Taylor Swift’s Accent

 

Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. Born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, USA, she has a mainstream American accent, with an interesting mix of influences because of her family background. Her mother is of Scottish and German descent; her father is of Scottish and English descent with distant Italian ancestry. Taylor Swift’s paternal great-great-grandfather, was an Italian immigrant.

 

 

 

 

Taylor Swift uses special speaking techniques in her accent, such as ‘Vocal Fry’.

 

VOCAL FRY (sometimes called creaky voice) is a vocal sound used a lot by young adult women who speak American English, college-age female Americans. It’s a vocal pattern of low, creaky vibrations, a scratchy sound – it makes the voice sound more edgy, more urban, more cool!

 

 

 

 

In Taylor Swift’s accent, you can hear examples of ‘Vocal Fry’ in the following YouTube video:

 

YouTube: Taylor Swift on re-recording her first 6 albums and the AMAZING response! BBC, The Graham Norton Show:

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For example, when she says: “What keeps you up at night!”  (at 2 seconds).

 

And when she says: “One of the things”   (at 1 min 36 secs).

 

 

 

 

In the next YouTube video, you can hear many more examples of ‘Vocal Fry’ in Taylor Swift’s accent:

 

YouTube: Taylor Swift’s Extended Interview | The Graham Norton Show:

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For example, when she says: “We’re gonna talk about it later!”  (at 4 seconds),

 

And when she says: “paint your teeth brown for this!”   (at 2 mins 10 secs),

 

And on the word  “after”   (at 2 mins 12 secs).

 

 

 

 

Other examples of Taylor Swift using ‘Vocal Fry’ in her accent, in the above YouTube video, are in the following phrases:

 

“big circles under your eyes”  (at 2 mins 23 secs),

 

“I blocked a lot of it out!”   (at 4 mins 20 secs),

 

“years ago”   (at 6 mins 17 secs),

 

“I don’t know why”  (at 6 mins 42 secs),

 

“where”  (at 8 mins 12 secs),

 

“my first six albums were actually sold”  (at 8 mins 20 secs).

 

 

 

 

Vocal Fry Register – Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_fry_register

 

Creaky Voice – Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creaky_voice

 

Taylor Swift – Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift

 

 

 

 

If you’d like to know more about Taylor Swift, you can visit her official website taylorswift.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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