I'm playing a character that (pulling from the pathfinder oracle) was cursed so they can only sing everything they say. Does anyone else find it so much easier to pull off a good accent while singing? For example, my attempts at Scottish and Irish accents are pretty shit when I speak, but when I sing it just flows out. I guess playing the mandolin might be making it an easier transition, but it really does sound so much better.
Well, I think if you get any good English speaker drunk enough they could easily sing in Scottish and Irish without much of a problem.
And speaking from experience as someone with Scottish ancestry I have been told, by another Scotsman, when I get really angry I start sounding like a Scotsman, despite being born in Australia, I did however grow up with a Scottish grandmother, who spoke English like she was born there, but I loved to get her angry enough to have her accent come out thick.
But if you were to ask me to try and attempt to speak in a Scottish accent I wouldnt even be able to do so, no clue if I could sing that way however, I tend to be tone deaf in that department lol
A lot of accents will kind of homogenize when sung. Listen to Scorpion for example; the lead singer has a heavy German accent, but you'd never know to listen to their music. Hell, I'm not even sure Bob Dylan even *spoke* English to hear him speak (sarcasm), but in song he's perfectly legible.
A lot of that is kinda up to the singer. Like Dolores O'Riordan of the Cranberries was very clearly from Ireland and you could tell when she sang, but I'm sure if she had tried to sing in the typical homogenized English/American pop accent, she could have. That kind of reinforces my point, though- it might be easier to sing a language or with an accent because you have to pay less attention to the cadence typically associated with that region. And in the case of Scottish and Irish, their traditional music typically has a cadence of its own that's a lot easier to pick up on.
I'm playing a character that (pulling from the pathfinder oracle) was cursed so they can only sing everything they say. Does anyone else find it so much easier to pull off a good accent while singing? For example, my attempts at Scottish and Irish accents are pretty shit when I speak, but when I sing it just flows out. I guess playing the mandolin might be making it an easier transition, but it really does sound so much better.
Well, I think if you get any good English speaker drunk enough they could easily sing in Scottish and Irish without much of a problem.
And speaking from experience as someone with Scottish ancestry I have been told, by another Scotsman, when I get really angry I start sounding like a Scotsman, despite being born in Australia, I did however grow up with a Scottish grandmother, who spoke English like she was born there, but I loved to get her angry enough to have her accent come out thick.
But if you were to ask me to try and attempt to speak in a Scottish accent I wouldnt even be able to do so, no clue if I could sing that way however, I tend to be tone deaf in that department lol
A lot of accents will kind of homogenize when sung. Listen to Scorpion for example; the lead singer has a heavy German accent, but you'd never know to listen to their music. Hell, I'm not even sure Bob Dylan even *spoke* English to hear him speak (sarcasm), but in song he's perfectly legible.
A lot of that is kinda up to the singer. Like Dolores O'Riordan of the Cranberries was very clearly from Ireland and you could tell when she sang, but I'm sure if she had tried to sing in the typical homogenized English/American pop accent, she could have. That kind of reinforces my point, though- it might be easier to sing a language or with an accent because you have to pay less attention to the cadence typically associated with that region. And in the case of Scottish and Irish, their traditional music typically has a cadence of its own that's a lot easier to pick up on.
It might have helped had I been able to sing. I'm really not.
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