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Hilariously the view from the UK side of the pond is that all our young people now have these terrible manufactured US accents...

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Perhaps we need to bring back the artificial Transatlantic Accent they used to use all across Hollywood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent

I thinks it's possible with the access we both have to the other country's media via Netflix, prime, Hulu, et c., that our accents re-merge. When I was a kid, British accents were a little harder and Scottish accents were impossible, but after 15 years of Netflix, I don't even notice British accents anymore and Scottish accents are noticeable, but understandable.

When I was a kid, no way could I understand a Geordie accent. I was raised with a RP accent, but I lived in Liverpool; I could understand ordinary scouse fine.

But my mates would sometimes launch into a very broad scouse accent to tease me; I could only just understand that.

Things have changed. Nobody nowadays speaks Geordie with the very broad accent that I couldn't understand as a kid.

Yes, you hear that a lot with teenagers in the UK, especially streamers, who dont even live in the US and havent been within a 3000 miles of it. Maybe we just like each others cultures so much?

I never understood that either but that's also common for Swiss or Austrian streamers who adapt a near to perfect German even thought most people would understand them, or at least would understand a light version of their dialect.

It been that way with music for some time as well. Some singers default to an American accent when singing.

You're elongating vowels etc. when you sing. If you sing in English you're most likely going to sound like every other English singer.

The only way you don't is if you purposely slow down your singing make it sound like your talking accent. This works with some genres (e.g. rap) but not others.

a very long time. Jeff Lynne, who has a strong Birmingham accent, sang a lot of ELO’s songs in the 70s and 80s with a noticeable American accent. Sweet Is The Night being a prime example

Weird, I thought that a North American accent was generally low status in the UK.

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