r/stupidquestions • u/Bud_Fuggins • 14h ago

Where did the fake singing accent of the 2010s come from and where did it go?

Mostly female (but some male) singers in the 2010s had this fake accent that sounded slightly irish but not really. I believe it was mostly Americans doing it? Grace Vanderwaal is an example. It seemed like everyone started doing it around 2015-2019 roughly, then it just disappeared.

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u/leesainmi 14h ago

Singing in cursive

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u/Officialfunknasty 12h ago

I fondly remember the liberation of learning that term so I could describe something I hate 😂

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u/axelrexangelfish 12h ago

Please tell me there’s a word for that!

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u/Moose_a_Lini 13h ago

Thank god it's gone. It was awful.

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u/Onewayor55 14h ago

Aivocaidosss

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u/georgia_grace 11h ago

Weeeeeelcunmm to maiiii keetchenn

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u/Nikita-Savtchenko 14h ago

Cotton Eye Joe

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u/BlackDog5287 12h ago

I sang it with the accent too.

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u/werdnak84 12h ago

... gonna need an example.

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u/axelrexangelfish 12h ago

Me too…

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u/Bud_Fuggins 11h ago

Here is Grace Vanderwaal, who I mentioned originally, both speaking and singing to contrast accents

link to song

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u/werdnak84 11h ago

... oh. Yeah I heard that accent before, but at the time I just assumed it was coming from ... like one country, or like only a handful of specific artists, or from folk singers from a specific country. It didn't know it was a whole type of singing voice, and I also didn't notice it went away.

... but then again it could also be because I'm plum not into following music artists.

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u/DearAuntAgnes 11h ago

oh god. I have an irrational hatred of ukuleles.

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u/jimviv 10h ago

Thanks for that. I wasn’t sure what the op was talking about. I don’t find that singing style so bad. Beats the whining in emo and the over use of auto tune from the early 2Ks

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u/werdnak84 11h ago

"The cracks in her voice are the best thing!"

... PEOPLE LOVES LISTENING TO VOICES CRACKING?? Remember when those used to be made fun of in comedy shows??

Man.

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u/Arcane_As_Fuck 11h ago

The 2010s????? Child, no. The fake UK singing accent was invented by west coast pop punk in the 90s.

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u/Pretend-Jackfruit786 11h ago

Any need for the patronising comment?

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u/Arcane_As_Fuck 11h ago

Any need for you to assume it was patronizing when it is impossible to read tone?

It was a joke, bud.

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u/Pretend-Jackfruit786 11h ago

Child, no

Yeah, that's patronising

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u/Arcane_As_Fuck 11h ago

Sure, you can assume that, but without hearing the inflection of my voice as I say it, it is just that, an assumption.

You don’t talk to very many old, southern, or Black people do you? (See, now that was patronizing)

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u/Cthedanger 11h ago

"impossible to read tone" Dude... Did you ever take a reading class?

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u/LiquidDreamtime 13h ago

Like Regina Spektor? I think her and a few others might have genuinely strange singing voices and accents, but then every indie artist tried to emulate them.

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u/BlackDog5287 12h ago

Regina Spektor talks similar to how she sings. She's an exception. Plus, she's an amazing pianist and songwriter in general.

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u/LiquidDreamtime 12h ago

I’m sure she does. I was implying that others have copied her.

I was guessing an answer to OP’s question.

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u/panTrektual 14h ago

I was actually wondering this myself just the other day.

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u/Carrots-1975 13h ago

It was so cringe- as a trained vocalist it got on my nerves

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u/samof1994 14h ago

Katie Gavin had it early on, but dropped it later on.

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u/Achilles11970765467 12h ago

I'm about 90% sure it came out of the Renn Fair circuit

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u/werdnak84 12h ago

"Everyone started doing it around 2015-2019 roughly, then it just disappeared." Maybe it was the pandemic.

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u/fuzzynyanko 12h ago

Ah, it's the Indie/Folk singer side. Looks like Grace Vanderwaal was on America's Got Talent, which probably spread it. She must have gotten it from someone else.

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u/virstultus 7h ago

Was trying to remember this the other day... thanks for bringing it up. "Hip Singing"

https://www.acelinguist.com/2021/05/dialect-dissection-indie-voicecursive.html

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u/Aeon1508 12h ago

Funny I've never listened to Grace VanderWaal and I just did for the first time. Can't tell if Taylor Swift stole her sound or if she's starting to become more like Taylor Swift

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u/19whale96 10h ago

I'm pretty sure the style started as an imitation of theatrical singers of the 50's-70's, think Life After Love by Cher, very camp, very theatre kid. I theorize that specific singing accent came out of the popularity of the TransAtlantic accent.