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Originally Posted by truehappiness
It's listed at Japanese retailers.
I LOVE what she does and don't really have an issue with the songs but it is extremely obvious that some of these songs are similar in more than "oh, it sort of sounds like this" and it's hard to NOT point it out.
I think for Anything For You, it's weird because we also have Walk on the same album and for Step by step it is strange because we JUST got The Show Must Go On which already sounds like a snowy kiss sister track
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Originally Posted by hidekirby
I don't know if you knew ayumi before 2008 but I seriously started listening to her in 2003 and by 2006 I never had this annoying feeling that I was listening to something she had already done before (considering her disco since her debut).
Since Secret this feeling is growing on and on for me notably with ballads, summer songs and pop/rock mid-tempo tracks (that is also why Party Queen is far from being original as a whole for me. Of course it's normal because she can't reinvent herself at every release.
But woking with the same exact people may be a part of the explanation (this and low expectations/standards). As I said it's not something incredibly borderline to say "hey, just use this sound/instrument we don't always use/we never have used before". Let's be creative!
If you choose similar melodies and you add similar arrangements...
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I'm kind of a new fan, I started listening to her during the Step You / Is this love era, so I do know the feeling. I realise why it's shocking for some of you to have the same melody but then again it's the case for most of this album isn't it? You can fit entire line of Trauma in No future, the Gift almost has the "zutto x2" melody at the beginning of the chorus, and obviously the tsmgo / snowy kiss issue. And I think I could continue like that back to Secret as you said. Every time a friend hears an Ayu song for the first time he or she can almost systematically find a song by another singer the melody of which sounds similar.
Sorry if I overreacted, I just find it weird that people didn't have that feeling before and just went crazy on Anything for you.