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Why do people lose their accents when they sing? Ozzy can barely talk but he sings great. Foreign people dont even know what they are singing about, but they can sing english songs just like they were English themselves. English people also sound American when they sing...why? |
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asdf wrote:Why do people lose their accents when they sing? Ozzy can barely talk but he sings great. Foreign people dont even know what they are singing about, but they can sing english songs just like they were English themselves. English people also sound American when they sing...why? I guess English people are so bombarded with American music nowadays it's quite common for people to base their vocals off an American and just like doing an accent imitation they actually adjust and begin to sing like that, but about Ozzy I'd like to disagree with him singing great... ;) |
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i can't get shot of my Cumbrian accent... |
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It is because actual proper singing is essentially accent-less. If you're not trained, then a lot of your accent creeps in. Not that one was is necessarily better than the other. But to be honest, I'm a little tired of hearing all these "we're not really trying" singers singing bland songs about bland things in various British accents. It's a stylistic thing, but they do as though it makes them more "real", more "honest", more "true to life", yet it sounds to my ears much more fake. Lily Allen is a perfect example of that, the accent is much stronger when she sings than when she speaks. |
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And Madonna and Green Day during the American Idiot era at least try to sound English.But actually Cody, in a lot of music people do sing with accents, Attila Csihar from Sunn O)))/Mayhem, most black metal singers in general actually.And Japanese people. |
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Some might be phonys, just pretending to be foreign or having an accent to gain attention. |
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Eh, I know. I was listening to the songs on Bikz and Lewis' myspace pages and noticed they didnt have as thick of an accent as I had expected, and that made me think of it. |
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Mt. Epic wrote:Some might be phonys, just pretending to be foreign or having an accent to gain attention. Yeah madonna |
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The Nimrods wrote:Mt. Epic wrote:Some might be phonys, just pretending to be foreign or having an accent to gain attention. Yeah madonna exactly my point, but she was really obvious. I'm talking about others. Like Ozzy, I have a feeling that he's actually a really good speaker, just it's more entertaining and amusing the way he speaks with to the public. |
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Mt. Epic wrote:The Nimrods wrote:Mt. Epic wrote:Some might be phonys, just pretending to be foreign or having an accent to gain attention. Yeah madonna exactly my point, but she was really obvious. I'm talking about others. Like Ozzy, I have a feeling that he's actually a really good speaker, just it's more entertaining and amusing the way he speaks with to the public. No no dude he's a 60 year old man who was wacked out on drugs for a good 30 years not to mention he's from birmingham I'm pretty sure he isn't faking.Plus Tony Iommi sorta talks like him too only you can understand him. |
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Let's keep Madonna's affectation out of the conversation please.. |
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troymazing wrote:Let's keep Madonna's affectation out of the conversation please.. Come on Troy I know you worship her but you know it's true |
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The Nimrods wrote:And Madonna and Green Day during the American Idiot era at least try to sound English.But actually Cody, in a lot of music people do sing with accents, Attila Csihar from Sunn O)))/Mayhem, most black metal singers in general actually.And Japanese people. I think a lot of that is language rather than actual accent. Of course a Japanese person singing in Japanese sounds Japanese. When they sing in English, often less so. |
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Gildermershina wrote:The Nimrods wrote:And Madonna and Green Day during the American Idiot era at least try to sound English.But actually Cody, in a lot of music people do sing with accents, Attila Csihar from Sunn O)))/Mayhem, most black metal singers in general actually.And Japanese people. I think a lot of that is language rather than actual accent. Of course a Japanese person singing in Japanese sounds Japanese. When they sing in English, often less so. I meant in English it usually sounds pretty foreign
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The Nimrods wrote:Gildermershina wrote:The Nimrods wrote:And Madonna and Green Day during the American Idiot era at least try to sound English.But actually Cody, in a lot of music people do sing with accents, Attila Csihar from Sunn O)))/Mayhem, most black metal singers in general actually.And Japanese people. I think a lot of that is language rather than actual accent. Of course a Japanese person singing in Japanese sounds Japanese. When they sing in English, often less so. I meant in English it usually sounds pretty foreign
That's just because they can't speak good English. |
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asdf wrote:Eh, I know. I was listening to the songs on Bikz and Lewis' myspace pages and noticed they didnt have as thick of an accent as I had expected, and that made me think of it. What did you expect? |
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asdf wrote:Eh, I know. I was listening to the songs on Bikz and Lewis' myspace pages and noticed they didnt have as thick of an accent as I had expected, and that made me think of it. Thick how so? As in influenced? I have my natural accent, combined with the influence of a lot of my youthful pop punk filled days, then the merge of that with Elliott Smith and Conor Oberst :3 |
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xNightsidex wrote:asdf wrote:Eh, I know. I was listening to the songs on Bikz and Lewis' myspace pages and noticed they didnt have as thick of an accent as I had expected, and that made me think of it. Thick how so? As in influenced? I have my natural accent, combined with the influence of a lot of my youthful pop punk filled days, then the merge of that with Elliott Smith and Conor Oberst :3 Because unlike what most Americans assume the british accent is, you enunciate your R's and a few other letters that the stereotypical english accent excludes. |
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bikz wrote:asdf wrote:Eh, I know. I was listening to the songs on Bikz and Lewis' myspace pages and noticed they didnt have as thick of an accent as I had expected, and that made me think of it. What did you expect? An accent, but there really wasnt one. |
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The Nimrods wrote:xNightsidex wrote:asdf wrote:Eh, I know. I was listening to the songs on Bikz and Lewis' myspace pages and noticed they didnt have as thick of an accent as I had expected, and that made me think of it. Thick how so? As in influenced? I have my natural accent, combined with the influence of a lot of my youthful pop punk filled days, then the merge of that with Elliott Smith and Conor Oberst :3 Because unlike what most Americans assume the british accent is, you enunciate your R's and a few other letters that the stereotypical english accent excludes. A quirk; if ever I sing the word "can't", it ends up sounding irish :3 |
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