How do scottish singers loose their strong accent when they sing?

Question

Ex: lead singer in Travis

The Proclaimers ain't scottish!

Answer 1

Pretty much everyone loses their accent when singing. It's the way you're taught if you've had any formal training. You make the words crisp and clear therefore eliminating accents. Trust me, I have a strong southern accent but when I sing, there's no trace of it.

Answer 2

Yeah, this really annoys me. The Proclaimers are a good example of keeping your regional accent, rather than rely on an American one. Don't use an American accent if you're not American! It's like singing with a Jamaican accent or talking with patois if you ain't Jamaican. It's embarrassing! Though a soul singer with a Scottish accent would be quite amusing!!

Answer 3

Not all of them do, take the proclaimers for instance, but have you also noticed that most accents turn to American when someone is singing?

Answer 4

i do no longer understand in case you bear in strategies Mel Tillis who grew to become right into a rustic singer with a great stutter and an fairly actual one. He mentioned that making a music had a rythm to it that standard conversing would not so he ought to sing with out any subject and that i think of the melody of the words has the comparable effect on accents. Mels stuttering endeared him to the many times used public because of the fact he grew to become into on no account ashamed of it. i think of we adore british accents too and the Aussies yet some do no longer precisely lose the accessory. Thank Heaven for little ladies grew to become into sung with the aid of Frenchman Maurice Chevalier and regarded like "Sonk hevin for leetle ladies, wisout them what might leetle boys do." Ever haer Chiquita Banana sing, Or Desi Arnez?

Answer 5

They don't all lose their accent only those trying to conform. More noticeable with people who have had singing lessons. Mind you most people seem to lose their accent when they sing unless singing traditional songs.

Answer 6

It happens to everyone when they sing...thats why they say dinging is the universal language...if someone sports an english accent in a song unless its a slight one ie: chris martin of cold play....then its fake.

Answer 7

Shirley Manson of Garbage is very aware of how she pronounces words, she mentions it in many interviews. I love to hear her Edinburgh accent, but mostly she wants to be understood, so she sounds more American, and after all, her band is (was?) centered in Madison, Wisconsin. I don't think she tries to sound American! She just tries to pronounce the words clearly.

Answer 8

yeah, i've noticed this with with bands like jesus & mary chain, the vaselines, garbage, primal scream, the cocteau twins too....the scot accent just doesn't cut it as a singing voice

Answer 9

it is actually true also with canadian singers singing in french....it seems that music makes people loose their accent

Answer 10

They don't all lose their accent...................if we sang in our accent nobody would understand us...we would all sound like The Proclaimers LOL