Shania Twain is really a Canadian and had to perfect her fake country accent. (Thanks James in Canada) The website at the link has videos of all of these fakers.
More Singers With Fake Accents
1. Shania Twain perfected her twang in Nashville but is from Southern Ontario.
2. Ministry's lead singer is from Chicago and has a high voice but the vocals on some of their songs were done by an English girl with his same name - Al Jourgensen. It was also a synthpop record!
3. The Rolling Stones tried to sing with Nashville accents on "Dead Flowers," "Honky Tonk Women" and "Country Honk."
4. Keith Urban is from New Zealand and talks like it but sings with an American twang.
5. The Killers are from Nevada but try to sound British.
6. Lily Allen went to posh London schools but effects a working-class Cockney dialect.
7. Green Day are from Oakland but sometimes effect as close as they can come to Brixton UK accents.
8. Matisyahu morphs Hasidic Jew with Jamaican but is went to school in Eugene Oregon and was born in Pennsylvania.
9. Amy Winehouse is a Brit but tries as hard as she can to sound like she is from somewhere like Alabama. This tradition goes back to Dusty Springfield and other imitators of Philly, Motown etc.
10. The leader of Guided by Voices is a former teacher from Ohio who is obsessed with the Who and uses a fake British accent.
11. Vanilla Ice continually changed his biography from street fighter to trigonometry whiz to Rasta.
12. Tom Jones is son of a Welsh coal miner but sounds like he was raised on the Vegas strip and admits the influence of Elvis.
13. Jay Reatard of the indie Memphis scene is the king of bad English accents and loves to try to sound like an English punk. He has been compared to a cartoon character.
14. Snow is white and from Toronto but claims he picked up his Jamaican "patois" in prison. Canadian prison.
15. "Marky" Mark Walberg is from Boston but seems to have lost his "mean streets" accent over time.
16. Silverhair were from Australia but had a Kurt Cobain imitator for a singer.
17. Joey Ramone sometimes tried to use a British accent instead of his tick Queens one.
18. John Fogerty was not "Born on the Bayou" - he came from Berkeley.
19. Eric Clapton is not from the Mississippi Delta but from the UK. It was not uncommon in the '60s for British white bluesmen to emulate their black American blues heroes.
20. Thin Lizzy were British and tried their hardest to sound like American classic rock, right down to bad songs such as "The Boys Are Back in Town." Many Americans are shocked to learn that these guys weren't even American.
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