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Originally Posted by Glice
So, following on from a recent real-world conversation with people you don't know - there's a worrying trend over here for Brits to sing Punk/ Hardcore in a faux-American accent. I'm not hot on American accents, but do people sing certain genres in a particular American accent, whether they're from there or not?
Applies to British hip-hop as well. British hip-hop often sings in accents that aren't their own. Used to be American, now it's East London.
Is it a bad thing? Idlewild I still like when they do the faux-American singing, but generally I find it annoying. Especially in the genres I've mentioned which so often seem to be about 'keeping it real' or singing from yourself.
Also, I find it infuriating when you get anyone singing in a fake Irish accent (it's never convincing) and Americans singing like the Clash is incredibly annoying. But then I have a theory that in Grindcore and the like there's a universal accent of shouting.
Thoughts?
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Almost all British singers in the mainstream, with a few exceptions (almost all Welsh, interestingly), feign an American accent whilst singing. It's not peculiar to the genres you cite. Consider, if you can bear so to do, Chris De Burgh's Lady in Red, where 'dance' and 'romance' are made to rhyme...