The question of singing accents has arisen many times here before, and poses some interesting questions. If you sing in a foreign language - simply because those songs appeal to you musically - it would be surely be very silly not to sing them without attempting the appropriate accent and pronunciation. I happen to love singing some French songs from the 1930s so, when I sing them, I try to do it correctly. French listeners will undoubtedly recognise that my French is occasionally oddly accented (though I have been complimented on my performances). As I recall, Petula Clark had a French song repertoire - married to a Frenchman - and was extremely popular in France, perhaps because of, not in spite of, the "Englishness" in her promunciation. Now, if you as a singer, are drawn to a songs from a particular culture or country, then in my view that should be the aim - to make those songs sound as naturally from that culture as possible. The problem obviously arises with the UK/US song axis because most people don't assume that UK English and US English can be considered as different languages. To me, singing an American song without inflections that don't nod to its American-ness is foolish. The alternative, to some of the Pronunciation Police, is not to sing these songs at all. But why not? If a song grabs you, sing it.
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