Yes, I have heard this claim before. The fact is, I find it to be a load of crockahooey. Just listening to Sanctuary irritates me to no end as she awkwardly holds way too many single syllables for varying periods of time, just to keep it flowing with the music. Her voice singing the lyrics sounds extremely worked and soaked with far too much effort, making it seem like an unnatural alternate version to the song. It screams "poorly written", and I have no idea how that thing got allowed to be installed as the opening song to their long-anticipated game.
When she sings Passion on the other hand, her voice sounds so natural and the words flow out quite effortlessly, as the words come together a lot more easily. Though I may not understand Japanese, I consider my opinion to hold some validity and merit here, as I used to listen to hundreds of Japanese songs day-in and day-out when I was younger [it came from being a youthful, hardcore anime fan, don't rub it in people], and I got a pretty good sense of their styles and approaches to singing and forming lyrical harmony.
She claims to have written Sanctuary first and Passion afterward? Could've fooled me.
I'm aware of that. They're certainly allowed to have their homages to musical sequences from Disney movies. Just don't expect me to like them or want to have anything to do with them, ever again.




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