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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: the new London sound? |
| Date | Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:58:47 -0500 |
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Well, except that Skinner is actually from Birmingham. The voice he
uses on the Streets records is completely a put-on, because he has a
noticeable Birmingham accent when you see him in interviews.
S
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Curry" <mikecurry@hotmail.co.uk>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: the new London sound?
> 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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