Anime Covers

I'm not trying to get any hate, but here it goes. What do people prefer usually? The original Anime Song or some knock-off English version? I prefer the original, because it simply sounds way better. What does everyone else think?

I usually prefer the originals as that is how the artist intended it to sound. That being said when the original songs are sung in English by native Japanese people it can make it sound crappy.

Absolutely the originals. When you translate Japanese to English, some things don't translate well or read as smoothly translated as they did in Japanese. The song is (usually) built to accommodate the natural inflections and syllable structure of Japanese and an English translation would either result in a very bulky, unpoetic rendition in a result to preserve the meaning or would end up lacking in meaning/accuracy to preserve the fluidity of the song. Of course this isn't always the case, but I think that even if it wasn't, the original is better and I would rather have a cover sung in Japanese with an accent of some kind rather than an English translation cover