Music video: Ayumi Hamasaki - You & me (Short version)

The video matches the song. She clusterf**ked "Blue bird", "Fairyland", The Forehead's "We found love" and Sonic the hedgehog, but it matches the song. Ayu looks cool and relaxed in this video, but we know better. The way Ayu truly feels is in the scene where she's curled up in her hotel room with her drenched weave, singing about her Fliday night.

"You & me" is such a terrible song, that it would have taken one heck of a video to have won me over in any capacity. But Ayu has become accustomed to shitty music videos. A far cry from the woman who used to set the standard for music videos. If she thought this video was going to save her A Summer best sales because she turned tricks with ping pong balls in a bikini, she's got another thing coming. That thing being her second flop.

Even if Ayu had jacked Crystal's "Forever" and pussy popped in front of somebody's beach house, started slow gridning at the fun fair and the dropped it low in the cereal aisle of the supermarket it would have been something. But I just have no invested interest in watching her on a quad bike, throw an ice cube out of a jeep window and get pushed around in a shopping trolley.

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