Singing with a Phony Jamaican Accent

[hippypants]

Green Day = English accents

[Plasmatopia]

I'm annoyed by those country vocal affectations. Oliver Anthony doesn't talk like he sings, for example. (But it's "authentic"!). I'm sure we could list dozens of examples.

[Mister Triscuits]

Hmm, I never thought of this as adopting an American accent. I actually think when ANY native English speaker sings with proper diction they can tend to sound "similar," but I never thought of it as sounding American.

I've seen that referred to as a Mid-Atlantic accent, although the Wikipedia article on that term seems to discuss solely to the semi-British posh accent affected by Americans as a signifier of being upper-crust (and also in the theater), with only a passing mention of it also describing any blend of British and American. I used to work with an older Englishwoman who said she couldn't stand the Beatles because of their "awful Northern accents"; I was surprised because I didn't think that really came through in their singing.

Richard Thompson on Sting:

Hey now, Geordie, sing us all a song
Whoa there, Geordie, where's your mother tongue?
That don't sound like Tyneside to me
Geordie, are you from Jamaikey?