Vocal Fry

They learned it; they can unlearn it, but it will take a while.

Here's your answer, OP.

There are studies that say women think it makes them sound more intelligent. Blame the Kardashians.

Vocal chords are kinda gross. The look like a vadge.

Can they learn to stop? Yes, if enough concerned citizens step up to slap the creaking fry right out of their whore mouths as soon as they start talking.

If we got rid of those with vocal fry, NPR would have no guests.

Howard Stern on fry.

The Kardashians get blamed for vocal fry, because they have valley girl vocal fry. They sound girlish with the uptick. Jane Fonda always speaks vocal fry - her artificially lowered larynx gives her that deeper, sexy, monotonous and slightly scared quality to her vocal production, ever since Klute.

Vocal Fry is very prevalent, it removes the musicality from a voice. It has nothing to do with how low the timber is, but the larynx is compressed and that will deepen the tone of even a young girls voice, but mostly it constricts full expression.

The objective must be to sound world weary and blasé. However I doubt most vocal fried women know what blasé means.

Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who testified during Bret Kavanaugh's hearings (nomination for US Supreme Court), spoke with vocal fry. I don't notice Jane Fonda speaking with vocal fry, like R8 observes. I think vocal fry is something that became popular within the last 15 years. I was surprised to hear Ford, who is 50+ years old, adopt vocal fry.

I also really hate uptalk or upspeak, where everything sounds like a question. Both men and women do that.

R2 why are you posting pussy pics on DL?

R11, why are you posting stupid, nonsensical comments on DL? Women are gay too, and your "joke" falls flat.

R12, meet R7.

Dudes do vocal fry as well. Also, people get it from the heroin and opioids--I only need to take a vicodin or two and it just happens. Some people have naturally husky voices and that's something different. People who deliberately do the frying need a sharp slap. Many are on house hunting shows. I want to slap and slap.

A lot of people are doing this now. Opioid culture is a major offender. Listen to people who do a lot of heroin or pills. They talk all slow and fried.

Or be a young woman in her 20's

I'm not interested in an argument, but Jane Fonda DOES speak in vocal fry. She's become very good at it. She adds some breath to it. BUTT. An artificial lowering of the modal speaking voice through pushing down your larynx is exactly what she does. She doesn't call it that but has spoken about consciously lowering her voice because of one of her neurosis or excuses or man pleasing sex kitten ways at some time. I sometimes like her voice - she does it well. But it shakes. Because the airway is compressed through the vocal cords. Her stardom was way before my time, but that is not the bitch's natural voice.

LOL @R12 that Howard Stern video!! The perfect example of vocal fry.

I thought I invented it.

R18 , We can respectfully disagree about Jane Fonda and vocal fry. I just don't hear it. Would you say that Elizabeth Holmes uses vocal fry to lower her voice?

No matter how much I want to listen to what I'm sure is good dermatological advice, I had to bail out on the 3rd video of hers that I watched.

Please see Heartthrob Dean from Survivor for annoying male vocal fry. So annoying!

Jack Conte, the CEO of Patreon, has really bad vocal fry. It's also hard to believe he's straight, but apparently so. The interviewer in this video is also doing it, but had a naturally deeper voice so it doesn't sound as bad.

That's the guy from Pamplemoose.