Why do British sound like American when they sing? It's like if we Americans sounded French when we sung but we don't. Why does no one talk about this?
Why do British sound like American when they sing? It's like if we Americans sounded French when we sung but we don't...
Hunter Gutierrez
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Jackson Powell
american vowel sounds are easier to sing
Joseph Wright
because American culture dominated the western world after the post war. this includes music. Listen to led Zeppelin or rolling stones are they're literally larping as negros from the south.
Caleb Flores
I KNOW RIGHT
Carson Turner
have you heard a british accent in a song? it sounds like shit
Jaxson Price
I know. It's weird and I want to know too.
Jordan Adams
singing properly involves using vowels that people dont use in everyday speech. the more open vowels the less difference between accents. the people who tend to not lose their accent aren't as good singers.
Adam James
maybe americans just sound like the british when they sing
Thomas Reyes
what the fuck are you talking about
Justin Morales
This, same reason you hear American singers drop the R sometimes
Robert Jackson
They didn't used to
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This song is from the 1940s and the singer very clearly has a British accent.
However, in the 1950s musicians started to just play and imitate American blues and rock and roll records. They're trying to sound specifically like Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Carl Perkins, etc. In the 1960s this style of British music lead the "British invasion," and became entrenched in UK culture. Everyone was imitating them
Paul McCartney of the Beatles was very interested in older style music hall music. He made a lot of imitations of that style, here's one song: Lovely Rita
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He actually retains his English accent in this song. Compare it to the Fat Domino cover
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Paul sings it "filling in a ticket in a little white book" and pronounces the word "boook." Fats Domino pronounces it "bok." Paul sings "made her look a little like a military man," and pronounces it "mil-uh-tree man," while Fats pronounces it "mil-ih-tair-ee maan."
And of course there's language like "take some tea" vs. "have a drink," very interesting
Oliver Nguyen
Why do Americans speak in English? Are you cucks or something?
Christopher Howard
Quick post the most British sounding British singers you can think og
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Brayden Price
I hate how American this sounds
Levi Reyes
Dylan Torres
Cooper Peterson
Billy Bragg, Dudes from Sham 69 and UK Subs, wattie Buchanon
Colton Ross
This is it for me
Plus she was a qt
Zachary Perez
Gary Numan
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Peter Gabriel
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Johnny Rotten
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Early Bowie (dear God)
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Ethan Diaz
Justin Hawkins keeps a lot of his brit enunciation particularly making an f sound for th tuesday as chooseday thursday as fursday etc
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Zachary Allen
British artists want to break America so their labels probably tell them to sound more American. Jess Glynn is a prime example. She even sings "rather be" like "rav-va be".
Also, "wanna" and "gotta" are easier to sing than "want to", "got to".