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Originally Posted by Confucious is sex
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...
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Yup yup, agreed. There's also the ubiquitous karaoke singers thing that affects the like of Shane Ward and whomever. Unfortunately, the likes of the Cribs, the Libertines or, dare I say it, the Arctic Monkeys are bucking this trend. Not to say they're good, but they are English.
Maybe it's for this reason I got into the Glasgow thing of the late-90s - Someone like Arab Strap seems like a breath of fresh air relative to generic everyAmerican voices.