What accent is John Fogerty trying to emulate?
He and the other members of CCR were from El Cerrito, CA (in the San Francisco Bay area). They were heavily influenced by Southern blues, folk and country music, but honestly Fogerty's voice never struck me as particularly Southern (unlike, say, Gregg Allman's or Ronnie Van Zandt's). If anything, his voice was rustic -- I don't think he ever tried to emulate a particular voice.
That weird accent or affectation is peculiar to the Delta, where the blues Fogerty admired were played. Specifically, Cajun has the same sound sets: woiz for was, noit for night, etc. You’ll hear the actors in The Green Mile use the same ‘oi’: Poicy for Percy. The Frenchman Delacroix uses an authentic Cajun variation, but he’s almost unintelligible. He had his own dialect coach to help him and I can say, he nailed it. Fogerty does not always adopt this affectation, but it’s particularly noticeable in “Run for the Jungle”, which was an old blues adaptation. “Lodi”, on the other hand, is standard sort of American blues rock - tahm for time, mun-nay for money, lohst for lost, free-enz for friends, etc.
What accent is John Fogerty trying to emulate?
He and the other members of CCR were from El Cerrito, CA (in the San Francisco Bay area). They were heavily influenced by Southern blues, folk and country music, but honestly Fogerty's voice never struck me as particularly Southern (unlike, say, Gregg Allman's or Ronnie Van Zandt's). If anything, his voice was rustic -- I don't think he ever tried to emulate a particular voice.
Does Johnny Depp have a natural british accent?
Struth !stone the cows & cor blimey! Such a delightful performance we don't worry too much about the accent. It's just luverly me hearties ! Wot a huge talent ! It's a delightful interpretation of a cockney accent that he is doing & it's extemely consistant throughout the trilogy & he's very on top of it. Every now & then there is a slight fudging of vocal delivery, he tends to swallow his breath inside his throat, pre line delivery which is n't typical of a cockney, as that is a very front of the mouth, teeth & tongue delivery, however great actor that he is, he has worked this into a mannerism of "Sparrow",whether consciously or not I don't know . While each vowel sound may not be technically perfect, his consistency makes it acceptable & believable to the audience. It would be interesting to know how he went about acquiring it, I suspect he's a pretty instinctual actor so probably not a particularily technical approach. What an incandescent performance though, can't wait to see Sweeney Todd.
I think the idea is to be / sound as authentic as possible. When a non-native speaker is coached on his singing accent, it's not so much to make him sound like a native speaker, but to not sound like a non-native speaker. The question is what a 'native speaker' accent sounds (or should sound) like.Take English for example. An English accent is significantly different from an American accent, but both are arguably widely recognized as acceptable for songs sung in English. Some languages lend themselves better to adjusting, for example, such as the Anglo-Saxon ones; but the Oriental accents are difficult to adjust. There are just some vowel and consonant sounds that don't exist in certain languages. The level of success in adjusting depends on the origin and destination language.And then of course there's the not so small matter of the repertoire. For example, I certainly wouldn't sing an English art song with a lacking accent - it robs the work of its essence. And so on with other tongues.
I don’t have an answer to your actual question, I just feel compelled to comment that Bono is categorically not from the UK. It’s the other island nearby that he hails from. Check it out on an atlas. It’s called Ireland. The Gallaghers are also of Irish descent.Brought up In Manchester though. Which is in the UK. Liam sings with a Mancunian accent in my opinion. If not that then one he’s made up and is entirely unique to him.Farrokh Bulsara aka Freddie Mercury was born in Zanzibar’s capital, grew up in the UK and is of Parsi descent. Without getting technical about it – feel free to do a search – he had more teeth than the average. Which may go some way to explaining his particular vocal stylings. Freddie believed so in any case and refused to have the condition corrected.As for Elton he just sounds like….well, Elton. Who else?
A person's accent comes from the shape of their mouth and throat when they speak. When someone sings, their accent more or less disappears because a singer makes his or her mouth and throat into a different shape in order to sing. It's usually hard to tell where a singer comes from until he or she stops singing and starts speaking to the audience, and sometimes you get a surprise! Accent must not be confused with pronunciation however. If someone pronouces a word differently, you'll notice it immediately, and this may give you a clue to their origin.
People do this all the time. People are natural mimics. That’s why we have different accents in the first place. People naturally try to sound like the people around them, which will drift from the way other people speak.It would be weird if you were doing it in a way that was demeaning people. Doing accents well is hard, and a lot of what people think of as “doing accents” inept to the point of offensive. Accents mean a lot to people; it’s how they identify themselves with their group. Coarse misrepresentations of it sound like you’re making fun of them.A simple rule of thumb: if you think you’re doing a “British accent”, stop. There is no “British accent”. There are literally dozens, very distinct from each other, and what most people think of as a “British accent” is a random mishmash. If you can’t tell which ones are which, you’re doing it wrong. If you can learn to hear the differences, pick out one, and learn it, then you’re doing it right.