best english
 

Aside from Utada Hikaru (that's just an obvious one) which Jpop/Jrock singers would you say have really good english? personally i think Bonnie Pink is head and shoulders above the rest to be honest

olivia
hihihi
since english is her 1st language
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Fayray, I can pretty much understand about over 95% of her English.

Chances are the lesser known-artists have much better English than the more mainstream ones. Bonnie Pink and Rie-fu has really good English.

Kumi from LOVE PSYCHEDELICO and the vocalist of CORE OF SOUL seems to have pretty good English too from what I've heard.

I can't understand OLIVIA though even if she's native. -_-

Personally, I think there are Japanese artists with clearer English than Utada.

Tomoko Kawase is pretty understandable when she sings in english.

Kumi from LOVE PSYCHEDELICO. That's all I can think of.
Just on a side note, Hikki's English bugs me... X_x

Hyde has really good english, and Toshi from X-Japan had decent english aswell ^^

^Yoshiki has good english...he wrote most of the songs for X-Japan that were in english...plus I saw an interview of him when he was in korea and he spoke english good. ^^;

HYDE's nmm...a hit or miss I think. I can understand it after having read the lyrics, but sometimes you can't really tell he's singing English (IMO). o_O'

I find MISIA's and Mai Kuraki's relatively easier for me to understand regardless what others may say.

His english was kinda bad at Otakon. xDDD

Miwa Yoshida from DREAMS COME TRUE
Shiina Ringo
m-flo
melody.

Chieco Kawabe's english is pretty good, although it seems she has a hard time saying 'silent screaming' on her new single. ^_^

And I'd have to agree about Bonnie Pink's english... the first song I heard from her was 'I'm In The Mood For Dancing,' and I thought she was an American artist! ^_^;;

Oh! That chick from Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her. I forget her name.. oh Aiha Higurashi. Her English is really good. K from GUN DOG's English is sometimes iffy, but I understood almost all of Chair...

BONNIE PINK is amazing. I think her english is pretty good. Not perfect but she has a pretty good accent compared to most japanese artists out there. I mean, she sings whole original english songs in some of her albums.
Rope Dancer and Wildflower are good examples.

Wildflower: http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=A0...832F8F766C4D9E

Rope Dancer: http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=91...7414D571871587

What About Me?: http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=AD...4CCEA48A5AB5FE

DoublE has pretty great and understandable english imo.

Crystal Kay obviously has a fluent english. She released a whole english cover album.

OLIVIA, I think she intentionally makes her english not clear because of how she changes her tone of voice so constantly over her songs.

wow im surprised no one's mentioned BoA. She has pretty good english imo.

yeahhh
indeed
BoA has a pretty reasonable english


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I was hoping someone wouldn't mention BoA...she has pretty bad English. -_-

On most occasion it's understandable when she does one or two lines in a Japanese song, but when she does a full English song, it's pretty tough to understand. The same can be said about Koda Kumi I think.

yeah koda kumi is kind of hard to understand.. my friend and i were playing a game where we hadn't heard her song before and it was in english and we were to write down what we thought she said.. we were way off XDD

Verbal from M-flo
Heartdales
and Namie Used to be good with her english don't know what the hell happen

BoA's english is so ungraceful, i mean the kinda stuff u just wouldnt say as a native english speaking person, awkward stuff. a good contrast is shiina ringo, in the kyoiku album the song genjitsu something... the english phrases are really good, but her accent is still kinda strong

i think there's already a thread about this too...

I've heard BoA speak in English and its very easy to understand ... but her singing in English is a completely different story.


Maaya Sakamoto has great English ...
DOUBLE has good English ...

Maaya Sakamoto=:yes

m-flo's English is not bad either.

As for BoA....when speaking English, she's pretty good, but while singing for some reason...it gets hard to understand, and she also has her Korean accent. Let's wait to hear the full version of "THE CHRISTMAS SONG" from her "Merikuri" single, which is a full-length English song. From the song sample on her official Avex webpage, her English sounds decent.

Ayaka Hirahara's english was really good in Jupiter...

i thought melody english is great
and as mentioned above..m-flo's english is also not bad either:yes

I thought that too Larisa, until I heard the English ver of JUPITER on her new album...it's wasn't quite as easy to understand when she does a whole song in English. o_o'

bonni3~

I just went to listen to BoA's The Christmas Song, and I thought the english was pretty bad. I think that in her attempt to make it sound better (or cover it up?), she does a lot of throaty vocals. Which make the song bad, imo.

Bonnie Pink and Melody have really good english.

Definitely M-FLO

heartsdales.
they have very good americanized english