Originally Posted by thenetworkbabe:
“Its a false distinction. She's always articulate and she makes narrow distinctions when she chooses her words - listen to her with Ant and Dec drawing distinctions between going to and wanting to, and how she can chip in what they are going to say next before they say it. If you ask her a question that requires some thought, you get thought and it comes out very quickly. If she reacts you get a reaction which sounds more girly with nonverbal support thats also girly. The accent stays the same throughout, the purpose of the communication shapes whats said. Its perfectly consistent.
She's got real ability to change her accent when she's singing to whats appropriate for the song - she can sound American or get near to RP English if its needed. A lot of good singers and West End stars can do that when they otherwise have strong regional or Irish accents, but it takes a lot of ability. You wouldn't expect her though to go around pretending to be another character from somewhere else in her everyday life, so she stays with her own local accent there. If she happened to come from Yorkshire or Wales no one would dare even mention her accent, but as she's from Dagenham, it may give her a problem with shallower voters.”
“Its a false distinction. She's always articulate and she makes narrow distinctions when she chooses her words - listen to her with Ant and Dec drawing distinctions between going to and wanting to, and how she can chip in what they are going to say next before they say it. If you ask her a question that requires some thought, you get thought and it comes out very quickly. If she reacts you get a reaction which sounds more girly with nonverbal support thats also girly. The accent stays the same throughout, the purpose of the communication shapes whats said. Its perfectly consistent.
She's got real ability to change her accent when she's singing to whats appropriate for the song - she can sound American or get near to RP English if its needed. A lot of good singers and West End stars can do that when they otherwise have strong regional or Irish accents, but it takes a lot of ability. You wouldn't expect her though to go around pretending to be another character from somewhere else in her everyday life, so she stays with her own local accent there. If she happened to come from Yorkshire or Wales no one would dare even mention her accent, but as she's from Dagenham, it may give her a problem with shallower voters.”
Genuine,intelligent...... not ashamed of who or whom she is.
