What is that weird accent that Cher sings in?

Pure affectation, I assure you OP.

[quote]weird accent that Cher sings in

Like this?

uh-oh! The schwa trolls are on their way.

Imitating Cher is not easy. Ask Jack.

Glendale Armenian, Rose.

R1 Obviously it's affected, but what is it supposed to be? Where do they get it from?

Singers sometimes develop odd mannerisms to get from a vowel to a consonant, or to stretch a one syllable word over several notes.

I was thinking about Cher today. I just YouTube'd her name and this clip with Michael Jackson popped up. Cher looks cool, but would something like this roll today? The whole cultural appropriations thing would seemingly make this act impossible today. It looks good looking back. But ppl are sooo sensitive nowadays this probably wouldn't fly with current trends. Sorry about talking about this in your thread OP. But I was being lazy and saw your thread

I'm just as big a fan as I was when that episode aired, and I STILL think it's fucking hilarious.

R9 Here. That was directed at R2.

Tourette’s.

Valley Girl

She is perfection!

I 💜 Cher. I know Madonna covered this b4 but I enjoy how Cher sings this jam.

Madonna is the Ursula to Cher’s Little Mermaid. Cher will always be Ariel while Madonna is that less-pretty clone who is really Ursula in disguise and she had to trick people into liking her because she had no deal talent or grace about her. “Cher” means “expensive” in French. What does “Madonna” mean? “Aging Hasbeen”?

“For example, she pronounces "in" like: "eeeeee-uuuhhn". Other singers do it too. ”

When you sing a word over several notes, you stretch it, bitch!

[quote]What does “Madonna” mean?

My lady (Italian).

Cherilyn - trashy

Cher means “dear” in French, n’est-ce pas? As in, ma chérie ?

Not just pricey?

OP, I watched a video on YouTube which was a voice coach reviewing the performance of Haley Reinhardt singing a cover of “Creep.” It’s a great performance, but she does that too. Singing weird pronunciations of certain words. The voice coach said singers do that in certain circumstances, to project better or something. The coach said she actually taught singers to do that in some particular situations. Here’s the Haley Reinhardt performance.

So it’s not really an accent, it’s a way to sing hard notes. So I guess that means Cher had a voice coach.

Here’s the voice coach talking about Haley Reinhardt’s performance, it just popped up after I played it. She explains some of the vocal choices she made and why.

R18, "cher" means expensive and dear. In Commonwealth English, "dear" is used in the same way: to mean expensive and someone or something you cherish.

I love how Cher sings. In every song she’s ever done.

R19, true. Trained English speaking singers don't pronounce their vowels the same way they speak them because certain English vowels aren't pure vowels but diphthongs and triphthongs, which tend to produce flat notes and can be a hindrance to projection. Singers modify their vowels to pure vowel sounds--a (ah), e (eh), i (ee), o, u (oo)--on sustained notes because it gives them better vocal power. And it just sounds better. If they must sustain a non-pure vowel, they'll throw in an extra syllable, often a schwa, for better sound. Cher does this when she belts "If I could turn back tie-um. If I could find a weh-aay..."

I have loved Cher since I was 10 years old.

She is the queen of vowel stretching that, alongside with her vibrato.

It's been a hell of a ride...

She's imitating Elvis. It's a bit rednecky and cool. That's why Elvis did it, and that's why Cher does it.