Why do British people never sound British when they sing?
371795
Think it happens a lot for example Keith Urban is Australian and when he sings he doesn't sound it.
485777
Personnally, there are a lot of good things about the Brit.  I have a close friend from Wales, lots of my favorite music come from the UK (Depeche Mode, New Order (Gillian Gilbert is cute, I wished she would smile more)), it's the home origin of shows like Monte Python and Doctor Who.  Driving through the countryside, there are a lot of beautiful places to vist.\n\nIgnore the unknowledgeable...ones like that say nasty stuff about Native Americans and other people and races as well.\n\nI try to embrace the differences.  With out differences, there would be no variety.  That would be pretty boring.
904823
get of my fecking land you tinker before i get the double barrel out to you and who's computer you nicking now you haven't got broadband you live in a caravan bo bo... and if you have lived in Britain as it should be spelt how comes you all talk in a southern Irish accent?
616703
Britishers? Is that even a word?
829233
There lots of different accents in England. The best thing is to live here, that way you you can pick the one you like best.
780229
Hey, I love British people.  You are our mother country.  I think the accent is sweet!  And London has some pretty awesome sights.  Of course we like the British from a military perspective, but that's only a very small thing in a whole ocean of reasons.  By the way, my uncle is British, and he's one of the most awesome people I have ever known; he's always giving me hugs!
572507
haha. nice fake bad english accent thingy.  Not buying it.  its pathetic.  figure it out yourself. :]
797007
surprisingly, people from nebraska are the only English speakers on the planet who have no accent.  =)\n\nThey seem to pronounce things in a similar way to the Mid-Western US accent.  Can't really write it out though.
419563
Yes, i do esp a british accent and italian accent. very sexy. when i was stationed overseas i had italian guys just speaking to me in italian and i couldnt understand them, but i loved the accent.
1137853
Every-body has an accent. The way how some-one speaks, reveals where their ancestors came from.An accent does not make a person better than any other. How-ever if accents is the issue I love the Jamaican accent. Jamaicans talk real pretty.
815833
I've discovered something about scarcasm. that it is all to do with tone of voice as the face usually does not change if your ear is not used to the persons accent you will not get it. we could probably get an american being scarcastic because we are exposed to so much of their television. but they are not exposed to so much of ours.\n\n\nok americans are dumb
527688
As many people have said there are many American accents. The approach would also differ for Australians and English (which in turn has a wide variety in accents). I'm an Aussie and to do a British accent involves a more forced articulation of the vowels (i.e. away from the centre mid, e.g. opening the mouth further with "a") a slight lengthening of the vowels and obviously less slurring, contractions of words and glottalisation of vowels that usually goes with an Aussie accent. In regards to intonation I generally have to put a dampener on the way I use pitch to express myself and be more strict on the way words are stressed.\nAn American accent would generally involve a degree of nasalisation of the vowels for Aussies and Brits alike. The stress intonation I generally find stronger (though not rigidly so) in an American accent than either British or Australian. The pitch intonation is weaker than Aussie accents but stronger than English ones. Glottalisation in American accents is relatively rare but moreso than British. Articulation and length of vowels varies a bit for American accents but generally closer to an Australian accent (same goes for contractions though they are used differently). Slurring varies a lot in it's degree so can't say much there. Glides on vowels I think are less pronounced than both English and  Australian accents.\nThere's also the issue of increased volume and more forced body language, though in reality it's not as big of an issue as we'd make out.
562049
Hmm, I have a good friend from near there and I can hear no accent at all.  Sometimes he says cattywampus which cracks me up though.
1155726
Some one said they don't know the words, I will recite them for you:\n\nGod Save Our Gracious Queen\nLong Live Our Noble Queen\nGod Save Our Queen\nSend Her Victorious\nHappy and Glorious\nLong To Reign Over Us\nGod Save Our Queen.\n\nDavid Beckham always sings it, and rather loudly, but I know Gary Neville NEVER sings it. It annoys me when other countries don't sing their national anthem, I wonder whether they actually know it. Like Jamaica, NONE of them sang it, maybe it was because the whole team was actually born over here.
446354
Folk music is not popular these days. This is natural because folk songs are the pop music of previous eras. However, it is interesting that if we sing in pubs or parties we rarely sing current pop music.\nAnyway, it is not only for ageing people. It’s part of the cultural heritage that must be preserved, just like we must preserve today’s pop music for the future. (Yes, even the crap songs.)
671738
Well, I live across the road from a pub which regularly has karaoke, it tends to only be white British people that go to that particular one, so no it isn't just Asians who enjoy it, it's just a shame some of the karaoke singers here aren't that good!
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SINGING IS MORE CUSTOMARY IN ENGLAND\nNOT SO MUCH IN NORTHAMERICA INCLUDING USA