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The Choice What Happens To A British Accent In Music Plus Full Or Half Empty · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: There's a brand new podcast that we created. It's called
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  Speaker 1: Music's Lost History. We know the music, but if I
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  Speaker 1: difficult to make up your mind, Having that power of
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  Speaker 1: choice can actually weaken a person's heart. On this episode,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to put focus on why singer-songwriters with accents hardly,
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  Speaker 1: if ever, sound like they're from a different part of
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  Speaker 1: the planet. Plus, is it half full or half empty?
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  Speaker 1: What are the ups and downs of the way that
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  Speaker 1: we plant and place our words? My name is Arrow.
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  Speaker 1: Life is a series of choices. Who decides when you're
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  Speaker 1: not making the right choice? And is it a fear
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  Speaker 1: of things going wrong? The greatest lessons in life are
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  Speaker 1: often lost inside a hidden away attempt and concept. It's
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  Speaker 1: time to reopen your heart because having that power of
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  Speaker 1: choice is your daily gift. On this highway, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to learn how to trust mirages. What is the choice?
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  Speaker 1: When singer-songwriters from other parts of the world, such as
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  Speaker 1: the UK, sing an American soul song, unheard is the
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  Speaker 1: British accent. It almost disappears totally from the scene. It's
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  Speaker 1: softened by the physical act of music. And there's a
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  Speaker 1: reason why Elton John's music never pointed him out as
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  Speaker 1: being a British musician. When artists from the UK sing,
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  Speaker 1: the melody changes. How is this even possible? Well, what
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  Speaker 1: happens is the words and lyrics are pronounced by stretching
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  Speaker 1: their vocal vowels and it reduces some of the stress
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  Speaker 1: on the consonants that are being used. The goal is
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  Speaker 1: to take that British accent and allow it to stick out,
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  Speaker 1: but not too far. Don't forget that American music traditions
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  Speaker 1: actually influenced British singer-songwriters for decades, like rock, blues, soul,
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  Speaker 1: and even country music. And yes, there are artists just
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  Speaker 1: like Ed Sheeran who have mastered the art of separating
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  Speaker 1: a singing voice from a speaking voice. It's the record
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  Speaker 1: producer that usually spots a bad accent or putting focus
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  Speaker 1: on something that's very American. Just by saying, hey, let's
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  Speaker 1: think about this, because I'm sure they sat down with
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  Speaker 1: George Michael and Adele and said, great speaking voice. But
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  Speaker 1: what is your singing voice? Rarely, if ever, do we
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  Speaker 1: ever hear a British accent. I mean, look at Gloria
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  Speaker 1: Estefan from down in Miami with the Miami Sound Machine.
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  Speaker 1: There's a brand new movie coming out called California Scheming.
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  Speaker 1: It is exactly about this very subject. Most Americans cannot
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  Speaker 1: spot a British artist such as Youngblood. I mean, when
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  Speaker 1: he speaks, it's, oh my God, you're not even from here.
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  Speaker 1: But can Americans sound British while putting their music together?
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  Speaker 1: And the answer to that is, of course we can. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: coming up next, let's talk about the words that we
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  Speaker 1: actually plant and place on our paths. What's up or
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  Speaker 1: what's down? Is it positive? Is it negative? We'll find
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  Speaker 1: out next. Hey, thanks for coming back to The Choice.
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  Speaker 1: Your personality is measured by a source of words. Is
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  Speaker 1: the glass half full or half empty? What does it
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  Speaker 1: actually mean to write in the way of I've left
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  Speaker 1: a half a page here? Is it really half full
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  Speaker 1: or is it half empty? It all depends on your perspective.
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  Speaker 1: Half empty is noting that something is missing. Half full
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  Speaker 1: is recognizing, oh my God, there's something there. A half
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  Speaker 1: page left open while writing is actually a knock upside
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  Speaker 1: a heart. As a writer, it's always a goal to
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  Speaker 1: push yourself to get a full page or you're always
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  Speaker 1: going to see it as being unfinished work. There's always
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  Speaker 1: room for more. It's an unfinished territory that If you
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  Speaker 1: find yourself in a position of, dude, is it half
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  Speaker 1: full or is it half empty? I've got to get
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  Speaker 1: more of my writing present on this page. And how
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  Speaker 1: do some people write? Well, they sit there and go, really,
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  Speaker 1: do you need to do this? Do we have to
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  Speaker 1: do it now? Because the page is half full. Isn't
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  Speaker 1: that enough? Now watch this. Authors are not bothered by
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  Speaker 1: the half full or half empty state of that page.
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  Speaker 1: Authors see this as space that is giving me a
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  Speaker 1: reason to breathe. An empty space has a lot to
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  Speaker 1: say without ever whispering something simple. And you know what?
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  Speaker 1: Just between the two of us, maybe this is the
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  Speaker 1: reason why I was late in getting to the game
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  Speaker 1: of rap music. Only because in the 80s, 90s, and beyond,
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  Speaker 1: I was so used to popular music that with rap,
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  Speaker 1: there's not really any space to envision the full story
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  Speaker 1: of hip-hop. until you sit down and either watch the
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  Speaker 1: video and read the lyrics on the bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: page or to physically listen. Is it half full or
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  Speaker 1: is it half empty? And in some cases, is it
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  Speaker 1: too full? And how are people going to react to
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  Speaker 1: your message? It is a choice. I'm Errol, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what I was writing while the sun was waking up
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  Speaker 1: on a brilliant new day.