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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: the new London sound? |
| Date | Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:28:44 -0500 |
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From: "Sam Smith" <sam@lullabypit.com>
> What I noticed, though, was her phrasing. Her vocal rhythms remind
> me a
> LOT of Alex Turner from Arctic Monkeys, who I'm convinced has been
> listening to a lot of Mike Skinner (The Streets).
>
> Does anybody here know enough about these scenes to connect the dots
> for
> me? Are there some real influences at work, or are the similarities
> a
> coincidence?
To my ear, it's more of a socio-cultural thing than a musical thing:
all three singers are a good example of "mockney" (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockney ), a kind of deliberately
affected faux working-class accent that middle or upper-middle class
folks put on. They're in good company: as that Wiki article notes,
Mr. Michael Philip Jagger, formerly of the London School of Economics,
was one of the first singers to do this, followed by (not mentioned in
the article though I don't know why) the Turkish-born diplomat's son
John Mellor, who carefully roughed up both his accent and his bio to
become Joe Strummer.
S
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