I love you
I hate you
All the accent gets magically sent to British rappers
but American singers also tend to sound more British, because they often sing without rhoticity, i.e. without pronouncing R’s that follow vowels, and are not followed by another vowel, e.g. pronouncing “larger” like “laja”
🎶 And that makes you laja than life! 🎶
I heard an interview with Mick Jagger where he said that he sounded American singing and English talking because he learned to sing by emulating American singers and picked up their pronunciation.
I once heard Ozzy Osborne answer a similar question with “Because it would sound bloody stupid if I sang in a Brummie accent”.
It’s true. Singing pretty much proves they’re faking it.
Interestingly enough, when you’re talking classical singing, it’s the American accent that disappears.
In favor of what? Legit question, I’m not that cultured.
What we’d culturally call “good” singing is about producing a loud, clear, consistent note. The best way to do so is to open your mouth wide with your tongue out of the way. When you do this the sound you make is “ah” (like when a dentist says say “ah”)
Therefore “when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie” when sung is closer to “Wan tha moon hats yar eye lark a bag pazza pie”.
As accents are mostly vowel sounds, it tends to wipe out accents in favour of musicality.
This is generally speaking, not applicable to every singer and every song and every word and every note.
Canadian.
Seriously, not the east coast Canadian ‘aboot’ but like southern Ontario is as neutral as it gets.I … also don’t think I’m cultured enough to understand that answer. Sorry.
Americans don’t have an accent
Lmao
Because singing is basically its own accent.
Idk, all the British bands and solo artists I like definitely sound British. Maybe this only applies in pop music?
I think it really depends on the individual more than anything.
🎶 Never moind I’ll foind…🎶
*Nevaa
I’ve read it’s because singing and speaking are handled by different parts of the brain. Accents are regional, inside your head as well.
https://youtu.be/gpuh1WE-RVw This popped in my head when thinking of british accents in songs. Bowie comes to mind too.
