What kind of accent does Gaga speak with?

[GypsyBabe 22,836]

She has an rich NYC accent. A Manhattan accent. A well educated girl accent. 

[YourWhiskyMouth 3,998]

Her voice gets much more tough/urban New Yorker when she talks with black people 

there’s a few instances of this but I’m forgetting where.

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9 minutes ago, mauvais said:

She over enunciates compared to the Standard American speaker because she is from New York, elitely educated and a trained performer. Like Glamourpuss said, she's very serious about her Ts. Her dialect shift is both because she dropped the pretense of early career and, I think, because she lives in California. 

A linguist just published a long post about her dialect  in her music but not a lot about her speaking voice 

https://www.acelinguist.com/2018/12/dialect-dissection-lady-gaga.html

This is so neat! Thanks for sharing. I'll definitely give it a read. 

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51 minutes ago, mauvais said:

She over enunciates compared to the Standard American speaker because she is from New York, elitely educated and a trained performer. Like Glamourpuss said, she's very serious about her Ts. Her dialect shift is both because she dropped the pretense of early career and, I think, because she lives in California. 

A linguist just published a long post about her dialect  in her music but not a lot about her speaking voice 

https://www.acelinguist.com/2018/12/dialect-dissection-lady-gaga.html

That article is so interesting! Especially for a fan that listened to every one of her song so many times, it's fun to see all these subtle things in her pronunciation.

[AshIey 7,867]

Her voice being nasally isn’t an accent lol. She has a standard American accent with slight NYC influences.

[Smother Em Eh 6,823]

Idk that’s a good question. 

She also had a weird accent in some German interviews from the AP Era and I could never find out what it was. 

[SharkmanthaC 105,087]

@calmar is the expert.  Shed some light! 

 

[calmar 21,272]

13 minutes ago, SamanthaC said:

@calmar is the expert.  Shed some light! 

 

Basically what everyone else has said and what mauvais posted (although I find some of that article writer's transcriptions faulty.)

[SharkmanthaC 105,087]

5 minutes ago, calmar said:

Basically what everyone else has said and what mauvais posted (although I find some of that article writer's transcriptions faulty.)

 

4 hours ago, mauvais said:

IA! I study linguistic anthropology  but acelinguist's format is really helpful because  I grew up in a bidialectical household and my ear doesn't notice these differences (others find the double awareness helpful, I just don't). I love that Gaga's a marry-merry non-merged unicorn! 

I totally missed this @mauvais! I'm sorry.  I will remember that you also study linguistics next time.

[Helxig 39,446]

In her earlier years I think it was more high pitched/nasally/girly as a sort of automatic defense mechanism because she felt shy. A lot of girls snap into that voice when they're shy.

You can often hear her New York accent coming through too, moreso when she's living/staying there. And it comes flying out when she spends time with Tony lol.

During the ARTPOP/perfume era I think her accent got mixed up because:

1. she was travelling a lot and doing a lot of pr. Which can make people's accents get confused as they have to enunciate differently and adapt their speaking style to be understood (also see Madonna).

2. she was very high all the time... and probably thought that pronouncing her T's and and P's strongly made her sound sophisticated   also I've heard some singers practise doing this because it makes their singing better (so they don't sound unintelligible when singing like Ariana)

Also I think living in LA she's taken on a bit of that accent too.

I've noticed it changes all the time. And it seems to be influenced by who she's been around, where she's living, how she's feeling, what she's doing with her career, if she's travelling a lot and talking to foreigners.

 

Also this is so true  ...

5 hours ago, YourWhiskyMouth said:

Her voice gets much more tough/urban New Yorker when she talks with black people 

there’s a few instances of this but I’m forgetting where.

 

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1 minute ago, mauvais said:

Not a problem  Linguistic anthropology is a little different, though, so @calmar is definitely more informed if they're studying linguistics. I am interested in how people use language to construct their identities, not particularly the structure of language, etc.  

This has to be super interesting.

[Helxig 39,446]

I just found this super interesting article about her accents in her songs with vocal clips added in:

https://www.acelinguist.com/2018/12/dialect-dissection-lady-gaga.html

 

I knew I wasn't crazy to think she has 'Gaga'isms'. The way she adds and 'aah' to the end of words, stresses the wrong parts of words, her nasality etc.

They even mention how she stopped doing that so much after ARTPOP. Which makes sense as to why a lot of people said Joanne didn't sound like her. Remove the Gaga'isms and add in some Southern inflections and it's a whole different voice.

 

And funnily enough the songs referenced for her overarticulating her T's and P's were all from ARTPOP    the same era where she was overarticulating in her speaking voice in interviews. I knew it was all relative.

[2School4Cool 5,348]

It’s so funny to me how her accent changes depending on the city or country she’s in. Her accent at American shows is different from European shows 

[Delaney Elias 1,318]

On 3/14/2019 at 3:24 PM, JustAnother said:

The accent/voice she puts on when she talks to her pets 

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is the cutest thing! She sounds so different and even more adorable (even though that's not really possible. 

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9 minutes ago, Delaney Elias said:

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is the cutest thing! She sounds so different and even more adorable (even though that's not really possible. 

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