2006-04-15, 00:24 | Link #1 |
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English Songs by Japanese artists
Anyone else taking serious notice of this? Looks like some Japanese artists/idols who started their careers in the anime industry as seiyuus are possibly starting to break into the global market by singing all-english music (as in Genuine English, not Engrish). So far I only heard 3 such songs (two from School Rumble Second Semester, performed, in the anime, by Ichijo Karen [but from what I heard, not Ichijo's actual seiyuu]; one performed by the seiyuu of Sailor Moon's Sailor Venus/Aino Minako and titled "Cross My Heart"; all of them sound pretty good though). How many other such tracks are there and who are doing them, and just how good are they? Then I'll go hunting for their CD's if possible.
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2006-04-15, 00:34 | Link #2 |
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Abit unclear about your post.Just seiyuu ? Singers also applied ?
I think riefu is good at it.She's a singer who sang the bleach ending song,Life is like a boat.I'm not so enjoyed with her music video though. [edited:grammar mistakes,thanks for pointing me out =D] Last edited by lavielove; 2006-04-20 at 08:19. |
2006-04-15, 05:49 | Link #3 |
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melody. is one who is fluent (then again she's from Hawaii), she has an English version of "Close your Eyes" in her latest album.
Lia (one of the I've singers) is also worth noting as she's released a couple of all English tracks. Also, Maaya of course with her Wolf's Rain Ending. |
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2006-04-18, 12:24 | Link #14 |
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Hyde is not perfect in English, but you can actually tell what the hell he is trying to sing unlike Crusader. Beat Crusade sucks like hell at it. They should not be singing in Engish at all. Ruin all their songs in my opinion.
Oh... the person who sang in .hack//sign can sing English pretty well. I liked all the songs in that series and you can hear everything quite clearly. Radwimps' English is pretty good too. You can hear the accent at times but it's pretty good still. Monkey Majik has perfect English because it's a band made by 2 Canadian guys and 2 Japanese guys. |
2006-04-18, 16:15 | Link #15 |
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The songs in Beat Crusaders single that includes the Beck's opening theme cannot be considered as examples of broken-English song. At least for me they do not sound bad.
But if the Japanese wants to make a name of themselves in the international arena, they would either stick to high quality traditional songs or soft-songs. Since there are many rock bands out there that are mostly better than the Japanese bands, if they use that genre it will be highly difficult for them to compete with what is already there. Considering rock actually there are not many bands/singers that are widely appreciated and come from non-English spoken countries (a few Swedish/German/Dutch/etc. - I do not include underground/or some highly different rock genres here). They should follow the example of Celine Dion/Abba. Anyway, as long as they do not care about America, Japanese singers can become successful in Europe that is more open to different genres than US, using a more traditional style (language/music). In that case, they do not have to force themselves to sing English too. |
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2006-04-19, 22:39 | Link #20 |
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It's not the accent that's the problem, it's the lyrics. Unless they were penned by a native speaker, they're probably bad. Have you listened to any of the tracks off Utada's English album? It's like being raped in the ear.
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