Ayu's influence on other artists

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Originally Posted by ImpactBreaker

S H E is obviously a cover of About You.

Well, it's not a cover, the melody is entirely different. It's inspired by About You, absolutely, but it's not a cover.

Originally Posted by ImpactBreaker

I'm a fan of Deep Freeze. The whooooo-ooooo-oooo always made me think I was into some frozen place, so her earlier songs were somewhat magical; a lot of JPOP was for me back then, and that's what sorta made me stick to it more than other kinds of music. I liked when Rina Aiuchi made songs like that, plain JPOP. She later decided to follow the rock trend but definitely didn't do well. She was better with the cutesy anime-y stuff.

Rina Aiuchi was definitely better doing pop like this. I COMPLETELY agree. Her voice is not suited for the more rockish stuff she did later, it's too sweet.

Another song of hers I'm SHOCKED I didn't think of earlier is "Ruby Stars" - I did a mash-up of it & A Song for XX a loooonnng time ago to demonstrate how close the structure & progressions of those songs were. Fun times