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Originally Posted by maddy1111
well, I totally agree with Chibi-Chan here.
I can understand that most of us cannot read song titles if they are written in hiragana/katakana, but we are listening to Japanese music so it is completely natural that they are releasing songs with JAPANESE titles!
It just takes a few minutes and a little effort to change titles of these songs in your iPod to romaji (道 - Michi; 俺の彼女 - Ore no Kanojo etc.), but expecting Japanese artists to be releasing songs with English titles is just ... stupid (sorry for that expression). Then we should ask all artists in the whole world to be only releasing songs with English titles (Chinese, Koreans, Russians, Polish), because what´s the difference?
It is really egoistic to expect everything should be "westernised" instead of making a little effort and if having a trouble reading hiragana/kanji characters then change titles to romaji by myself so I have no trouble to read those titles and distinguish songs from each other.
Like I said, I can totally understand that someone might have trouble recognise songs with Japanese titles, but for me it is really dull to say something like this "I couldn't get into Maki Goto newer releases because almost all titles were in hiragana/kanji" .. really?? You cannot enjoy listening to some artist´s music because some song titles are in the native language of the artist? And what does music have to do with song title? Music is not about that at all! You can listen a song not knowing its title and still like it.
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I'm not demanding or condemning artists for releasing music with japanese titles. I'm just saying I personally prefer English titles, that's all. I'm not expecting anything from anyone, I just stated a preference.
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Originally Posted by thinkingoutloud89
^exactly. English it not the only way.
It has nothing to do with us (or in this case me) being able to read kanji. For the most part, i can#T but I memorized how they look and what the title is called. There is really nothing to it other then looking it up on a third class website that caters the english title.
Most of you just don't get the point that it is just not okay to say something like "I just can't with Japanese titles" - thats the first step of racism because one actually think the english title is better just because the individual is able to read it. Thats exactly what it is behind it. Intended or not and I don't want to call anyone out, I just wanna state that it is just not okay to think like that.
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Jesus freaking Christ, you're out of your mind. What does racism has to do with anything? I'm not saying A is better than B, I'm saying I personally prefer A than B, not that it should/must be a certain way.
And really, how many of you are japanese to begin with? It's funny to read so many strong opinions about japanese/language respect from white people. It like me, a man, advocating for feminism, or me, a white guy, talking about how hard it is to be a black man.