I absolutely love your speaking voice. It's very calm and soothing. Listening to you speak actually gives me goosebumps. Seems to me you should consider adding voiceover work to your list of talents.
I rarely learn anything as i love her speaking as its friendly precise quite open to us viewers but close my eyes abd almost nod off, but iam old but still into music,new & finding some new folk & their undiscovered inbetween naps.. she is 👍
Preach! Hugh Laurie said that doing an American accent for House was the hardest acting he's ever done, because he can never relax, for a single syllable.
I did find Mary’s accent different from what I normally associate with a British accent. It seemed much more formal than that typical Estuary English you hear on shows like Doctor Who. Then I learned that there is a bit of different accent for Southern England than middle or Northern England and that it tends to sound a bit more “refined” with extra long vowel sounds. Makes sense when she says she wishes her bank balance matched her accent!
@@motomike71 you’ve got to remember that accents in the U.K. are not just regional but also class-based. Mary’s accent immediately identifies her as southern upper-middle class.
Mary’s enunciated accent is among the most precise I’ve ever heard. It’s a beautiful sound. Yes, I’m English btw. There’s more to her accent than ‘Salisbury’... probably either her school or her parents, are responsible for this exquisite enunciation. Either way, I’m a little envious!
Film and video media from the 1930s to the 1970s gave me, an American, an impression of what the English, or what many would say on my side of the pond, the 'British' people, style of speaking. Wow! Was I in for a surprise when arriving in London in 1972, staying at a bed-and-breakfast place at the East End; as the enunciation I heard among the locals were almost incomprehensible with my untrained ears. However, the bus system in London was a marvel . . . and this is coming from a Californian that exclusively used private automobile transportation prior to my London stay.
Your accent is pitch-perfect; it expresses your enthusiasm, thoughtfulness and creativity perfectly in tune. And your vids are fun to watch. Thank you, from near Reno, Nevada.
I'm so glad I got out of the workplace just as that super annoying question became a staple of job interviews! "I see myself driven mad by your company and found overdosed on heroin in a street gutter because of your Human Resources Department."
And, related to that, why aren't talent scouts screen testing Mary? Being photogenic, great facial subtlety & mobility & posessing easily recordable diction, I think Mary should take a shot at acting! One or 2 great roles & she can bankroll her musical pursuits, for a long time...
Like James Earl Jones or the late Sir Richard Burtan. If you, Mary Spender, were to read something like a phonebook your lovely voice and phrasing would make that phonebook sound like the most interesting thing ever.
I love your accent. I hope you can understand that for someone who only speaks "Southern English," (Yes, I guess we talk really slow...and I cannot manage to 'listen faster!!!' I'm just sayin'...) there are lots of British Accents I just cannot understand and, am sorry to say, cannot listen to their TH-cam Videos (it's a frustration factor). For the record? I get frustrated trying to listen to 'some' Northern Accents in the USA as well. Thank you for having an accent that I can enjoy listening to. Congratulations on your "New Digs!!" You Rock!!!
An FYI: How did I find you? It was because of your participation in "Sultans of Swing (metal cover by Leo Moracchioli feat. Mary Spender)" I then followed some links and discovered your interview of Leo and how he puts together a performance. That answered many questions. Another thing I noticed was that you communicate with your eyes and facial gestures, which in the song were done brilliantly.
Important advice for those moving a studio (or other gear-oriented hobby/business) out of their home: Get a good security system. I’ve heard too many stories of guitars/amps/tools/cars going bye-bye in the night.
Even having a studio in the home, it's good to have an alarm and good insurance, plus the serial numbers of all the gear cataloged. Anything can, and will, happen.
Such genuine excitement! I'm taking on the 5 years exercise as well: I hope, that in 5 years time my TH-cam story will begin to make sense to the viewers. I hope, that my continuous strides will make me a much better pianist, musician and story-teller - so much, that even if I fail as a musician, my channel and vlog series will still stand as a pillar of inspiration and hope to those considering a life within music. I hope to become the channel I, myself, desperately needed but could never find.
I'm retired. Married had kids, grandchildren, there's nothing I would change, no regrets. WITHOUT a 5 year plan. I live in the moment and follow my heart. I believe your communication skills are even stronger than your musical talents. You will be ready when opportunity arrives. You only need luck now. ☮️♥️🇨🇦
Great to have a studio!! It is a fun project for many reasons: decoration, all kinds of ideas or formats for your content, and so on. Have a lot of fun and share a little of it :) !!!!
I just found this gorgeous woman, and I just subscribed, because I can't wait to see transformation of her studio. Stay safe and I'll be waiting for the bell to ring. Good luck Mary Gorgeous Spender.
I am from Greece and I really like your accent, I understand everything you say, so this for me is a proof that your accent is really good. I also like you! ✨
I’m 52, living in Mexico City. I still feel I have yet to do a lot. In 5 years my hope is that I will still feel the same. Really dread that moment where everything important seems behind you.
As a non native english speaker, I have always struggled to understand english (british) accents. But in your particular case, your accent is quite easy to understand and really nice to listen to.
Congrats on the new studio space, can't wait to see it fully completed. You'll have to do a video of you playing some cranked up amps. Maybe, playing some more Mastodon stuff?
I'm 76, with a pair of underlying health conditions that make the risk of COVID very real, and I just bought the "budget" version (i.e., Sterling) of Mary's orange-and-leopard-skin St. Vincent. Mine is metallic blue. In 5 years, I hope to still be alive, still an active and involved grandfather, and still playing a guitar. I love your accent…
You're about the same age as my dad. I've been playing guitar for 38 years, and my goal is to still be playing guitar when I'm your age. I just hope my hands hold up that long. Keep playing!
Interesting fact, my regional accent (Inland Northern) is 1,700 miles across but only a few hundred miles high. I can travel for a day and a half east (to Providence, Rhode Island) or west (to South Dakota or to St. Louis, MO) and encounter people who speak just like my next door neighbor. But driving from Metro Detroit to south of Bowling Green, Ohio (an hour's drive), and people speak completely differently. It's sometimes barely intelligible, too, unless you're used to it. Inland Northern is spoken in a region larger than all of England (which is only 50,000 square miles).
Man, questions about accents and height, interesting. RE: accent, I don't doubt a single word you're saying but I have noticed that when performing (not talking music here, but rather presentation like in videos, public speaking etc.), we all tend to neutralise ourselves a little bit so if you were to compare two audio clips one where you are in a video and one where you're talking to your friends and/or family, you would notice some slight even minute differences. However, this is completely natural. 5 year plan: well, hopefully get my mojo back and finish my MA-thesis (language related) and then move to the UK (although C-XIX + spanner on that). Love your videos, keep up the good work.
In the UK we call it a “telephone voice”. The voice you use when you answer the phone to an unknown caller. More commonly when we’re not as well-spoken as Mary, who has a telephone voice all day (see, Mary, I managed to avoid saying posh-sounding - I’m sure the bank balance will catch up one day). I have a really neutral northern accent after thirty years away from home, but if I’m talking with anyone from north of Yorkshire, it all jumps straight back, just like you say. Only not a little bit. A very, very large bit...
The funny thing about accents is that mainland England is about the size of the state of Washington in the USA, but everyone in Washington sounds roughly similar whereas England and the UK has such a diversity in accents in the same space. It's fascinating
Basically that's because England is where English began. There's always the most diversity at the point of origin when talking about things that propagate. Like animal species etc. Fun fact, there's more genetic diversity among humans in Sub-Saharan Africa than the rest of the planet combined.
Mary I love your accent. It is the best British accent I've ever heard. Everything you say is perfectly enunciated and so easy to listen to. I wish you the best on your new work space (studio) and your future endeavors. Love from Miami ❤️❤️
Traveling across the US with an English guy. People would hear the accent and ask him where exactly in England he was from. He would say, "About where the g is."
Road noise will be a challenge to eliminate. Building studios (I've built a video production studio/control room) are hard work, but enjoyable once your finished. It's so much easier to be productive, too. Enjoy your new studio and I hope you'll show us your progress and decision-making process along the way. By the way, your English dialect is easy to understand, more so than many I've heard. Hello from Texas, home of many difficult-to-understand dialects.
You're so lucky Mary choosing a smaller creative space to live and work in. The thriftiness and economies involved is highly likely to stimulate your creative juices.
A physical separation between your personal and work space is an excellent idea. Setting up your new studio is an exciting project, good luck with it. From the other side of the pond, your accent is very lovely 😀.
"Sem Fotografia" simply means without a photograph and the words are in Portuguese. So either a Brazilian or Portuguese person sent you the text. Regardless, love your new place. You will be able to achieve all sort of amazing musical goals in your new studio. Can't wait!
I think my 5 year plan is the same as yours, and is just fine - to enjoy what I'm doing. I wish you had played something, anything, even if just to show what it would sound like in a none acoustic room. And then see how the sound develops as you 'dress' the room.
Accent??? As someone from the American Midwest, just hearing someone speaking proper English is an "accent"... LOL!!! Seriously, congratulations on the new space. I hope it inspires you!
Five year plan! I'm just glad to get through 2020, now just focusing on getting through 2021 but need to work on my own channel and make a good space for me. My accent, well I grew up in the West Midlands (Salop) and have folks from the west country so I must sound real strange. Properr Job.
My 5 year plan is to be able to look at the last 5 years and feel satisfied and proud. As a disabled person, the previous 5 have been a nightmare. So maybe in the next five I can find independence, contentment, stability, satisfaction, and even happiness. And I wish many of those things to anyone else who hopes theyre next 5 will be better than the last.
I'm in thee exact same boat! The last 10 have been a nightmare journey. I am ready for a clean next decade that I can be proud of. So good luck to you!
I wasn't feeling all that great this Sunday. I decided to listen to Mary. I decided to listen to Mary for about 4 hours. I feel so much better now. Thank you for making an old man. Who has made some very iffy Life Choices. Feel much happier about where he is in life. And feel hopeful for his future. And eager to see what you're going to do next.
5 Year Plan: Still be Alive! 😆 Like you, continue to improve on where I am at as an artist, photographer, maker and songwriter myself. This is my life after my previous life/career in the USAF and with NASA... I am fortunate to have independence in all directions minus one. Health. Nailing that one down so I can continue to rise above. Wishing you and all others the best with there next 5 Years! Make it Awesomeness!
You are so refreshingly authentic Mary. We need more Mary Spender. Your music, your presentations, your eloquence charms me to no end. Keep On. Wow, my buddy mentioned his challenging learning curve with Ableton and I just see now you have a course for that too. LOL Best wishes on this new space.
My 5 year plan is to be 5 years better at everything that I'm doing now, and also everything that I decide I want to become better at within that next 5 years. Simple enough, right?
I've always thought Mary's accent reminded me of like a very clean RP accent that's had a few of its edges worn off by time in America/working with Americans. Regardless, it's very musical :) ... god I love British accents, the regionality as Mary says is amazing and as a Yank I wanna learn about them all.
you got the lucky southern accent.... try being taken seriously with a thick plymouthian accent haha... i've always hated it, taught myself to 'not talk with it' but if i'm drinking it comes back sooooooo bad it's funny
@@jebatman756 absolutely... Come down towards where I am and we sound like hobbits... Or pirates, or a weird mix of the two which makes it even harder to understand haha
There are worse accents to have! Not mentioning cos people will only get Butthurt! I'm in the Midlands, on the Welsh border and alot of us seem to have this weird mix of several "local" accents mixed up together 😅
@@garethreece I’m from the midlands originally, lived in the west and East Midlands, lived with some northerners (well sort of... Mansfield) at uni and now have been in South Wales for 10 years. My accent is all over the shop. The Welsh think I’m from “tup north” and the midlanders say I’ve got a Welsh twang.
Ah, yes. The 5-year plan. Well, I started out as a technical writer, combining my love of numbers & letters, planning to reassess in 5 years, when I had saved up enough money to buy a house. So I got a job transfer & moved across the U.S. and into my new house. Did I fully reassess what my career goals were/should be? Not really; I had a mortgage and other bills to worry about! Next thing I know, it’s been 20 years (counting those first 5) and I officially retire from that original professional job, and then work at various technical publications positions for yet another decade. So, that’s how a 5-year plan becomes ones whole life and career. My current 5-year plan: retire (again) and collect my Social Security and two pensions, amusing myself with my hobbies and charitable work.
It's incredible how fast your channel has grown, glad to see you getting along on TH-cam! I remember seeing you on the first video with Anderton's and seeing now how much you've grown even since then. Just crazy.
I had to watch this as I replied to a comment question "is it british?" 2 weeks ago with "Sounds like south middle England. Wiltshire?". The last was little more than a guess. Accents in Britain are so specific. Last year I listened to a TH-cam creator and knew at once that she grew up near my hometown in Scotland. On holiday in Wales I said hello to a farmer who knew after a few words that I grew up near him. The same in Denmark maybe, according to Peter Høeg's novel.
I haven't found it to be the case in Denmark to the extent that you can pinpoint the town someone's from. There are some changes in accent in the big citys that might be noticeable, but the two main accents are from Jutland (west) and Zealand (east). I don't travel too often around my country so maybe I'm wrong but that's my experience.
She also used the "England/United Kingdom is big and has so many accents" line that many fakers use, she sounds like an implant from the States, most likely New York. She didn't pronounce the R in interview or started like you will expect from her regional accent.
The question "How tall are you?" Reminded me of a story about Abraham Lincoln who was 6' 4" and not a centimeter more. A 5' 3" reporter asked, "Mr President, how long should a man's legs be?" His response, "Long enough to reach the floor." :
Congratulations!! Exciting to have a blank canvas.
“Where will I be in 5 years? Same as now, except maybe more guitars”
Classic guitarist answer
"maybe"?
No noise complaints? Time to finally give us that Mary Spender speedmetal record we've been pining for!
speed metal RTA?
One wall will be nothing but amp cabinets (Orange of course since that’s her brand... be quite shocking if she just put up a wall of Marshall stacks)
Mary just growling over a death metal song 😂
@@SuviTuuliAllan finger-style speed metal? I've got to see that.
Yes. I vote for this!
Mary, reading the comments below everyone already articulated what I was thinking -- your voice and accent are a joy to hear. 🙂
I'm no Britishologist, but your smooth, dulcet accent makes you sound like a magical nanny.
"Magical Nanny" does sound legit.
Nah. That's Walton-upon-Thames not Salisbury :-D.
I absolutely love your speaking voice. It's very calm and soothing. Listening to you speak actually gives me goosebumps.
Seems to me you should consider adding voiceover work to your list of talents.
I rarely learn anything as i love her speaking as its friendly precise quite open to us viewers but close my eyes abd almost nod off, but iam old but still into music,new & finding some new folk & their undiscovered inbetween naps.. she is 👍
“Is my accent real”?!?! Jesus Mary if it isn’t, you’re one hell of an actress
Preach! Hugh Laurie said that doing an American accent for House was the hardest acting he's ever done, because he can never relax, for a single syllable.
Don't forget Joseph...
I did find Mary’s accent different from what I normally associate with a British accent. It seemed much more formal than that typical Estuary English you hear on shows like Doctor Who. Then I learned that there is a bit of different accent for Southern England than middle or Northern England and that it tends to sound a bit more “refined” with extra long vowel sounds. Makes sense when she says she wishes her bank balance matched her accent!
@The Axe Factor It sort of reminded me of the received pronunciation you hear in the Harry Potter movies from Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson.
@@motomike71 you’ve got to remember that accents in the U.K. are not just regional but also class-based. Mary’s accent immediately identifies her as southern upper-middle class.
Mary’s enunciated accent is among the most precise I’ve ever heard. It’s a beautiful sound. Yes, I’m English btw. There’s more to her accent than ‘Salisbury’... probably either her school or her parents, are responsible for this exquisite enunciation. Either way, I’m a little envious!
Film and video media from the 1930s to the 1970s gave me, an American, an impression of what the English, or what many would say on my side of the pond, the 'British' people, style of speaking.
Wow! Was I in for a surprise when arriving in London in 1972, staying at a bed-and-breakfast place at the East End; as the enunciation I heard among the locals were almost incomprehensible with my untrained ears.
However, the bus system in London was a marvel . . . and this is coming from a Californian that exclusively used private automobile transportation prior to my London stay.
Your accent is pitch-perfect; it expresses your enthusiasm, thoughtfulness and creativity perfectly in tune. And your vids are fun to watch. Thank you, from near Reno, Nevada.
In 5 years' time, I hope to be living a life that doesn't require me to answer the "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" question ever again.
Me too! Good luck.
73 now.... on your side Cheers
I'm so glad I got out of the workplace just as that super annoying question became a staple of job interviews!
"I see myself driven mad by your company and found overdosed on heroin in a street gutter because of your Human Resources Department."
I’ve always maintained you have a truly beautiful spoken voice Mary👍
And, related to that, why aren't talent scouts screen testing Mary? Being photogenic, great facial subtlety & mobility & posessing easily recordable diction, I think Mary should take a shot at acting! One or 2 great roles & she can bankroll her musical pursuits, for a long time...
Like James Earl Jones or the late Sir Richard Burtan. If you, Mary Spender, were to read something like a phonebook your lovely voice and phrasing would make that phonebook sound like the most interesting thing ever.
Who wants Mary to start reading bedtime stories?
Or nature documentaries. David Attenborough style
@@Kuchenblech_Mafioso Definitely could do a 'side hustle' as a voice artist for documentaries.
Kirsty Allsop is my favourite relaxing voice, but Mary is a close second and I would love to just have some quiet bedtime stories read by her.
yes!!!!!!
@@graemegourley7616 I'm probably showing my age when I say Gloria Hunniford was my favourite. She didn't speak, she purred.
I love your accent. I hope you can understand that for someone who only speaks "Southern English," (Yes, I guess we talk really slow...and I cannot manage to 'listen faster!!!' I'm just sayin'...) there are lots of British Accents I just cannot understand and, am sorry to say, cannot listen to their TH-cam Videos (it's a frustration factor). For the record? I get frustrated trying to listen to 'some' Northern Accents in the USA as well. Thank you for having an accent that I can enjoy listening to. Congratulations on your "New Digs!!" You Rock!!!
An FYI: How did I find you? It was because of your participation in "Sultans of Swing (metal cover by Leo Moracchioli feat. Mary Spender)" I then followed some links and discovered your interview of Leo and how he puts together a performance. That answered many questions. Another thing I noticed was that you communicate with your eyes and facial gestures, which in the song were done brilliantly.
Merry splendor; I just subscribed.
Important advice for those moving a studio (or other gear-oriented hobby/business) out of their home: Get a good security system. I’ve heard too many stories of guitars/amps/tools/cars going bye-bye in the night.
And look into getting some insurance on that stuff that might not be covered outside the home.
Even having a studio in the home, it's good to have an alarm and good insurance, plus the serial numbers of all the gear cataloged. Anything can, and will, happen.
Mary, very good advice from these responders.
Such genuine excitement! I'm taking on the 5 years exercise as well: I hope, that in 5 years time my TH-cam story will begin to make sense to the viewers. I hope, that my continuous strides will make me a much better pianist, musician and story-teller - so much, that even if I fail as a musician, my channel and vlog series will still stand as a pillar of inspiration and hope to those considering a life within music. I hope to become the channel I, myself, desperately needed but could never find.
Most soothing and perfect English accent I’ve ever heard... especially after living 3 years in York :)
great video Mary . enjoying your videos . it's a exciting journey to be able to post videos . i'm enjoying the journey .
1: your playing
2: your accent
my biggest online crush!
Sounds like a good point for a re-set. Congratulations on the move!
I'm retired. Married had kids, grandchildren, there's nothing I would change, no regrets.
WITHOUT a 5 year plan.
I live in the moment and follow my heart. I believe your communication skills are even stronger than your musical talents. You will be ready when opportunity arrives. You only need luck now. ☮️♥️🇨🇦
Great to have a studio!! It is a fun project for many reasons: decoration, all kinds of ideas or formats for your content, and so on. Have a lot of fun and share a little of it :) !!!!
In an annual review for my first job, my boss asked me where I wanted to be in 5 years, my answer was; "Not here."
He appreciated my honesty.
For real life, that is a freakin' beautiful response.
Did you get your wish with the next layoff?
@@parplus2556 I was made redundant 3 or 4 years later, so yeah, kinda.
I just found this gorgeous woman, and I just subscribed, because I can't wait to see transformation of her studio. Stay safe and I'll be waiting for the bell to ring. Good luck Mary Gorgeous Spender.
I am from Greece and I really like your accent, I understand everything you say, so this for me is a proof that your accent is really good. I also like you! ✨
Mary.... I love your videos, you are so easy going. Your smile light's up any room. Keep on jamming!
I’m 52, living in Mexico City. I still feel I have yet to do a lot. In 5 years my hope is that I will still feel the same. Really dread that moment where everything important seems behind you.
Congrats Mary!! I am sooo happy to see you here!!
Who care's if your Accent is real or not your Beautiful, talented and relevant. And seem to have a kind heart which is all that really matters
I am smitten by Mary's inferred kind heart… I feel that we all have the right to infer this.
(10 months later...) I truly just enjoy listening to you talk and tell stories! I hope you are enjoying the new space! Have a great holiday!
Personally I think filming yourself and watching it back can give a person an existential crisis so just keep doing you as your accent is great!
Ha - love the question about your accent! And yes, very much looking forward to seeing how your studio takes shape.
As a non native english speaker, I have always struggled to understand english (british) accents. But in your particular case, your accent is quite easy to understand and really nice to listen to.
That is the problem I have with Spanish speakers. Some people are very easy to understand and others are very difficult 😕
Congrats on the new studio space, can't wait to see it fully completed. You'll have to do a video of you playing some cranked up amps. Maybe, playing some more Mastodon stuff?
"aren't we all disturbed metal dudes- really?" - Mary Spender, 2021
Congratulations on your new space!! We will share your joy.
I'm 76, with a pair of underlying health conditions that make the risk of COVID very real, and I just bought the "budget" version (i.e., Sterling) of Mary's orange-and-leopard-skin St. Vincent. Mine is metallic blue. In 5 years, I hope to still be alive, still an active and involved grandfather, and still playing a guitar. I love your accent…
They sound like awesome goals!
You're about the same age as my dad. I've been playing guitar for 38 years, and my goal is to still be playing guitar when I'm your age. I just hope my hands hold up that long. Keep playing!
Interesting fact, my regional accent (Inland Northern) is 1,700 miles across but only a few hundred miles high. I can travel for a day and a half east (to Providence, Rhode Island) or west (to South Dakota or to St. Louis, MO) and encounter people who speak just like my next door neighbor. But driving from Metro Detroit to south of Bowling Green, Ohio (an hour's drive), and people speak completely differently. It's sometimes barely intelligible, too, unless you're used to it. Inland Northern is spoken in a region larger than all of England (which is only 50,000 square miles).
Man, questions about accents and height, interesting. RE: accent, I don't doubt a single word you're saying but I have noticed that when performing (not talking music here, but rather presentation like in videos, public speaking etc.), we all tend to neutralise ourselves a little bit so if you were to compare two audio clips one where you are in a video and one where you're talking to your friends and/or family, you would notice some slight even minute differences. However, this is completely natural. 5 year plan: well, hopefully get my mojo back and finish my MA-thesis (language related) and then move to the UK (although C-XIX + spanner on that). Love your videos, keep up the good work.
In the UK we call it a “telephone voice”. The voice you use when you answer the phone to an unknown caller. More commonly when we’re not as well-spoken as Mary, who has a telephone voice all day (see, Mary, I managed to avoid saying posh-sounding - I’m sure the bank balance will catch up one day). I have a really neutral northern accent after thirty years away from home, but if I’m talking with anyone from north of Yorkshire, it all jumps straight back, just like you say. Only not a little bit. A very, very large bit...
You love what you do and you have a great following. Keep going and enjoy life. You are living a great dream. It only gets better as we grow.
The funny thing about accents is that mainland England is about the size of the state of Washington in the USA, but everyone in Washington sounds roughly similar whereas England and the UK has such a diversity in accents in the same space. It's fascinating
Try this: the Australian accent is the same across the entire continent.
You cross from Sheffield over the border into Chesterfield 12 miles away and everyone sounds 'foreign'! It's true - we're an odd nation
@@voiceofexperience Strewth!
Basically that's because England is where English began. There's always the most diversity at the point of origin when talking about things that propagate. Like animal species etc.
Fun fact, there's more genetic diversity among humans in Sub-Saharan Africa than the rest of the planet combined.
We have different accents on the north or south bank of the river.
Mary I love your accent. It is the best British accent I've ever heard. Everything you say is perfectly enunciated and so easy to listen to. I wish you the best on your new work space (studio) and your future endeavors. Love from Miami ❤️❤️
Traveling across the US with an English guy. People would hear the accent and ask him where exactly in England he was from. He would say, "About where the g is."
Must be Birmingham.
Not Scunthorpe then
We used to live in Phoenix, Arizona, right under the "o". Just turn right at the Circle K!
So exciting! I can't wait to see what you do with the new space!
Road noise will be a challenge to eliminate. Building studios (I've built a video production studio/control room) are hard work, but enjoyable once your finished. It's so much easier to be productive, too. Enjoy your new studio and I hope you'll show us your progress and decision-making process along the way. By the way, your English dialect is easy to understand, more so than many I've heard. Hello from Texas, home of many difficult-to-understand dialects.
AND... in case we haven’t said it enough...it was really great receiving your TH-cam contributions daily during January !!!!
Your accent and diction is perfect easy to understand
Your accent is... lovely. I enjoy listening to you talk. I enjoy listening to you play guitar.
You're so lucky Mary choosing a smaller creative space to live and work in. The thriftiness and economies involved is highly likely to stimulate your creative juices.
You are a beautiful talented inspiration. Thank you for being on TH-cam.
MARY SPENDER'S ACCENT IS A BRITISH CONSPIRACY TO CONTINUE PUSHING ENGLISH CULTURE ON THE WORLD AFTER BREXIT /s
Good!
LOL...
LOL
Hussah!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
A physical separation between your personal and work space is an excellent idea. Setting up your new studio is an exciting project, good luck with it. From the other side of the pond, your accent is very lovely 😀.
"Sem Fotografia" simply means without a photograph and the words are in Portuguese. So either a Brazilian or Portuguese person sent you the text. Regardless, love your new place. You will be able to achieve all sort of amazing musical goals in your new studio. Can't wait!
Love you and your voice!!! Very talented!! Nice!
Mary, we'd love to see a virtuoso musician like you interview master luthier Ben Crowe of Crimson Guitars.
Happy for you and excited to see what comes out your new space!
5 year plan? - 'At my age, I don't plan that far ahead. I don't even buy green bananas.”🙄😊
I’m so happy for you Mary. I hope you enjoy your new space!
I think my 5 year plan is the same as yours, and is just fine - to enjoy what I'm doing. I wish you had played something, anything, even if just to show what it would sound like in a none acoustic room. And then see how the sound develops as you 'dress' the room.
I LOVE your accent,and your pretty voice ! 😊 Good luck on your future endeavors; I'm sure you'll go far! Please continue what you're doing.
As someone who just celebrated their 59th birthday. Almost twice your age dear girl. Grab onto your dream with both hands and do everything you can.
Best channel I found in the lockdown. All the best for the ongoing changes!
Accent???
As someone from the American Midwest, just hearing someone speaking proper English is an "accent"... LOL!!!
Seriously, congratulations on the new space. I hope it inspires you!
I loved seeing you every day during January. It was inspiring. Thank you.
Well I was just diagnosed with 2 cancers, my five year plan is to still be alive in 5 years. 🙏
Hope you'll be getting better soon Rusty .
I hope you get through it, better and stronger!
Hoping for the best 🙏🙏
good luck, sending good vibes ❤️
Go for 10 my friend. Best to you.
Looking forward to watching your work environment evolve. Enjoy following you from Texas.
Five year plan! I'm just glad to get through 2020, now just focusing on getting through 2021 but need to work on my own channel and make a good space for me. My accent, well I grew up in the West Midlands (Salop) and have folks from the west country so I must sound real strange. Properr Job.
Congrats Mary on the new studio ,best of luck to you .Love the channel.
Time to let loose and write a high gain rock song or two! You’ve got the chops and the voice for it.
Do it with your friend Leo!!
Can’t wait to see it finished and see you doing your thing.
My 5 year plan is to be able to look at the last 5 years and feel satisfied and proud. As a disabled person, the previous 5 have been a nightmare. So maybe in the next five I can find independence, contentment, stability, satisfaction, and even happiness. And I wish many of those things to anyone else who hopes theyre next 5 will be better than the last.
I'm in thee exact same boat! The last 10 have been a nightmare journey. I am ready for a clean next decade that I can be proud of. So good luck to you!
I'm disabled and feel exactly the same way. Thank you for sharing
TH-cam just introduced me to a lot of your vids. And I must admit, I'm becoming a fan. It is obvious you know your stuff.
"sem fotografia" is portuguese for "without photograph" . Cheers!
I wasn't feeling all that great this Sunday. I decided to listen to Mary. I decided to listen to Mary for about 4 hours. I feel so much better now. Thank you for making an old man. Who has made some very iffy Life Choices. Feel much happier about where he is in life. And feel hopeful for his future. And eager to see what you're going to do next.
5 Year Plan: Still be Alive! 😆 Like you, continue to improve on where I am at as an artist, photographer, maker and songwriter myself. This is my life after my previous life/career in the USAF and with NASA... I am fortunate to have independence in all directions minus one. Health. Nailing that one down so I can continue to rise above. Wishing you and all others the best with there next 5 Years! Make it Awesomeness!
You are so refreshingly authentic Mary. We need more Mary Spender. Your music, your presentations, your eloquence charms me to no end. Keep On. Wow, my buddy mentioned his challenging learning curve with Ableton and I just see now you have a course for that too. LOL Best wishes on this new space.
My 5 year plan is to be 5 years better at everything that I'm doing now, and also everything that I decide I want to become better at within that next 5 years.
Simple enough, right?
Mary radiates joy. What an exceptional human being!
Whenever someone says something about Solsbury, it always reminds me of that song about Solsbury Hill
She said 'Salisbury', not 'Solsbury'. It's where Stonehenge is.
@@Blitterbug I’m just bad a spelling you get what I mean though
@@marcusayre5336 well, you spelt Solsbury Hill right.👍 I went for decades mis-spelling the song in my head! 😀
@@unclemick-synths its good to know I'm not alone! Now I'm thinking of that 10cc song ahah!
Hi MoE - I'm glad that you are happy in your new place Mary and I wish you all the best! You deserve that!🙂❤️⭐️🐺💋🐅🦈 🦋
I've always thought Mary's accent reminded me of like a very clean RP accent that's had a few of its edges worn off by time in America/working with Americans. Regardless, it's very musical :) ... god I love British accents, the regionality as Mary says is amazing and as a Yank I wanna learn about them all.
If you ever get to England drop by Newcastle, the geordie accent will blow your mind marah:)
OK, that's done it, now I'm hooked, I love your accent, very clear and concise, easy listening. I'm sure you can expand my understanding of music.
you got the lucky southern accent.... try being taken seriously with a thick plymouthian accent haha... i've always hated it, taught myself to 'not talk with it' but if i'm drinking it comes back sooooooo bad it's funny
@@jebatman756 absolutely... Come down towards where I am and we sound like hobbits... Or pirates, or a weird mix of the two which makes it even harder to understand haha
There are worse accents to have! Not mentioning cos people will only get Butthurt!
I'm in the Midlands, on the Welsh border and alot of us seem to have this weird mix of several "local" accents mixed up together 😅
@@garethreece I’m from the midlands originally, lived in the west and East Midlands, lived with some northerners (well sort of... Mansfield) at uni and now have been in South Wales for 10 years. My accent is all over the shop. The Welsh think I’m from “tup north” and the midlanders say I’ve got a Welsh twang.
keep it up, your videos are really beautiful and calming and inspiring
Ah, yes. The 5-year plan. Well, I started out as a technical writer, combining my love of numbers & letters, planning to reassess in 5 years, when I had saved up enough money to buy a house. So I got a job transfer & moved across the U.S. and into my new house. Did I fully reassess what my career goals were/should be? Not really; I had a mortgage and other bills to worry about! Next thing I know, it’s been 20 years (counting those first 5) and I officially retire from that original professional job, and then work at various technical publications positions for yet another decade. So, that’s how a 5-year plan becomes ones whole life and career. My current 5-year plan: retire (again) and collect my Social Security and two pensions, amusing myself with my hobbies and charitable work.
It's incredible how fast your channel has grown, glad to see you getting along on TH-cam! I remember seeing you on the first video with Anderton's and seeing now how much you've grown even since then. Just crazy.
I had to watch this as I replied to a comment question "is it british?" 2 weeks ago with "Sounds like south middle England. Wiltshire?". The last was little more than a guess. Accents in Britain are so specific. Last year I listened to a TH-cam creator and knew at once that she grew up near my hometown in Scotland. On holiday in Wales I said hello to a farmer who knew after a few words that I grew up near him. The same in Denmark maybe, according to Peter Høeg's novel.
I haven't found it to be the case in Denmark to the extent that you can pinpoint the town someone's from. There are some changes in accent in the big citys that might be noticeable, but the two main accents are from Jutland (west) and Zealand (east). I don't travel too often around my country so maybe I'm wrong but that's my experience.
@@noahmay7708 It was fiction, and after checking I find it was East Greenlandic not Danish.
Wish you further success and best of luck as the Mary Spender adventure continues...
In Dave Grohl’s mother’s book, she notes that serious musicians seem to “catch the bug” at about 12
Good for you! Looking forward to watching you sort it all out!
Sounds genuine to me. Except you said "apartment" rather than "flat"...
She also used the "England/United Kingdom is big and has so many accents" line that many fakers use, she sounds like an implant from the States, most likely New York. She didn't pronounce the R in interview or started like you will expect from her regional accent.
@@gogoleateeste9630 She's spent time in New York but certainly isn't from there.
@@gogoleateeste9630 Lol. She doesn't sound like an implant - she speaks more or less with RP.
@@gogoleateeste9630 are you from England? I'm English and I would never have thought she came from the US.
@@Johnhasa1 Me either, but then I thought, why her teeth aren't crooked? all British have bad teeth.
Congratulations on the new studio!
11:20 Still D.R.E. should start playing in the background
And I'm grateful to you! Love your music and videos..........keep em coming
I don’t think the neighborhood would complain about your music
the beautiful south. Your accent is very peaceful and easy to listen to. I have been to London, I hope to visit the south some day.
The question "How tall are you?"
Reminded me of a story about Abraham Lincoln who was 6' 4" and not a centimeter more.
A 5' 3" reporter asked, "Mr President, how long should a man's legs be?"
His response, "Long enough to reach the floor."
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Lool
Congrats on your new creative space; life long goals and dreams of flourishing successes