Is Ayumi just a big copycat?
 

This song has the EXACT same music and sound as Tell me why.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOvpSU0y6NI

No
They're credited in the album liner notes.
You should call it a quasi-cover.

oh God why :( this just ruined the Tell me why now :(

nice pv

Koda Kumi has done this a few times too. I think the company like, buys some of the rights to the song or something like that? Kuu did that with "Can We Go Back" and "Physical thing". It's really nothing new.

Big copy cat.


I remember there was a post about this, I can't seem to remember where.

there was already a post about this.
And yes, everyone got credit where it was due.

Besides, this is pop music... everyone copies everyone.

Sometimes the rights were sell to 2 different comapnys so this drama is "normal"...

She covered the song. What's so weird about that?

To be more exact, Avex solely bought the rights for the instrumental. The lyrics of the original song are completely different from Ayu's version.

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/2964/txoi.jpg

No wonder that's the only song I like from Party queen. It's a cover...

omg old news.

is this thread a huge waste of time? yes. lol

So... All the people disturbed by this terrible information... Why don't you just leave her fandom for good, go plant some carrots or something and stop annoying people over here on the forum?

This :D

^^ What the... that was just unnecessarily rude.

I always knew Tell me why isn't a Japanese song tbh. It has always sounded so European in my ears that it just made sense when it was revealed it was actually a cover. Why is this such a big issue anyway? Bold & Delicious, Ladies Night, In The Corner, Pride, Beautiful Day, rainy day and Memorial address are also covers. ;)

I don't really think "cover" is the right word for it... She just paid someone for their composition, like she always did. European or Japanese, it's the same, and it really doesn't matter if someone sang on the same melody before, if I paid it's rightfully mine.
It's like saying Girls Generation stole Run Devil Run from Kesha just because she sang the demo firstXD

So many more than Run Devil Run
Also I Got a Boy, Dancing Queen, Mr. Taxi, Let it Rain etc...

Edit: point was, this is SUPER COMMON in the showbiz. And why shouldn't it be allowed? I mean, if there's a great tune out there that you'd love to write a song to, why not? Better to buy the rights to the instrumental than to make a song that sounds a lot like it. I think it shows respect to buy the song.

This thread is not a waste at all. I never took the time to do the research on this song so thank you jennjenn2010 for posting this :-)

Just ignore his posts. He likes being exceptionally rude towards people who say one bad-thing about Ayu.

Don't you call it "bought the song" ?? This is why I like Japan, the singer can buy the songs for all I care, but no one really says anything. In vietnam, whenever they hear some song that is familiar to a K-pop song, they blame the singer that they copy the music. It's so annoying. :no

Avex already paid for the song, ayu also wrote the composer name on the booklet :D

anw, I like Tell Me Why more, ayu has powerful voice here :))

Ivi's 'Sose Me' is by far my preferred version. Ayu's "Oh woah woah"s are just plain bad. Anyway, you see now that Ayu bought the rights to use the melody. Yes?

^I don't think the thread poster is even here anymore :P lol

...it's not a copy, or a cover.

She has the rights to the song, just like the other person does.

Neither of them wrote it.


My god. If you want to call her a copy cat, get her for copying Madonna or something...not a bunch of songs that are hers.

AT02... The poor man's Drowned World Tour. :love

actually someone tracked down teh song way before it was even released on PQ and posted it here, just from hearign a preview snippet, i clearly remember that.

And um as veryone else already said, Avex bought the rights to use it so. It's all legal and normal.

and apparently the OP is a new soul in Ayu's world so i don't think it is nescesarry to go saying rude stuff.

"Is Ayumi just a big copycat?"
This is a very strange choice of words just IMO.

i don't think its a problem if she has a similar melody to another song as long as she credited the composer, its just like with the songs on the missunderstood album, i would find it would be a problem if she didnt write the lyrics and said it was hers. However ayu did write the lyrics .

Nothing in pop music is original anymore. And besides, this is how songs are made. We don't see what goes on behind the scenes of music making. This happens all the time, I'm sure.

from my point of view is the only song I don't like in party queen^^

I think you and the author of this thread should try to get more information before accusing of the copy cat thing. As the others already said, the rights to this song were purchased.

^Ikr, the way the author phrase "Is Ayumi just a big copycat" made her sounds super awful while this thread only asking about Tell me why, geez -_-

I admit in the past she 'copycat' some things from Madonna or Kylie Minogue or other western singers, but lately she didn't do that much imo in any case she's more inspired by rather than copying while defining her own style.

We must have polar opposite tastes in music. :P

I don't think she ever "copied" anything, besides the MTRL girl logo thing... she always mentioned Madonna as her inspiration and even those websites that claim that Ayu is a copy cat by posting pictures of "similarities" with the costumes (of Madonna, Gaga, Britney, Christina, etc), it is not even identical. The costumes might have similarities but that doesn't mean it's a copy-cat thing. Nowadays everyone grabs inspiration and ideas from other artists, authors, and yet people are always trying to make it look like a bad thing.

Watch AT02 and Drowned World Tour... Half of AT02 uses copied concepts and outfits...

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Yes this one is very inspired ! that was the time when Avex wanted to make her look like the asian Madonna ! But she is far to be the only Namie Amuro looked very much like J-lo when she began to make R&b & hip hop etc... (for exemple)

These websites are so funny because these similarity are so dubious ... Of course she has been inspired by the big names like every body on the pop scene ! sometime They take just one little details and they call her copy cat ...

http://jpoptrash.nihon-fr.com/copie/kylie.jpg

Just because she has pigtails -_-'

http://jpoptrash.nihon-fr.com/copie/...d84203e547.jpg

just because she is on the road ...

Well, sometimes it's so painfully obvious that's almost irritating (still watching the motorcycle scene in Starting makes me cringe from how much is taken from Toxic by Britney) but still, Ayu is one of the few singer outside whom clearly put her vision in everything she does. I find it easier to forgive "inspirations" from someone whom usually use her head to deliver beautiful things.
People tend to forget most singer put just their face and style in their work: people like Ayu put more, and I don't mean just the lyrics.

The whole Startin MV was a parodie but if you don't know Ayu yes you will think it's a rip off of Toxic lol but it's also the fault of the director of the MV even if Ayu is very implicated she must follow the script !

The motorcycle scene in the Startin' MV reminds me way more of Kill Bill than anything, haha. Also, I'm surprised that You & Me/We Found Love hasn't been mentioned in this thread yet >_> That's Ayu's worst offense when it comes to ~*inspiration from other artists*~ imo

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Uh? I don't see similarities between You&Me and We Found Love... Now I'm going to watch them again!XD

^You & Me really reminds me of We Found Love even the musical direction albeit different but the two has sort of a similarity.

Ayu has used a similar outfit to that silver one Kylie is wearing, it's for Greatful days~evolution on A MUSEUM
http://eneabba.net/ayu/video/live/pa...l_days1001.jpg
credits from eneabba.net

And I believe two costumes from Kylie's Showgirl Tour are similar with two costumes in AT07

Love all of them though :yes it was nice I think for Ayu to adapted Kylie's because Kylie always wear nice elegant things for her concerts lol

There's nothing similar between the two...lol

The world is full of similarities.. Just because she uses a motorcycle doesn't mean she's copying without shame to others... well, I guess all humans do "copy" others ideas from time to time. Ayu has a very own style and she's not an exact copy of Madonna or Britney, copying all the videos, the identical songs, even the lyrics without shame, if she was and did that i would hate her.

What about the Kanariya video? Britney appeared with diamonds all over her body on the Toxic video too, that was several years after Kanariya. Before I used to think she was copying Ayu but that's so immature to think.. and if that was the case, who cares? they're different singers anyways.



Yes it looks similar, but that's a costume. Costumes are for public use, they are not patented or exclusively of "X" singer.

^Yes I know that, it's not belong to someone in fact it belongs to showgirl performers like those in Moulin Rouge etc. I don't blame ayu, it's just that based on the evidence of previous use of costume adaptations, those costumes ayu wore could possibly inspired by Kylie's tour.

While I don't put it past Ayu to take, uh... ~inspiration~ from other artists, I think some things, like the costumes, are just coincidence. If I'm not mistaken, Kana Nishino wore a flowly green dress in one of her concerts. I don't think she stole it from Ayu. Its just an unoriginal dress. I say again: nothing is original in music anymore. And it doesn't seem that people are trying to change that, just putting their personal touch on the ideas that already exist.

OK lmao. The buildup to the choruses in both songs are very similar, as are the music videos (happy couple with the relationship eventually deteriorating). This was pretty much pointed out by everyone when You & Me was released.

^I remember in both videos there were scenes with the shopping trolley lol

^^I agree nothing is original anymore these days, it's just people improvising with the existing ideas or things.
The reason I point the green dress and the showgirl outfit is because both costumes appear in the same tour both for Kylie and Ayu; the green dress is for a ballad segment with a dancing/flauting male dancer like Ayu and Shuya. So it's not to the extent that Kana 'stole' a green flowy dress from Ayu, it's just that we know Ayu has Kylie as one of her inspirations.

Ayu loves cabaret and showgirl concepts I guess, AT07 evolution is a proof she was inspired by Moulin Rouge http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8...0aeyo1_500.jpg
This reminds me of AT05 INSPIRE's head dress
http://horiwood.files.wordpress.com/...ulin-rouge.jpg
And this reminds me of AT05 GAME / Kuu's TRICK Tour showgirl and maybe AT07 AUDIENCE-Boys & Girls as well
http://24.media.tumblr.com/fe1589a0a...eqoko1_500.jpg

Anyways, I would love to see if she'll adapt to other films, especially by Baz Luhrmann. I can't imagine Ayu wearing things inspired by The Great Gatsby! :heart

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Yes Cabaret style is taken back often by singer for their show !

This guy :roflmao

God, I'd love that! Baz Luhrmann's sense of beauty in directing and choosing costumes, and creating images and stages is amazing! :heart

i actually find this whole stuff rather entertaining lol

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The one where they compare her to Christina's video is not fair at all... just because of the black wig and dark costume... and also the one with the black dress that looks similar to Britney's.... i mean, seriously, nowadays one can't simply just put a black dress because people will find 1,000 comparisons of other people who wore a black dress and say you are a copycat. :eviltongu:no

The last one of the UNITE/Dune cover... that one is scary! I think it's more than a coincidence. :(

Damn, I knew I had seen those ourselves scenes somewhere when I saw that PV for the first time! :O

Sometimes is plain obvious, but sometimes people are really unbelievable... like, ok, for a summer song I'm on a beach in a summer suit, so I copied the millions of singers before me because they did it too? And that's only one example I remember I saw.
I mean, some things are copied or "inspired by", but a lot of things are cliches, and, most importantly, some things are nothing. Like, snow for a winter ballad or beach for a summer song, or two plain red t-shirts.
I'm not attacking anyone here, we're talking normally in this thread (and I love that), I'm just slowly remembering all I had to see in the past years... And some stuff was beyond crazy!XD

Memorial address is not a cover, since its composer is Tetsuya Yukumi..
she sings cover ( with her original lyrics) in her "My story", her songs were originally written for Sweetbox, if I remember well ^^

Anyway.. I like more the original version of "Tell me why" than ayumi's try

^Memorial address is a cover from Tetsuya Yukumi's band, LOVER SOUND TRACK. The original song is titled 'kumo' and the lyric is totally different, so does the arrangement so it counts ;)

There's no cover songs in MY STORY as far as I know, cover songs are in (miss)understood.

Herp derp.

I'm surprised about that, but I don't think that ayu is a Copycat. I always thing when I listen this song that is so western, and an unusual song of ayu. But anyway some songs of kuu ayu and namie are composed by europeans composers.

basically to everyone, ayu bought the music and wrote the lyrics like most of her songs, but this time the music she bought was used elsewhere, just like she did with (miss)understood, Bold and Delicious, Ladies Night etc, except ayu go (miss)understood out before sweetbox got there versions out

oh you're right, sorry my mistake! ^_^

if you say B&D/Pride, Ladies Night, ITC, Beautiful Day and rainy day are covers - it's the same thing for Memorial address...
use the melody got a new arrengement and new lyrics...




LIST OF SONGS ayu covered on her CD's (use the melody or covered completely):

Sotsugyou Sashin (A BALLADS)
Memorial address (Memorial address)
Bold & Delicious ((miss)understood/Bold & Delicious+Pride)
Pride ((miss)understood/Bold & Delicious+Pride)
Ladies Night ((miss)understood)
In The Corner ((miss)understood)
Beautiful Day ((miss)understood)
rainy day ((miss)understood)
teens (Startin'+Born To Be...)
SEVEN DAYS WAR (crossroad/Love songs)
Tell Me Why (Party Queen)
Happening Here (digital single/A SUMMER BEST)


tell me if theres is any cover missed :D

^Tell me why isn't a cover, it's a melody sold to multiple singers (what is pretty common). I actually wouldn't consider any of the Geo tracks or Memorial Address as covers, as they most likely were bought before the composers versions were released.

Example of the same case:

Yeah...the (miss)understood songs are not covers.


Those are HER songs. She owns the rights to those songs. It could be that she only owns the rights to them in Asia...it could be that she owns them because they changed up certain things so much. Maybe they had a contract that allows both parties to use the songs.

Whatever the case, those are her songs lol


Sotsugyoy? SEVEN DAYS WAR, Happening Here, and I think teens....those are actual covers.


I think we should stop throwing that word around so much lol I don't think it means what people think it does.

emi♡ is right, a song is only an actual cover if the melody and the lyrics are the same. If the lyrics are different then it wouldn't be classed as a cover. Maybe, as someone earlier said, a partial cover. Similar to Faye Wong's take on songs by Tori Amos and Cocteau Twins.

She sung TOKYO and Haru yo koi live in 2003. I know Haru yo koi is by Yumi Matsutoya, not sure about TOKYO though.

Tell me why is 89382938 times better.

Still.

SOSE ME, SOSE ME *sings*

Tokyo was originally by Kuwata Keisuke (best known as the lead singer of Southern All-Stars).

^Oh, that's why I couldn't remember the artist (since everybody knows Southern All Stars)

just same concept...

OMG, the fashion style doesn't belong to anyone as I think ! The most important thing is to choice the suitable outfits.
Ayu chose her outfits to suit the performances ! It's normal !