Korean Music’s Worst Engrish Lyrics
kensai in Opinions on Feb 17, 2008 - 09:53 PM – 8863 Views – 89 Comments
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Artist-S.E.S.
Song-The Twilight Zone
Lyric-"Baby, You can't search thing that you want."
Evidence-22 Seconds Into This Performance
While S.E.S. may not be the most frequent Engrish offender, they sure make up for it in quality. This lyric is so confusing it made me want to do a full analysis on this multi-layered piece of literary genius. I would probably go with working title of, 'You Can't Search Thing That You Want: An Exploration Into Cryptic Double Speak'. Sure, you can laugh at that now, but just think about how S.E.S. is inventing a new type of language that only hyper intelligent beings can decipher. After all, they do have an alien in their group.


That's what I thought, you won't be laughing so hard when she contacts the rest of her race and they enslave Earth, bitch. Either way, at this rate, I doubt our feeble human brains will be able to decipher their code anytime in the near future.


Artist-Hyori
Song-Anymotion
Lyric-"Come into my member, please come into me."
Evidence-1 Minute 35 Seconds Into This Music Video
I dunno what's scarier, the fact that she insinuates that she has a penis, or the fact that she beckons all comers (or cummers, har har har) to unload into her spacious vaginal canal.


Artist-Eric From Shinhwa
Song-Anymotion
Lyric-"And i'm so damn hot, they call me vampire."
Evidence-2 Minutes 39 Seconds Into This Music Video
That's right, the Engrish in 'Anymotion' is so bad that it garnered two mentions. Honestly though, what the hell is he talking about? If anything, vampires would be cold because they're f*cking undead. The lyric makes about as much sense as Eric growing up in America and still consistently spewing terribly pronounced Engrish lyrics that make absolutely no sense in any context.


Artist-Boa
Song-Miracle
Lyric-"It's miracle, so miracle."
Evidence-2 Minutes 19 Seconds Into This Performance
What exactly is "so miracle"? It's been years since this has been released and still nobody really knows. I guess it'll remain a mystery that's up there with Area 51, Roswell, and Rain's wardrobe choice. At least the "destiny is shine or not" lyric makes sense if you add a few words in here and there. For example, "is my destiny to shine or not" makes perfect sense. On the other hand, what the hell are you going to do with, "it's miracle, so miracle"? Even if you add a few words so that it's grammatically sound, nobody knows exactly what the f*ck is so miracle. I love Boa, but her Engrish makes her songs borderline mentally retarded at times.

Artist-Shinhwa
Song-79
Lyric-"Let's have the stash, keep the heat on a dash, it's simple math, front get one of the ass."
Evidence-No Video
Dear Shinhwa,
I am writing to you with hopes that you stop. That you stop hurting yourselves, that you stop hurting the reputation of Asian men, and that you stop hurting people everywhere. I am here to inform you that nobody has the right to rap as if they were hardcore gangsters if they have ever taken a group photo that comes within a light year of this:

Thank you for your cooperation in this vital mission.
Signed,
All Of Humanity


Artist-Yoo Chun From Dong Bang Shin Ki
Song-Show Me Your Love
Lyric-"You know it. It's like bling bling ball! Can't stop it, even though it's not that cool."
Evidence-16 Seconds Into This Performance
Having to read through those lyrics is equivalent to contracting AIDS of the eyes. He even admits that it's not very cool of him to give us all AIDS, but that there's nothing we can do to stop him. That's cold blooded like Rick James.



Artist-Legacy
Song-Jinusean Bomb
Lyric-"I be the concubine of all rhymestresses, dismissing any witch from here to Eastwick."
Evidence-No Video
First of all, can somebody please get out a dictionary and inform Miss Legacy that being a concubine to others does not carry a positive connotation? Thanks. Secondly, why the hell would anybody want to be a concubine to any "rhymestresses", much less all of them? In one line she basically manages to not only admit that she is a lesbian, but also that she enjoys being used as a sex object by all the other lesbian "rhymestresses". So in her effort to establish a tougher image, all Legacy manages to do is conjure up the image of her scissoring with some other butch dyke rapper.

I leave you with the words of Mrs. Garrison from 'South Park', which, ironically for the sake of this article, is a perfect play on words.
"Scissor me timbers."
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Comments
Feb 17, 2008 - 09:59 PM
omg this cracked me up. nice article. the engrish now is still as bad as before. lol
Feb 17, 2008 - 10:03 PM
HAHAHAHA. It blows when nonsensical english lyrics come up randomly in a song, especially a song which you were liking and feeling, then suddenly comes the “you wanna ride my pony, thats right, no baloney” kind of lyrics.
I give this article a 10/10.
Feb 17, 2008 - 10:22 PM
hahahaha. this made me cry until I laughed!
Feb 17, 2008 - 10:24 PM
newyork-Yeah, but I think they’re actually trying to make it respectable now. I think.
mk23-Seriously, it just ruins the song for me. I would almost rather have them just jibber jabber to the beat than to mutter a terrible lyric.
:o
inflo-I’m not sure what that means exactly, but it sorta sounds positive so i’ll take it.
Feb 17, 2008 - 10:29 PM
lmfao!!! I loved reading this article!
Feb 17, 2008 - 10:31 PM
yo you know, lets try some noise bet. lolololoolololol
DBSK - O It’s supposed to be noisy beat
Feb 17, 2008 - 10:31 PM
Regardless.. Shinhwa is DAMN AMAZING!!!! I dont give a crap.
Feb 17, 2008 - 10:33 PM
WTF! HOW COULD YOU MISS H.O.T! they had the wrost english lyrics ever!!!!
Feb 17, 2008 - 10:33 PM
TheProdigy-I had to leave some out too. Like, “Even if you were down with Lenscrafters, you couldn’t see me.” There were some by H.O.T. too.
Annielicious-How can Eric be so bad at English though? He grew up in America! :o
Feb 17, 2008 - 10:34 PM
jason-I apologize. My female source on all the boy bands was never into H.O.T., therefore I did not get the scoop on them.
:o
Feb 17, 2008 - 10:37 PM
Oh my! This was so funny. I can’t stop laughing.
Feb 17, 2008 - 11:01 PM
High-Five of Teenagers FTMFW
Feb 17, 2008 - 11:10 PM
maybe Legacy meant shes the hottest concubine…
Eric from Shinwha has the best or worst (depending on how you look at it) Engrish lyrics of all kpop…
Yoochun has been giving him a run though…
Feb 17, 2008 - 11:24 PM
lol… i’ve always thought those two lines in anymotion were horrible. you’d think with all the americans that SM has in their company someone would say something about those lyrics. even now SM still produces some horrible lyrics. dbsk has some other winners like “yunho lets try some noise beat”
Feb 17, 2008 - 11:27 PM
ENGRISH!!
Feb 17, 2008 - 11:33 PM
LOLLLLLLLLLL<3 chad
Feb 17, 2008 - 11:36 PM
wow, you must’ve spent quite some time on this one ahaha
so i guess the winner is… SM Entertainment!! :D
i don’t think anyone will ever quite match eric’s fobbiness… and yet i still find him incredibly hott ._.
Feb 18, 2008 - 12:02 AM
Does anyone else think the Anymotion video is racist? they used black people in the shop lifting scene.
Feb 18, 2008 - 12:08 AM
kpop_rubba-Even if she did mean that, it’s really still not something you want to be bragging about. :o
Jane-And just imagine, when you go on dates with Eric, he can also keep you laughing non-stop just by starting to rap in Engrish.
johnnydorama-That was the point of those pictures. Hahaha. That sh*t is so racist. It was also meant to infer that she wants the five black guys to “come into her”.
Feb 18, 2008 - 12:12 AM
lol… that video is hilarious
Feb 18, 2008 - 12:17 AM
johnnydorama-Somebody just needs to let Hyori know that nobody gives a sh*t about her pseudo-artistic 10 minute long music videos. Rather, everybody just really wants to see her shake her a*s in as little clothes as possible.
Feb 18, 2008 - 12:24 AM
im full korean, but can speak only broken korean. i came to the states when i was 3, im slowly getting into korean music/entertainment, but damn, i cant believe this is true. its laughable!! “Come into my member, please come into me” wtf!!
question. why do they even have english lyrics/titles in korean songs. are the korean lyrics this bad in korean ballads?
its strange they plagerise the beats/music but they dont steal the lyrics
Feb 18, 2008 - 01:13 AM
hyori was the funniest
and boa XD
Feb 18, 2008 - 01:47 AM
LOL WTFZZZ Hyori. I wouldn’t be surprised if she wrote that part herself.
Feb 18, 2008 - 02:10 AM
OMG ROFL. this cracked me off. I LUV all of the singers listed above. They are all my fav. singers...but seriously their english is way off. Ive realized the SM company makes weird things up...Lee Soo Man needs to take care of that. However JYP and YG are pretty good in english when it comes to rapping too...hmm..haha.
Feb 18, 2008 - 02:23 AM
LOL! Can’t stop laughing. I’m a DBSK fan, and have heard many hilarious lyrics from them. Not to offend some fellow fans, but they need to consult an fluent English speaker before they finalize their lyrics. All those literally translated lyrics’ killing me!
Feb 18, 2008 - 02:23 AM
omg i’ve noticed this for years in kpop among the most popular groups. one of the lyrics by BoA in her ‘number #1” song, “you still my number one” bothered me for YEARS. she repeats that phrase at least 10 times in her song and it’s like omg! just put the word ‘are’ in it! is it that hard!?!? i’m shinhwa’s fan and i admit that their english rap is like the worst but they are hot anyway haha
Feb 18, 2008 - 02:25 AM
ahaha! i *finally* signed up.
DUDE!! your articles are too short!
“you see this way. it’s looks like purple line. let me introduce myself” -DBSK
“yo youhno, let’s try some noise beat” -DBSK
“never lies to be your mind got to be true” -DBSK
“if you wanna man like a stronger” -shinhwa
“i wanna make you to be my girl” -shinhwa
Pretty much every song that comes out of SM should be proof read for quality control there- hell ask Tablo 2 proof read your shit.
Also- i didn’t think Eric had any credibility as a rapper. Doesn’t he mention something about a toaster in some song?!
DON’T STOP THE WAY! DON’T STOP THE WAY!
p.s. i love allkpop. its daily visit for me =)
Feb 18, 2008 - 02:50 AM
LIM33853-I don’t know the exact reason they incorporate English into their songs. I guess it’s because speaking English is sorta cool in Asia.
The native lyrics aren’t bad at all actually, I prefer it when the songs are all Korean. Makes a lot more sense.
monkeyz89-Yeah, I guess there really is a trend with the SM artists. Part of me wants to believe that they make the lyrics all messed up because the majority of the fan base doesn’t really understand perfect English.
xevilangel117x-I’m a huge Boa fan, so I guess i’ve always just found her terrible Engrish lyrics cute or something. I mean she has some of the absolute worst. “So shine we are! Can you feel the brightness love?”
midnightparade-Unfortunately, I do not do this for a living so I can’t go on a 10 page soliloquy here. Besides, I doubt anybody would want to read them anyway. :o
Eric doesn’t have any credibility as a rapper. He has the most ridiculous lyrics, and he’s really not very good. “Surprise! Mexican food with guacamole!” I mean, seriously, wtf.
Feb 18, 2008 - 03:15 AM
i understand this one “ Let’s have the stash, keep the heat on a dash, it’s simple math, front get one of the ass. “ . Rappers call it multi “ ash-ash-ath-ass “ , sometimes it doesn’t make sense. But when you write a lyric for a Rap song without multi , we know your skill is so bad ^^ .
Feb 18, 2008 - 03:16 AM
lol. funny. i dont know if i should mention this im going to die..
but can you explain why DBSK wanna touch him/themselves in Purple line? hehehe.
anyway. this is funny! lots of green jokes and i love it. ^^
Feb 18, 2008 - 09:48 AM
i liked ses’s twilight zone and BoA’s miracle
Feb 18, 2008 - 10:10 AM
OMG...you guys crack me up w/ all these lyrics! just a thought...maybe these lyrics are originally grammatically correct on paper but the artists just f*ck it up when they’re singing it cuz they don’t know what the hell they’re saying or what they mean?
Feb 18, 2008 - 11:44 AM
OMG WHY MUST YOU DO THIS?! I HATE YOU! I am in the school library and I’m laughing my freaking head off! AHAHA!
I’m surprised there isn’t more Dong Bang Shin Ki. For some reason they seem to trust Yoochun to handle the English language with care, but he comes out with things like, “Let’s make some noisy beat”, not to mention the entirety of “My Girlfriend” (even though I don’t know if he wrote that).
I think some good Engrish has been provided by Super Junior in their song L.O.V.E: “Do we have to spread out for you? I don’t think so. We have to spread out for us!” Maybe it makes grammatical sense, but does it make logical sense? No.
Feb 18, 2008 - 01:48 PM
hahaha! and the ones who grew up here have so much pride in thier english and take on american stage names and such but theyre sooo bad
Feb 18, 2008 - 01:56 PM
lol, the Hyori one was scary -"Come into my member, please come into me.” loll!!!
and the shinwha one… -"Let’s have the stash, keep the heat on a dash, it’s simple math, front get one of the ass.”
What the HELLL!!
oh and i remember that episode of south park. The supposedly woman was actually a man.
Wow, alkpop is like the vulgar or evil side of popseoul.
The scissoring part was disturbing.
heeeh
Feb 18, 2008 - 01:59 PM
Haha BoA does have shitty Engrish sometimes. Maybe she’s been staying in Japan for too long :x Don’t get me started with DBSK’s Engrish, esp in their Japanese songs…
-sLaVe
Feb 18, 2008 - 02:46 PM
I don’t understand why SM put out so many bad sets out lyrics when they still had human spellcheck a la Brian e_e
Feb 18, 2008 - 02:46 PM
*out=of
Feb 18, 2008 - 03:06 PM
Oh yeah
P.S. Hyori is a hoe <3
Even the english translations for her Korean songs don’t make sense… Perfect example is NOYE (a.k.a. slave).
-sLaVe
Feb 18, 2008 - 03:31 PM
Kpop’s wtf lyrics. XD
Feb 18, 2008 - 03:35 PM
No lie..
I have to agree with you that the English lyrics
were corny!!!! made me laugh.
you made me laugh so hard.
I still love the songs that Shinhwa sings.
they really addicting despite their broken English.
love the south park picture.
Feb 18, 2008 - 05:48 PM
namcod-I don’t even understand your explanation.
belleeee-That one just missed the cut too. Hahaha.
anystar12-I didn’t say you can’t like the song, I just said the lyrics were brutal.
bobacious-No, they have to be written that way or else it wouldn’t appear in every performance and the songs. :o
Taejus-I take offense to that comparison.
Feb 18, 2008 - 06:33 PM
PUAHAHHAA omfg so funny
but i like eric tho!
HAHAH i think the worse lyric i’ve heard was from DBSK’s purple line
“I REALLY WANNA TOUCH MYSELF.”
wut the hellllll!???!
Feb 18, 2008 - 07:17 PM
Eric’s “I’m so damn hot, they call me vampiya” is my all time favorite line. That ish is pure genius! He so damn hot. People call him vampiya. Seems pretty clear to me. Hahaha. Brilliant! Gonna put that ish on my tombstone.
Feb 18, 2008 - 08:29 PM
HAHAHAHAHA
this made me laugh soo hard.
ohh well theres “Red Sun” by 2006 SM Town. Yoochuns part,"no way, oh your move, oh its you.” I never got what that meant and it still bothers me
and omg Micky’s “My Girlfriend” song. I had to keep listening to each part he sang more than three times to actually get what he was saying. I liked the beat though hahaha.
I luv DBSK but I would have expected Micky to have better English than that.
I always thought BoA’s engrish was cute too, kensai hahahaha
I still luv BoA though. I think shes gotten better though.
10 out of 10 article!=]
Feb 18, 2008 - 11:02 PM
kensai, hate to say this, but i believe you will soon have a followup article on this exct topic. ENGRISH 2008. when these korean artists come to the states, and start answering questions in their interviews.
seven- “yo yo whatup!i like to michael jackson dance like! yo yo!”
boa- “i like thank all support. i like singer marah curry.”
Feb 18, 2008 - 11:29 PM
waah! i can’t even understand what they meant! =)
Feb 19, 2008 - 01:34 AM
wow...........I am laughing so hard I can’t feel my arms......lol.....
Feb 19, 2008 - 02:37 AM
Kensai ~ you are ONE FUNNY man. Because of you I actually took the time from my lazy-@$$ lifestyle and registered. Just so that I can tell you how hilarious this article is! Now that’s achievement!
I seriously don’t know how is it possible that amid SO MANY Americans, the Engrish only seems to worsen. I’m a huge TVXQ fan but I gotta say ~ DANG! They’re making me look bad…
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