Her version of Stay With Me is quite remarkable, if not as close as the original. Her voice is powerful, more suitable for R&B than rock. That cover is made by a 28-year-old singer named Misato Koide, 1/2 of the pop music duo Good By Gloomy. When I was checking out covers of those songs on Youtube, I immediately found a video of a street performer (more of to promote her CDs) posted in Summer of 2018. After listening to those songs, I got instantly hooked! If you have noticed that Youtube has been constantly recommending retro classic City Pop tubes particularly, "Plastic Love" by Mariya Takeuchi and "Stay with Me (Mayounaka no Door)" by the late Miki Matsubara. It's an amalgamation of funk, jazz, soul, and later on some new wave. City Pop is a very popular subgenre in Japan from the late '70s to the mid '80s.
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