Do you like Engrish???

[FancySN]

I dunno...
I just think Engrish is bad.
I listen to JPop for the Japanese, not for the English. Otherwise, I could just listen to Beyonce or something.

[squirty]

I like Engrish - if it's not stupid. As much as I love Namie, I'm still wondering what "Body feels Exit" means.

[aiko_hoshi]

Originally posted by AyuLover
BoA's Engrish is very hard to understand sometimes. I've even seen mulitple versions of lyrics for her Engrish song recordings. This tells you that no one really knows what she's singing for sure.

i know, but at least you know she is singing engrish. some singers you can't even tell if they are trying to sing english, or it's just some weird japanese.

[AyuLover]

Originally posted by ImpactBreaker
Nope everyone is talking about the same BoA and well she does use engrish ahaha Or are you able to say "SHINE WE ARE!" is a normal english phrase? I can't even know what the heck means "being shine"

"Hi people I am shine today. We are Shine! Shine we are!" ahhahaha That's so weird for a title!

LOL.....omg...I was talking about the title for "Shine We Are!" with my friend yesterday, picking out how bad English it was.

Speaking of this song, part of the chorus part has some weird English.

"I feel the brightness love..."

Haha.

Oh, and sorry to go off-tpoic, but I've been looking for the PV for this song, so if you have it, please upload it for download. I have requested it.

Thanks.



AyuLover

[ayumin]

Many Engrish is meaningful for Japanese.
There are many strict reasons to use Engrish.

For example,Japanese listen to Japanese with left brain and good Engrish with right brain.

[ddr trent]

Originally posted by FancySN
Hey, you don't see American singers going off into Chinese or Japanese or Korean or whatever.
So if you ask me, stop the Engrish, please. I doubt the singers even know what they're singing.
It's one of those things were people tell them how to pronounce it, and they just say it dumbly without knowing what the heck they're saying.

Some Japanese know english considering some of their words are derive from orginal english words like for example computer. They use the word konpuyuta or basu for bus. Also some of their commercials are spoken in english. I just watch an anime recently and they use the english word like rival during a plain conversation. I heard that Japan is getting more western

[~K+]

Yea...but it's those words that makes Japanese english really difficult to understand, because they're used to pronounciating it the katakana way which is really difficult to listen to o_O'

[gakkun]

Maybe it's because English is not my first language, but I don't see why Engrish should be annoying..since we are listening to lyrics we dont' understand anyway what does it matter if some undistinguible phrases are thrown into them. o.O;; Most Engrish do make some sort of sense though...I have yet to hear a totally meaningless Engrish phrase anywhere.

[~K+]

I still think "a woman can be having fun, a woman could be like a nun" really weird instead of it being funny o___O"

[Set_0ne]

I think it can be out right bad espeically one BoA song..She sings about 'spilled milk' or something along those lines. I can't take the song seriously enough. I'm not ragging on BoA cause I like her songs hella lot. But I feel if they are going to inject English sentances into their songs to make them correct otherwise they just come out comedian type.
It is a different ball game if they are speaking English though..Let them stuff up then because they are learning how to speak it..But singing it they probably aren't so much..it is just in the lyrics to sound "cool".

[PsyGen]

singing in english great.................... if you pronounce it right. i've heard BoA sing in english numerous times and personally think theres been no improvement whatsoever. utada seems to be fine at it, since she's gonna release an english album anyways (i think~) and another example, koda kumi with Real Emotion and 100 Words - why why why?!?! it just totally ruined the image of a good song. *sigh...

[Blue_Dew]

most of the time i dont really like asians singing engrish.. esp when it is obviously meaningless.. like added just for the sake of it.. like for japanese singers.. pls stick to japanese pls.. but sometimes i think engrish does sound nice..i hardly listen to BoA's songs.. so i cant really comment.. ayumi sounds darn cute when she sings engrish.. i cant understand the engrish hyde sings most of the time.. but i think his pronounciation is pretty good! hee.. I didn't like 'Break of Dawn.." tomiko shld stick to singing pretty pony~pretty pony~pretty pony~

[gakkun]

I agree with you there Set...most pop artists use Engrish just because it's 'cool' and whatnot...but when un-mainstream artists do it they usually do it with some sort of style or meaning...like Shiina Ringo, Onitsuka Chihiro, etc. Looks like there's always gonna be Engrish until one day Japan finally uses English for its official language..o.o

[Corybobory]

singing in english great.................... if you pronounce it right.

I disagree... I think if I was a singer and inserted Japanese into my lyrics I know I'd have a strong accent, but I'd still like to have the chance. I think Engrish sounds cool. But that's just me the language lover, I think it's a funky phenomenon.... Western songs often have French lyrics, and I know Spanish music with English inserted into it. I like how it sounds foreign and different... maybe not correct, but the effect is still there. I think if we only used English correctly or not at all, than learning it as a second language would be near impossible, and I'd be out of a job I find Engrish cute... and if not cute, definitly funny.

[tinyppl]

It's fine with me when there are a few engrish here and there in a japanese song, sometimes they do sound pretty cute. But if the singer sings too much engrish or the entire song in engrish and especially when it's beyond understanding, then it really turns me off >.<

By the way, I also like Tomiko (D.A.I)'s engrish X

[akatsuki]

i realyl dont like when Luna sea used to sing in english!! this is the only band i cant support (particullary the song Storm...)

[ddr trent]

the weirdest engrish I heard is from Utada. " I want your baby" ??
nani?

[CT_Cool]

thought this thread was taling about somethign else seeing the thread name..

but anyway i think asian singer singing english is cool as long as it sounds gud

[Sakura_Drops]

For me engrish is when you have a sentence that doesn't make sense like BoAs "Shine we are"...It's ok if the pronounciation is bad but when the lyrics don't make sence I think they should stick with japanese...The one with the best english is Utada...BoA I can mostly understand her english..Just listen to DOUBLE the english version and Sara the english version her english there is very good....And Namies english has improved a lot since her debut and the lyrics in her songs do make sence....But sometimes it can be cute with engrish.

[~K+]

I can actually understand Namie's pronounciation more than BoA's o_o" wasn't too fond of DOUBLE english ver though~