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僕（ぼく） not so masculine after all?
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28 April 2011 at 3:14pm | IP Logged

furrykef wrote:

In the case of a song, it could also be that the singer is "in character" as a male. (I don't know if
this is often actually the case; it's just a hypothesis.) I imagine that a woman would take on the role of a man much
more readily than the reverse -- but such is the case in the Western world too.

Oh yeah, I forgot about the singers! While I think there's probably lots of reasons, including this one above, and
also the one about needing a two-syllable word, my sensei also told us that a lot of pop songs are written by men
but performed by women, and the men who write them write them with boku so that's how the women sing them.
Whether or not that's true, I don't really know, but I thought it was interesting.

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僕 （ぼく） not so masculine after all?

僕（ぼく） not so masculine after all?