Strange accents in pop music

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Then there's Stuart Staples, king of the tired, drunken unintelligible accent.

kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Monday, 6 March 2006 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link

early to mid 80s electronic R&B

HELLO READY FOR THE WORLD AND MIDNIGHT STAR!

Da Na Not! (donut), Monday, 6 March 2006 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link

On "Freak-a-zoid", on the album version, the band members employ possibly the most unintentionally bad English accent ever, which of course makes the song greater.

Da Na Not! (donut), Monday, 6 March 2006 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, Falco "Rock Me Amadeus"... the best element of the song is that you can only really make out the chorus, lyrically.

Da Na Not! (donut), Monday, 6 March 2006 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link

The Beautiful South's Briana Corrigan has a totally bizarre "Mickey Mouse" in "Mother's Pride": "Miggie mice"? I can still remember looking for the lyrics the first time I heard it.

patita (patita), Monday, 6 March 2006 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link

James Reyne, of Australian Crawl.

When I was a kid I always supposed he'd started out as mock-Jamaican but that was just because it seemed like a common affectation of Australian bands at the time (that Men at Work fella for instance).

scriblerus (mike lynch), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 00:31 (eighteen years ago) link

this is maria's fave youtube video. it applies to this thread (and it isn't an actual falloutboy video. you have probably seen it):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Qtt4MBt08&search=fall%20out%20boy


scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 00:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Ivor Cutler

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 00:45 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't really think it's strange really, but I like how Jens Lekman pronounces things like another "anudder" and so on. . .

Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 03:22 (eighteen years ago) link

rockwell

dave q (listerine), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 10:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, Björk, but that is obvious.

Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

wtf is this supposed to be?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS0SyW980YI

Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Monday, 8 April 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link

A fella doing the 'indie girl voice'?

D. Joe, Monday, 8 April 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link

An Afro-Jamaican indie girl?

Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Monday, 8 April 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link

The guy's from Glasgow!

Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Monday, 8 April 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link

Kill this prick

findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Monday, 8 April 2019 19:15 (five years ago) link

done!

lispectah deck (unregistered), Monday, 8 April 2019 20:11 (five years ago) link

thought Sting was French when I was a kid

brimstead, Monday, 8 April 2019 21:26 (five years ago) link

Al Jourgensen seems like he was trying pretty hard to sound British on that first Ministry album (which was also as "pop" as he ever got).

enochroot, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 00:51 (five years ago) link

Doesn't he even sing 'me mum and me dad' on "effigy"?

brimstead, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 01:12 (five years ago) link

i hate this song

frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 12:14 (five years ago) link

do they think that they can get the handcuffs off by..... pulling hard on them??

Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 14:15 (five years ago) link

i mean i know they move on to other things but... who would do that????

Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 14:16 (five years ago) link

i guarantee you there is something worse than this song, and that's his solo acoustic rendition of this song in a small venue where you are with someone who thinks it's great

Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 14:17 (five years ago) link

There's something even worse than that, his big hit before this one - that one is a crime against humanity.

Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 14:21 (five years ago) link

Even the title is annoying (it should be Just You and Me).

what if bod was one of us (ledge), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link

Should it? Doesn't it depend on the context? e.g. 'Just You and I (and Everyone Else Wants To Turn Off this Bloody Song)'

frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 14:48 (five years ago) link

Hmm, in the lyrics, it's "You and I could take over the world/Just you and I". So "You and I could take over the world" is correct, but you wouldn't say "I could take over the world/Just I", would you?

what if bod was one of us (ledge), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 15:04 (five years ago) link


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