[instiz] WHY WOULD YOU USE ENGLISH IN KPOP LYRICS WHEN THEY ARE WRONG??

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I thought of it while listening to some songs just now….

The pronunciation difference isn’t that big, and there’s no way a major company wouldn’t know this, so why would they release it in such an incorrect state?? As a non-native speaker, that mistake just stands out right away. If they’re targeting the English-speaking market, wouldn’t it be better to fix it?

Even if I try to think of it as intentional grammar-breaking or slang like in Western hip-hop, it doesn’t come across that way since it’s sung by a Korean artist, which makes it feel like a shame

1. Because they are not targeting the Anglo market..?

2. It feels like they are releasing songs that are easy to sing to even if the lyrics are wrong

3. There are plenty of pop songs where the grammar is different depending on how the topline is structured

4. Every country has songs that don’t grammatically make sense but rhyme better and there are a bunch of people who don’t care about such things

5. So what you’re saying is that in English-speaking countries, incorrect grammar can sound cool and intentional, but since Korea isn’t an English-speaking country, using incorrect grammar in lyrics just sounds off and not cool?

6. There are plenty of Korean songs that have wrong grammar too so who cares?

7. If you think about how there are so many Korean songs that nobody even understands the lyrics of, it just seems like it was intended to be wrong

8. Because it’s more important to be able to sing a song and roll the words comfortably

9. Pop does the same thing 

10. I’ve seen pop songs that had this level of mistakes so I don’t think that it looks sloppy but there were even more shocking lyrics before. Things like “if you wanna pretty every wanna pretty”…ㅠㅠㅠㅠ