Could Startin' Be A Cover?

Originally Posted by soysaucestar

I don't think it's a cover...just because they have the same song title doesn't mean Ayu's covering it.

I don't think they can be counted as covers either; doesn't Ayu use different lyrics anyway? x_x

Plus she was working with GEO, so those songs can't be considered "sampling" (from what I can recall, "sampling" is when an artist uses another artist's music without permission...? I don't know, I just remember Will Smith/P. Diddy did that a lot )

Sampling is when only a portion of the music is used and integrated into a new song (rap artists do this a lot, repeating the sample for a beat) These samples must be used with permission or else a legal fight could follow.

In Ayumi's case, she uses the entire song and just sings her own lyrics. In Japan, this constitutes a cover. Even though the lyrics aren't the same as the original, the music still is.