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Originally Posted by pimenta
It's not like Ayu never had a few cover melodies over the years as well, so I don't really get why you're complaining about Namie and praising Ayu about something both of them have done before...
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The only instances I'm aware of Ayu copying another artist's music were the songs from SWEETBOX on (miss)understood, which Ayu was 100% forthcoming about using their original tracks with her lyrics. But the difference there was that Ayu didn't hire a producer to make a near replica of SWEETBOX's music.
The only other closest thing I can think of are her actual covers of songs... like SEVEN DAYS WAR. But those are covers of another artist, not an original but clearly derived new work from the song.
And I'm complaining about Namie doing it because... well... it's Namie-freakin'-Amuro. She's been around for over 20 years but could sneeze into a tissue 12 times and sell 300,000 copies of it in the first week. Why copy another artist when she could write an amazing ballad with her eyes closed? In the last few years, she's written beautiful, Tempest, Love Story, and arigatou. All four easily sit among her best ballads, and none of them were the lead track on a single or album. So, it just seems unreasonable... but it's already been done and released, so it's not going to make a difference what I or anyone think about it.