Rock is all about selling a persona, and sometimes you have to change more than just your haircut. Whether it's to seem more "real," to appeal to bigger audiences or just for fun, musicians have been rocking altered accents for ages. Here are some of our favorite fakers of dubious dialects.
It's a scientific fact that Canadians are virtually indistinguishable from Americans -- until one says, "There's a mouse about the house." Just look at Shania Twain, the woman behind the best-selling country album in history: She did her time in Nashville, she perfected that distinctive twang. When she sang, "I feel like a woman!" during the Super Bowl, it was naturally assumed she felt like a Southern woman -- as in the American South. But she's not even from Southern Ontario!