Originally Posted by CARMEN
I think to me most important of all is not the fact that she sings in English but I admire her ability to write lyrics in that language....which brings me to the question (I think someone's asked it a little earlier on too), does she truly wrote these herself or does she get someone to translate it to English from Japanese lyrics she wrote? Saying that she didn't exactly wrote the English lyrics to her and TJ's songs would crush my dream.
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all of the english tracks from this era (Variety), being Kaban no Nakami and Fukushuu (just those two right?) have had an english translator meaning ringo wrote the lyrics in japanese and he translated them to english, which is what you are hearing her sing. She has written songs in English in the past, although to my knowledge she hasn't included information about a possible translator. Maybe she was using one before and it was in the fine print or maybe she just used one for these few songs for whatever reason. Until she comes out and talks about it in an interview I guess we will never know (and why does it never come up? It is pretty rare that you have an artist who has lived overseas and consistently writes tracks in a foreign language. You would think if an American band kept on putting french tracks on all their albums someone might get around to asking about it)