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English is one of the easiest languages in the world to learn and work with (Being mandarim the hardest one, and Brazillian Portuguese the second one)... Even if my english is a little rusty cause I don't write in this language a lot today, I can understand it rather easily...
Here in Brazil a lot of young people thinks that English sounds better than Portuguese and that songs in this language are better... and thinks that Japanese sounds weird and that Portuguese is a very ugly language... So... I don't think that the "English is hardest" or "Asian languages sounds better" are much more than opinions or thinking that languages you can't understand properly are better sounding (because... if you can't undertand the language you are listening, to you it you be only random sounds in a music, not words or anything like that... even if you know the translation, you will not unterstand what exactely are most of the sounds you are hearing)
And pop music is shallow... not only in the USA, but in any place in the world... pop music is made to sell a lot... if you make something very deep or very personal, people will not see themselves in the music, cause it will become too specific... but you still can find some good meaning in pop music (Ayumi and Hikki in Japan have some pretty lyrics... in EUA, some Madonna and Beyonce lyrics have interesting meanings too... etc)
Ayumi has A Song for XX, that is a beautiful song with good lyrics? She still has Audience, that is poppy, comercial and empty...
Come back to me sounds a lot like First Love era Hikki... when she became famous in Japan using something very common and generic in the EUA that nobody was using in Japan yet...
Anyway.. music is not only about the lyrics you know? If you can listen to something in a language you can't really understand entirelly, why can't you listen to something in English and just enjoy the sounds and rythm?
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