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Posted: 2/7/2015 10:37:10 AM EDT
Not have accents when they sing? When I was a kid, I was shocked to hear half of the people who had songs on the radio speak. I was like wait...whaaa they're not American
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Posted: 2/7/2015 10:37:45 AM EDT
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Yeah I know what you mean that is weird
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Posted: 2/7/2015 10:39:31 AM EDT
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My mom sings in perfectly accented German. She doesn't know a damn word she's saying though.
 If you've ever heard of the Masterwork Chorus, she sang with them for about ten years.
Stutterers don't stutter when they sing either. |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 10:39:39 AM EDT
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Secretly, they don't have accents. They add them to sound pretentious. Fact. Especially aussies, buncha criminal savages on an island.
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Posted: 2/7/2015 10:40:50 AM EDT
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I always found it weird that stutterers don't stutter while singing.
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Posted: 2/7/2015 10:41:10 AM EDT
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Even artists that don't speak english can sing it. They are singing the notes not speaking the words.
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Posted: 2/7/2015 10:42:37 AM EDT
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I always found it weird that stutterers don't stutter while singing. That's another weird one. My cousin stuttered bad when he was a kid, sang in church choir just fine 
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Posted: 2/7/2015 10:43:16 AM EDT
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Sounds pretty British to me. Think it has a lot to do with the style of music, certain sounds being based on American music, leading to dropping the accent. (especially soul/r&b and early garage/british invasion) |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 10:43:31 AM EDT
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Whole bunch if Brits and Aussies playing American rolls too with no accent
Rick and Maggie in TWD, for example. Keith Urban sings like he's from Dixie. |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 10:46:20 AM EDT
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Whole bunch if Brits and Aussies playing American rolls too with no accent Rick and Maggie in TWD, for example. Keith Urban sings like he's from Dixie. Well I could prob fake a Brit accent or something if I was an actor. My point is that when Brits or Aussies write and sing songs they sound like Americans. I know there are some exceptions, but as a whole they really do. |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 10:48:32 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I always found it weird that stutterers don't stutter while singing. I think I remember an episode of Ozzy Osbourne's old reality show where he tried to order a pizza and the poor guy on the other end of the phone couldn't understand what the hell was coming out of his mouth... Ozzy then sang the pizza order and it was clear.
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Posted: 2/7/2015 10:50:38 AM EDT
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That's another weird one. My cousin stuttered bad when he was a kid, sang in church choir just fine
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I always found it weird that stutterers don't stutter while singing. That's another weird one. My cousin stuttered bad when he was a kid, sang in church choir just fine
Heard a radio interview with Mel Tillis many years ago. He explained that it's because he knows what the next will be without thinking about it. In essence, stutterers are "overthinking" what they're trying to say. |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 10:51:15 AM EDT
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I think I remember an episode of Ozzy Osbourne's old reality show where he tried to order a pizza and the poor guy on the other end of the phone couldn't understand what the hell was coming out of his mouth... Ozzy then sang the pizza order and it was clear. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I always found it weird that stutterers don't stutter while singing. I think I remember an episode of Ozzy Osbourne's old reality show where he tried to order a pizza and the poor guy on the other end of the phone couldn't understand what the hell was coming out of his mouth... Ozzy then sang the pizza order and it was clear. I cracked up watching him on his TV show try to talk to the voice command Mercedes nav system. |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 10:55:11 AM EDT
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Mel Tillis, not Tippin.
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Posted: 2/7/2015 10:55:34 AM EDT
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Whole bunch if Brits and Aussies playing American rolls too with no accent Rick and Maggie in TWD, for example. Keith Urban sings like he's from Dixie. And a slew of others. Best recent one was Dewey Crowe in Justified...Aussie playing a Kentucky/Florida/something like that accent. |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 10:56:37 AM EDT
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Why do country singers have a country accent when singing, even country singers from Australia??
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Posted: 2/7/2015 11:00:40 AM EDT
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because they sing in ENGLISH...that British accent thing was an effect they took to avoid sounding like
their American colonists who actually spoke the "kings English" Native Brits saw themselves above the Americans and sought to distance themselves how ever possible. Native Appalachians are purported to sound closest to "True English" accents prior to the colonization of America by Britain. |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 11:02:11 AM EDT
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Just think of it as proof that Britbongs and Aussies DO have an accent and singing is normal english.
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Posted: 2/7/2015 11:02:24 AM EDT
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Actually, if you listen closely, you can sometimes catch the accent. Sometimes you don't even have to listen hard it's apparent.
Other times, hardly notcieable. |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 11:02:57 AM EDT
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because they sing in ENGLISH...that British accent thing was an effect they took to avoid sounding like their American colonists who actually spoke the "kings English" Native Brits saw themselves above the Americans and sought to distance themselves how ever possible. Native Appalachians are purported to sound closest to "True English" accents prior to the colonization of America by Britain. Yes. Yes. Yes. |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 11:02:58 AM EDT
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Mel Tillis, not Tippin. Damn it! I knew that was,wrong as I was typing it out. Brainfade just wouldn't let me get it right. Sucks getting old. 
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Posted: 2/7/2015 11:03:15 AM EDT
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Yeah I know what you mean that is weird |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 11:05:06 AM EDT
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Why do country singers have a country accent when singing, even country singers from Australia?? I've thought about that too |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 11:07:27 AM EDT
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because they sing in ENGLISH...that British accent thing was an effect they took to avoid sounding like their American colonists who actually spoke the "kings English" Native Brits saw themselves above the Americans and sought to distance themselves how ever possible. Native Appalachians are purported to sound closest to "True English" accents prior to the colonization of America by Britain. Interesting, Any sources to back that up? I not calling you out or anything, Id just like to see the research done on that |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 11:10:18 AM EDT
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Listen to the children in Pink Floyd's "Another brick in the wall" and then get back to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U "Oll in oll. ets just another brick in the woll. "We dewn't need no edu-cay-shun, we dewn't need no thowt controwl" You were saying? |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 11:12:05 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Secretly, they don't have accents. They add them to sound pretentious. Fact. Especially aussies, buncha criminal savages on an island.  |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 11:14:41 AM EDT
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Interesting, Any sources to back that up? I not calling you out or anything, Id just like to see the research done on that Quote HistoryQuoted:
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because they sing in ENGLISH...that British accent thing was an effect they took to avoid sounding like their American colonists who actually spoke the "kings English" Native Brits saw themselves above the Americans and sought to distance themselves how ever possible. Native Appalachians are purported to sound closest to "True English" accents prior to the colonization of America by Britain. Interesting, Any sources to back that up? I not calling you out or anything, Id just like to see the research done on that there are several studies,,read some time ago..WWW has them,, |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 11:15:58 AM EDT
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Heard a radio interview with Mel Tillis many years ago. He explained that it's because he knows what the next will be without thinking about it. In essence, stutterers are "overthinking" what they're trying to say. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I always found it weird that stutterers don't stutter while singing. That's another weird one. My cousin stuttered bad when he was a kid, sang in church choir just fine
Heard a radio interview with Mel Tillis many years ago. He explained that it's because he knows what the next will be without thinking about it. In essence, stutterers are "overthinking" what they're trying to say. Hmm, ok. I had heard it was b/c singing uses a different part of the brain than talking (which is the part that is defective in a stutterer & bump-firing). |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 11:21:14 AM EDT
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Listen to the children in Pink Floyd's "Another brick in the wall" and then get back to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U "Oll in oll. ets just another brick in the woll. "We dewn't need no edu-cay-shun, we dewn't need no thowt controwl" You were saying? Listen as painfull as it is to the beatles, Led Zepplin or Olivia Newton John or for more modern stuff Iggy Izzalea(sp) or the Royales |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 11:41:17 AM EDT
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Quoted: Not have accents when they sing? When I was a kid, I was shocked to hear half of the people who had songs on the radio speak. I was like wait...whaaa they're not American Because hard consonants and music don't go together quite so easily. You tend to take the harder edge off sounds when you sing and you're more likely to elongate some sounds, both of which are part of the distinction between the accents. The 80s saw a bit of shift with regards to British bands singing with clearer accents, but that seems to have dropped away. |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 11:42:21 AM EDT
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Secretly, they don't have accents. They add them to sound pretentious. Fact. Especially aussies, buncha criminal savages on an island. this. 
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Posted: 2/7/2015 12:06:29 PM EDT
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because they sing in ENGLISH...that British accent thing was an effect they took to avoid sounding like their American colonists who actually spoke the "kings English" Native Brits saw themselves above the Americans and sought to distance themselves how ever possible. Native Appalachians are purported to sound closest to "True English" accents prior to the colonization of America by Britain. Link me to this? I live deep in Appalachia and my friend in NC always makes fun of my accent. I'm visiting my great grandparents right now here's view from hill above their house from a long time ago. I got off her computer. 
Like I said deep Appalachia. |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 12:09:17 PM EDT
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And a slew of others. Best recent one was Dewey Crowe in Justified...Aussie playing a Kentucky/Florida/something like that accent. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Whole bunch if Brits and Aussies playing American rolls too with no accent Rick and Maggie in TWD, for example. Keith Urban sings like he's from Dixie. And a slew of others. Best recent one was Dewey Crowe in Justified...Aussie playing a Kentucky/Florida/something like that accent. Yup I just found that out the other day. Before Boyd put a canoe in his head...
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Posted: 2/7/2015 12:11:46 PM EDT
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because they sing in ENGLISH...that British accent thing was an effect they took to avoid sounding like their American colonists who actually spoke the "kings English" Native Brits saw themselves above the Americans and sought to distance themselves how ever possible. Native Appalachians are purported to sound closest to "True English" accents prior to the colonization of America by Britain. I have read that Tidewater area Virginians speak closest to Colonial era English and that Appalachian accent is due to the large number of highland Scots,whose brogue became a drawl. Accents are funny things. I should post a clip of 3 of us speaking English in the car and you'd think we're actually from 3 different countries. Actually,I sound like a gay man from Connecticut or something
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Posted: 2/7/2015 12:22:31 PM EDT
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Actually, if you listen closely, you can sometimes catch the accent. Sometimes you don't even have to listen hard it's apparent. Other times, hardly notcieable. I don't notice the accents as much as I do the words that they use. I was watching a movie last night and the American actor (Tom Cruise) referred to a car camp trailer as a "caravan" but the British actress called it a "trailer"! Opposite the usual usage! Few people are aware of the fact that during the American Revolution, the Americans systematically and purposely altered a lot of words in their "English" language in an effort to disassociate themselves with the British. They also made an effort to rid the language of what they considered archaic spelling. That's how words like "Centre" and "Colour" became "Center" and "Color" in the US. And BTW, Benjamin Franklin was a leader in this effort. I'm not sure but I suspect that this effort is also the reason that we drive on the opposite side of the road from the Brits. Nobodies brought it up yet, but the "no accent when singing" thing may also be partly in the ear/mind of the listener and not entirely due to the actions of the singer. |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 12:57:43 PM EDT
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A lot of Brits, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, listened to US blues and Rock and Roll. They emulated what they heard. Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, and Elvis Presley were all on the turntables of that generation of Brit musicians.
Robert Plant told in an interview that he tried to sound like a southern blues man singing. |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 1:00:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Why do country singers have a country accent when singing, even country singers from Australia?? $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 1:34:44 PM EDT
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Ellie Goulding and Lily Allen can't hide their accents when singing. I guess it depends on the singer.
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Posted: 2/7/2015 1:37:04 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/7/2015 1:39:55 PM EDT
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listen to the Sex Pistols
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Posted: 2/7/2015 1:45:10 PM EDT
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there are several studies,,read some time ago..WWW has them,, Quote HistoryQuoted:
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because they sing in ENGLISH...that British accent thing was an effect they took to avoid sounding like their American colonists who actually spoke the "kings English" Native Brits saw themselves above the Americans and sought to distance themselves how ever possible. Native Appalachians are purported to sound closest to "True English" accents prior to the colonization of America by Britain. Interesting, Any sources to back that up? I not calling you out or anything, Id just like to see the research done on that there are several studies,,read some time ago..WWW has them,, Haven't read any of these studies but I can't imagine a nation of people suddenly changing the way they speak to avoid being like another group that was largely formed from themselves. The Brits were in existence first, they spoke like Brits, Americans came afterwards, they spoke like a mix of everything that influenced them. Quoted:
Because hard consonants and music don't go together quite so easily. You tend to take the harder edge off sounds when you sing and you're more likely to elongate some sounds, both of which are part of the distinction between the accents. The 80s saw a bit of shift with regards to British bands singing with clearer accents, but that seems to have dropped away. This is a more likely explanation in the modern world. |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 1:48:36 PM EDT
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In every Aussie and Brit, is an American trying to get out.
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Posted: 2/7/2015 1:57:26 PM EDT
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In every Aussie and Brit, is an American trying to get out. Well except the Queen and her consort, er, well kinda, they're mostly Danish/German, or Macedonian, or Prussian or some such thing. |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 2:15:33 PM EDT
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Not have accents when they sing? When I was a kid, I was shocked to hear half of the people who had songs on the radio speak. I was like wait...whaaa they're not American When people are trained to sing they are trained to shape their mouths a specific way for each vowel. This pretty much normalizes all English speaking accents to the midwestern USA. |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 2:20:35 PM EDT
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Mick Jagger even has an American southern accent on some songs.
American punk singers sometimes sound British when they sing. |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 2:30:25 PM EDT
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My mom sings in perfectly accented German. She doesn't know a damn word she's saying though. If you've ever heard of the Masterwork Chorus, she sang with them for about ten years.
Stutterers don't stutter when they sing either. My cousin is a Fedex captain, used to fly F4s with the MSANG. He has a terrible stutter, but doesn't stutter when making radio calls. |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 2:38:21 PM EDT
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The British band Hermans Hermits sang with accents.
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Posted: 2/7/2015 2:39:54 PM EDT
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I can understand Ozzy when he sings. When he talks
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Posted: 2/7/2015 2:40:14 PM EDT
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because they sing in ENGLISH...that British accent thing was an effect they took to avoid sounding like their American colonists who actually spoke the "kings English" Native Brits saw themselves above the Americans and sought to distance themselves how ever possible. Native Appalachians are purported to sound closest to "True English" accents prior to the colonization of America by Britain. 
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Posted: 2/7/2015 2:40:33 PM EDT
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When people are trained to sing they are trained to shape their mouths a specific way for each vowel. This pretty much normalizes all English speaking accents to the midwestern USA. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Not have accents when they sing? When I was a kid, I was shocked to hear half of the people who had songs on the radio speak. I was like wait...whaaa they're not American When people are trained to sing they are trained to shape their mouths a specific way for each vowel. This pretty much normalizes all English speaking accents to the midwestern USA. That is interesting but Im sure most pop/rock whatever singers that hit it big in the 60's, 70's, 80's were not trained |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 2:41:35 PM EDT
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Listen to the children in Pink Floyd's "Another brick in the wall" and then get back to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U "Oll in oll. ets just another brick in the woll. "We dewn't need no edu-cay-shun, we dewn't need no thowt controwl" You were saying? U wot m8? |
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