I never knew there were Asian male vocalists that had (even halfway) decent singing voices. Maybe it's just that none of them are in Japan. Or China (where Jackie Chan is a well-known pop singer; yes, Jackie Chan).

Of course, he lacks the power of Freddie Mercury, and the falsetto of Roger Taylor, but seriously.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDXBRvS7wa0

There's bound to be good Asian male vocalists, obviously, it's just that really good vocalists in general are ultra-rare.

Wow, that's really good. The only thing is the accent, of course. Also, I think this guy is from Korea.

[quote="A.Fish"]Wow, that's really good. The only thing is the accent, of course. Also, I think this guy is from Korea.[/quote]

Yeah, that's what I meant - all the good male singers must be there, since there sure as hell are not any in Japan or China, as far as I've heard. Sure, there are passable vocalists, that you can argue "well, it fits the music," or so, but there are no truly good Asian vocalists that I've heard thus far besides this one (or the whole lot of them, it seems).

It may be sacrilege to say this, but Queen - that band with the greatest rock vocalist ever, by anyone's (read: not retards) standards - couldn't even perform Bo Rhap that well in a live performance - in fact, they never even attempted it in full. That's what is truly impressive.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI9laqeK43k

The accent is almost as bad as Sawao's (okay, it's not [i]that[/i] bad), but you can't have everything, I guess.

Queen was [i]really[/i] big in Japan, so where is the Japanese band that can adequately play Queen songs?

That guy has an incredible voice.

I think it's impressive how well they were able to harmonize in that performance too. It really sounded authentic.

peridots.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXrh4ZgdvPE

Excellent, but not holy-fuckworthy.

What will be holy-fuckworthy is when we can find an Asian person who can sing well [i]without[/i] a terrible accent.

How about one who can sing their native language amazingly? Oh wait, Skool just pointed one out.

Well != Amazingly.

If you can't speak the language with any degree of competence, don't write lyrics in it *glares at Sawao*. End of story.

So we should stop using foreign loanwords in English immediately.

[quote="Marekenshin"]So we should stop using foreign loanwords in English immediately. [/quote]

Well, we don't put random Japanese into entire phrases in our popular music... I'm pretty sure He's referring to the songs that Sawao write in all English... phonetically they don't work out very well.

I mean, in Ride on Shooting Star it works out well.

But OVER AMP?

"It's life to be weed head" and "I'm animal"... that's just bad. I like Over Amp, but I'd prefer it in Japanese.

Same with a host of other songs written by Yamanaka. It doesn't bother me so much, but I think it bothers Sheer a bit more.

[quote="Marekenshin"]So we should stop using foreign loanwords in English immediately. [/quote]

We have standardized pronunciations of loanwords. If you can't use those loanwords correctly, then FUCK NO YOU SHOULDN'T USE THEM ANYMORE.

However, I am not even talking about loanwords. I am talking about speaking in another language that you clearly cannot speak. Don't do it, you will sounds like an imbecile. Especially when you are speaking the most widely used language in the world.

But even still, the Japanese take the "loanword" thing a little too far. I mean, seriously, get your own fucking language, Japan.

Yeah, Japan does take the loanword thing a bit too far, I think. It is pretty bad when you go to the bathroom in Japan and see a sign that says "Toilet-man". I mean, it doesn't even make sense, it's so ridiculous. And no, I would never go into a bathroom that advertised having a "Toilet-man" inside:

[img]http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m181/Tidusauron12/toilet-man.jpg[/img]

That doesn't look like it's from Japan, just fyi.