Ayu's Influences

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Originally Posted by Chibi-Chan

I agree with you that there is nothing wrong with it, but in this case I was never really sure if Ayu really "copied" Aguilera here. Because "Fighter" was released on June 3rd, 2003 and "ourselves" on "&" was releases only one month later on 9th July, 2003. So I always ask myself if they really shot the music video not even a month before the release of the single.
Maybe this will always stay a mystery...

I don't want to get too OT, but Fighter was technically released as a single on 06/03/03 in the US, but the song and video had already been around for 2+ months prior on TRL and such. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighter_(song)]