How come when people with an accent sing, they lose the accent?

Question

Sorry this is under 'performing arts'. I didn't know where else to put it.

Answer 1

Vocal performance majors are required as a part of their program to take courses in lyric diction. In these courses, artists learn IPA (the International Phonetic Alphabet), which is a way to teach people how to make correct sounds in different languages. When a song is sung in English (or any language), trained singers should all make the same sorts of vocal sounds - and thus, they would all have the same 'accent'.

I'm not sure why it is the same way with pop singers and whatnot, since they don't take diction courses. Most of it probably has to do with the fact that in singing, one lingers on vowels, whereas in regular speech that is not the case.

Answer 2

It depends on the accent and the genre haha Like for country, people with Southern accents keep the accents when they sing. When someone with a Japanese accent sings in English, you can definitely hear the accent. But singing is different from speaking. The vowels tend to be sounded longer, which has a big impact on whether the person has an accent or not.

Answer 3

What Ho, Smo.
I Naturally have a fairly strong Geordie accent, but when doing a bit of vocals, with the band, I drop into a sort of Mid Atlantic thing.
It just comes upon you.
I don't much appreciate these folks that seemingly have to sing "lurve", instead of love.
But if I did it in Geords, it would be "Luv"
You can't win. It is what the market likes to hear, I suppose.
Goodly Q,
Bob the Geordie.

Answer 4

everyone loses their accessory while they sing. they do no longer look to be attempting to mimic american accents. It only looks that way via fact the same old American accessory is greater precise in pronunciation than the British accessory and while people sing their pronunciation will become greater precise via fact they drop the 'twangs' to vowel sounds they frequently make while they communicate. And for the record, maximum British singers haven't any activity in breaking into the yankee industry, no longer on the commencing up of their careers besides.

Answer 5

Music comes from a different part of the brain than speaking. When a person sings or plays a musical instrument, the brain bypasses the "speech" areas. A person who stutters won't stuutter when he sings, accents are lost and many other disabilities are "cured" when one sings. The blood flow through the brain is rerouted and the difficultys of speech are eliminated.

Music is the most useful tool of education and yet the most neglected in the educational system.

Answer 6

Certainly there has been for a long time the need to sing with an American accent, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones both did this.

Answer 7

An accent is made up of three ingredients:

Vowel sounds
Rhythm
Body language

Songs tend to be quite specific about all three things. A song will dictate the rythm of the speeck of the song, having to keep to the rhythm and keep the mood of the song you will adjust your body language... and finally.... your vowel sound will have to be sung as intended or the rhtyhm and rhyme will not work.


Say Bath with 'a' as in cap... northern/ american a
Say Bath with 'a' as in laugh.... english southern accent

Its much easier to sing the word Bath in the northern/ american way because the body finds it easier to produce a note of that vowel type. Try it!

Answer 8

They still keep their accents a little...whether irish scottish welsh but because they've learnt the english language when talking or singing...their original accent is obscure.

Answer 9

I dont think they do lose their accent completely. Oasis singer Liam has a Manchester twang in his singing and Damen from Blur has a deffinite sourthern twang in his. It may be that its reduced and stronger accents come through more though

Answer 10

They focus on the voice, they repeat the words over and over that when they sing the accent fades away. I am like that too.
Just think of it like how do people learn other languages? Study, focus and follow.