SWEETBOX & AYUMI HAMASAKI

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Originally Posted by nmskalmn

How is using music composed by GEO more 'uncreative' or 'unoriginal' than using music composed by DAI, BOUNCEBACK, etc?

Exactly. I think ayu was actually very original, if you listen to sweetbox' versions, she added her own touch to those songs and, in my opinion, gave a totally different light to them. If you listen to the sweetbox previews you can clearly tell that. Also ayu wrote her own lyrics and adapted them in order that they don't really sound weird at all. It's not an easy job to transform an english song into a japanese.
Making a cover song doesn't make it less original or uncreative when the artist add their own personal touch. Hitomi Shimatani did a fantastic job to Janet Jackson's "Doesn't really matter", she put her own lyrics and her version actually sounds much better than the original, it was also a song that made shimatani famous so it was definitely very original of her to make such a cover.
GEO was offered to compose for ayu and she accepted but he asked her to choose one of the already created compositions he had done. What does that make it less original than to what actually happened to the "A Song for XX" album in which she was asked to choose among various already pre-produced melodies for all the songs? Not a single difference really

Originally Posted by Ryoko

I think the main problem here is that Ayu used GEO's compositions, and then Sweetbox came out with their own versions of those songs. It's almost like having DAI compose a song for Ayu, and Ayu uses it as a song, and then Do as Infinity uses that same song. It just makes it seem unoriginal.

If GEO permitted there was probably an agreement with SWEETBOX as well, no wonder they're proudly announcing that at the moment. It was an honor for them to be recognized by ayu and they surely want the ride they will be able to take on that fact.
amasia landscape made a mini aslbum using DAI compositions of Do As Infinity song and she sang them with her own english lyrics. It was a very original work. I didn't like it because her vocals are weak but if she had done a good job it would have been completely different. ayu by the other side did a pretty excellent job to GEO compositions.