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| From | "Michael Curry" <mikecurry@hotmail.co.uk> |
| Subject | Re: the new London sound? |
| Date | Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:44:06 +0000 |
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Alex Turner is not mockney. He is from Sheffield in South Yorkshire, and his
voice could not be misconstrued as anything but typical of that area of
England. Lily Allen and Mike Skinner are a pair of Chavs from Sarf London.
The accents are about as similar as Russian and Bahamian.
>From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: the new London sound?
>Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:28:44 -0500
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 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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