How can someone speak with a British accent, but sing with an English accent?

Answer 1

Or, better yet, how can someone with a British accent, speak with an American accent? Like Hugh Laurie on House.

Answer 2

Sorry, I don't know what the difference is between a British accent and an English accent. It sounds like two words that describe the same thing.
Sometimes people sing songs with a different accent than the one they speak with, if they have learned the song from a recording made by someone with that accent. For example, if you learned a song by listening to Edith Piaf, you would sing it with a french accent.
But going back to your example, there is no difference between a British accent and an English accent

Answer 3

British and English accents are the same thing. Do you mean what sounds like an American accent perhaps?

I think the singing of the words changes the way a person naturally speaks so that most English speaking people wind up sounding like they have any particular accent.

Answer 4

I think while they are singing, it just comes out sounding like an American one. Usually when you have a British accent, you still have it slightly when you are singing, it's just harder to tell. I know many people in the UK, so that's how I know. Some of them do sing with a British accent too.

Answer 5

for all the people who stated British and English accents are the same:

British and English accents aren't the same, an English accent is a British accent, but not all British accents are English accents (Britain is England, Scotland, Wales).

Ex. a Scottish accent is a British accent, but it's clearly not an English accent.

Answer 6

Do you mean sing with an American accent? To me, British and English accents are the same.

But anyway, singing and spoken words come from different areas of the brain. People who talk with a severe stutter, such as Mel Tillis, sing with clear enunciation.

Answer 7

You mean an AMERICAN accent? A British and English accent are the same thing lol(s)

Answer 8

This is a very common trait of singers from Great Britain, Ireland, and many European countries. Because the biggest market for music is the U.S., they adopt a northern, generic American English or Canadian English accent for singing.

Answer 9

What? Do you mean they sing with an American accent? I have noticed that, too. I think that singing just naturally makes anyone singing in English have more the same sound.

Answer 10

Do you mean Speak with British accent and speak with an American Accent? They do it to try to be cool. They are faking it.