#vocal-pitch

#vocal-pitch

As Swift's star rose, something else shifted: her voice. Researchers at the University of Minnesota analyzed recorded interviews with Swift throughout her career and found that after she moved to Tennessee, she picked up a southern accent. She began to pronounce my like "mah" and boom like "bee-oom"-features not typically present in a Pennsylvania accent. Matthew Winn, a co-author of the study, told me that these changes suggest that Swift's voice subtly altered to fit in with the Nashville scene.