Vocal Fry Alert


Both the blonde woman and the alien navigator lady have such a strong vocal fry i couldnt watch it. Too annoying.

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Who is the navigator lady?

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You mean Charlize Theron?

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the alien lady not even sure if she is the navigator

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ahh, I beleive you are referring to the Security Chief.

honestly I do not hear the vocal fry from either of them but that might just be because i never notice it.

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honestly I do not hear the vocal fry from either of them but that might just be because i never notice it.



Or we've gotten used to it!!!

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It all started with neve campbell at least thats when I first noticed it.

And of course I started hating it during all the Vin Disel movies. :|

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I'd never heard of vocal fry, but now that I've looked it up, I'll never not hear it.

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lol i am sorry

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Also sometimes referred to as "creaky voice".

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Its the reason I can't stand "Vin Diesel" films.

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What is "vocal fry" please?

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That's when you pull a deep fried potato spear out of your McDonald's bag and it shouts "Oh no, yall ain't about to eat me!"

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I've been complaining about what I always referred to as a "female guttural growl" (for lack of a better term) for twenty something years, but never heard a name assigned to it.

In any case, it used to drive me nuts, but I've become more numb to it over the years, but do miss the lyrical tone that's the natural timbre of the female voice. I didn't find any of this annoying in The Orville yet.

One of the pleasures of old movies and TV shows is to hear natural female voices. Even women with normally low registers (Patricia Oneal) are smooth and well modulated.

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i didn't even know this phenomenon is 20 years old...wow

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And yet, it makes me want to have sex with both of them.

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For those who don't know what Vocal Fry is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_LmC-ynqGM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsE5mysfZsY

Never knew this myself until now, lol.

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All those videos showed to me is "Vocal Fry = Valley Girl"

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Posting about what vocal fry is is so 2012. (To the max.) And we used to just call it creaky voice before that.

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Creaky voice/vocal fry, under any name, was, is, and will continue to be annoying, regardless of what year it is heard.

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Give it another try. If you feel the same this might not be the show for you. And that is ok.

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I like the show a lot, and I actually never even noticed that these two characters have vocal fry (if they do), even though I find that affectation irritating. It never occurred to me until I read this thread.

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OP's first post had exactly 21 words in it. Twenty One!!! This is unacceptable. I couldn't read it. Too annoying.

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you love vocal fry it seems please tell us how you love to fry

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Ahhh, only 14 words, thank you. I love vocal fry so much! It reminds me of elitist NPR hosts sharing their infinite wisdom.

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