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Old 07-15-2015, 05:05 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Janszoon View Post
That's exactly how I feel too. Plus, I hear English all day long every day in my life, so I like the variety of hearing other languages when I can. And one of my musical pet peeves is bands from non-English speaking countries who feel obligated to sing in English in order to, I presume, be more commercially viable. Not only do I not want to hear your shitty lyrics, Sepultura, but they'd probably be less shitty if you used the language you were most comfortable with.
Yeah, this often produces especially sucky results.
And those accents... Singing with an accent can, in a select few cases, add a certain character to the singing, but it usually doesn't and just sounds awful and cringeworthy.
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