Nothing wrong with that. If it bothers you to the point of annoyance, might as well stop listening to J-pop music.
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Originally Posted by Vexx
<shrug> in america, you'll hear musicians inserting spanish, french, and occasionally german into songs. The japanese are just as fascinated with american "culture" as we are with theirs it seems and spritzing up songs with Engrish (I'd say "eigo" but it really is fractured english much of the time) is just considered hip/cool. The interesting thing is that they often *know* how to do it correctly but they're more interested in the sound phrasing than grammatical accuracy. For that matter, the *japanese* lyrics often stretch the meaning of japanese grammar -- words are often strung together to evoke a mood, not make rational sense.
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That's exactly what happens. I'm sure it happens in many countries, in which their target audience are the people living in those countries. To their target audience, it sounds "cool" and all.
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Originally Posted by kj1980
Remember that you guys are NOT the primary target. They could care less, just like how you guys insert random Japanese phrases into "South Park." It sounds weird to us, but since we aren't the primary target we don't give a flying fuck.
Seriously, who the heck cares? You are talking about insignificant things. "Oh they should just hire a translator." Yeah sure, I really see them taking that time in hiring an outside translator on their already scrapped time to make these anime. Why can't they write proper English? If they did, they wouldn't be stuck in as a low-wage slave as an animator, duh!
So what if our English language sucks ass? I don't see you guys doing much better grammar-wise either.
If you are really annoyed, why don't you write a letter to them? Like that is going to make any difference, of course.
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Absolutely agree 100%. And besides, my favourite music just happens to be Japanese pop. I listen to it and not even think about the English language. I can enjoy it a lot more that way, the way the singers meant it to be enjoyed.