ameripop to britpop

[joshua]

 Of course, along these same lines are a handful of American punk bands from the early nineties, most notably Green Day, who spoke pretty standard American English in interviews but adopted bad Brit accents when they sang. Maybe an attempt to sound like the Brit-punk (the Sex Pistols, etc.) that they all grew up with?

-Joshua



>I noticed this with the early songs of the Beatles, the Stones, the
>who, the Kinks, and the Animals (1964-5). Part of this may be
>attributed to their trying NOT to sound British (sometimes even >trying to sound like Elvis)-- as the US market was so important -- >but part, too, is because singing seems to flatten or obscure many >dialectal characteristics re the sound of vowels and intonation. >Later, when their fame was established, they were more willing to >sing purely as Brits, but even then much of the "English accent" is >diminished.

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