I never cared for Peco (nor did most people when she came on the scene). I actually liked Ayu's original back-up singers when she started using them prominently. In her earlier works she always just had her backing track playing, but around the single promo for & and Ourselves performances, she introduced them as part of her entourage -- they didn't last too long before being replaced with Peco and Princess. Peco's voice never really suited Ayu's (until later years when Ayu's own voice got much lower), and she was always too showy on stage.
These days I really like Princess being featured so much, and I think she really has some beautiful operatic vocals that were never showcased earlier (I used to think her voice was quite weak).
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