Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20151012162920/@comment-26427856-20151025213156

The English subs video for "Death Should Not Have Taken Thee" was taken down from YouTube. Actually, the entire account that posted that video was taken down. Like, okay, I get it that the English subs video wasn't the original and therefore could be considered copyright infringement, but how the heck are people who don't know Japanese (which is probably like 80+% of us on here) supposed to know what a song is about without translated subtitles? And I feel like most Vocaloid songs in Japanese are made by producers who don't know enough English themselves to provide translated subtitles and post a video with them so it's not considered copyright infringement  (but I could be wrong,  actually I'd like to be wrong  ). So somebody has got to make the subbed videos, and that somebody has to know the original and target languages well enough to provide an accurate translation; and that somebody is usually not the producer (but again, I actually wish that somebody could be the actual producer).

Not that we can't still enjoy a song in another language without knowing what it means. I have a bunch of Vocaloid & UTAU songs in my playlists that are in Japanese and have no English subtitles and I have no clue what the song is about or what the lyrics mean (other than the few occasional words that I just so happen to know), but I still enjoy those songs. I just enjoy songs in other languages a lot more if I know what they are about and what words are being sung. Besides, part of how I learn what some things in Japanese mean is through watching videos with both Japanese and English subtitles.

That's my wall-of-text rant for today. :P