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Originally Posted by Vexx
In Japanese.... song lyrics are "poetic" and often *terrible* grammatically. They stick words, motifs, and imagery together hodge-podge to create a feeling (often splashing Engrish in for coolness). Not a great place to learn the language, but not bad for "spot the word" gaming.
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Agreed. Try to learn the language from anime songs, then you will get
Hata-Akiese, not Japanese.
On one hand, formal education of lyrics making in Japan has collapsed into formalism so much that today it brings only pedantic 歌人, song-people literally, though they make only highly sophisticated poems without melody for literature lovers. On the other hand, people who actually compose lyrics for songs often lack appropriate techniques to translate their emotions and feelings into modest sentences. They just rely on powerful words and exclamations. Bipolarisation of aestheticism and commercialism, as in any other cases.