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so, by no fault of my own (okay, to tell the truth it was totally my fault) I got a song (http://youtube.com/watch?v=F_-vxAFcQIU)stuck in my head, well really the only way to get it out (or so I have been told) is to sing it out loud, so I did.

I realized while singing it, you know one of my random thoughts, that I was singing it with a British accent (albeit a bad one) and I chalked it up to me being weird........later in the day I heard my youngest singing the theme song for the Thomas the train show (don't know the exact name) and she was singing it in a British accent (which is better than mine :()

so, is this phenomena unique to my family? do you do it too?

any Brits wanna try out their faux American accent and let me hear?

so, is this phenomena unique to my family? do you do it too?


I sing with a mighty Kenyan boom.

Probably because it's the only way you've heard it, or it's the only way it rhymes. Accents are funky.

I sing pretty much everything with a strong Manc accent (not as strong as Oasis I might add :p) Except for showtunes - unsure what accent I sing those with, but it's not mine.

I usually sing with a very clear, precise tongue. Of course, when I'm doing the vocals for Hardcore Punk Rock, I do it with a Jersey slur.

Even before I ever listened to Glenn Danzig and the Bouncing Souls. I first started doing it when I was three years old, when I first heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit". I was singing along with it, but I was totally slurring it... Totally different from Cobain's style, but it fit.

I sing with... well... screaming?

I sing with a German accent, though only when I sing in german. Which is pretty much never these days, I can't remember Stille Nacht that well.

I usually sing with a very clear, precise tongue. Of course, when I'm doing the vocals for Hardcore Punk Rock, I do it with a Jersey slur.

Even before I ever listened to Glenn Danzig and the Bouncing Souls. I first started doing it when I was three years old, when I first heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit". I was singing along with it, but I was totally slurring it... Totally different from Cobain's style, but it fit.

How could you sing along with that, you can't even understand the lyrics.

Probably because it's the only way you've heard it, or it's the only way it rhymes. Accents are funky.

I'd think so, yes. Try singing along this song (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fki7agpULSY)* without a Jamaican accent... it just doesn't work.


* What? I had suddenly had this song in my head a couple of weeks ago, so I tried the same thing as Smunkee.

How could you sing along with that, you can't even understand the lyrics.

I could make out "Here we go now, imitators / Are we stupid, entertain us", but I just slurred the hell out of it.

My mother sang me Irish folk songs when I was a little girl. I learned all the songs phonetically and still have no clue as to what I am singing. I think when I sing I use this weird New England/Irish hybrid accent. *shrugs*

My mother sang me Irish folk songs when I was a little girl. I learned all the songs phonetically and still have no clue as to what I am singing. I think when I sing I use this weird New England/Irish hybrid accent. *shrugs*

So, when you sing, you sound like you're Canadian? :p

So, when you sing, you sound like you're Canadian? :p

Well...now that you mention it...

I've always had this dream of starting an all-female Rush cover band...maybe this is a step closer to that dream. :D

My mother sang me Irish folk songs when I was a little girl. I learned all the songs phonetically and still have no clue as to what I am singing. I think when I sing I use this weird New England/Irish hybrid accent. *shrugs*

Totally off topic but it's Tir na nOg, not Tir nan Og.

Well...now that you mention it...

I've always had this dream of starting an all-female Rush cover band...maybe this is a step closer to that dream. :D

All female? Well, if I keep growing my hair out, I can *ahem* appear as a female in your Rush cover band... :p

How could you sing along with that, you can't even understand the lyrics.

This (http://youtube.com/watch?v=ixyTNd-Ln38) should clear things up a bit :)


it's a horrible song though.


Well, that's often the case with songs you've got stuck in your head, isn't it? Though it's also funny somehow. Probably because it takes some skill to speak/sing this fast.

Totally off topic but it's Tir na nOg, not Tir nan Og.

Yes, I know, but this is the region in which my nation is located in NS. It's a good region and I like to advertise. =^_^=

All female? Well, if I keep growing my hair out, I can *ahem* appear as a female in your Rush cover band... :p

We can always use Roadies. ;)

Singing with an accent? Let's give it a shot.

O seh kan yoo sieh by ze dawns erlee light
vot so proutly vee hailt at ze tvilights last gleeming?
Voose broat stripes ant bright stars ssru ze perilus fight,
Orr ze ramparts vee votcht vere so gallantly schtreeming?

I could go on forever.

Singing with an accent? Let's give it a shot.

O seh kan yoo sieh by ze dawns erlee light
vot so proutly vee hailt at ze tvilights last gleeming?
Voose broat stripes ant bright stars ssru ze perilus fight,
Orr ze ramparts vee votcht vere so gallantly schtreeming?

I could go on forever.
Hahahahaha! http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/Wehrmachtsoffizier.gif

I do that sometimes, this (http://youtube.com/watch?v=raOlICG8MMI) is usually the culprit. It's not always the same though, honestly I can go through five different voices singing this.

i dunno but i know it's not something to suppress. theres's been a recent thing for bands in the uk not singing in a us accent and i for on welcome it. i'm not entirely certain when or why someone decided that the generic american accent was the best for singing in but until the last couple of years bands have been copying it as if it's thier only hope at money-grubbing.

I used to sing the Beatles with a British accent. But now I do everything with my own funky accent. When I'm rocking, `i` becomes `ah`, and I always replace the ng's with n's, like a Mainer, even thought I'm from MA.

I got a song (http://youtube.com/watch?v=F_-vxAFcQIU)stuck in my head

Cyril Connelly. ROFL :D

*Falls about laughing*

I've not heard that in ages.

Hehehee... Time to stop drinking? Hmm. *pours self a glass whilst procrastinating*

There is something I sing in an American accent, but I can't for the life of me remember what. Which is just as well (as is my microphone disapperating), as I'm just about drunk enough to do it at the moment.

Did anyone else know Nick Cave had covered Disco 2000? That's the second funniest thing I've heard today.

Whenever I sing (in German, being the German I am), I suddenly lapse into this very weird German accent that is a funny mixture of very old German, low German and Southern German. I cannot exactly reproduce it when talking, but I invariably do it when singing.

I don't really sing much. But I can do a pretty convincing american accent (convincing to Brits and Aussies, anyway).

On those rare occassions that I sing a song I've heard before, I try to match the singer as much as possible, including affecting a shitty-ass imitation of whatever accent, history of drug-use, or head cold he might have had when being recorded.

On those rare occassions that I sing a song I've heard before, I try to match the singer as much as possible, including affecting a shitty-ass imitation of whatever accent, history of drug-use, or head cold he might have had when being recorded.

Me too, actually. I find having a post-vomiting everywhere hangover voice works nicely for Jim Morrison.

i dunno but i know it's not something to suppress. theres's been a recent thing for bands in the uk not singing in a us accent and i for on welcome it. i'm not entirely certain when or why someone decided that the generic american accent was the best for singing in but until the last couple of years bands have been copying it as if it's thier only hope at money-grubbing.

Actually, British bands have never traditionally sung in a "generic American accent." Bands from both Great Britain and the US have traditionally performed in what's known as a "Mid-Atlantic" accent, because it's located somewhere between the two. I've heard various explanations given for this, but the most plausible to me as a singer is that certain vowel sounds just work a great deal better when elongated than others, and people tend to default to pronouncing them as such regardless of their usual accent.

As for the original question - if I'm singing along with someone with an accent, I most definitely sing in the same accent, and will often continue to sing the song in that accent alone as well. This occasionally doesn't work, as with my attempts to sing along with the Proclaimers, which always end up sounding positively absurd. ("And AH woood WOAK fahv HON-drrred MAH-EELS, and AH woood WOAK fahv HON-drrred more...") :)

I like to sing Rolling Stones tunes with a Slim Pickens accent. Like Sympathy for the Devil :)

Yes, I know, but this is the region in which my nation is located in NS. It's a good region and I like to advertise. =^_^=



We can always use Roadies. ;)

What about groupies?

I used to drive with a guy with a thick Oklahoman accent, which I could mimic without much trouble when he'd be singing (terribly - mockery was called for), and I sing old-time bluegrass with the appropriate accent when I hear it on the radio. I'm good enough at those kind of accents where I can get by unnoticed in conversation if need be. As for other accents, I'm completely helpless for some reason.

signing with an accent...


it's funny, I really don't think American Sign Language has an accent perceivable to anyone who signs in another region, though i could be wrong.

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signing with an accent...


it's funny, I really don't think American Sign Language has an accent perceivable to anyone who signs in another region, though i could be wrong.

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Why is dyslexic so hard to spell?

Quite a lot of reggae sounds strange sung in a non-Jamaican accent.

Quite a lot of reggae sounds strange sung in a non-Jamaican accent.

:p (http://www.dreadzeppelin.com/index2.html)

Quite a lot of reggae sounds strange sung in a non-Jamaican accent.

Remember the song "Jammin'"?

It sounds like he sings "we're German". :)

:) I sing with an Irish accent...

I don't know why...

Maybe because I'm from Ireland...

And I live in Ireland... :)

I had a bad habit of singing along with songs in a kinda Californian accent (a lot of the music I listen to is from around there, but just stateside in general really). But now I'm training myself to sing everything in my own voice (if you ever heard me speak you'd spend ages trying to think where my accent was from, to which I always reply 'I don't have an accent, I have a voice').

I genrally Sing in Lincolnshire tongue

I used to drive with a guy with a thick Oklahoman accent, which I could mimic without much trouble when he'd be singing (terribly - mockery was called for), and I sing old-time bluegrass with the appropriate accent when I hear it on the radio. I'm good enough at those kind of accents where I can get by unnoticed in conversation if need be. As for other accents, I'm completely helpless for some reason.

I have been told many times that I have a very thick Oklahoma accent, which really doesn't bother me much........until the time that my aunt from south Texas told me "you sound like an idiot with that accent" well, a south Texas accent isn't the best either.....I mean I am sure I sound more intelligent than she.

I don't sing with an accent, strangly not many sober people from the midlands do.