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Sunday 25 November 2012

Why Do British Singers Sound American?

For the new James Bond film, Skyfall, British singer Adele has recorded a song with the same name. Although Adele speaks with a strong accent of London, his voice seems more American than British. Why the British singers often its America when they sing?

Because it is the way everyone should pop musicians and rock sound. British singers have been imitating the pronunciation from Cliff Richard, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones began recording in the 1960s.* that these musicians have been largely influenced by the African-American vernacular black English American blues and rock and roll singers such as Chuck Berry, but fake American dialects is generally composed of various American dialects. Imitating an American accent involved the adoption of vowels of America and rhoticity: the pronunciation of Kr everywhere where they appear in a Word. (Nonrhoticity, is on the other hand, the habit of your downfall at the end of a syllable, as do most of the dialects of England.) Sometimes trying to sing in an American-style British went to the sea with the KR, as Paul McCartney in his cover of "Till There Was You", pronounced seen more like a sock.

Linguist Peter Trudgill rhoticity British rock music has followed over the years and found that the pronunciation of the Kr Beatles declined in the 1960s, settling into a transatlantic sound that incorporated aspects of British and American dialects. The trend also went in the opposite direction of new genres developed: the pop-punk singers Americans like Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day took a stained British accent to seem more like seminal artists such as Joe Strummer of the Clash. Contemporary singers continue to adopt different accents depending on their type. Keith Urban, who is Australian, singing country music with a marked American southern accent. A recent study suggests that emphasis of default for New Zealand pop song uses the sounds of vowels American, even when singers are try his American, perhaps because singers of today were laid while listening to pop singing American (and the imitation of America).
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What singers not try to imitate a particular vocal style associated with a type, regional dialects tend to get lost in the song: Intonation is replaced by the melody, the length of the vowel of the duration of each note and vocal cadences by the rhythm of the song. That is why the vowel sounds and rhoticity more important emphasis of transmission in the song.

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"Statement" thank you Ben Trawick-Smith of the dialect of Blog and Ben Zimmer the Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com, Boston Globe.