The Surprising Reason Why British People Sing in American Accents

Many hugely successful singers speak with strong accents from around the English-speaking world, but they all sound American when they sing. I look at the phonetics of what it even means to sing like an American, and then examine why people do it. Some of the reasons may well surprise you. Here’s a link to the spoof ’lose your accent’ video __________________________________________ Harry Styles Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Adel By Condé Nast (through Vogue Taiwan), CC BY 3.0, Gold Records By Prayitno - , CC BY 2.0,