Jaze, don't you find that your accent changes according to whom you are talking at the time? Mine does - so I think that its OK for the singing accent to change according to context in the same way. I hope so anyway, because I can't help it.
I often sing in quite a broad Berkshire (UK) accent, which had me a bit worried in case it sounded false, but then I realised that sometimes speak that way too - so now I think its OK [its where I live]. I'll sometimes put in a bit of a more northern accent - which is not natural to me geographically, but again I sometimes accidentally do that in spoken conversation as well if I enjoy the word/phrase better that way - so its probably OK too.
If its an unconcious variation of accent then hopefully it won't sound false
. But I could be wrong......
I suppose its another of those preference debates.
Anyone else come down in favour of singing in varying accents?Kris