User:Junedude433/Simple English Songs

This is a list of easy to understand (or at least not difficult) songs in English for non-native English speakers. Because I am just one person, feel free to edit this page to add more songs! Make sure each entry follows and fits the criteria, and make sure the entries are formatted correctly, and that the measures are included.

Criteria: Can't be made specifically to help people learn English, can't be specifically made for small children. It basically just has to be a normal song. Theme songs can count, but wouldn't recommend it.

Measured by: speed of the song (faster is usually harder), lyrical difficulty (both in the types of words and the difficulty of meaning), and the clarity of the voice (not just sound quality, but also enunciation, accent, etc.).

Note about difficulty: It's okay if the songs aren't necessarily easy. Unlike movies, TV shows, or video games, people usually listen to a song they like more than once, and people usually want to learn the lyrics to their favorite songs. As long as the song isn't particularly difficult, then it's okay if not all of the lyrics are simple.

Rock

• Party Party Party - Andrew W.K.
  • Speed: Fast
  • Lyric difficulty: Can you read the title? Then you can read most of the lyrics.
  • Clarity: Average

• Pictures Of You - The Last Goodnight
  • Speed: Fast
  • Lyric difficulty: average.
  • Clarity: Average

• Sunset City - The Bronx
  • Speed: Fast
  • Lyric difficulty: somewhat hard; easy grammar, but some words are uncommon
  • Clarity: Average

• Tap Tap Domination - Stroke 9
  • Speed: Fast
  • Lyric difficulty: easy words; repeats a lot
  • Clarity: Good

• Voices - Saosin
  • Speed: Fast music, slow singing
  • Lyric difficulty: somewhat easy words, difficult meaning
  • Clarity: Average

• White on White - FIDLAR
  • Speed: Fast
  • Lyric difficulty: somewhat easy words
  • Clarity: Average

Pop

• Air - Alice and the Glass Lake
  • Speed: Slow
  • Lyric difficulty: easy (only a couple of words aren't on the BE850); difficult meaning; a lot of metaphors
  • Clarity: Very Good

• Pocketful of Sunshine - Natasha Bedingfield
  • Speed: Fast verses, slower chorus
  • Lyric difficulty: easy (only a couple of words aren't on the BE850)
  • Clarity: Good

• What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
  • Speed: Slow
  • Lyric difficulty: easy
  • Clarity: Average

• Happy Together - The Turtles
  • Speed: Average
  • Lyric difficulty: easy
  • Clarity: Average

Electronic

• One More Time - Daft Punk
  • Speed: Fast
  • Lyric difficulty: easy
  • Clarity: Good

Country

• Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
  • Speed: Average
  • Lyric difficulty: average (a lot of proper nouns)
  • Clarity: Excellent