So, like, if American accents are so unsexy...

Anyone who has received any amount of vocal coaching are going to default to a neutral accent when singing English. Vowel-wise, I think that the American/Candian accents are closest to sung English than the UK/Australian/NZ accents, thus making many singers sound like they're trying to sound "American" when they're really just trying to sing vowels and consonants that carry well when sung.

Yeah, but it's the right vowel. (wudge wudge nink nink)

Goeff: the post cut off the last bit: nz - sexiest accent for sheep.

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I adore Scottish and Indian accents. I'm getting used to Southern and Asian. I don't like Spanish much.

I don't have the Scandinavian Hosebag accent which most Minnesotans (including my whole family) have. Basically, if you want Fargo outtakes, ring my mother. She accuses me of over-enunciating - and has done for years - but I've never spoken like that. If you don't have the Minnewegian accent, you have the closest thing to American Received Pronunciation there is (journalists go there and spend a fortune on speech lessons to achieve it).

Ten years living in London has given me British usage and softer vowel sounds. Some people in Minnesota think I am 'Briddush?' when I go back to visit. Nobody in NYC is stupid enough to make that mistake.

Accents I don't like: Uneducated Minnesotan, Southern Redneck, NY Bridge and Tunnel Person. And, like, the Valley, y'know? Also not terribly keen on heavy-duty German or Israeli. And nuffink is more irritatin' than Birds Of A feather-type Cockney.

Accents I like: French, intelligent or 'scatty' (ie. Jane Birkin) posh English, Yorkshire Northern, Mancunian (when you could no longer hear Morrissey's Manchester vowel sounds sung, that meant the well was dry), and ALL Scottish accents (getting my old Glaswegian flatmate Stevie to say 'fellatio' and 'turd burglar' is guaranteed to leave me in hysterics).

What Dan said might be true, that sung English vowels sound very much like spoken American. This sort of makes sense seeing as in singing more time is spent on vowels than consonants and the American drawl is like that too.

Singing is really different to speaking. I recall hearing that people who speak with a stutter do not sing with one.

What sort of accent do you have Nude Spock?

Which one?

Connery = Edinburgh Scottish Lazenby = Australian Moore = RADA Southern English Dalton = RADA (suppressing North Wales) English Brosnan = Irish.

I like Dutch, me. It sounds like eating.

This is just insane. Say 'patatath fritath' a few times and you will be cured.

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