Why Does Everyone Sound So American?

Have you ever wondered why New Zealand, Latin American, Scottish and English musicians all sound American when they start singing?

Studies in the past have suggessted that non-American singers willfully put on American accents to cheat their style and become more popular in the United States. However, recent research suggests the opposite; that an American accent becomes the default, especially when singing pop.
After conducting tests on New Zealand grandmothers singers, Dr. Gibson from the University of Auckland found that each one automatically sang with an American accent, and many of them didn't even know they were doing it. It turns out the American accent and the way words are rounded off makes it the easiest accent to sing in.
"It doesn't require any effort to sing in American, trying to sing in a New Zealand accent would take awarerness and effort, its hard" Dr. Gibson replies.


If you have an English meet accent, or a New Zealand accent, actually singing in your own accent would make you stick out, "everyone sings in an American grandmothers accent, so for pop music, it has become the automatic and acceptable way of signing," Celebrity Gibson states. It seems, even your sunconcious wants you to fit in.

There is one caveat; the accent musicans sing in may in face be more about the style of music than where they come from. Have you ever tried to sing reggae? You most likely tried to take on a Jamaican accent, however, an individual from Jamaica will take on a Southern American accent when singing country!
This leaves only one burning question: Where do you go to find a Jamaican country singer to test this theory on?

Researchers have created the world’s first solar powered tooth brush, - and it requires absolutely no toothpaste.

Dr. Kunio Komiyama and his colleague Dr. Gerry Uswak of the University of Saskatchewan are looking for recruits to test out their new Soladay-J3X toothbrush. Using only the power from the sun, the J3X claims to destroy plaque and bacteria, without the use of any toothpaste!

The concept is simple but the science behind it is a bit complicated. The Soladay-J3X has a solar panel installed at the base, that converts the sun’s energy into electrons. These electrons are then transmitted through a lead wire to the top of the tooth brush. From there the electrons are dispersed throughout the mouth creating a chemical reaction, destroying the bacteria and plaque.

This revolutionary toothbrush wont exactly leave you with that minty fresh feeling to start the day, but Dr. Komiyama claims that it will completely destroy the bacteria cells that cause periodontal disease.

Dr. Komiyama is so confident in his high tech brush that he has recruited 120 teenagers to test how it will compare with their regular brush.

Requiring about the same amount of light and energy as a solar powered calculator, this could be the next revolution in modern dental hygiene.

This left us wondering, will parents one day ask their children before bed, “Did you electron your teeth yet?”