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Why do, mostly British, but others too, have no accent and sound totally American in songs they sing?

Old 07-23-20, 03:30 PM
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Re: Why do, mostly British, but others too, have no accent and sound totally American in songs they sing?

Originally Posted by morriscroy
On the other side of the coin, sometimes the "dumbest questions" are actually very insightful and the smartest ones which can asked.
You are right. When you ask so many inane questions, you are bound to get "lucky".
Old 07-31-20, 07:28 PM
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Re: Why do, mostly British, but others too, have no accent and sound totally American in songs they sing?

Lets reverse the question.

Are there any singing voices which sound "american" but the lyrics are not in english?

For example, does this mid-2000s era song "Perfekte Welle" by Juli sound american or german?



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Re: Why do, mostly British, but others too, have no accent and sound totally American in songs they sing?

As another example, does this mid-2000s girl band sound "american" or israeli/hebrew?

(IIRC, this band's name phonetically sounds like "Diamondz". Basically like a Destiny's Child, but instead with four white girls with very Jewish / Israeli sounding names).


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Re: Why do, mostly British, but others too, have no accent and sound totally American in songs they sing?

Here's something which is likely to be unmistakeably "american": Kelly Clarkson singing in several different languages with overseas singers.



It appears to be in german, arabic, spanish, french, hebrew and english.


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