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Why making songs with english when they are sung in engrish?

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Mistgun_Zero:
Just for the record, I have net some of my dads collegue (from other companies) who are Japanese and they speak perfect English and no Engrish at all.

Now, a song is always attributed to its singer. If linkin park writes a song, and green day sings it, it's gonna be a green day song and not linkin parks. (Even of it is shown in credits or the whole profits go to them).

Kalafina is a band made by Kajiura, but the credits still go to kalafina for the songs. Basically, what I am trying to say is the main singer is the one supposed to be singing the lyrics, whether he can sing it or not. If you get a random guy to sing that line for you, what exactly is the reason for the original singer to exist.

And for the record, one ok rock, band which uses a lot of English words in their songs. At first they quite sucked at it, but now they are pretty good.

Bottom line, they are in very early stages of using English and of course can't pronounce it right. Hell, I am sure most of them didn't even speak English before in their life (well maybe in school, but seriously how good is your second language especially the one which you didn't want to learn??)

They don't sing Engrish because they want to, it's just that they can't sing English. YET.

brunoais:
Yes but... Why choosing engrish (singers) and not english (singers)? (I mean, in speaking capabilities, not nationality)

BTW, My english is unlike any of the native english speakers. My pronunciation suffers from lack of usage in my daily life but it is quite understandable and when I use it people understand it. I believe that it is english with a mix of american texanish australian British - ish with a portuguese accent.

I have no trouble with that if people would come to me ans speak in a mix of Brazilian-angolan Açores -ish portuguese. It's hard to speak in portuguese for someone that never dealt with the language but it's fine as it is not reading portuguese words in their native language.
I already have had colleges that would read english texts as if they were written in portuguese (same as the engrish thing). It was aWful.

SchoolDaysEX:
I agree with OP, I dislike English songs in anime in general. I don't mind it if it is just a small phrase, like Aria the Animation ED.
Just my opinion but I couldn't bear Danganronpa OP and Higurashi ED.

megido-rev.M:
This thread reminds me of the half-broken English in all those OPs/EDs by ALTIMA.

jevitsj:
I don't mind, sometimes it's really terrible but mostly it's ok for me, not that I'm a native English speaker so that probably contributes to not caring so much. Although I would like to see someone who can actually sing or speak in English if there are English parts in the song.

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