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* A lot of UtadaHikaru Japanese songs have an English title or a few English sentences in the lyrics. Although they are always grammatically correct and make sense, as she was born in America.
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** Skank has a few examples. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBYC57daudw One song]] has this, kinda mangling a BobMarley reference:
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** Skank has a few examples. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBYC57daudw One song]] has this, kinda mangling a BobMarley Music/BobMarley reference:
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* ''{{Polysics}}''. Many of their songs have titles that're just plain GratuitousEnglish, and some (i.e. the infamous ''New Wave Jacket'' which became famous due to MemeticMutation by way of an WebAnimation/{{Animutation}} by NeilCicierega) has lyrics that falls squarely into this trope.
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* ''{{Polysics}}''. Many of their songs have titles that're just plain GratuitousEnglish, and some (i.e. the infamous ''New Wave Jacket'' which became famous due to MemeticMutation by way of an WebAnimation/{{Animutation}} by NeilCicierega) Creator/NeilCicierega) has lyrics that falls squarely into this trope.
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* Namie Amuro's [[http://www.jpopasia.com/celebrity/namieamuro/videos/neonlight-lipstick::39103.html "Neonlight Lipstick"]] is a weird case of this. The chorus and last verse are entirely in English, and the verses that ''do'' have Japanese involve a lot of code-switching between the two. It's not particularly ''bad'' English for J-Pop, but the song ends up having ''more'' English than it does Japanese.
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* Namie Amuro's [[http://www.jpopasia.com/celebrity/namieamuro/videos/neonlight-lipstick::39103.html "Neonlight Lipstick"]] is a weird case of this. The chorus and last verse are entirely in English, and the verses that ''do'' have Japanese involve a lot of code-switching between the two. It's not particularly ''bad'' English for J-Pop, but the song ends up having ''more'' English than it does Japanese.Japanese.
* A somewhat amusing case is "Elettrochoc" by Matia Bazar. Not enough that the only English word used in the song is "said", but the other singer also immediately translates into Italian ("dice"). Just in case an Italian hearer doesn't speak English...
* A somewhat amusing case is "Elettrochoc" by Matia Bazar. Not enough that the only English word used in the song is "said", but the other singer also immediately translates into Italian ("dice"). Just in case an Italian hearer doesn't speak English...
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* There exists a CoverAlbum that consists of classic punk songs being sung by famous Japanese voice actresses. Most of whom are not fluent in English. Draw your own conclusions as to how they turned out. Or better yet, let [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j87ZVjF2KHY this]] set the tone.
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* There exists a CoverAlbum that consists of classic punk songs being sung by famous Japanese voice actresses. Most of whom are not fluent in English. Draw your own conclusions as to how they turned out. Or better yet, let [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j87ZVjF2KHY this]] set the tone.tone.
* Namie Amuro's [[http://www.jpopasia.com/celebrity/namieamuro/videos/neonlight-lipstick::39103.html "Neonlight Lipstick"]] is a weird case of this. The chorus and last verse are entirely in English, and the verses that ''do'' have Japanese involve a lot of code-switching between the two. It's not particularly ''bad'' English for J-Pop, but the song ends up having ''more'' English than it does Japanese.
* Namie Amuro's [[http://www.jpopasia.com/celebrity/namieamuro/videos/neonlight-lipstick::39103.html "Neonlight Lipstick"]] is a weird case of this. The chorus and last verse are entirely in English, and the verses that ''do'' have Japanese involve a lot of code-switching between the two. It's not particularly ''bad'' English for J-Pop, but the song ends up having ''more'' English than it does Japanese.
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* ''{{Polysics}}''. Many of their songs have titles that're just plain GratuitousEnglish, and some (i.e. the infamous ''New Wave Jacket'' which became famous due to MemeticMutation by way of an {{Animutation}} by NeilCicierega) has lyrics that falls squarely into this trope.
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* ''{{Polysics}}''. Many of their songs have titles that're just plain GratuitousEnglish, and some (i.e. the infamous ''New Wave Jacket'' which became famous due to MemeticMutation by way of an {{Animutation}} WebAnimation/{{Animutation}} by NeilCicierega) has lyrics that falls squarely into this trope.
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--> To the future in which you are...
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* There exists a CoverAlbum that consists of classic punk songs being sung by famous Japanese voice actresses. Most of whom are not fluent in English. Draw your own conclusions as to how they turned out. Or better yet, let [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j87ZVjF2KHY this]] set the tone.
* There exists a CoverAlbum that consists of classic punk songs being sung by famous Japanese voice actresses. Most of whom are not fluent in English. Draw your own conclusions as to how they turned out. Or better yet, let [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j87ZVjF2KHY this]] set the tone.
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-->"What the heck is this house / For a manly cowboy mouse? / Hello, you! Let me out / And don't catch me like a trout!"
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-->"What the heck is this house / For a manly cowboy mouse? / Hello, you! Let me out / And don't catch me like a trout!"trout!"
* Japanese band Alice Nine does this. It's very obvious in their song Blue Planet.
-->Suddenly, necessarily I began to find yourself
* The whole intro to SuG's song P!NK masquerade.
* The Gazette's song Cassis does this too.
--> I will walk together
--> The future not promised
--> It keeps walking together
--> To the future in which you are...
* Japanese band Alice Nine does this. It's very obvious in their song Blue Planet.
-->Suddenly, necessarily I began to find yourself
* The whole intro to SuG's song P!NK masquerade.
* The Gazette's song Cassis does this too.
--> I will walk together
--> The future not promised
--> It keeps walking together
--> To the future in which you are...
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** Some even have entire songs in GratuitousEnglish. A particularly weird example is [=BeForU=]'s "Red Rocked Rising English Edit.", which had a Japanese version first.
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* In Mexico, there was a very famous and respected musician and entertainer named Francisco Gabilondo Soler, who was best known by his character "Cri-Cri, El Grillito Cantor ("Cri-Cri, the Singing Cricket".[[note]]"grillito" literally means "little cricket".[[/note]]) This happens in his song "El Ratón Vaquero", when the titular "Cowboy Mouse" asks the singer to let him out of the "ratonera" (mousetrap):
-->"What the heck is this house / For a manly cowboy mouse? / Hello, you! Let me out / And don't catch me like a trout!"
* In Mexico, there was a very famous and respected musician and entertainer named Francisco Gabilondo Soler, who was best known by his character "Cri-Cri, El Grillito Cantor ("Cri-Cri, the Singing Cricket".[[note]]"grillito" literally means "little cricket".[[/note]]) This happens in his song "El Ratón Vaquero", when the titular "Cowboy Mouse" asks the singer to let him out of the "ratonera" (mousetrap):
-->"What the heck is this house / For a manly cowboy mouse? / Hello, you! Let me out / And don't catch me like a trout!"
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* Los Shakers were a Uruguayan rock band of the sixties who were heavily influenced by Music/TheBeatles, and despite the fact that they primarily played to a South American audience, recorded most of their songs in grammatically shaky English. For instance, "Break It All" has the refrain "But when the music start / don't stand there like a fool / and break it all / you listen me, break it all".
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* Los Shakers were a Uruguayan rock band of the sixties who were heavily influenced by Music/TheBeatles, and despite the fact that they primarily played to a South American audience, recorded most of their songs in grammatically shaky English. For instance, "Break It All" has the refrain "But when the music start / don't stand there like a fool / and break it all / you listen me, break it all".all".
* Brazilian [[BlackMetal Black]]/ThrashMetal band Sarcófago are possibly the greatest example of this trope in history.
-->If you are a false don't entry
-->Because you'll be burned and died
-->The nuclear drums will chrush your brain
-->Slaughtering all with intensive pain
* Brazilian [[BlackMetal Black]]/ThrashMetal band Sarcófago are possibly the greatest example of this trope in history.
-->If you are a false don't entry
-->Because you'll be burned and died
-->The nuclear drums will chrush your brain
-->Slaughtering all with intensive pain
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** J. Quest (inspired by JonnyQuest) was supposed to be pronounced "Jay Quest". Eventually they spelled out the whole word for J in Portuguese, Jota Quest.
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* Los Shakers were a Uruguayan rock band of the sixties who were heavily influenced by Music/TheBeatles, and despite the fact that they primarily played to a South American audience, recorded most of their songs in grammatically shaky English. For instance, "Break It All" has the refrain "But when the music start / don't stand there like a fool / and break it all / you listen me, break it all".
* Los Shakers were a Uruguayan rock band of the sixties who were heavily influenced by Music/TheBeatles, and despite the fact that they primarily played to a South American audience, recorded most of their songs in grammatically shaky English. For instance, "Break It All" has the refrain "But when the music start / don't stand there like a fool / and break it all / you listen me, break it all".
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-->Essa menina tá dizendo[[hottip:*:This girl is saying]] "Don't worry, cause everything is gonna be all right\\
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** Oh boy, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4uZgXk9Zno this song]] is this trope at its worst.
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* The black metal band Immortal is known for their grammatically questionable lyrics, using phrases like "throned by blackwinds," "kingdom of evil fight" and "the mountains which I heart".
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* A lot of UtadaHikaru Japanese songs have an English title or a few English sentences in the lyrics. Although they are always grammatically correct and make sense, as she was born in America.
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* A lot of UtadaHikaru Japanese songs have an English title or a few English sentences in the lyrics. Although they are always grammatically correct and make sense, as she was born in America.America.
* Brazilian rock at times employs this.
** Skank has a few examples. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBYC57daudw One song]] has this, kinda mangling a BobMarley reference:
-->Essa menina tá dizendo[[hottip:*:This girl is saying]] "Don't worry, cause everything is gonna be all right\\
Everything, every tune Will be played by night..." [[{{Scatting}} Uiêê.. ê Oh Oh!]]"
** In Os Paralamas do Sucesso' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIR1l14BCkw "Depois da Queda o Coice"]], the last phrase before the chorus is "And all there is to say is: "[[{{Scatting}} Hey na na na!]]" (the scatting [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Na_Na also became an]] AlbumTitleDrop).
** J. Quest (inspired by JonnyQuest) was supposed to be pronounced "Jay Quest". Eventually they spelled out the whole word for J in Portuguese, Jota Quest.
* Brazilian rock at times employs this.
** Skank has a few examples. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBYC57daudw One song]] has this, kinda mangling a BobMarley reference:
-->Essa menina tá dizendo[[hottip:*:This girl is saying]] "Don't worry, cause everything is gonna be all right\\
Everything, every tune Will be played by night..." [[{{Scatting}} Uiêê.. ê Oh Oh!]]"
** In Os Paralamas do Sucesso' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIR1l14BCkw "Depois da Queda o Coice"]], the last phrase before the chorus is "And all there is to say is: "[[{{Scatting}} Hey na na na!]]" (the scatting [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Na_Na also became an]] AlbumTitleDrop).
** J. Quest (inspired by JonnyQuest) was supposed to be pronounced "Jay Quest". Eventually they spelled out the whole word for J in Portuguese, Jota Quest.
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* Music/{{PSY}} breaks out into a chorus of "HEYYYYYYYYYYYYY, SEXY LADY" in his famous "Gangnam Style" video. There's also phrases like "baby, baby" and "You know what I'm saying?!" before the final chorus.
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* Music/{{PSY}} breaks out into a chorus of "HEYYYYYYYYYYYYY, SEXY LADY" in his famous "Gangnam Style" video, the rest of which is in Korean.
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** SHINee deserve a special mention: ''"Fantastic, elastic, fantastic, elastic..."''
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** Generally speaking, the level of GratuitousEnglish use varies from company to company. SM Entertainment (who owns both BoA and EXO) tends to use more than other music companies (i.e. YG Entertainment, JYP Entertainment, etc.), where the song writers actually speak a decent amount of English.
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** Generally speaking, the level of GratuitousEnglish use varies from company to company. SM Entertainment (who owns both BoA [=BoA=] and EXO) tends to use more than other music companies (i.e. YG Entertainment, JYP Entertainment, etc.), where the song writers actually speak a decent amount of English.
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* K-Pop music is a MAJOR offender of injecting meaningless English into its songs. It practically needs it's own page.
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* When she isn't singing in English, South Korean pop singer Music/{{BoA|Korea}}'s songs are still littered with English.
** A lot of K-pop is this really.
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** When she isn't singing in English, South Korean pop singer Music/{{BoA|Korea}}'s songs are still littered withEnglish.
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* A lot of UtadaHikaru Japanese songs have an English title or a few English sentences in the lyrics. Although they are always grammatically correct and make sense, as she was born in America.
* And of course, the most recent: [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/PSY Heeeeeeeeey, Sexy Lady!]]
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* And of course, the most recent: [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/PSY Heeeeeeeeey, Sexy Lady!]]America.
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* When she isn't singing in English, South Korean pop singer BoA's songs are still littered with English.
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* A lot of UtadaHikaru Japanese songs have an English title or a few English sentences in the lyrics. Although they are always grammatically correct and make sense, as she was born in America.
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* And of course, the most recent: [[Music/PSY Heeeeeeeeey, Sexy Lady!]]
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJa2kwoZ2a4 "It's My Life Whatever I Wanna Do"]] by Vennu Mallesh.
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* A lot of UtadaHikaru Japanese songs have an English title or a few English sentences in the lyrics. Although they are always grammatically correct and make sense, as she was born in America.
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** Similarly, the SonicAdventureSeries has tracks named [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure "Bad Taste Aquarium", "Funky Groove Makes U Hot!?", "Tornado Scramble", "Skydeck A Go! Go!",]] [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 "Vengence (sic) is Mine", "For True Story", "Mr. Unsmiley", and "Keys The Ruin".]] Also, the name of the Sonic Adventure OST is "[[WordSaladTitle Digi-log Conversation!]]"
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** Similarly, the SonicAdventureSeries has tracks named [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure "Bad Taste Aquarium", "Funky Groove Makes U Hot!?", "Tornado Scramble", "Skydeck A Go! Go!",]] [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 "Vengence (sic) is Mine", "For True Story", "Mr. Unsmiley", and "Keys The Ruin".]] Also, the name of the Sonic Adventure OST is "[[WordSaladTitle ''[[WordSaladTitle Digi-log Conversation!]]"Conversation!]]''
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* [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] and PlayedForLaughs in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR12Z8f1Dh8&feature=share "Why this Kolaveri"]], a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil Tamil]] song that went viral.
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* [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] and PlayedForLaughs in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR12Z8f1Dh8&feature=share "Why this Kolaveri"]], a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil Tamil]] song that went viral.viral.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJa2kwoZ2a4 "It's My Life Whatever I Wanna Do"]] by Vennu Mallesh.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJa2kwoZ2a4 "It's My Life Whatever I Wanna Do"]] by Vennu Mallesh.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jEutxuMtA8 This Peelander-Z song.]]
* Most Eurobeat songs. It's produced mostly in Italy and sold mostly in Japan, and of course, neither are English-speaking countries. English covers of Japanese songs, such as "Hot Limit", are especially gratuitous. A few singers, eg Domino, sometimes sing in GratuitousJapanese.
** That's because a lot of dance music (from non-English speaking European countries) have songs in English. To be fair, the English is often a bit better than what Japanese music has in regards to English song lyrics.
** Oh boy, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4uZgXk9Zno this song]] is this trope at its worst.
* The French band Mademoiselle K has a song called "In English" parodying this trope. It's in perfect English but the lyrics go:
-->''I wrote a song,\\
My first song in English.\\
I wrote a song,\\
To talk about nothing.''
* Most Japanese {{Vocaloid}}s are pretty bad at pronouncing any English word (except for Luka, who actually has an English voice bank). Try Miku's "Cinderella romance" (SUPAA POWAFURU SINDERRA, LOVU LOVU LOVU LOVU LOVULII DAHLEEN! SUPA POWA FURU LOVU ATTAKKU!)
* The German a capella group Wise Guys sing a song remarking on this phenomenon in German, aptly titled [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKg_oxYGht4&feature=related "Denglish"]]: "Oh Herr bitte gib mir meine Sprache zurueck" slowly becomes "Oh Lord please give mir meine Language back" as the song goes on.
* The theme song to the Anime version of ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}'' KICKS ASS! The couple of English lines are still gramatically terrible, though. ("It's all over" and "Break out" are OK, but "Give me your XTC" is just wrong.)
** It's pronounced ecstasy, the song title, XTC, is just a pun.
*** Or maybe it's a ShoutOut to the band {{XTC}}?
* The [[http://www.rpgfan.com/soundtracks/trustybell/index.html soundtrack album]] for ''EternalSonata'' (by MotoiSakuraba) has such track titles as "Underground for underhand", "Seize the artifact for tallness", "Your truth is my false", "Embarrassment consistency", and "No No I don't die [[BigNo Noooo!]]"
** Similarly, the SonicAdventureSeries has tracks named [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure "Bad Taste Aquarium", "Funky Groove Makes U Hot!?", "Tornado Scramble", "Skydeck A Go! Go!",]] [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 "Vengence (sic) is Mine", "For True Story", "Mr. Unsmiley", and "Keys The Ruin".]] Also, the name of the Sonic Adventure OST is "[[WordSaladTitle Digi-log Conversation!]]"
* The black metal band Immortal is known for their grammatically questionable lyrics, using phrases like "throned by blackwinds," "kingdom of evil fight" and "the mountains which I heart".
* ''{{Polysics}}''. Many of their songs have titles that're just plain GratuitousEnglish, and some (i.e. the infamous ''New Wave Jacket'' which became famous due to MemeticMutation by way of an {{Animutation}} by NeilCicierega) has lyrics that falls squarely into this trope.
* Falco's new-wave/rap song "Der Kommissar" starts with him counting in English ("two three four") and then in German ("eins zwei drei"), and contains some gratuitous English in the verses. In the version that is loosely translated into English by After the Fire, they reversed the languages of the first part, so it starts "zwei drei vier" and then "one two three". The gratuitous English was left in English, but the refrain "Alles klar, Herr Kommissar" was kept, producing GratuitousGerman.
* ''Con te partirò''. The [[http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/sb/sb412.html#lyrics lyrics]] are entirely in Italian, but in most performances a couple of lines are replaced with the English line: ''Time to Say Goodbye''.
* Japanese heavy-metal band MaximumTheHormone have a habit of invoking this trope regularly (as if their name wasn't evidence enough). Choice song titles include ''Policeman Fuck'' and ''Anal Whiskey Ponce'', as well as lyrics regularly including English words and phrases that only just about make sense:
** Saa tomerarenai eraser rain
** Pink shambles speaker chu! mega lover, Aneki lover sign
** Vinyl vinyl vinyl vinyl vinyl vinyl sex, Aluminum aluminum aluminum aluminum aluminum
*** Which actually comes out sounding more like banana. HilarityEnsues.
** Kuso breaking no breakin lilly
** Beat you! get you! toorima chuunen ossan renchuu
** Aside from this, though, their songs are actually pretty catchy, despite the lyrics not making sense even in Japanese.
* Essentially anything by the Japanese band ''BACK-ON.'' The best part about it though is that most of it is ''rapped'' perfectly (pronunciation, grammar, etc). From ''Blaze Line,'' the theme song to [[EyeShield21 Eyeshield 21]]:
--> ''Hey, cheerleaders!''
--> ''Come on, shake your ass!''
--> ''Shake your tits for me!''
* Santana/Maná's "Corazón Espinado" received a "{{Spanglish}} [[http://www.wowlyrics.com/read.php?wow=1492700 version]]", featuring sentences such as "how it hurts el corazón".
* A surprisingly good, very popular Japanese band has what might be the ultimate Engrish name -- Mr.Children. There is no space in that name.
* Another Japanese band name: King Fucker Chicken. DaveBarry himself declared it [[AGoodNameForARockBand "a good new name for a band."]]
** A note about Japan's apparent love affair with the word "fuck". The combination of straights and curves it presents is aesthetically pleasing to them, so people who don't know what it means might throw it on somewhere just to have some nice-looking detail, oblivious to what American viewers are going to think.
* The name of the Japanese rock band Bump Of Chicken is actually a translation error that the band decided to keep because they found it amusing.
* All [[JapanesePopMusic J-Pop]]. Seriously.
** The vast majority of songs and artists (>75%) have at least one GratuitousEnglish line in the song.
** A significant portion (>25%) of songs have GratuitousEnglish [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin right in the title]].
* When she isn't singing in English, South Korean pop singer BoA's songs are still littered with English.
** A lot of K-pop is this really.
** The band Exo's debut. ''"Careless, careless/Shoot anonymous, anonymous/Heartless, mindless/No one who care about meeee..."''
* RieFu is known to subvert this trope, though living in North America for the first few years of her life did a lot to help her enunciation, the songs Life is Like a Boat, I so Wanted and I wanna go to a place are all good examples.
* Joe Inoue is also known for this; in fact his Japanese is actually more accented than his English. The music video for Closer, the fourth Naruto Shippuden intro, had him having a fairly decent conversation, in English, with the resident leader of the town.
** It should be noted that Joe Inoue was born Los Angeles, USA and is a native English speaker, something easily mistaken. He apparently claimed to have learned Japanese from watching {{Anime}}, arguably making him an {{Otaku}} and of course OneOfUs. This would also account for his Japanese being the more accented.
* Anything by Laugh and Peace. Even worse is that the songs tend end up sounding incomprehensible instead due to the heavy accent.
* The Japanese PowerMetal band Music/{{Versailles}} uses this relatively sparingly, but when they ''do''...
** They released "The Revenant Choir" as their debut single, which is written and sung more-or-less entirely in English, with only two lines in Japanese. Not that you could tell with Kamijo's heavy Engrish, which is only slightly better in the album's re-release, and the damn near incomprehensible lyrics ("It's a night when the moon laughs at lover", "poured crimson admiration into Holy Grail"). To make things weirder, the original release has an English voiceover at the start and end of the song by native speaker Leah Riegle.
** Their third studio album, ''Holy Grail'' contains "[[SurprisinglyGentleSong Love will be born again]]", which ''is'' entirely in English. It's considerably more comprehensible than "The Revenant Choir", with the English and pronunciation being greatly improved, but there's still a smattering of Engrish in there. (However, more than a few fans have noted that Kamijo sings it better live, compared to when it was recorded for the album.)
* KaizersOrchestra mostly sings in Norwegian, but on "Die Polizei" they slip into gratious English.
* The J-Rock band 403Forbiddena. Most of their songs are all in accented GratuitousEnglish, which makes it hard to figure out the lyrics for both English and Japanese-speakers.
* Tommy Heavenly6 has done this with at least one of her songs: "Black Paper Moon"
-->Fairy Blue ''kimi no tame ni''
-->''hoshi wo kudaki''
-->''kazaritsuketa''
-->Black Paper Moon!
* The Japanese rock group Beat Crusaders sing exclusively in English even though none of them speak the language. This leads to lots of Engrish (a cover of "I can see crearly") and terrible grammar, but with song titles like "Joker in the Crotch", who can complain? Also, their songs are super catchy.
* [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] and PlayedForLaughs in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR12Z8f1Dh8&feature=share "Why this Kolaveri"]], a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil Tamil]] song that went viral.
* Most Eurobeat songs. It's produced mostly in Italy and sold mostly in Japan, and of course, neither are English-speaking countries. English covers of Japanese songs, such as "Hot Limit", are especially gratuitous. A few singers, eg Domino, sometimes sing in GratuitousJapanese.
** That's because a lot of dance music (from non-English speaking European countries) have songs in English. To be fair, the English is often a bit better than what Japanese music has in regards to English song lyrics.
** Oh boy, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4uZgXk9Zno this song]] is this trope at its worst.
* The French band Mademoiselle K has a song called "In English" parodying this trope. It's in perfect English but the lyrics go:
-->''I wrote a song,\\
My first song in English.\\
I wrote a song,\\
To talk about nothing.''
* Most Japanese {{Vocaloid}}s are pretty bad at pronouncing any English word (except for Luka, who actually has an English voice bank). Try Miku's "Cinderella romance" (SUPAA POWAFURU SINDERRA, LOVU LOVU LOVU LOVU LOVULII DAHLEEN! SUPA POWA FURU LOVU ATTAKKU!)
* The German a capella group Wise Guys sing a song remarking on this phenomenon in German, aptly titled [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKg_oxYGht4&feature=related "Denglish"]]: "Oh Herr bitte gib mir meine Sprache zurueck" slowly becomes "Oh Lord please give mir meine Language back" as the song goes on.
* The theme song to the Anime version of ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}'' KICKS ASS! The couple of English lines are still gramatically terrible, though. ("It's all over" and "Break out" are OK, but "Give me your XTC" is just wrong.)
** It's pronounced ecstasy, the song title, XTC, is just a pun.
*** Or maybe it's a ShoutOut to the band {{XTC}}?
* The [[http://www.rpgfan.com/soundtracks/trustybell/index.html soundtrack album]] for ''EternalSonata'' (by MotoiSakuraba) has such track titles as "Underground for underhand", "Seize the artifact for tallness", "Your truth is my false", "Embarrassment consistency", and "No No I don't die [[BigNo Noooo!]]"
** Similarly, the SonicAdventureSeries has tracks named [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure "Bad Taste Aquarium", "Funky Groove Makes U Hot!?", "Tornado Scramble", "Skydeck A Go! Go!",]] [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 "Vengence (sic) is Mine", "For True Story", "Mr. Unsmiley", and "Keys The Ruin".]] Also, the name of the Sonic Adventure OST is "[[WordSaladTitle Digi-log Conversation!]]"
* The black metal band Immortal is known for their grammatically questionable lyrics, using phrases like "throned by blackwinds," "kingdom of evil fight" and "the mountains which I heart".
* ''{{Polysics}}''. Many of their songs have titles that're just plain GratuitousEnglish, and some (i.e. the infamous ''New Wave Jacket'' which became famous due to MemeticMutation by way of an {{Animutation}} by NeilCicierega) has lyrics that falls squarely into this trope.
* Falco's new-wave/rap song "Der Kommissar" starts with him counting in English ("two three four") and then in German ("eins zwei drei"), and contains some gratuitous English in the verses. In the version that is loosely translated into English by After the Fire, they reversed the languages of the first part, so it starts "zwei drei vier" and then "one two three". The gratuitous English was left in English, but the refrain "Alles klar, Herr Kommissar" was kept, producing GratuitousGerman.
* ''Con te partirò''. The [[http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/sb/sb412.html#lyrics lyrics]] are entirely in Italian, but in most performances a couple of lines are replaced with the English line: ''Time to Say Goodbye''.
* Japanese heavy-metal band MaximumTheHormone have a habit of invoking this trope regularly (as if their name wasn't evidence enough). Choice song titles include ''Policeman Fuck'' and ''Anal Whiskey Ponce'', as well as lyrics regularly including English words and phrases that only just about make sense:
** Saa tomerarenai eraser rain
** Pink shambles speaker chu! mega lover, Aneki lover sign
** Vinyl vinyl vinyl vinyl vinyl vinyl sex, Aluminum aluminum aluminum aluminum aluminum
*** Which actually comes out sounding more like banana. HilarityEnsues.
** Kuso breaking no breakin lilly
** Beat you! get you! toorima chuunen ossan renchuu
** Aside from this, though, their songs are actually pretty catchy, despite the lyrics not making sense even in Japanese.
* Essentially anything by the Japanese band ''BACK-ON.'' The best part about it though is that most of it is ''rapped'' perfectly (pronunciation, grammar, etc). From ''Blaze Line,'' the theme song to [[EyeShield21 Eyeshield 21]]:
--> ''Hey, cheerleaders!''
--> ''Come on, shake your ass!''
--> ''Shake your tits for me!''
* Santana/Maná's "Corazón Espinado" received a "{{Spanglish}} [[http://www.wowlyrics.com/read.php?wow=1492700 version]]", featuring sentences such as "how it hurts el corazón".
* A surprisingly good, very popular Japanese band has what might be the ultimate Engrish name -- Mr.Children. There is no space in that name.
* Another Japanese band name: King Fucker Chicken. DaveBarry himself declared it [[AGoodNameForARockBand "a good new name for a band."]]
** A note about Japan's apparent love affair with the word "fuck". The combination of straights and curves it presents is aesthetically pleasing to them, so people who don't know what it means might throw it on somewhere just to have some nice-looking detail, oblivious to what American viewers are going to think.
* The name of the Japanese rock band Bump Of Chicken is actually a translation error that the band decided to keep because they found it amusing.
* All [[JapanesePopMusic J-Pop]]. Seriously.
** The vast majority of songs and artists (>75%) have at least one GratuitousEnglish line in the song.
** A significant portion (>25%) of songs have GratuitousEnglish [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin right in the title]].
* When she isn't singing in English, South Korean pop singer BoA's songs are still littered with English.
** A lot of K-pop is this really.
** The band Exo's debut. ''"Careless, careless/Shoot anonymous, anonymous/Heartless, mindless/No one who care about meeee..."''
* RieFu is known to subvert this trope, though living in North America for the first few years of her life did a lot to help her enunciation, the songs Life is Like a Boat, I so Wanted and I wanna go to a place are all good examples.
* Joe Inoue is also known for this; in fact his Japanese is actually more accented than his English. The music video for Closer, the fourth Naruto Shippuden intro, had him having a fairly decent conversation, in English, with the resident leader of the town.
** It should be noted that Joe Inoue was born Los Angeles, USA and is a native English speaker, something easily mistaken. He apparently claimed to have learned Japanese from watching {{Anime}}, arguably making him an {{Otaku}} and of course OneOfUs. This would also account for his Japanese being the more accented.
* Anything by Laugh and Peace. Even worse is that the songs tend end up sounding incomprehensible instead due to the heavy accent.
* The Japanese PowerMetal band Music/{{Versailles}} uses this relatively sparingly, but when they ''do''...
** They released "The Revenant Choir" as their debut single, which is written and sung more-or-less entirely in English, with only two lines in Japanese. Not that you could tell with Kamijo's heavy Engrish, which is only slightly better in the album's re-release, and the damn near incomprehensible lyrics ("It's a night when the moon laughs at lover", "poured crimson admiration into Holy Grail"). To make things weirder, the original release has an English voiceover at the start and end of the song by native speaker Leah Riegle.
** Their third studio album, ''Holy Grail'' contains "[[SurprisinglyGentleSong Love will be born again]]", which ''is'' entirely in English. It's considerably more comprehensible than "The Revenant Choir", with the English and pronunciation being greatly improved, but there's still a smattering of Engrish in there. (However, more than a few fans have noted that Kamijo sings it better live, compared to when it was recorded for the album.)
* KaizersOrchestra mostly sings in Norwegian, but on "Die Polizei" they slip into gratious English.
* The J-Rock band 403Forbiddena. Most of their songs are all in accented GratuitousEnglish, which makes it hard to figure out the lyrics for both English and Japanese-speakers.
* Tommy Heavenly6 has done this with at least one of her songs: "Black Paper Moon"
-->Fairy Blue ''kimi no tame ni''
-->''hoshi wo kudaki''
-->''kazaritsuketa''
-->Black Paper Moon!
* The Japanese rock group Beat Crusaders sing exclusively in English even though none of them speak the language. This leads to lots of Engrish (a cover of "I can see crearly") and terrible grammar, but with song titles like "Joker in the Crotch", who can complain? Also, their songs are super catchy.
* [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] and PlayedForLaughs in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR12Z8f1Dh8&feature=share "Why this Kolaveri"]], a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil Tamil]] song that went viral.
