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There a Japanese pop-singer named Melody (near as I can tell the same fairly plastic pretty-face/pretty-voice that makes up most of J-Pop, but someone can correct me if I'm wrong here) who has a habit of interspersing her lyrics quite heavily with English. A little English in a J-Pop song is typical, but her song Believe Me is almost half and half.

For me, this makes listening to it a very interesting experience, like simultaneously interpreting two different conversations. Just when my head's gotten around some Japanese expression, she's back in English throwing out a few words which, alone, mean nothing. Then she's back in Japanese, and I'm trying to figure out how the phrases fit together.

Quite an entertaining way to listen to music. Since a lot of blawgs have taken to mentioning the occasional lyric, here's the refrain of Melody's Believe Me.

I know there's more
教えてよね to feel free
まだ見せてない 見えてない
Believe me
いつか
ai wo motto...
この気持ちは in me
胸の奥で待っていた想いに近づくよ
逃げないから
Gotta find myself now.

Quite a strange little ditty. I'd translate, but the lyrics aren't impressive in and of themselves. If anyone can suggest other songs of the type, I'd be interested.

Comments

Some good bunch of japanese artists sprinkle here and there english lyrics. Some good examples can be Luna Sea, X-Japan, Psycho Le Cemu, Glay, Hikaru Utada (i believe) -Luna Sea - Forever and Ever -Luna Sea - Jesus -Luna Sea - Loveless -Luna Sea - Rosiel -Psycho Le Cemu - Ai no uta (roughly meaning 'song of love') -Glay - Happiness Now just you wait when you discover when they use german and french!!!

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