Music video: Ayumi Hamasaki - Crossroad

The song is okay. The video was boring. Watching Ayumi set herself on fire seems more fun on paper than it came off in the music video. Could she have not danced or slow ground on the floor as the flames engulfed her!? And no, I don't care that this "Crossroad" song is a ballad. Ain't no song too slow for a slow grind in my book.

I was never hot on Ayumi Hamasaki back in the day. But even I can say that her music videos back when were so much better than what she's put out for her past four albums. Even though I felt the songs often sucked, I always dug the music videos because they had more put into them than most other acts in the J-scene, and rivalled Western videos in terms of scopes and budgets. Ayumi needs to throw it back.