black_wing_angel
DJ-Anarchy
black_wing_angel
DJ-Anarchy
black_wing_angel
DJ-Anarchy
A stereotype of country is the country drawl, and the fact that a country singer SANG a country song with a country drawl DOESN'T count in this argument because....?
Because it's not faked. As much as you want to believe it is.
Trust me, I'm a pretty decent singer, and when I sing along with a country song, my southern drawl comes out, too, because of the way the songs are done, more "speaking" than actually "singing".
Sure, if I sang metal, you'd never guess I was southern, because I have to alter my own voice, to do it, like deepening it, to make the right "gravel throat" effect, and with screaming, and growling, and such.
But country generally involves none of these things.
The REASON they are sung in a particular fashion is BECAUSE they are faked. For example; Mountain Woman. Now I know Tammy Fletcher in real life. She and my mom are old friends. No country drawl in everyday speech. But up on stage? Drawling and twanging like the rest of them. When i asked her "Uh, why did you suddenly develop a country accent?" the answer was roughly "You have too! Its COUNTRY!"
DJ, you know better than that s**t!
One ******** poser, does not speak for the entire genre. Otherwise any Christianity friendly song, could not be classified as black metal, because 1 ******** guy said once that "if you're not praising satan, you're not black metal!"
Yet we have Extol, and plenty of other christian "black metal" bands.
So your mom's friend is a ******** poser.
REAL country artists don't WRITE a drawl into their music, it's just how they sound when they sing it. Other people MIGHT drawl themselves up when they sing it, to copy it (I've done this), but it had not been written specifically to be sang with a southern drawl.
Of course they don't speak for everyone. But the fact that there ARE no country singers without the drawl brings that statement into serious question to me. For example, if it was only like, 20 guys who had the drawl, and the rest had the accents of wherever they came from, this wouldn't be an issue. However, I have never heard IN MY LIFE a country singer who didn't drawl. This is VERY suspect to the genre itself.
How many country singers have you heard of, that weren't at least raised in a country family?
Look at me, for an example. I was born, and raised, in the NORTH half of Missouri (not quite "southern", and very few people who have Southern drawls), but my mother was born and raised in SOUTH Missouri. LOTS of Southern accented people, including her. I inherited it from her, despite being "northern". Though my accent is kinda watered down, from what you'd get in Tennessee, it's noticeable enough that people I've just met, have asked me when I moved "Up here".
So it's not about where you COME from, but what you're EXPOSED to, when you're actually learning to talk. I learned how to talk, from exposure to my mother, and her southern drawl, and so I inhereted her accent, though slightly watered down, from exposure to "northern folk" around me.
You have no idea what you're talking about, at this point, DJ.
Exactly, you learn your SPEAKING from where you are brought up, but as I have stated before, accents are lost in song. but let us say you are correct for the moment, THAT being the case...
Gary Allan - Born, La Mirada, California, USA
Dierks Bentley - Born, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Clint Black - Born, Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S
Laura Bryna - Born, Mount Airy, Maryland, USA
Terri Clark - Born, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Kristy Lee Cook - Born, Seattle, Washington, U.S
Emerson Drive - Born, Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada
Josh Gracin - Born, Westland, Michigan, USA
Carolyn Dawn Johnson - Born, Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada
Jamie O'Neal - Born, Sydney, Australia
Keith Urban - Born, Whangarei, New Zealand
Chuck Wicks - Born, Smyrna, Delaware, USA
A few examples of VERY famous country singer, raised in areas without the traditional southern country accent. Wonder then, at the fact that ALL of them sing with the drawl...
