To ask WTF is Nadine Coyle's (from Girls Aloud) accent?

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She seems perfectly nice and likeable but that is one of the weirdest accents I have ever heard. (She was just being interviewed on This Morning). A sort of cross between Northern Irish and Texas. I couldn't understand her at times, she sounded like her mouth was full - did anyone else see it or heard it? Has she been living in Texas?

She used to live in LA for a fair while so that’s probably messed with her N.Ireland accent.

How long did she live there? This isn't the interview I saw but from 2018 she does have an American twang but it sounds really strange to me. I don't think she is putting it on though like some Brits do.

She has an Americanised Derry accent.

I have no idea, but she doesn't speak very clearly at all.

She sounds to me like she has a Derry accent. I can’t hear much American.

Her accent has softened a bit over the years, but it’s still Northern Irish.

Here is an interview from when she was a teenager with a slightly stronger Derry accent:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9GDAFCRJBg

Can't believe she's still famous!

@KatieKittens I can understand her completely in the link you posted where she doesn’t sound half American. As an aside, I don’t remember Brian Dowling presenting SMTV!?

That's just a pretty typical Derry accent if you ask me, she's always spoken like that.

We all speak like that 😁

Doesn’t sound remotely Texan, and to be fair I’ve heard decidedly more Americanized accents than that.

She sounds totally NI in that video

Unless it's the clip of her saying 'flour' or 'Mammy where's my passport' it's not worth watching😁

Very broad Derry accent-sounds totally normal!

Nope i agree with the Pp thats just NI.

It's horrendous, even her accent pre america was horrible for someone from here (I'm from Belfast and her voice went through me before never mind her weird cross continental accent)

If I hear NI I think NI - but I do know people who hear NI and think American - you must be one of them op!

@RuggerHug oh when she was on Irish popstars and got sent home for lying about her age and "forgetting" her passport 🙈

The last time I heard her speak (about 3 years ago) she had a strong,very obviously Irish accent.

I always found her accent weird.

I am from NI.

I’m from NI and none of my Derry friends sound like that. She sounded odd even before she became famous

What is Derry, is that where she is from? Does she have a typical Derry accent? It sounds mixed with an American accent to me, sounded like Texas but someone earlier said she has been living in LA.

there is no american accent in there - at all.

I'm from the city, when at uni in England, Chinese students in next door flat thought I was american. They could not understand why I sounded so american when I was meant to be Irish.
The only explanation I could give them was that Derry was an important port during Irish immigration to America so maybe the Derry accent influenced the american one?!?

It's sounds like Derry with a touch of Dundalk if anything. I can't hear any American in there at all!

"What is Derry"

Fucking Hell.