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Topic: country singers: forced accents? |
Darryl Hattenhauer
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Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Posted 3 Nov 2012 2:09 pm |
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Is it just my imagination, or do increasing numbers of current male country singers exaggerate their southern accents? I can't name names because to me these new singers aren't memorable.
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Jason Schofield
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Posted 3 Nov 2012 2:33 pm
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| Definitely. I've been saying that for years.. bunch of phonies.. big hat, belt buckle, boots and fake accent. It's all about image. No substance. |
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Darryl Hattenhauer
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Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Posted 3 Nov 2012 2:38 pm
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Jason, when did this start happening?
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Charles Davidson
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Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 3 Nov 2012 2:39 pm
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The accent goes along with those stupid plastic cowboy hats.Cosmopolitan cowboys that's NEVER stepped in a cowpattie in their life.YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.
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Alvin Blaine
From:
Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Jeff Garden
From:
Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 3 Nov 2012 5:32 pm
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| I know you were talking about male singers but Jennifer Nettles in Sugarland is particularly annoying to me. I realize she is from Georgia (and I love Southern accents) but I've watched her in interviews where she has no trace of an accent - seems it's troweled on a little thick when she sings... |
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Darryl Hattenhauer
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Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Posted 3 Nov 2012 6:26 pm
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It seems to me that it suddenly got far worse about four or five years ago. It's as if they don't want to sound like gentlemen anymore and just want to sound like hicks. Also it seems to me that the latest big country acts sound like beer bar rock. But I'm just going by what I hear on two Phoenix radio stations.
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Ben Lawson
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Brooksville Florida
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Posted 3 Nov 2012 7:13 pm
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| I've spoken with Dwight Yoakum and he didn't have a southern accent and I've heard Keith Urban who speaks "Austrailian" if that's even a word. I've noticed this trend since the early '90's. |
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Will Houston
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Tempe, Az
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Posted 3 Nov 2012 7:53 pm
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| Hey Darryl, thats the problem your listening to the radio. |
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Jim Cohen
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Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 3 Nov 2012 8:59 pm
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Happens everywhere. I have a friend who had occasion to speak with Tom Waits, whom he described as speaking conversationally as clearly and distinctly as you or I. No hint of that drunken-sounding, growly thing he does with his voice. Hey, it's all theater, that's all.
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James Cann
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Phoenix, AZ
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Posted 3 Nov 2012 9:42 pm
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| . . . big hat, belt buckle, boots and fake accent. It's all about image. No substance. |
Right on, Jason, but you left out a few other must-have's and -be's: younger than 35, less than 30" (max.) waistline, 3-5 days beard growth, and (compulsory for ladies) drop-dead good lookin'. Can't make it in modern country without these, don't you know!
. . . and make sure everyone on stage is playing all the time (none of this trading 8-bar rides nonsense) and each on stage posturing as if they were the center point of the act. Remember it's not the music anymore, only all image and Garth Brooksian Captain Whizbang stage antics. |
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Steve Wilson
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Morgan Hill, California, USA
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Posted 3 Nov 2012 9:59 pm
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| I think it may have started around the time the Urban Cowboy movie was released in the early 80's. |
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Jason Schofield
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Posted 3 Nov 2012 10:47 pm
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| right on James... with the rock guys you expect it.. but country always had that cool understated confidence.. and yes.. less was always more.. subtly.. |
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Alan Tanner
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Near Dayton, Ohio
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Posted 4 Nov 2012 1:47 am
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| Plus you want to make sure you poke holes in your flesh and hang various pieces of fishing tackle from the holes. A few tats, some clothes from the goodwill dumpster and yer good to go........maybe even an award show. Dont worry you cant hold key....they have electronic counter measures for that problem..... |
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Darryl Hattenhauer
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Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Posted 4 Nov 2012 5:21 am
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| poke holes in your flesh and hang various pieces of fishing tackle from the holes. |
  
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Peter Freiberger
From:
California, USA
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Posted 4 Nov 2012 6:10 am
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| Same thing with younger singers trying to do blues. |
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Dave Hopping
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Aurora, Colorado
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Posted 4 Nov 2012 8:34 am
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| And the Beatles singing with American accents. |
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Larry Miller
From:
Dothan AL,USA
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Posted 4 Nov 2012 11:32 am
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Dave Hopping wrote
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| And the Beatles singing with American accents. |
How true...except when Paul "never sawr them winging"....and how about Mick Jagger...
Last edited by Larry Miller on 4 Nov 2012 11:34 am; edited 1 time in total |
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chris ivey
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california (deceased)
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Posted 4 Nov 2012 11:33 am
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| everyone should go refresh themselves of the message from the movie 'pure country'. george drops out of the phony extravaganza bullshit and just sings honestly from the heart. evidently lots of people didn't get the message. |
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Bo Borland
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Posted 4 Nov 2012 2:39 pm
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| i was backing up a guy from Delaware a couple years ago , he went to Nashvull and came back with tracks that had him whistling his esses like Gabby Hayes.. they were trying to make him sound more like Randy Travis ... |
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Dave Hopping
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Aurora, Colorado
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Posted 4 Nov 2012 3:12 pm
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Larry,Mick was singing with an English accent before AND after it was cool.I forget whether singing with an English accent is cool now.  |
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Larry Miller
From:
Dothan AL,USA
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Posted 4 Nov 2012 3:36 pm
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| Dave, I was talking about Mick's southern accent, ie, Under My Thumb, Last Time, Street Fightin' Man, Sympathy For The Devil. But, he can switch to his British accent for songs like Lady Jane and Ruby Tuesday. It doesn't bother me, I like the Stones |
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Jason Schofield
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Posted 4 Nov 2012 6:35 pm
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great movie Chris..
btw.. I think Korean accents are going to be the new hip thing. What with the Gangnam style thing blowing up all over the planet..  |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 4 Nov 2012 7:22 pm
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| and they have some good young golfers! |
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 4 Nov 2012 7:30 pm
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| What if country singers all sounded like Woody Allen? |
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