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Country is a weird genre.
In NO OTHER genre do you hear an accent by default, and it’s more or less required for country. That twang, the drawl. Its playing in the background of the dive bar I'm at right now.
If you get someone from the deep south to sing alongside someone from the Netherlands, alongside a french person, maybe a Russian for kicks, the only genre you'll notice they aren't from the same country in country music will you hear where they are from. But not really because like any music its an affectation.
Conclusion: country music is fake bullshit made to pander to fucking stupid people who think their redneck culture exists, rather than being just profitable. 😁
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y7im5LT09a0
My favorite part of that set is how he adopts the accent in the lead-up to the jokes. Im big on language, always have been a mimic, and I notice the code switch. I assume he does it unconsciously to put himself in the mindset for the rest of the jokes.
But yea thats how I feel about it, always have.
Plenty of hip hop has all sorts of accents. Also, there's no such thing as "no accent".
Listen to your average unknown random song and tell me where the people who sing it came from. Thats what I mean by no accent. It doesn't exist in language, but it VERY MUCH exists in music. A-accent is the default for singing.
Hip hop I question that, but rap i could see because I’ve heard rap in other languages and being spoken poetry that does pick up a bit, but it isn't characteristic of the music, and you still usually cant tell unless you understand the specific language.. so id give that as a maybe at best.