Specifically, when singing in English, their speaking voice is accented, and their singing voice isn’t… As an example, I came across an Irish Youtuber named CallMeKevin, and he recently posted a cover of NIN’s “Hurt”. His voice is lovely, and he often sings snippets of songs while streaming, but as soon as he starts singing, his accent seems to drop off. I’ve noticed this for other artists, too. Can anyone tell me why this happens? Or is it just my perception?
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I believe it’s because of two reasons:
1) They are trying to get as close as to the original version as they can, so they sort of mimic the original singer
2) When you hear someone having an accent, it (besides other things) means that when they produce a syllable, it usually is shorter/longer than you would produce it. But when they are singing, they need to phrase the syllables in order to maintain the same rhythm as the song does. So this factor is to disappear when one sings.
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