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Good points. Yeah; it's possibly ironic that a lot of efforts/values in this direction have a strong indirect effect of enforcing the status quo and the cultur

Good points. Yeah; it's possibly ironic that a lot of efforts/values in this direction have a strong indirect effect of enforcing the status quo and the cultural norms of the prevailing power. ("It's always ok to wear jeans" is my shorthand). I remember being surprised at Hugh Laurie's blues recordings. He's the person I can think of off-hand that went all-out on accent while singing with his mother tongue. OTOH if you go all out and sing in another language it's regarded as ok try to try render things more exactly (But most people make lots of mistakes that native speakers pick up on and so the audience may not enjoy the aesthetic outcome. It's super hard!)

jan_Inkepa 5y ago
OTOOH I just recalled the singer John Linnell settling for singing in Latin because of (interpolating his words a little) not wanting to sing badly in a living language ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7MJ71RPGhU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7MJ71RPGhU ). "I’m deeply jealous of people who are fluent in a second language and can apply that skill to their creative work in a way that doesn’t seem like cultural appropriation of the most offensive and embarrassing kind" ( https://www.openculture.com/2021/07/they-might-be-giants-john-linnell-releases-an-ep-of-songs-in-latin.html https://www.openculture.com/2021/07/they-might-be-giants-joh... )