There's a station I listen to because the music's good and the closest thing I can get to alternative. However, one of the women on there grates. I wish D.J.'s would just get on with it and play music and tell us the name of the bands when they have to. However, she feels the need to tell us her life story. It's how she does it that drives me to distraction. Like far too many women today, she uses what has come to be termed "up-speak." When she talks, every single phrase comes out with the inflection rising at the end, so that it sounds like it's a question. It makes her sound stupid and as though she doesn't know what she's talking about. This gained momentum a few years ago. Only females do this and perhaps guys who surf. Farrah Abraham, or whatever she's called, would be the poster child for this. The woman is incapable of forming a complete idea or sentence. I suppose that's because somebody usually inserts "something" in her mouth to silence her, but I digress and I'm being mean, albeit truthful.
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I bless James Deen for being the master of decorum in his response to the reporters when asked about her.
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Up-speak, like the dreaded pods in the Invasion of the Body Snatchers, has taken over. Whereas female reporters were once careful to keep their voices modulated, they now sound like bimbos. When I listen to some of them, I would swear that Victoria Jackson was doing an SNL spoof.
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Imagine a world where males spoke that way. You can't, can you? You'd laugh your ass off and you'd never take the guy seriously. Guess what? Nobody takes a woman who speaks that way seriously either. Get it together, ladies.
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I'm all in favour of people doing the porn voice in the privacy of their own bedroom. Up speak means that you want to ask a question. Other than that, listen to the old movies and hear how Katherine Hepburn sounded. Listen to one of the sassy and fun sirens of the past. Lauren knew how it was done when she talked to Bogey. They could dish it out and they could finish a sentence. Take that Farrah.
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It's actually called the Vocal Fry. And they did a study and found that young women and teens think that the airheads that speak this way sound affluent and well educated.
ReplyDeleteThanks for recommending Until Nothing Remains, someone put it back up in 10 min increments. You'd thnk that if Germany bans something on the basis that it's dangerous to human rights you'd think that would give pause to the rest of the world banning it.
I think Germans are inherently evil, not really, but I sort of do.
Another German movie that I enjoyed that isn't as well known as Downfall, Christiane F and the Baader Meinhaff is a film called "Marianne and Julianne." It came out around 1981 and is based on the the concept of Ulrike Meinhoff having a sister and the relationship between the two. You can find it on Youtube with susbtitles. It is very well acted. The dynamics between the two women is just as good as that in "Hilary and Jackie."
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