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Old 19th January 2009, 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi View Post
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?
That's actually a good point! I listened to a lot of Hikki songs without reading the translation, until recently, but before I didn't know what the song was about. It just felt or sounded beautiful.

Hikki's a good lyricist, but if it were someone else singing an empty song, I wouldn't know, and I'd like it nonetheless (till maybe reading the lyrics and convincing myself I know better.)

But I guess maybe because I understand English I sometimes like to feel that I should listen to something with substance.

Empty nice-sounding songs have their place, too! Like you said, you can just enjoy the music.

(And what you said was well-written, are you sureee English isn't your first language? Haha, I kid.)