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Jon Bellions single, A Dedicated Instrumental, directly credits Timbaland for influencing him during his childhood. The only lyrics in this song includes “I grew up in the age of Timbaland and Pharrell sh*t”. It is said that Timbaland along with other artists directly influenced Bellions love for drum beats and his growth with them over his career (Jon Bellion, 2013).

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Kanye West is less of an artistic influence on Jon Bellion, moreso he was a lifestyle influence. “The College Dropout” a single made by Kanye influenced Bellion to drop out of his college and begin a full time job while making beats for himself and his career. He stated that he would make music 7 days a week for 8 hours a day, as if his passions turned into his full time job (Varience, 2014). Shortly thereafter Bellion released his first song “Let Me Do Me”

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J Dilla is a huge influence for Jon Bellion. In multiple of his songs, Bellion references J Dilla and has talked about his influence many times in interviews. In quotes, “as what Dilla did and what drew me to him, it was the kick snare conversations, like these beats Db level are not the loudest thing you've ever heard but they still got your neck moving they still get your body moving and it's simple” (Audacy, 2016).

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In Lizzy's album "Five Seconds Flat" she took a turn from her original way of creating music, taking inspiration from Pheobe Bridgers to create a series of quote "Indie-pop gut-punches" within this album. Lizzy states that this was the “opposite direction” of her previous work and where her hit song “Ceilings” took off (Brittany Spanos, 2023).

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Sara Bareilles influenced Lizzy in her very first debut album. She drew inspiration from the “folky-type” music that Sara had written and used that to create her first album “Give Me a Minute”. She goes on to say that this particular album felt young and she had still yet to find her own voice within her music (Brittany Spanos, 2023).

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Holly was also a big inspiration for Lizzy's "Five Seconds Flat", as Lizzy was trying to create a new way of writing music. She drew influence from Holly's discography containing more of the Indie pop/rock she was inspired by (Sydney Bolen, n.d). By listening to some of Holly's music you can tell where Lizzy drew inspiration from.

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Elton John, in his beginnings of his rock-and-roll career, listened to “Music From Big Pink” by The Band. He stated that this particular band and song had changed his life just as Elvis Presley did even earlier. He said that he recognised the soulfullness and funk of the song and was greatly encouraged and influenced (Tyler Golsen, 2023).

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Elton John grew up learning classical music and singing in a choir. He has stated that he is very grateful he learnt classical music while he was younger (Classic FM, 2019). If you listen to some of Chopin's pieces like Prelude in Cm, you will hear similar musical aspects within his piano work that reflect on Elton John's piano pieces too (Ron Drotos, 2019).

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After Little Richards Passing, Elton went on to social media to remember and share the love for Richard. Quoted, “Without a doubt – musically, vocally and visually – he was my biggest influence,” (Daniel Kreps, 2020). It is said that Elton was inspired by Little Richards Rock-&-Roll style, which changed the pathway of Elton's fame as a musician (Ron Drotos, 2019).

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Jon Bellion's music immediately drew me in with the story-telling aspect of it. Many of Jon's songs are personal experiences, issues and moments that he shows through his pieces. He is also incredibly talented when producing music too, he has a way of figuring out how a song is going to sound before he finishes, he gets random melodies and concepts in his mind for his music and immediately tries to recreate it. I find this highly impressive and strive to have that much passion going ahead in my music career.

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Lizzy McAlpine uses a lot of harmonic techniques within her music. This particular aspect of her music was the first thing that caught my attention when I first started listening to her music. She also has a great range of genres within her discography, creating diversity. I now use those harmonic techniques within my own music because of her way of doing it.

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Elton John has been a running influence within majority of my music taste and writing. He has a way of telling stories and experiences of his own through his music with the help of Bernie Taupin as his lyricist. Elton also uses his piano skills to create his own feel to his music, people can tend to guess that it is an Elton John song without actually knowing which is very impressive to me.