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It makes them easier to understand (JK), plus the US represents a large part of the market. From an historical point of view, back in the BEATLES day, they learned their music from Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis, US country singers, jazz and blues musicians, etc. These genres were popular in England. They were just imitating what they were listening to on the radio.
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They don't. If you sing well, you don't have an accent. This goes for Americans as well. I think it's just because people have difficulty hearing there own accent, because they are so used to it. So people, when they hear an absence of an accent they presume it's there own accent. Americans especially, have trouble hearing their accent for some reason. Singing activates different parts of the brain that speaking does. For instance some people with a stutter, who takes ages speaking single sentences, don't have a single problem when they sing. So the part of the brain controlling accents would be more focused in the part that also controls speaking, but absent in singing.
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A lot of them don't. If you listen to British folk music it's generally sung in a recognisable British accent, if not a notable regional accent (Kate Rusby is a very good example) Pop music-wise you also might want to listen to The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Siouxsie and The Banshees (in fact virtually any British punk band), Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Black Box Recorder, Dubstar, some of PJ Harvey's output, certain Smiths songs... there are loads more. A lot of more "classic" pop is heavily influenced by early rock'n'roll which came out of the US, so as they imitated the sounds musically musicians also imitated the accents and style. The transatlantic twang of an accent associated with modern commercial pop music has just developed from there as the accepted "pop singer voice"
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if you listen to a lot British bands these days they sing with a heavy english accent, people like the pigeon detectives, the holloways, artic monkeys etc. then you've got madness and the like... i could go on. Lily allen, kate nash, jack penate..... I agree, some british singers sing with an american accent but most don't.
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Some styles they may sing with a mid atlantic accent but then other styles are very much accented with their local British accent. A lot of people from any country who speak English with accents seem to lose the accent when singing.
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Most people when the raise their voices as many singers do eventhough they are using a mic lose their accent. If a Brit for example was listening to an american singer he'd be thinking the same thing, where did his accent go?
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