You Beauty: The Politics Of Singing In An Aussie Accent
slightly operatic singing style due to her songs’ drawn-out syllables (e.g. Born To Die ). Adele , meanwhile, drops her highly distinctive spoken accent in her songs not least because adopting ... stops in her accent (e.g. “kettle” becoming “ket’l” or “ke’l”; “starting” becoming “star’ing”) would also be harder to reproduce when singing, as opposed to the case with
