with melody, three girls who went shopping and suddenly decided to dance with melody, a business man dancing like an ass and finally EVERYONE starts to dance with melody.

After the disappointing debut PV I downloaded her second video Simple As That. This video is actually the best out of all the others in my opinion. Here you’ll see melody. hitch hiking to the city trying to make it big as a dancer (no not THAT kind of dancer you dirty minded people!) with her group of dancer friends. They are going over the dance in a big studio as they prepare to impress judges for something I don’t know about.

The Crystal Love video was directed by a Crystal Meth addict. This video just totally reeks, it’s like watching Madonna’s annoying Ray Of Light video, you watch production people move and replace props at the speed of a fast forward. Afterwards melody. sings on a snowy mountain which then turns into a “Sound of Music” background. After walking ridiculous lengths she decides to sing on a bench, a couch, and on leaves all while wearing bad hair extensions. The PV ends with the production people taking all the props away and leaving melody. alone in an empty room with the fan blowing at her face, as she whispers for them to come back.

Believe me was a video that didn’t make any sense and had tons of mismatched scenes. A mother and daughter are in a car getting ready to leave, but as the mother stupidly changes the shift to drive she crashes into the car ahead of her. She steps outs and leaves her kid behind but the child doesn’t realize what happens because she is too busy reading magazines with names like WOUGE and DANCE. The scene then cuts to not one, but TWO melody.’s displayed on showcase in an empty park. The scene transitions again to melody walking on the hood of the car in high heels singing and later when she’s tired of that decides to lay on top the car for no reason. Other scenes in the video include; practicing ballet and getting in the driver’s seat to hijack the car and kidnap the kid.

To start off 2005 melody.’s Next To You featured her in a restroom being ever so cute and applying lip-gloss. She then obligatorily checks herself out in the mirror like any girl would do. She joins her friends at a table and begins chatting up a storm, she then seems to ask what should I do? The answer of course, would be to allow random guys to begin break dancing in an empty building. As melody. is singing, a man paired with her attempts to sing along, but fails horribly and she pushes him away.

Her next two videos, realize and see you… weren’t horrible so what’s the point in discussing it? If anything though, in see you… melody looked stiff from the shoulder and up.

I shouldn’t really blame melody, for the bad music videos; instead I blame the director for their horrible creative concepts. A total of seven videos, and 3 of them weren’t that bad, but only in comparison to the others. I may sound mean, but do you really want to see melody. or any other singer doing a jig?

I don’t think so.

I will always be a fan of melody. regardless of what may or may not be a horrible music video.