TS: british singers who sing with american accents VS american singers who sing with british accents

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I'll go with brits trying to sound like yanks, but to be honest, both kinda annoy me, especially if it involves music from the past 15 or so years.

― maypang (maypang), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

British Invasion singers singing with American accents, C
Dumbfuck shit brains of North America who think affecting a British accent makes them sound smart, D

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

English screamo bands affecting Yank accents (cf Lostprophets)- DUD

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Brits singing with "transatlantic" accents - the worst. HELLO ROBBIE.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Elvis Costello's faux-yank.

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the Stones did it well, too.

― maypang (maypang), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Or just Jagger did, I guess.

― maypang (maypang), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Van Morrison in Them did it great!

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

the dude from 400 blows does it. just makes me laugh

― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Cleveland-born Stiv Bator (Dead Boys/Lords of the New Church) was especially guilty of this from time to time.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

the Busted boys do this and it sounds whiny.

the emo-looking one from blink 182 strangles his vowels and end up sounding mid-atlantic/lloyd grossman.

― lid, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, the one thing that would really improve Busted is not doing this. On the other hand I'm not sure pop-punk in a British accent can 'work'.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

robert pollard was a better singer back when he used to occasionally appropriate a british accent. it was part of his whole uniform in the late 80s/early 90s, and it was classic.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

the outfield - were so yanky corporate rawk

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

The little one from the Rapture is so guilty of this. Slavish imitate it all, dick!

― J2Dancer, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

fake British accents are one of life's little pleasures. (except Madonna's which irks me to no end for some reason).

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

fake British accents are one of life's little pleasures. (except Madonna's which irks me to no end for some reason).

Yeah, I was going to say that I don't mind it so much on either side of the coin as long as the singer's *singing.* When she's talking and the accent doesn't go away, it makes me nuts.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I love fake British accents. As for Brits singing with fake American accents, I can usually clearly do without, although The Records did in a quite charming way on "Starry Eyes" and some other late 70s hits.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Weird. That song always sounded pretty British to me.

― maypang (maypang), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

On the other hand I'm not sure pop-punk in a British accent can 'work'.

It works best with fake British accents, though. Green Day to thread.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

What the hell does an American accent sound like? Americans HAVE no accents!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

What the hell does an American accent sound like? Americans HAVE no accents!!

go watch Fargo.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Mike Van Portfleet to thread!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

classic american accents of various types:

new york outer-borough twang: joey ramone and all of the shangri-la's
new jersey twang: bruce springsteen
old-school, purebred twang: hank williams
midwestern twang: paul westerberg, eminem
twa-ay-ay-ay-aaaaay-aay-ay-aaaayng: whitney houston
twang-less: stephen malkmus, jay-z

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 4 March 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

four weeks pass...

sparks

― kidiirp, Saturday, 3 April 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

On the other hand I'm not sure pop-punk in a British accent can 'work'.
Pete Shelley is in tears.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 3 April 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

And others from back then. The Rezillos sound great in a Scots accent, and you couldn't do "Right to Work" in an American accent.

I quite like Steve Malkmus doing English folk rock on Pig Lib.

― Baravelli. (Jake Proudlock), Sunday, 4 April 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Bryan McLean and Arthur Lee - CLASSIC!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 5 April 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

NO MENTION of early Ministry???!!!!

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 5 April 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

you did it AGANE and AGANE and AGANE ho ho!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 5 April 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: Ministry's "Revenge" vs. Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me"

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 5 April 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

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― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 5 April 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"Revenge" may well be one of my favorite songs of all time, so I guess I'm gonna HAVE to go with Americans pretending to be Brits over the alternative.

Thanks for putting that link there, DB!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 5 April 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Was Tim Roth trying for an American accent in Reservoir Dogs?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 5 April 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't thiiiink so. Don't they call him a limey once in that? I think that guy's kind of like Richard Burton (or Arnold Schwarznegger) where he just keeps his normal accent and they ignore it.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 5 April 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

British singers singing in American accents? That's like 99.99999% of ALL British singers - in contrast, American singers singing in British accents hardly ever happens

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 5 April 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

tell that to moy ed

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 5 April 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

why can't you hear a british accent when someone truly british sings???

― oogachuka, Monday, 5 April 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

You can. Morrissey, Dido, Richard Thompson, Mike Skinner, Damon Albarn etc etc. Not to mention Ken Dodd.

― Baravelli. (Jake Proudlock), Monday, 5 April 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I go with American But I must admit that WILL YOUNG (British singer)is the best!!!!

― Tina Poudel, Thursday, 8 April 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

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