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just wondering…
how come when English bands sing they sound like they are singing in AMERICAN ENGLISH rather than in UK ENGLISH?
I’ve noticed this quite a bit. When I hear members of UK origin talk, they have what to me are very pronounced accents. However, when these same people sing, it seems that the accent disappears. So where does it go? I’ve also noticed this phenomenon in Australian musicians as well. Don’t get me wrong, I do hear some differences in pronunciation, but for the most part, songs sung in english typically sound like they are being sung in American English, more so than in UK English. So what’s the deal?
One of my English friends says that when you hear an english musician sing, they are actually singing in what he calls PROPER english. So what you’re hearing is how english should really sound. So my other question is this. If singing produces PROPER English, and sung english sounds more like American English rather than UK English, does that mean us here west of the Atlantic, are in fact speaking proper English, and those east of the Atlantic, are in fact speaking some rogue form of English?
I think they do it to try and sound more appealing to the American market, which is the largest in the world.
Guys like Billy Bragg and Alasdair Roberts sing with their British accents, so it’s not like it can’t be done.
Maybe, just maybe, the muscles used when singing are different from those used when talking, and they cause a person’s voice to make different sounds, sounds that seem more "American"? I don’t really think this, but I suppose it’s possible (but I don’t know anything about anatomy, etc).
i always liked Modern English, that "I’ll stop the world and melt with you" track knocked my socks off. I was wated at a tiny club/bar, spring break 98 and they were playing there, Hilton Head South Carolina, i was 20 but the bouncer at the door gave me a drinking braclet due to his poor math skills, 18 to get in clubs in SC but 21 to drink, it was maddness, i was there with my college tennis team and one of the only drunk kid as we were quite young, but they gave a good show, not great till the finally, their one hit and then they left and the dj came back on, but this kid wasn’t fullfilled, i hopped on stage and found the mike to be still on, so i began pleededing for the dj to stop spinning and got the crowd to scream for more till The band came out and played their hit again for us, which they did, even dedicating it to the really drunk kid in the first row, i love being the really drunk kid in the first row.
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