MendesCity said:

I agree, actually. One thing that I've discovered through traveling ALOT on an international scale is that most countries have a range of accents and dialects based on region, level of education, traditional home communication, etc., the US is no different...if I had to go through a scenario of fleeting phone conversations with my parents/older relatives, my sister/close girlfriends, the Alumnae Boards from my alma maters, friends and professional colleagues from the different regions I've lived in the U.S., I pretty much have a different way of speaking for each one of those situations...all fully fleshed out and very much representative of who I am as a college educated black American chick from the midwest with relatives from the deep south who has lived on both coasts and in the the quasi-country known as miami florida....

TheRealFiness said:

she has an interview on oprah.com that you can listen to....it's in the section where she has recordings of the people she spotlights monthly for O Magazine...

How come nobody makes a big deal out of Mel Gibson, Rick Springfield, Charlize Theron of their "American" accents ?

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sosgemini said:

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I don't think she's forgoten where she comes from rather than, let's face it, she hasn't LIVED in the US for what 20 years, at least? Who does she have in her daily life to talk to that will have her keep her authentic Nutbush Tennessee acccent in check????

People don't seem to understand how much you lose of your formative dialect when you spend ALL your time speaking other languages in order to survive in your adopted home(s) overseas, and particularly if you are not surrounded by other native English speakers, your accent becomes HIGHLY enunciated by daily habit because you spend your LIFE trying to make yourself understood by your hosts

the standare American accent has not real abnormal stresses so i've been told, it's like a blank canvas.

Once you move from America to another English speaking country you pick up their stresses and so therefor pick up an accent.

And it's only a fairly recent thing the British part. Around the Turth or Dare era Madonna started dicate her words more. It was her arty Dita period and i think it was just part of the character.

There are few interview since then where she sounds normal. Most of the time I don't notice. She's Madonna. she can talk however she wants at the end of the day she is still Madonna.

I'm sure it's rough being her, so if she wants to talk like a brit for awhile more power to her, at least she isn't butching her nose.

PhilG said:

Good point...I mean, Mel's native accent is pretty much gone, and Charlize, who I actually had the pleasure to work with when I was a young stylist assistant, has one of THE THICKEST accents imaginable...while you're at it, add Portia di Rossi to that list, too...where the heck is HER accent?

Ottensen said:

it is ok for people to start sounding American, but not the reverse. NOT ALLOWED

PhilG said:

I think Mel is an American who lived in Australia, and his accent sounds both American & Australian.

As for Rick & Charlize, at least they sound natural. Madonna sounds like she's forcing it.

ehuffnsd said:

Thanks, that was the point I was trying to make .

andyman91 said:

charlize still talks as if she is african.....

Shapeshifter said:

OMG did celion dion really say that?

when u go to a different country u pick up the accents so easily. im from da uk and when i went to canada i pick up so many bits of the canadian accent and i was only there 2 weeks! and when my canadian friend recently came to london she was only here for a week by friday she had pick up loads of the london accent. so it does happen these people(madonna, tina etc) live here for years, what do u expect?

Who cares if they take a TV? These people
have been poor all their life - let them
have that ONE moment of touching what
they've never had!" - Celine Dion puke:

PhilG said:

word, what's up with that??

It's cool to hear everyone's opinion on this subject. I wanted to bring it up because i've heard so may negative comments on it including one from Kanye west where in Blender magazine he said " i think i'll move to london and get a fake ass accent like madonna". Seriously I can't understand, how people don't understand that when you live in a different country or region than the one you were born in, you can adapt the accent. Why do people react to it so negatively??

dancerella said:

Because people will always want to see a person stay in one place to make it easy for them to handle them.

Thing is, people like Madonna and Tina Turner aren't even proper Americans anymore. They have embraced a life that includes living abroad and people can't handle them changing.

I think Tina Turner lived in Switzerland (?) for so long, it's like a century removed from Nutbush (thank [deity]), just like it is way back for Madonna, being white trash.

These people moved on, so should any person getting worked up over accents. Please, grow up.

And Kanye West should just embrace his OWN faith; come out of the closet and shut up, the little bitch. Some people have opinions on everything and everyone without using that superior wit on themselves.

HamsterHuey said:

Madonna wasn't well off, but I wouldn't say she was white trash.

GangstaFam said:

DavidEye said:

trashy...but not trash. there's a difference.

JackieBlue said:

Right on JackieBlue!!

Some people need 2 leave their country once in a while...

Don't talk 2 me about that fake cunt Oprah.
I laughed hard when she got snubbed at that
shop in Paris. Nobody knows her in Europe.
& She tries 2 pull the race card..Bitch don't
make me laugh & accept ur lesson in humility.
'Cuz no posh shop stays open 4 the little man
past closing time..unless ur Rich & famous..

I'm sorry, it's just funny when rich people
get up in arms when they r denied their necessities..
like getting a purse with 'MyfriendGail'..

Okay, I'm off topic. Apologies.

Okay so Eshter lives in the UK, married
a Brit. Her vowels r a bit 'affected',
That's normal.

dancerella said:

Oh yeah, i remember u saying that.


iam from chicago but thank god i dont speak like an american

JackieBlue said:

bingo

thesexofit said:

why do you think american accents are horrible or somink?

dancerella said:

People in backwards norfolk (the county or "state" i live in) seems to hate americans. Some amerian accents are annoying. But then, Norfolk people have the worst accent ever. Its farmer silly stuff. Its awful. I dont have an accent. Iam happy with that.

thesexofit said:

Are you kidding me? Some brit accents are terrible. Like, Manchester, Brummy and Liverpool which is the worst in my opinion.

GangstaFam said:

This mirage was brought to you by the letter Y....


Madgefam

andyman91 said:

thats what i think

I can't believe this thread is about Madonna's accent!!!

What's next??? Madonna's long-lost birth-mark???

b4 I even clicked it I knew what it was..that fake ass Brit accent. It sounds so fake on her...I don't know.

flamed snipped - Tom