/leek/ - Vocaloid Lounge

>>22791
I don't really care about the lyrics, I care about whether the song sounds good to my ears or not. Maybe that's why i can enjoy so many of the songs the WVF despises.

Sometimes I do try to quickly get the meaning of some songs I listen to a lot, but it's not a make or break for me.
It's mostly so I see if a song can relate to original characters of mine to put in playlists for those characters

I really enjoy knowing the lyrical content of the song. If I connect to both the meaning and the music, I remember thst song for a very long time. I still like untranslated songs though.

I enjoy understanding the song meaning but meaning can be difficult to interpret through translation unless it is something not deep and simple lyrics I dont even need translation for.

>>22793
Same here minus that last part

>>22791
I learned basic Japanese so I can understand song lyrics to the best of my abilities, and is the main motivating factor in learning even more.

Learning the lyrics of a song is the make or break factor in determining if a song is in my favorites or not. Most songs (not limited to Vocaloid) are usually about grief, love, endurance, sadness, happiness, etcetc. People have their own ways of creating their own unique prose, and when combined with music, it forms a harmonious beauty truly indescribable. Songs are poetry at the end of the day, and I feel like people are missing half of the song by not trying to understand the lyrics.

I especially love how PinocchioP, nekobolo, and whoo write their lyrics.

>>22791
Typically no but I do love Iyowa and Ryo's lyrics

>>22791
music is a medium to say something the same way movies and other forms of art are. to me the lyrics are important as it allows you to connect with the song a bit deeper which helps you enjoy it more. with the case of vocaloid i dont speak japanese so i have no idea what the hell theyre singing about in the moment but ive made the effort of researching their meanings to get at least a slight grasp of whats going on while i listen.

>>22820
Every once in a while I think about how cool it would be to know some Japanese, to better understand anime/manga/games/music etc., but then I remember that even if I spent hours, and hours, and hours, learning about a hundred kana, and thousands of kanji, I still wouldn't have the cultural context for what is being said, which is far more important than a literal translation.

>>23234
/leek/ can't Japanese, it's a known fact at this point

>>23236
dekinai dakaro watashi o mite

>>23236
Watashi.......kibun.......

>>23244
You're feeling...?

>>23234
I'm fluent enough to listen to songs without subs, and while you're right that cultural context is important, it's not impossible to pick up on. I've gotten a fair amount through internet osmosis, like how ESL users do it.

>>23234
Well, that goes for any language doesn't it? Idioms, proverbs, cultural context is key to any language, and Japanese isn't too radically different. It's a barrier sure, but it's not that bothersome. Besides, that's also a part of the fun in learning and reading/listening/watching stuff in another language.

I didn't understand what 阿修羅の道 or 修羅場 (allusion/idiom to Buddhist demigods and their battles in their realm of reality with other gods) really meant when I first saw it when I was watching an anime, or what 嘘ついたら針千本飲ます (expression used for pinky promises) meant when I saw it for the first time in iyowa's Mercy Killing, or what 影踏み (children's game in which you step in shadows) was in kous's Layering Human Shadows. I can think of various other examples on the top of my head, but that would probably take up a massive block of text.

To reiterate, it helps to know that songs are poetry at the end of the day, and could have multiple interpretations depending on what the lyrics are about. Even if you understand everything literally and figuratively, there might still be multiple meanings attached to the lyrics.